Tore Wig, professor of political science at the University of Oslo and a former associate research professor at PRIO, has been awarded Fridtjof Nansen’s Award for Young Scientists.

Marta Bivand Erdal and Tore Wig have contributed to a symposium on structural racism and racialization in Tidsskrift for samfunnsforsking, Norway's leading social science journal.

​Following external academic evaluations, the PRIO Board has awarded Research Professor competence to Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Siri Aas Rustad and Tore Wig.

​COVID-19 has quickly changed everything from our daily routines, to the policies of governments, to the fortunes of the global economy.

How does a country’s security apparatus react to a protest movement?And what happens in the aftermath of successful protests?PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.

​Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Tore Wig's article on protests in the Washington Post was the fifth most popular of 2019 on the website.

​Why do some pro-democracy movements succeed while others fail?Congratulations to project leader Hanne Fjelde on securing 3-year funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the project Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe).

Knutsen is a Research Professor at PRIO in a part-time capacity.

An Overview of the Norwegian Debate

​Yesterday, the NEPS Medal for the best publication in peace science, was awarded in Verona to Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Tore Wig for their aricle in World Politics: 'Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing Tool or Force for Change?'.