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.
Journal Article
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset
Journal article in Journal of Peace Research
Book Review
War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World
Book review in JPR Book Notes
Journal Article
Forced displacement and utilization of maternal health care services in host communities: micro-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 1986–2016
Journal article in Journal of Refugee Studies
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.
Monday, 25 Nov 2024
Armed Conflict’s Hidden Costs: A Multidisciplinary Look at War's Impact on Human Development
A new comprehensive review reveals that the detrimental effects of armed conflict extend far beyond the battlefield, with war reverberating through every aspect of human development.
Journal Article
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Journal article in World Development
Popular Article
Challenging the Invisibility of Women Combatants: Five Steps Towards Gender-Responsive DDR
Popular article in IPI Global Observatory
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.
PRIO Paper
The State of Arms Control: Consequences of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
PRIO Paper
Thursday, 19 Sep 2024
PRIO Successful in Recent Norway Funding Round
The Research Council of Norway announced new research funding this week under its Democracy and Global Development panel. PRIO was successful in securing funding for three exciting new research projects.
Friday, 6 Sep 2024
Ipek Borman, PRIO Cyprus Centre research consultant and member of the Cyprus Women's Bicommunal Coalition (CWBC), participated in a study visit to ...
The CWBC conducted a working visit to Belfast and Dublin on 1-5 September 2024.
Book Chapter
Cyber-activism on violence against women in India
Book chapter in Women’s Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency
Popular Article
Fluid battles and clashing narratives of the Ukraine War
Popular article in ISPI Commentary
Journal Article
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies
Journal article in International Migration Review
Thursday, 8 Aug 2024
Great Fear Among Norwegians of World War, Survey Shows
In a survey carried out for the Peace Research Institute Oslo, 41 per cent of people questioned in Norway believe it is likely that a new world war will break out within 10 years. Just as alarming, 55 per cent anticipate a new armed conflict in Eu...
Thursday, 8 Aug 2024
Nordic Emergence to NATO and Gender Equality
PRIO Research Director Louise Olsson was interviewed by forskning.no about an integrated Nordic region in NATO and gender equality.
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
Monograph
Gendered Vulnerabilities and Violence in Forced Migration: The Rohingya from Myanmar
Monograph
Thursday, 20 Jun 2024
PRIO’s Kristian Berg Harpviken Appointed New Director of The Nobel Institute
PRIO congratulates Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of The Nobel Institute.
Thursday, 6 Jun 2024
30 Years After the Genocide in Rwanda: Gender, Accountability and Atrocity Prevention
What is the legacy of Rwanda and other atrocity crimes, and how are sexual and gender-based crimes addressed in today’s conflicts? The public was invited to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda genocide.
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".
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The PRIO Cyprus Centre joins new EU project - REWEU
The project '(Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the 2004 EU enlargement' is focused on the commemoration of the 2004 “big bang” EU enlargement at the occasion of its 20th anniversary in May 2024.
Policy Brief
The Nordics in NATO: Women, Peace and Security and Regional Defense
GPS Policy Brief
Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024
International Peace Mediators Gather in Oslo to Strengthen Women’s inclusion in Peace Processes
Over two dozen top peace negotiators gather this week in Oslo for the thirteenth UN High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Strategies.
Friday, 26 Apr 2024
Ipek Borman, as co-founder of the Steering Committee, at the launch event of Cyprus Women Bi-Communal Coalition (CWBC)
Cyprus Women Bi-Communal Coalition (CWBC) was officially launched on 26 April 2024 at Ledra Palace Hotel. Formed by a bi-communal group of influential women from diverse professional and political backgrounds,
Book Chapter
External Intervention and Domestic Instrumentalization: A Structured, Focused Comparison of Iran and Saudi Arabia's Role in Yemen
Book chapter in A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System
Thursday, 11 Apr 2024
How do violence and conflict affect migration considerations?
This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between conflict and mobility, by disaggregating ‘conflict’ and drawing on sub-national geographical units.