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PRIO is pleased to announce the appointment of Nina Græger as its next Director, effective 1 July 2025.

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.

New report outlines the on-the-ground consequences of Israel’s ban on UNRWA which comes into effect next week.

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.

Can migration be forecasted in today's unpredictable world? How can policymakers and scholars navigate inherent uncertainty, with robust and realistic models?

As the conflict in Ukraine intensifies, questions about the prospects for peace and the shifting dynamics of international involvement take center stage in the latest episode of PRIO’s Peace in a Pod.

On 27 November, PRIO received the sad news that Professor of social anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen passed away.

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.

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.

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].

“Today’s Nobel Peace Prize award to Nihon Hidankyo comes at a crucial time when countries are modernizing their nuclear arsenals, and threats of use by traditional and emerging nuclear powers are alarmingly on the rise."

PRIO’s Deputy Director Torunn L. Tryggestad and PRIO Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken are both appointed members of new commission on Afghanistan.

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.

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.

The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS), a collaborative project between PRIO and Uppsala University, has been awarded a Special Distinction by the prestigious Kluz Prize for PeaceTech.

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.

Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s Chief of Defense, introduced the PRIO-hosted event on Norway's new role in NATO at Arendalsuka.

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.

PRIO congratulates Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of The Nobel Institute.

The Research Council of Norway announced funding for 21 new projects this week. PRIO was delighted at the funding of two of its projects.

Last year saw the highest number of state-based conflicts since 1946. In addition, the past three years were the most violent in the last three decades, according to new conflict trend analysis.

Arendalsuka is an annual Norwegian political festival that brings together politicians, journalists, policy makers, aid organisations, civil society and the private sector.

Hilde Henriksen Waage receives the University of Oslo's Dissemination Award for being a clear, critical, and balanced communicator of the political history of the Middle East over two decades.

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".

In a new article in the journal Disasters we explore who provides aid, drawing on the case of the protracted internal displacement of Sri Lanka’s Northern Muslims. Based on this we offer insights of relevance to 'localisation' efforts in humanitar...

Tore Wig, professor of political science at the University of Oslo and a former associate research professor at PRIO, has been awarded Fridtjof Nansen’s Award for Young Scientists.