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Making Women Combatants Visible: Steps Towards Gender-Responsive Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

In October the Security Council met for its annual Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Open Debate under the theme of “Women Building Peace in a Changing Environment.” Despite the WPS agenda’s goals for including women in all aspects of security and ...

7–8 Dec 2007

Mimicry in Civil War

Workshop with Diego Gambetta

13–14 Dec 2011

Moralities of Migration

23–24 Sep 2013

The Geopolitics of the Arctic

Conference on Commerce, Governance and Policy

10–11 Dec 2018

Data, Security, Values: Vocations and Visions of Data Analysis

Annual Conference of the Nordic Centre for Security Technology and Societal Values (NordSTEVA)

Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 13:00–15:00 UTC+01

The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict – New Agendas

A roundtable on ethical, legal and political perspectives

Friday, 22 Jan 2010

The diaspora supports Haiti after the earthquake (in Norwegian)

Jørgen Carling comments on how the diaspora can assist Haiti after the earthquake.

Friday, 8 Jul 2011

PRIO signs commitment to the Charter and Code

The Charter and Code is an EU initiative to improve employment and working conditions for researchers, and refers to two documents describing recruitment, working conditions, career planning and mobility.

Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012

Nils Petter Gleditsch turns 70

Today, 17 July 2012, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Research Professor at PRIO and former editor of the Journal of Peace Research turns 70 years.

Thursday, 17 Jan 2013

Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence

Research project calls for greater transparency and accountability re use of surveillance systems

Monday, 9 Nov 2015

PRIO-GRID 2.0 Launches at grid.prio.org

The latest version of the PRIO-GRID is now available at grid.

Thursday, 8 Jun 2017

New Version of PRIO Dataset on Urban Unrest, 1960-2014

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...

Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018

Call for Applications: PhD Course on Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology: Approaches, Tools and Ethics to take place in Oslo on 19-22 March 2018.

Friday, 4 Oct 2019

Launch of the Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks at UN Headquarters in New York

The Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks was launched on 26 September.

Monday, 13 Dec 2021

Peace Science Infrastructure: PRIO to Head Large New Collaboration

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 a...