PRIO hosted the 15th Annual Peace Address on 12 November, focusing on a pressing global concern: the state of democracy and the vital role of civil society in its preservation and renewal.
Gudrun Østby and Sebastian Schutte are replacing Scott Gates as Editors-in-Chief of the journal, while Juliane Stötter replaces Bertrand Lescher-Nuland as Managing Editor.
Several PRIO researchers will partake in the upcoming Oslo Freedom Forum which takes place from 3 to 5 June.
On 5-7 June PRIO hosted the PhD level course "Political regimes: Developments, Typologies and Consequences" as part of the Norhed II project.
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo on 5-7 June 2023.
Anton Kronborg has successfully completed his master's thesis, titled On the Edge of their Seats: Incentives for Constituency Service in the National Assembly of Zambia, at the University of Copenhagen (Department of Political Science).
The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.
How can we better understand the rank-and-file of political elites in electoral autocracies, and how their strategic interaction affects the overall political system and societal outcomes?Haakon Gjerløw has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the three-year project Elite Political Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies (ELITE).
In May, a new PRIO Middle East Centre project started.
Security Dialogue (SD) and the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) remain in the top quartile of journal rankings.
Knutsen is a Research Professor at PRIO in a part-time capacity.
PRIO congratulates Haakon Gjerløw, who has sucessfully defended his doctoral thesis in political science at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo.