Halvard Buhaug: All news

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Marianne Dahl is the new Research Director for the Conflict Patterns and Environments Department at PRIO.

Study finds that illiberal political rule and armed conflict are linked to higher human displacement in major floods.

​Do you want to contribute to a new and original area of research and produce knowledge of immediate relevance to policy and planning? Do you want to work closely with a larger interdisciplinary team of researchers studying how societal development can moderate future climate change risks? 

​Research Professor Halvard Buhaug has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project "POLIMPACT: Enabling Politically Sensitive Climate Change Impact Assessments for the 21st Century".

​Every year, JPR publishes special issues on topics of high relevance to the field of peace research, and we are now soliciting proposals for the 2024 special issue.

​Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report.

​Halvard Buhaug is a chapter lead author in the forthcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

We invite submissions of abstracts for a proposed session at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference in Oslo, on migrant-host interactions in the Global South.

​Today, 3 December 2021, Ida Rudolfsen has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

In a new study published in Nature Communications,PRIO researchers use a machine-learning analysis framework to identify leadingpredictors of contemporary asylum migration to the European Union.

​An article presenting a new global dataset of geocoded disaster locations has just been published in the Nature journal Scientific Data.

The Journal of PeaceResearch has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implicationsof climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and HalvardBuhaug.

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The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) invites applications for a three-year, full-time position as Doctoral Researcher.

​Despite the magnitude of displacement, extant knowledge on how refugees affect host populations is derived almost exclusively from Western societies.

​​We congratulate Elisabeth Lio Rosvold on the successful defense of her PhD thesis today, 08 November 2019! Dr Rosvold’s thesis entitled ‘Coping with Calamity: Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict and Development Aid’ was defended at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science.

​A new study published in the journal Nature today assesses the role of climate in affecting the risk of armed conflict.

On 27-28 September2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIOco-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala.

​Three PRIO researchers are among the 721 experts invited to participate as lead authors and editors in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Halvard Buhaug will be serving in the International Studies Association's Governing Council as one of three at-large representatives (i.

The Climate & Conflict blog will publish updates from relevant PRIO-based research projects on security dimensions of climate and environmental change.

​A new version of the Urban Social Disorder (USD) dataset is now available, featuring a longer time-span and vastly expanded set of cities across the developing world, making it one of the longest historical event datasets for conflict and protest data for the cities that it covers.

​Hanne Seter successfully defended her doctoral thesis today, 21 April, at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technolog (NTNU).

​​The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

​​Severe drought is associated with an increased incidence of armed conflict among agriculture-dependent populations in the least developed states.

​​​On Friday  23 September, Nina von Uexkull was awarded a doctoral degree in peace and conflict research at Uppsala University.

New book with PRIO contributions

​​​From 1 January 2016, Ragnhild Nordås​ will take over as Research Director for the Conditions of Violence and Peace Department.

​Halvard Buhaug, research professor at PRIO and professor of political science at NTNU, will become a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters​ (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab) 1 January 2016.