Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025
Moving and Staying: the Path to Middle Class Life in Asia
A Filipino nurse with family in Manila, three intertwined lives in Mumbai, a ‘self-made’ man in Karachi and the journey of a woman in Hanoi. Through four animations, the MigrationRhythms project explores how migration shapes social mobility across...
PRIO Blogs
Contesting the AI-Cybersecurity Nexus: Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom
In an age where so-called artificial intelligence (AI) seems to revolutionise every corner of our lives, it’s no surprise that its intersection with cybersecurity has become a major focus for governments worldwide. Where cybersecurity and AI were ...
PRIO Blogs
Moscow Seeks to Regain Initiative in the Game of Peace Talks
Jubilation in Moscow after the phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on February 12 has given way to contemplations of the consequences and even to confusion caused by the barrage of statements...
Security Dialogue
Migrant deaths in the name of law
Image byJim BlackfromPixabay In international political sociology, a variety of scholars following Agamben and the so-called state of exception emphasize the routes of violence against migrants in the light of their privation of rights or “suspend...
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, 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.
Report – External Series
Navigating US-China Technology Competition: An Indonesia Perspective
Research Report
Journal Article
Forum: Fostering Cooperation in Conflict Research Beyond Borders
Journal article in All Azimuth
PRIO Blogs
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 ...
Report – External Series
Illicit Firearms Trafficking – Addressing the Criminal Side of Diversion
Issue Paper
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
PRIO Blogs
Civil Society Participation in International Criminal Justice
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is in trouble. To commentators and observers of the Court, one crisis seems to lead on to the next, so that the field of international criminal justice has been described as being in ‘perpetual crisis’. Follo...
PRIO Paper
Cyprus in the EU and EMU: A Retrospect
Occasional Paper Series
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.
PRIO Blogs
Anti-Globalist Alliances?
The far right and far left have partly overlapping views on issues of global economic cooperation. Why don’t they unite? “We have moved from ‘we the workers’ to ‘we the French,’” said the French sociologist Didier Eribon to Libération recent...
PRIO Blogs
The Silent Winner of Myanmar’s Northern Conflict
From the chaos of the conflict in Shan State, the United Wa State Army has emerged as a potentially decisive force. On the morning of July 28, a convoy of soldiers from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) drove through Lashio, the capital of the north...
PRIO Blogs
Is China Truly a Neutral Development Actor?
China presents itself as a different kind of development actor compared to Western donors — more equal and with less imposition and interference in national affairs, based on the belief that economic development leads to peace. However, many doubt...
Tuesday, 13 Aug 2024
Funding Secured to Study Attacks on Education in Africa
PRIO has received funding for an innovative new project titled Conflict-related attacks on education and children’s lost life opportunities. The multi-year ‘EdAttack’ project is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
PRIO Blogs
Community Initiatives to Mitigate Group Tensions: Reflections from Uganda
Forced displacement places increased pressure on host communities. Refugees are often hosted in resource-scarce areas with high unemployment and poverty. Local, national and international collaboration is therefore crucial to mitigate social confl...
Friday, 2 Aug 2024
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Elected as Fellow to the British Academy
PRIO Research Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has been elected as a Fellow of The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Monograph
Gendered Vulnerabilities and Violence in Forced Migration: The Rohingya from Myanmar
Monograph
Journal Article
Localised refugee education: understanding nationally accredited refugee-led schools in Kenya’s Dadaab camps
Journal article in Journal of Eastern African Studies
Journal Article
The role of sub‐national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services
Journal article in Comparative European Politics
Policy Brief
Getting to Completion: Funding Mine and Cluster Munition Clearance in Lebanon, Mauritania and Zimbabwe
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article
European Defense Spending: Trade-Offs and Consequences of Non-Alignment
Journal article in EconPol Forum
Tuesday, 25 Jun 2024
Read the latest blog post from Mete Hatay: Turkish Cypriots and “Demographic Danger”
In March 2024, Bülent Dizdarlı, a respected Turkish Cypriot doctor and former head of the medical association, speculated on his Facebook page that the population of the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) had reached two milli...
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.
PRIO Paper
Artificial Intelligence and Pakistan’s National Security
PRIO Paper
PRIO Blogs
Can High-Level Diplomacy Turn the Tide of the Ukraine War?
World politics in the first half of June is set to be enlivened not only by elections in such major powers as India, Mexico and South Africa, but also by a heavy concentration of international summits, conferences and visits. Agendas are rich and ...
Journal Article
The Transnationalist Nationalists: The Joint Curriculum of Anti-Immigration Actors in Norway
Journal article in Journal of Political Ideologies