PRIO Blogs
Trump Vol. 2 Will Impact Global Development
The United States is by far the world’s largest provider of foreign aid, but it is completely unclear whether and how this will continue. Trump speaks of quickly achieving peace but at the same time he threatens neighboring countries. One thing is...
Tuesday, 28 Jan 2025
PRIO Director's 2025 Nobel Peace Prize List
The Director of PRIO, Henrik Urdal, announced his list today for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, with Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms topping the list.
PRIO Blogs
Russian Counter-Offensive in the International Arena Has Lost Momentum
One of the key goals for 2024 that President Vladimir Putin had apparently set at the end of the second year of the Ukraine war was to execute a sustained foreign policy counter-offensive to reduce Russia’s international isolation to irrelevance. ...
Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024
PRIO in the Republic of Korea for its Action with Women and Peace Conference
On December 10th, PRIO Research Director Louise Olsson and GPS Coordinator Stine A. Bosheim contributed to the Action with Women and Peace Conference (AWP), in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Thursday, 14 Nov 2024
PhD level course on Culture, Conflict and Politics
As part of the Norhed project, Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO held the PhD level course Culture, Conflict and Politics: Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology, 29-31 October.
PRIO Blogs
Putin and Kim Look for Opportunities Amid US Elections Turmoil
The US presidential election, which has been dominating the global news, will come to its natural culmination on November 5, even if the outcome remains uncertain for many more days. Even in Russia, where war and inflation are major concerns, offi...
Thursday, 3 Oct 2024
Nobel Peace Prize 2024: PRIO Director’s Updated List Announced
The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, announced his updated list for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize today, with election observers topping the list.
Book Chapter
Mixed methods: bridging the qualitative–quantitative divide in migration research
Book chapter in How to Do Migration Research
PRIO Blogs
Can We Award a Prize for Peace in a World Full of War?
On Friday 11 October, we will find out the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement will take place against the background of full-scale wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as a record number of other conflicts around the...
Journal Article
Toward a Thomistic Theory of Attention
Journal article in The Thomist
PRIO Blogs
Putin Puts Forth Resolute Indifference to Kursk Debacle
The impact of Ukraine’s August 6 offensive operation into Kursk oblast remains an open strategic question following four weeks of increasingly intense and fluid fighting (see EDM, August 14, 15). Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first reaction t...
Sunday, 18 Aug 2024
PRIO Invites Journalists to Apply for Residence Linked to Groundbreaking Research
PRIO hosts six research projects funded by prestigious grants for Europe’s most groundbreaking research. There is now an opportunity for journalists to spend 3-5 months at the institute and engage with these projects.
PRIO Blogs
Prisoner Exchanges and the Prospects for Peace Talks
The timing of the unprecedented exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West on August 1 remains a difficult question. The final decision was most likely made in the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s red carpet reception of the rele...
Monograph
Gendered Vulnerabilities and Violence in Forced Migration: The Rohingya from Myanmar
Monograph
Friday, 31 May 2024
PhD course on Gender, Peace and Conflict successfully convened
On 29-31 May, the GPS Centre, in collaboration with the NORHED II project, hosted doctoral candidates from all over the world at the PhD-level course "Gender, Peace and Conflict".
PRIO Blogs
Pandemic Aftermath: Reflecting on the Value and Compensation of Essential Workers
After the first confirmation of a COVID case in Norway in late February 2020, the Norwegian government found itself in a difficult situation where the prevention of the virus was urgent, while the functioning of public institutions was necessary. ...
Journal Article
Civic education and the education of refugee students
Journal article in Intercultural Education
PRIO Blogs
Chasing a Mirage Amid a Famine
The recurring refrain that there is a route to a two-state solution diverts attention from what is truly urgent: ending the famine and securing a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It is difficult to believe, but after more than 200 days of war, there i...
Thursday, 18 Apr 2024
Applications now open for the "Culture, Conflict and Politics" course held October 29-31, 2024
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is now accepting applications for the "Culture, Conflict and Politics" course to be held on October 29-31, 2024.
Monday, 8 Apr 2024
New Research Finds Information Campaigns to Deter Migration Have Little Effect
Research carried out by PRIO has found that public information campaigns warning against migration rarely affect desires to leave. And when they do, they surprisingly tend to increase the wish to migrate.
Report – Other
Understanding Contested Norms on Indonesia’s Digital Technology
Research Report
Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005 10:00–11:30 UTC+01
Human Security Seminar with Andrew Mack
Andrew Mack will visit Oslo and give a seminar about the recently launched Human Security Report.
Monday, 6 Feb 2006 14:00–15:30 UTC+01
The Unequal Burden of War
The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy
Thursday, 16 Mar 2006 13:00–16:00 UTC+01
Human Security Research in Norway
GECHS (Global Environmental Change and Human Security) invites you to a seminar and opening 16 March to present different ways of understanding human and social security.
31 Jan 2008–1 Feb 2008
Whose responsibility? The changing politics of human rights, in Cyprus
The PRIO Cyprus Centre is organizing it's 2007 annual conference, 31 January – 1 February 2008.
Wednesday, 22 Mar 2006 14:00–15:30 UTC+01
World System in Flux
Transformations since the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror
Sunday, 16 Mar 2003 13:00–16:00 UTC+01
Human Security Research in Norway
Seminar and Opening
30–31 May 2008
Civic & Uncivic Values in Serbia
The post-Milošević era
26–30 May 2008
Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - CSCW/UiO doctoral course
21–23 Jun 2005
Human Security and Climate Change
An International Workshop