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Book chapter in Volume 3: A Cultural History of War in the Renaissance

Recorded event

Wednesday, 2 Apr 2025 10:00–11:30 UTC+02

Knotted gun at UN headquarters in New York. Photo: Getty Images

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Taking Away the Guns: How Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Can Contribute to Peacebuilding

How can DDR programmes be adapted to conflict's changing nature? How do they impact the lives of former combatants? In this seminar, DISARM project members and DDR experts discuss key project findings and explore their relevance for peacebuilding programmes.

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 28 Mar 2025

Protesters in Istanbul during a protest in support of arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on March 25, 2025. Photo: Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images. Photo: Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images

How Should Europe Respond to the Demonstrations in Turkey?

All across Turkey, a battle is being waged over the country’s future. For more than a decade, the country’s democratic institutions have steadily deteriorated and now thousands have taken to the streets in an attempt to save the remains of its democracy and restore the rule of law. One of ...

Podcast episode

Wednesday, 26 Mar 2025

Could a Breakthrough Technology Transform the War in Ukraine?

The Sounds of War Crimes

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

Turkish and Greek Foreign Ministers Hakan Fidan and Giorgos Gerapetritis after a meeting in November 2024. Photo: Murat Gok/Anadolu via Getty Images.

There’s a Path Forward for Turkey-Greece Cooperation — but It Requires a Dose of Realism

In the Eastern Mediterranean, tensions are largely the norm rather than the exception. Greece and Turkey, two stable states and NATO allies, enjoy largely peaceful unneighborly relations, despite occasional tension between them.

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

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Tita Nurse and the Balikbayan box (English)

An individuals journey of international migration can become an entire family’s pathway for upward social mobility. This story features a Filipino nurse who has worked abroad providing for her family back home, and the challenges and hopes that can entail.

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

MigrationRhythms Hanoi animation. Illustration: PRIO/PositiveNegatives

Winged wishes for my daughter (Vietnamese)

Moving for different opportunities can build confidence and independence. Prioritising happiness is important, and can impact social mobility. This story from Hanoi centres on a woman now in her 60’s, and the life of herself, her daughter, and grandchild.

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

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Paths to where we are (English)

How people live their lives today can in some ways be traced back through their family story, including in relation to inheriting homes. Human lives can be impacted across generations: grandparents to parents to oneself – as this animation from Karachi shows.

News

Thursday, 3 Apr 2025

L-R: Greg Reichberg, Ilaria Carrozza, Jovana Davidovic, Alexa Timlick, Simon Polichiniel von der Maase. Photo: PRIO

Global Gatherings on AI Weapons and Satellite Imagery: PRIO at UN Forums

PRIO’s engagement with issues around the use of AI was in full display last week, when PRIO researchers joined key UN discussions in Geneva on AI-enabled weapons and satellite technology, contributing expertise on security, ethics and strategic policy.

Putin's warpath goes through Arctic

Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor

Policy brief

2025

Bridging Gaps in Water Governance: Addressing Conflict and Climate Challenges

PRIO Policy Brief

Book chapter

2025

Gendered transformative initiatives in South Asia . Routledge India

Exploring Women’s Agency under Male Breadwinner Norms in Keti Bandar

Book chapter in Gendered Transformative Initiatives in South Asia

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

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What Now for Humanitarian Studies?

Humanitarianism has long been in crisis, but since early 2025 the sector has been experiencing an unprecedented organizational, institutional, normative, and political collapse. As scholars active in the broad, inter-, and multidisciplinary field of humanitarian studies, we must try to understand and analyze the impact of this collapse and address ...

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

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Winged wishes for my daughter (English)

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

Karachi animation MigrationRhythms. PRIO/PositiveNegatives

Paths to where we are (Urdu)

Multimedia

Monday, 24 Mar 2025

Mumbai MigrationRhythms animation. Illustration: PRIO/PositiveNegatives

Rahul, Varsha, Shankar and the City of Opportunity (Hindi)

Rural to urban migration is contributing to improved living standards and realising life aspirations for many across Asia. This animation tells multiple migration stories across generations, to Mumbai. Watch in Hindi or English, or read the comic in either.

Upcoming events

Event

Monday, 7 Apr 2025 09:00–10:00 UTC+02

Flags of China and Pakistan. Photo: Oleksii Liskonih/Getty Images

Online

Pakistan-China Relations in Uncertain Times: Conflict Dynamics and Security Implications

China and Pakistan enjoy long and strong bilateral relations. Ties have been strengthened with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through large-scale infrastructure, industrial and security cooperation and investments.

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Time: 7 Apr 2025 09:00–10:00 UTC+02

Event

Monday, 12 May 2025 16:00–17:00 UTC+02

Humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza on 19 June 2024. . Photo: Getty Images

Online

From Shock to Strategic Thinking: What Now for the Aid Sector and a Leading Donor Like Norway?

This seminar will look at the future of humanitarian aid in the new global context, and Norway's role in the sector.

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Time: 12 May 2025 16:00–17:00 UTC+02

Event

26–28 May 2025

Cyprus Conference: Contested Borderlands as Spaces of Negotiation and Adaptation

The PRIO Cyprus Centre, UCLan Cyprus and the Estonian Research Council are co-organizing a conference titled, 'Contested Borderlands as Spaces of Negotiation and Adaptation'.

Place: UCLan Cyprus

Time: 26–28 May 2025

Event

30 Jun 2025–4 Apr 2025

2025 Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East

The 2025 edition of the Barcelona Summer School will consist of a number of interactive courses on the politics and international relations of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, taught by international experts.

Place: Barcelona, Spain

Time: 30 Jun 2025–4 Apr 2025

Event

14–20 Sep 2025

Writing retreat in Aegina, Greece. Photo: Georgina Berry / PRIO

PRIO Writing Retreat 2025 in Aegina, Greece

In a hectic work environment, sometimes it's hard just to take a deep breath, focus, and think. The PRIO Writing Retreat combines writing sessions with group discussions and one-on-one coaching.

Place: Kavos Bay Hotel, Aegina, Greece

Time: 14–20 Sep 2025

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