What problems are third‑country asylum centres intended to solve?
The EU is considering moving parts of asylum processing out of Europe, and several countries are pushing for third-country solutions.
Russia’s hope for trans-atlantic rift at MSC disappointed
Russia hopes to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe through hybrid attacks and nuclear brinkmanship to increase its chances of prevailing against Ukraine.
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Is Trump reshaping the world order?
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Lamentations for the New START Treaty are immaterial
The sum total of shortcomings has not only made the New START Treaty irrelevant but also turned it into a false promise.
Naming the moment without despair: Women mediators in a shifting global order
Women mediators are not guests in the future order – they are architects.
Russian hybrid warfare backfiring
Russian provocations, from cutting cables on the seabed to drone incursions into the European Union, are recognized as a major challenge to transatlantic security.
The repercussions of the Syrian government offensive against the Kurds
Syria is balancing on a knife’s edge, and the question of how the country’s minorities are treated is a key piece of the puzzle.
Putin stalling ninety percent complete peace deal
The recent surge in diplomatic activity intended to draft an agreement to end Moscow’s war against Ukraine has yielded U.S. and Ukrainian assertions that the deal is 90 percent ready.
Putin’s irrelevance at Davos Forum is irreversible
The agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland on January 19–23, is extensive. The absence of official Russian participants appears politically motivated.
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Putin stalling ninety percent complete peace deal
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Assad’s fall gave hope, but the future hangs by a thin thread
Just over a year has passed since Assad’s brutal dictatorship fell and millions of Syrians regained hope. But with faltering support for refugees and reconstruction, and fears of new conflicts, hope is wearing thin.
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Evolving Structures of Interagency Collaboration in Disaster Response: A Social Network Analysis of Cyclone Idai
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Network-Based Simulation of Flood Alert Dissemination Using GDACS and Synthetic Communication Logs
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Arms control Putin-style goes nowhere
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Wednesday, 17 Dec 2025
A glimpse into the multifaceted work of Manuel E. Salamanca Rangel in the RedLines project
In this interview, Dr. Prof. Salamanca Rangel of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, tells about his work as a research partner in the PRIO led project Red Lines and Grey Zones: exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiatio...
Quality of mediation is a major issue in the Ukraine peace process
The ongoing talks between the US, Russian and Ukrainian teams of negotiators may yet produce a “peace deal” – so desired by President Donald Trump – by the end of the tumultuous year 2025, or at least before the disastrous war comes to the four-ye...
Commanding change: What can we learn from the Swedish Armed Forces’ leadership program on gender equality?
What can we learn from senior military leaders on how to create sustainable organizational capacity building and improved recruitment and retention of personnel by better considering gender equality?
Where is civilian drone research going?
The future of civilian drones is not predetermined. It will emerge through dialogue among researchers, regulators, industry, security actors and civil society.
What are duties good for? Lessons from the pandemic
The concept of duty can be clarifying of social and political relations.
Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025
Youth power and Women, Peace and Security in a new geopolitical and technical era
Why is Women, Peace and Security (WPS) important for youth? New generations will be responsible for safeguarding past achievements and advancing the goals of the WPS agenda into new areas, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security.
Aeropeace in airspace: from defensive measures to positive peace
Peace can no longer be imagined without a peaceful sky – without ‘Aeropeace’ – but what does that entail?
Thursday, 13 Nov 2025
Interview with Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert on Humanitarian Negotiations in the Mediterranean Sea
In this interview, Senior Researcher Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert talks about her case study on humanitarian negotiations in the Mediterranean Sea. This study is a part of the PRIO project Red Lines and Grey Zones. The interview was conducted by Sunni...
Talks on peace deal for war against Ukraine can still rebound
The failed Russian plan to organize a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Budapest was so significant that any prospect of bringing the war against Ukraine to an end any time soon appeared to disappear.
Putin’s elites could become proponents of peace
Generational and social divisions shape elite attitudes toward Moscow’s war, with mid-level security operatives enforcing loyalty to Russian President Vladimir Putin and younger privileged figures largely indifferent to patriotism but obedient to ...
Putin–Trump call stalls Tomahawks but reactivates ceasefire discussions
Putin’s phone call yielded a short-term advantage by prompting Trump to delay a decision on supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
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Outside the social making of interoperability: Problematizing the absence of civil society in border security R&D programmes
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María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize captures the spirit of our age
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a reminder that the future of democracy rests on those who dare to protest without violence.
Russia ignores global peace developments to focus on Putin’s war
Extraordinary international attention was focused on the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on October 10. Anxiety was palpable in Moscow, where official skepticism had dominated since the award of the 2022 prize to the Memorial Society.
Imagining War in the Neurotechnological Age
According to neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, founding member of NeuroRights Foundation, “We are entering a world, where technologies no longer simply threaten our bodies. They are directly affecting our minds”.
Putin attempts to shift nuclear brinkmanship
Russian President Vladimir Putin is shifting from overt nuclear brinkmanship to using Russia’s nuclear energy program as a “peaceful” tool of influence.