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Ebba Tellander defended her PhD successfully on 20 Septeber 2022 at the Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam. The title of her thesis is: The Wind That Blows Before the Rain: Resistance against oppression in Northern Somalia in the 1980son 20 September 2022.

Congratulations from all at PRIO!

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 19 Sep 2022

Eurasian Summit of Hidden Tensions and Thin Pretensions

Samarkand didn’t go well for President Vladimir Putin. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit hosted by Uzbekistan in this ancient city gathered many leaders of various Eurasian states, from Belarus to Mongolia, but it was the meeting with China’s Chairman (the title that Putin addresses him with) Xi Jinping that ...

PRIO Blogs

Saturday, 17 Sep 2022

Russia and China Ambiguity Alliance in Africa

As the war in Ukraine continues in Europe, a new Cold War dynamic of the East and West tensions and strategic geopolitical alignment between powerful nations have heightened. As global proxy wars intensify, so does the competition over control of Africa’s vast natural resources and strategic trade routes, which is ...

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022

Putin’s Botched Mobilization and Nuclear Non-Option

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s September 21st address to the nation could prove to be one of his most fateful blunders in his disastrous war in Ukraine. In his 15-minute pre-recorded speech, Putin announced support for the referendums in four Ukrainian regions, declared partial mobilization in Russia, accused the West of ...

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 23 Sep 2022

The Peace Researcher Is a Deeply Worried Optimist

Henrik Urdal, Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), laughs out loud when our journalist points out all the worries that have emerged during their conversation. He does indeed believe that many left-wingers can end up supporting Norwegian EU membership. But he fears continued political polarization in the United ...

Event Recording

Thursday, 22 Sep 2022 08:30-09:30

57:54

The Challenge of Just Environmental Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa - MidEast Breakfast Seminar

How do the environmental and climate crises intersect with social inequality in the Middle East and North Africa? How do we root environmental and climate debates within the region in social justice and equity concerns?

News

Wednesday, 21 Sep 2022

The PRIO Cyprus Centre as a new Knowledge Partner has the pleasure to be holding a panel discussion during the #CyprusForum 29-30.09.22 in Nicosia, entitled:

29.10.22 starting at 12:20

Speakers:

Marios Panayides - Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry

Nick Spyropoulos - Founder of Alma Economics

Maria Liapi - Economist

Christina Olympiou - Economist

Constantinos Taliotis - author and scientist/modeler at the Cyprus Institute

Petter Nore - Director and Head of Department at Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation

Discussant:

Cleopatra Kitti - Founder of the Mediterranean Growth Initiative.

The panel will discuss two recently released studies: One funded by the Norway-Cyprus bilateral funds "Cyprus' Green Pivot in a regional market based interconnected market"; and the Cyprus Institute's study in collaboration with other international scientific and academic institutions for COP27 "Large Economic benefits from Regional Energy Cooperation in the EMME region as identified by CyI's Energy Modellers".

For more see https://cyprusforum.cy/

Monograph

2022

The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy: Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions

By John Gerring, Brendan Apfield, Tore Wig & Andreas Forø Tollefsen

News

Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022

Ingrid Aunes Memorial Prize Awarded to Inger Skjelsbæk

Inger Skjelsbæk will receive the Ingrid Aune memorial prize 2022 for her research on conflict-related sexual violence. Skjelsbæk is a Research Professor at PRIO and the Director of the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 23 Sep 2022

A Perfect Storm? The Impact of the Ukraine War on Donor Priorities

Two seemingly unrelated global events in September – the devastating floods in Pakistan and the Russian closure of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline – intersect on the issue of funding for humanitarian relief. The surge in power prices, the fall in European currencies, and the fears of economic downturn ...

News

Thursday, 22 Sep 2022

International PhD Students Participate in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology Course

As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology.

The NORHED II project enabled PRIO to host students from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Makerere University (Uganda) and Birzeit University (Palestine). Together with students from a range of European universities, they explored practical and principled concerns that arise from pre-fieldwork planning to post-fieldwork representation of data.

News

Tuesday, 20 Sep 2022

ALNAP’s State of the Humanitarian System 2022 Report Released

Report finds ‘Do no digital harm’ has emerged as an important humanitarian imperative, following contributions from PRIO project.

Eurasian summit of hidden tensions and thin pretenses

By Pavel K. Baev in Eurasia Daily Monitor

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