Journal Article
Zero hunger is not achievable without peace
Journal article in Nature Food
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026
Nobel Peace Prize 2026: PRIO Director’s updated list announced
PRIO Acting Director Haakon Gjerløw published his updated list for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, which includes Save the Children and the International Space Station.
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2026
Gløbius Award for 2026 goes to Ole Magnus Gaalaas-Hansen
Ole Magnus Gaalaas-Hansen has won the 2026 Gløbius Award for his Master's thesis in Political Science, titled Foreign Experts in Autocratic Media: A Study of Modern Russian Propaganda Strategies.
Popular Article
Putin's 'special electoral operation' could backfire
Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor
Escalation and the size of wars
The war in Ukraine underscores the severe human impact and economic consequences of large wars, but there has been remarkably little attention to why wars differ so much in severity in the first place.
Russia remains absorbed with Europe amid BRICS summit
Russian state media regularly presents the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS as embodiments of a multipolar world order replacing Western dominance.
Predicting conflict fatalities with temporal fusion transformers
Introducing a performant, yet interpretable deep learning algorithm for conflict forecasting.
Putin’s ‘Special Electoral Operation’ could backfire
Elections in Russia over the two and a half decades of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule have never been free and fair. The scope of electoral manipulation has been steadily rising to the point that the recent system that selected members of...
Book Chapter
Introduction: Religious Minorities and Religious Education in a Plural Europe
Book chapter in Minorities, Migration, and Religion New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe
Book Chapter
Exploring Muslim and Catholic Faith Education in Norway Transnational Ties, Role Modeling, and Socialization
Book chapter in Minorities, Migration, and Religion New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe
China isn’t winning the digital order – yet
In Southeast Asia, Beijing is building the digital infrastructure, but not (yet) writing the rules.
Thursday, 3 Sep 2026
BRIDGE project pioneers new way to connect conflict data
PRIO Senior Researcher Jonas Vestby has been awarded funding from the European Research Council(ERC) for a groundbreaking study on how artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs can transform the way peace and conflict data is connected, underst...
Conference Paper
From Peacebuilding to Conflict Management? Illiberal Powers engagement in the Astana Process in Syria
Conference paper
Civil wars cluster around the Equator – but why?
Civil war events are overrepresented around the Equator.
Monday, 17 Aug 2026
Record 756 million women now live in the shadow of armed conflict
Almost one in five women globally were living within 50 kilometres of a deadly conflict event in 2025, according to a new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
Popular Article
The Global Danger of China’s State-Controlled AI Models
Popular article in World Politics Review
The Ukraine War takes new turns in the Black Sea theatre
Wars of attrition are supposed to be static and predictable, but the Ukraine War definitely departs from this pattern. Its transformation is constant, and during this summer, new surprises have come, delivered primarily by Ukraine, which puts prio...
Only Moscow lacks new ideas for ending war against Ukraine
The July 23 meeting in Manila between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lasted only 35 minutes and produced no new momentum, according to the Kremlin (The Moscow Times, July 23).
Journal Article
Neither convergence nor resistance: A hybridization framework for norm evolution in the digital age
Journal article in Review of International Studies
Popular Article
Russia's virtual retreat in war against Ukraine is accelerating
Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor
Putin intensifies missile attacks against Kyiv ahead of NATO summit
The Kremlin paired the July attacks with exaggerated battlefield claims and messaging aimed at the July NATO summit.
Thursday, 25 Jun 2026
Jonas Vestby awarded RCN grant for radical conflict data project
PRIOs Senior Researcher Jonas Vestby has been awarded a NOK 2 million grant to explore a radical new approach to conflict data.
Popular Article
Leadership in the Ukraine-Russia peace process is a new challenge for Europe
Popular article in ISPI Commentary
AI is neither the autocrat’s silver bullet nor democracy’s death sentence
AI does not map neatly onto a spectrum running from democratic vulnerability to authoritarian advantage.
Norwegian peace diplomacy - is it facilitation or mediation? And why this matters.
It is a tradition in Norwegian peace diplomacy to say they are “only facilitators”, and theories on mediation are seen as of little relevance.
Shadow of Anchorage no-deal looms over Ukraine peace no-talks
The long-deadlocked Ukraine war has from the start of 2026 changed quite drastically in the tactical, strategic and geopolitical dimensions, but has remained immobile on the diplomatic track.
Journal Article
The MERGE Dataset: A Harmonized Global Resource for Climate Disaster Impacts and Human Vulnerability
Journal article in Scientific Data
Popular Article
Russia hits strategic ceiling with attack, strikes and bluffs
Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor
Russia hits strategic ceiling with attacks, strikes, and bluffs
Each attempt at nuclear blackmail exposes the disarray in Russian elites and society.
PRIO Paper
As local as possible, as international as necessary? Knowledge review on locally-led humanitarian responses in Ukraine
PRIO Paper