PRIO Research Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has been elected as a Fellow of The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
On Thursday 31 March, Kristian Skrede Gleditch of the University of Essex and PRIO gave his Presidential Address at the 2022 annual convention of the International Studies Associations (ISA) in Nashville, USA.
Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.
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.
Can governments reduce violent crime by increasing education, and if so, under what conditions?Mauricio Rivera has received FINNUT funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project The Crime-Reducing Effect of Education: Disaggregating Education and Impact on Violent Crime (CREED).
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has been nominated to be President of the International Studies Association (ISA) for the period 2021–22.
The Academy of Social Sciences in the UK is an esteemed national institution which aims to promote social science research, publication, debate and dissemination.
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".
The University of Essex has today announced that Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has been appointed to the prestigious Regius Professorship.
Marianne Dahl successfully defended her doctoral thesis today, 30 March, at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences - NTNU.
Elise Must was awarded a doctoral degree in political science at London School of Economics and Political Science Tuesday 13 December 2016.
New book with PRIO contributions
Gleditsch becomes the first Norwegian to receive the Anne-Lise Meier Forschungspreis from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation.
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The American PoliticalScience Association (APSA) award for best book in conflict processes publishedduring 2012-13 has been given to Ethnicity, Grievances, and Civil War(Cambridge University Press, 2013), coauthored by Lars-Erik Cederman (PRIOGlobal Fellow; ETH Zurich), Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (University of Essex andPRIO) and Halvard Buhaug (PRIO and NTNU).
The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
Article featuring the UCDP/PRIO Dataset on Armed Conflicts
At the recent convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco 3–6 April, Håvard Hegre was elected Chair of the SSIP (Scientific Study of International Processes) section of the ISA.
The Department of Government at the University of Essex invites applications for a three-year, full-time research position as a PhD fellow.
A new edited volume on civil war and fragile states has just been published by Edward Elgar.
Conflict, Strategies, and Violence
Civil Resistance in an Age of People’s Uprisings
The International Studies Association has just announced the outcome of its elections.
David Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Idean Salehyan have been awarded the Outstanding Article of the year award for 2009 by the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM).
The August issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution is a special issue dedicated to output from the Disaggregating Civil War project.
The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) invites applications for a three-year, full-time research position as PhD fellow.
Congratulations to Kristian Skrede Gleditsch for getting one of the prestigious YFF (Outstanding Young Investigator) awards from the Research Council of Norway.
CSCW researcher Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has published an article in the October issue of International Organization, together with Michael D.