Wednesday, 5 Feb 2025
Nina Græger Appointed as New Director of PRIO
PRIO is pleased to announce the appointment of Nina Græger as its next Director, effective 1 July 2025.
Journal Article
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset
Journal article in Journal of Peace Research
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.
Popular Article
Russian counter-offensive in the international arena has lost momentum
Popular article in Panorama UIK
Book Review
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order
Book review in JPR Booknotes
Book Review
The Russian Way of Deterrence
Book review in JPR Book Notes
Monday, 9 Dec 2024
PRIO secures funding for four new innovative projects
PRIO has successfully secured funding for four new projects to support research addressing today’s critical societal challenges, including two focused on Norwegian security and defence.
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.
Book Chapter
Migration drivers across time and space: selected examples
Book chapter in From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios
Journal Article
Rituals, Lore and Legitimacy in Post-Coup Myanmar
Journal article in Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
PRIO Report
The impact of the Cyprus problem on the protection of the environment
PRIO Cyprus Centre Report
Monday, 18 Nov 2024
How Civil Society Can Counter Global Authoritarianism – Insights from the PRIO Annual Peace Address
PRIO hosted the 15th Annual Peace Address on 12 November, focusing on a pressing global concern: the state of democracy and the vital role of civil society in its preservation and renewal.
Journal Article
Coups and refugee flows in autocracies and democracies
Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal Article
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Journal article in World Development
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.
Journal Article
Education desires and conflict impacts in refugees’ decisions to leave
Journal article in Migration Studies
PRIO Paper
Framing Humanitarian AI Conversations: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics?
PRIO Paper
Friday, 1 Nov 2024
Inger Skjelsbæk nominated for Brageprisen 2024
PRIO Research Professor Inger Skjelsbæk has been nominated for the prestigious Norwegian book award ‘Brageprisen 2024’ for her non-fiction book Sarajevos roser. Krigen i Bosnia og dens etterliv [Sarajevo Rose: The war in Bosnia and its aftermath].
Popular Article
Time to Push for Next Step on Women, Peace and Security: Ensuring Positive Impact for Women in Conflict
Popular article in The Global Observatory
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.
Journal Article
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda
Journal article in Population, Space and Place
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024
Call for Papers: Theorizing Migration and Social Mobility in Asia and Beyond
Focusing on the Asian context, we seek to explore the interactions between multiple forms of migrations and processes of social mobility, whether upward, downward, or sideways. The Call for Papers is open till 15 October 2024.
Saturday, 21 Sep 2024
"The solution of the Cyprus problem should be addressed more comprehensively within the framework of sustainable development"
Stated Ipek Borman PCC research consultant at a panel organized on the occasion of International Day of Peace
PRIO Paper
The Cyprus Property Issue and the Return of Lawfare
Occasional Paper Series
Wednesday, 18 Sep 2024
Describing the Cyprus problem as the main problem affecting all aspects - political, economic, social, cultural and environmental - of the lives of...
Ipek Borman from PCC appeared on Ulaş Barış's Agenda programme on Kıbrıs Postası TV to discuss the latest developments in the Cyprus problem:
Report – Other
Foxes Guarding The Henhouse? The IGAD Mediation for South Sudan, 2013-15
Friday, 6 Sep 2024
Call for papers - Life and migration: Decentering migration from the life aspirations of (potential) migrants
We invite abstracts for a panel at the IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris, 1-4 July 2025. The panel aims to offer new insights across theoretical lenses, methodological approaches and geographical contexts. Deadline 23 September 2024.
PRIO Paper
The Pillars of Protest: Demands, Strategy, Composition and Organization
PRIO Paper
Wednesday, 14 Aug 2024
The Nordics in NATO: Is Norway Prepared for a New Reality?
Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s Chief of Defense, introduced the PRIO-hosted event on Norway's new role in NATO at Arendalsuka.
Journal Article
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal
Journal article in Journal of Contemporary European Studies