Christian Davenport: All news

Today we got the news that five PRIO-led projects have succeeded in the most competitive calls for funding from the Research Council of Norway.

​The Legacy of Racial Violence project seeks to address gaps in our understanding of how past racial violence affects contemporary communities, using the US as a critical research case.

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Congratulations to Scott Gates on being elected as the new President of the Peace Science Society (International)!Peace Science Society (International) is a non-profit organization dedicated to peace scholarship, which seeks to encourage and support publication of peace and conflict management research.

We sincerely congratulate Christian Davenport on being elected as the new President of the Peace Science Society (International)! Peace Science Society (International) is a non-profit organization dedicated to peace scholarship, which seeks to encourage and support publication of peace and conflict management research.

​PRIO Research Professor Christian Davenport has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

​​Christian Davenport has received the Engaged Scholar Award at the 'Denver Dialogues on Peace and Security' at the University of Denver's Josef Corbel School of International Studies 7 October.

​PRIO Global Fellows are academics with strong scholarly records and a commitment to the research agenda on peace and conflict.

​A video interview with Nils Petter Gleditsch, Research Professor at PRIO, has recently been published as a part of the MINDfields interview series.

On Youth Bulges and State Repression

​Ragnhild Nordås (PRIO) and Christian Davenport (University of Michigan) have published the article "Fight the Youth: Youth Bulges and State Repression".