What are the trends in conflict?
What are the trends in conflict?
Is the world becoming more peaceful? The overarching goal of all peace research, including PRIO, is to promote this trend. It is therefore not surprising that PRIO is engaged in tracking conflict trends. For a large number of trends, the current statistics convey a very pleasant result: The world getting more peaceful!
Maria Krogshus Holmås has successfully defended her MA thesis at the University of Oslo.
Study finds that illiberal political rule and armed conflict are linked to higher human displacement in major floods.
This week Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: The Forgotten Ones.
The PRIO Research School on Peace and Conflict hosted doctoral candidates at the PhD-level course from 29 August to 2 September 2022.
The 2021 update of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) data on organized violence is now available.
Håvard Hegre has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of EUR 2.
The research project ViEWS - A political Violence Early-Warning System has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant as the only project in Norway in this round of competition.
Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.
Today, Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment.
Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.
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Conflict Trends
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Gudrun Østby
Research Professor