Tore Wig: All news

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Wednesday, 6 Mar 2024
Fridtjof Nansen’s Award for Young Scientists awarded to Tore Wig

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.

Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
PRIO Researchers Write on Race in Tidsskrift for samfunnsforsking

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.

Thursday, 17 Sep 2020
Three New Research Professors at PRIO

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

Friday, 3 Apr 2020
Beyond the COVID Curve: PRIO launches new blog series

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

Monday, 9 Mar 2020
PRIO Has the Leading Experts on Protests

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.

Friday, 3 Jan 2020
PRIO Researchers' Article Makes Washington Post Top Ten List

​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.

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe) - Funding for New Project

​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).

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2019
Carl Henrik Knutsen Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

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

Friday, 24 Aug 2018
Decolonizing the Academy

An Overview of the Norwegian Debate

Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018
NEPS Medal to PRIO Researchers

​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?'.

Thursday, 15 Feb 2018
PRIO Contributes to New War on Children Report

​Save the children today published the War on Children report, which shows that the number of children living in conflict zones have increased by 75% in the last 20 years.

Wednesday, 31 Jan 2018
PRIO Awarded Prestigious TOPPFORSK Grant

​The Research Council of Norway announced this morning that PRIO will receive TOPPFORSK funding for the project: "Securing the victory? Understanding dynamics of short-run and long-term success in popular uprisings and democratization".

Monday, 18 Jul 2016
His Majesty the King’s Gold Medal Awarded to Tore Wig

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Friday, 25 Sep 2015
Successful Doctoral Defence by Tore Wig

​​​​Today, Friday 25 September, Tore Wig has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in political science at the University of Oslo: Beyond the Civil Democratic Peace: Subnational Political Institutions and Internal Armed Conflict.

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