PRIO Blogs
What Now for Humanitarian Studies?
Humanitarianism has long been in crisis, but since early 2025 the sector has been experiencing an unprecedented organizational, institutional, normative, and political collapse. As scholars active in the broad, inter-, and multidisciplinary field ...
Tuesday, 25 Feb 2025
Rica Günther Successfully Defends Master's Thesis
Rica Günther successfully defended her MA thesis at the University of Oslo, titled "Changing the Corporate Narrative - the Potential of a Sustainable Corporate Sector for the Prevention of Armed Conflict".
Tuesday, 21 Jan 2025
Write your master's thesis at PRIO: Applications open now for the PRIO Student Programme
PRIO is committed to fostering the next generation of peace researchers. To this end, we invite Master students to take part in our vibrant research community while writing their thesis.
Monday, 6 Jan 2025
Apply now: PRIO Peace Research Course at the International Summer School
The PRIO Peace Research Course at the International Summer School is now opening for students to apply for places for the 2025 programme.
Book Review
War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World
Book review in JPR Book Notes
Friday, 8 Nov 2024
Gløbius Award for 2024 goes to Juliane Stötter
Juliane Stötter has won the 2024 Gløbius Award for her Master’s thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies, Precipitation Variability, Rebel Group Resilience, and the Duration of Civil Conflicts.
Popular Article
Spectre of escalation over the Ukraine war
Popular article in Panorama UIK
PRIO Blogs
Spectre of Escalation Over the Ukraine War
The first striking sentence of the Communist Manifesto issued in 1848 – A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism – has long become a historical anecdote. Even the leftist fringe cherishes no illusions about the unity of the proletar...
Wednesday, 4 Sep 2024
Ophélie Schwab Successfully Defends Master's Thesis
Ophélie Schwab Successfully defended her MA thesis at the University of Oslo, titled "Exploring Interreligious Dimensions of Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the European Union's Framing of Religion in the Nigerian Context".
Monday, 26 Aug 2024
Farseen Ali Puthanveettil Successfully Defends Master's Thesis
Farseen Ali Puthanveettil has successfully defended his MA for the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Realtions (EMMIR) at the University of Stavanger.
Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024
Juliane Stötter Successfully Defends Master's Thesis
Juliane Stötter has successfully defended her MA thesis at the University of Oslo.
Wednesday, 28 Aug 2024
Wilmer Rosell Öden Successfully Defends Master's Thesis
Wilmer Rosell Öden has successfully defended his MA thesis at the University of Oslo
Thursday, 1 Aug 2024
Marianne Dahl New Research Director at PRIO
Marianne Dahl is the new Research Director for the Conflict Patterns and Environments Department at PRIO.
Thursday, 27 Jun 2024
Maria Krogshus Holmås Successfully Defends Master`s Thesis
Maria Krogshus Holmås has successfully defended her MA thesis at the University of Oslo.
Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 00:00–00:00 UTC+02
West Versus West
André Glucksmann gave a talk for an audience of more than 200 at a seminar in Oslo on 28 April.
Friday, 19 Jan 2007 10:00–12:00 UTC+01
Seminar with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
The Tajikistan and Afghanistan “Peacebuilding” Processes Compared
Wednesday, 12 Dec 2007 10:00–13:00 UTC+01
The Gendered Subject of Contemporary War
PRIO invites you to a seminar providing a rare occasion to meet five international experts on gender in the context of war.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2008 13:00–15:00 UTC+01
Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police
Seminar with Andrew Wilder
Thursday, 3 Apr 2008 18:00–20:00 UTC+02
Information meeting on master programmes
PRIO is co-organizing two master programmes in which students spend the first semester in Oslo pursuing courses developed and taught by PRIO researchers.
Thursday, 6 Apr 2006 18:00–20:00 UTC+02
Information Meeting on Master Programmes
Information meeting at PRIO
Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 09:00–12:30 UTC+02
Law, Governance and Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Seminar with Ali Wardak, Seema Ghani and Kanishka Nawabi
24–25 Nov 2003
Central African Rift
Petrolium Resources and Regional Governance
Thursday, 2 Apr 2009 18:00–20:00 UTC+02
Master Programmes - Information Meeting
PRIO is co-organizing two master programmes in which students spend the first semester in Oslo pursuing courses developed and taught by PRIO researchers.
2–5 May 2011
PhD course on Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
This course is about the application of qualitative methods to the study of civil war.
Friday, 9 Sep 2011 13:15–14:30 UTC+02
Political movements and Non-Violence in India: From Gandhi to Anna Hazare
Seminar with Anjoo and Priyankar Upadhyaya, Malaviya Centre for Peace Research
7–10 May 2012
Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - a PhD course
POL8514 - 10 credits
Friday, 1 Mar 2013 12:00–13:30 UTC+01
Ceasefire Agreements and the Protection of Civilians
Seminar with Gina Torry
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 12:00–13:30 UTC+02
Zen at War: A Documentary and Discussion
Introductory comments by Prof. Brian Victoria
9–11 May 2013
Struggles over Emerging States in Africa
Conference at Durham University, 9-11 May
13–14 Jun 2013
Institutions for Sustainable Peace (ISP) Network Conference
Harmony or Cacophony? The 'concert of institutions' in divided societies