In 1993, secret negotiations took place in Oslo, Norway, aiming to start a process to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Thirty years later, PRIO researchers are still researching the Oslo Agreement and its implications.
This year Israel celebrates 75 years since it was established.
For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights.
Today, for the fifth time in just over three years, Israelis are holding an election.
The new open accessbook Livesin Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world'soldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survivedthrough crises.
In the PRIO Paper 'The Geopolitics of Syria's Reconstruction', Research Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage and Research Assistant Magnus Seland Andersson address the geopolitical competition which has effectively deadlocked the civil war in Syria.
The MidEast Policy Brief series was launched in late 2019.
In connection with the seminar Camp David at Forty – Lessons and Prospects PRIO is proud to present a unique primary source from the 1978 negotiations – the notes of US Middle East advisor William B.
Hilde Henriksen Waage, Research Professor at PRIO and Professor of History at the University of Oslo, and Håvard Hegre, Research Professor at PRIO and Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, became members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) 9 March.
PRIO organized a seminar with Karin Aggestam, associate professor at Lund University and deputy member of PRIO's board.
The Palestinian Minister of Refugee Issues, Atef Adwan, visited PRIO on Monday 15 May.
Middle East expert Professor William B.
PRIO and the University of Oslo organized two seminars with Professor Avi Shlaim of the University of Oxford.
As of 1 August 2005, Kristian Berg Harpviken will be the new deputy director at PRIO, while Åshild Kolås will take over the position as programme leader of the Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Programme (CRPB) at PRIO.
The final version of the synthesis report from the Joint Utstein Study of Peacebuilding is now available.
The Research Council of Norway has approved a new three-year SIP (Strategic Institute Project) at PRIO.