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Repost: 57- Energy and Power in the Eastern Mediterranean

Scrambles for natural resources and struggles for power when such resources come to light are a frequent cause of international conflict and tension around the world. In the Eastern Mediterranean, recent discovery of hydrocarbon has only exacerbated existing tensions. This is a region that includes Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel. Today we’re going to hear from PRIO Cyprus Centre researcher Zenonas Tziarras on this topic: he'll explain the key players, the recent history, and what kinds of issues he thinks are worth highlighting there.

PRIO Blogs

Sunday, 16 Jan 2022

When Terrorists Mobilize Law: Reflections on justice and closure after July 22

During January 18-21, the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik will have his request for parole adjudicated by the Telemark District Court over a four-day trial. In 2012, he was sentenced to preventive detention for a term of twenty-one years and a minimum period of ten years for the July 22, ...

Event Recording

Thursday, 13 Jan 2022 15:00-16:00

01:01:08

Negotiating Disarmament

You are invited to attend a webinar on how disarmament is negotiated during peace processes. Two PRIO researchers will be joined by experts from Canada and the Philippines. We will launch two new PRIO publications.

Journal Article

2022

What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis?

By Kristian Hoelscher, Lisbet Harboe, Hanne Cecilie Geirbo & Sobah Abbas Petersen in Sustainability

News

Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022

Kelly Fisher and Teuta Kukleci Nominated for Centre for Gender Research Award

Kelly Fisher and Teuta Kukleci have each been nominated for the Centre for Gender Research award "Best Master's Thesis With a Gender Perspective" for 2021.

Journal Article

2022

No right to read: National regulatory restrictions on refugee rights to formal education in low- and middle-income host countries

By Kendra Dupuy, Júlia Palik & Gudrun Østby in International Journal of Educational Development

Podcast Episode

Thursday, 23 Dec 2021

68- Academics and Activism: From Afghanistan to Australia

When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, many academics found themselves in a desperate scramble. For female academics in particular, the threat of retaliation and loss of freedoms was ominous. Meanwhile, their colleagues and counterparts in other countries struggled to help them. Professor Jacqui True at Monash University managed to successfully help bring several female academics from Afghanistan to Australia.

Today Jacqui and Afghan scholar Parisa talk about developments in Afghanistan and the journey to Monash University.

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Report

2021

The Arctic as a test for "stable and predictable" Russia

By Pavel K. Baev

News

Wednesday, 19 Jan 2022

New Book: Documenting Displacement

The new book Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, edited by Katarzyna Grabska and Christina R. Clark-Kazak, assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created in spaces of displacement, and how it is reproduced through narratives.

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 13 Jan 2022

Even at Times of Crisis, Children Must Go to School

The most recent debate concerning school closures has focused on vulnerable children and how school closures will cut them off from a place of safety. While the Children’s Ombudsperson and others are concerned about the impact of school closures on the most vulnerable children, others express doubts as to what ...

Podcast Episode

Thursday, 13 Jan 2022

Repost: 60- Transformative Visual Storytelling in Conflict Research

What is the transformative potential of visual storytelling in conflict research?

In the project Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts or (TRANSFORM), animations and comics were created in collaboration between researchers, activists, artists, writers, and many others. These pieces of art not only serve to inspire possible change, but also to illustrate and highlight stories of societal transformation around the world. That work was done in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.

Today Ben Dix, PositiveNegatives Founder, and Cindy Horst, Research Professor at PRIO, talk about their work together.

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News

Thursday, 6 Jan 2022

Minister of Foreign Affairs Thanks PRIO and NUPI

Norway is an elected member of the UN Security Council and holds the presidency for the month of January. Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anniken Huitfeldt, gave a briefing to the Norwegian Parliament on the Norwegian membership and presidency.

Journal Article

2022

Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?

By Sophie P. de Bruin, Jannis M. Hoch, Nina von Uexkull, Halvard Buhaug, Jolle Demmers, Hans Visser & Niko Wanders in Global Environmental Change

Journal Article

2021

War termination and women's political rights

By Louise Olsson & Madhav Joshi in Social Science Research

Journal Article

2021

Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization

By Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Gudmund Horn Hermansen & Carl Henrik Knutsen in Political Analysis

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 21 Dec 2021

Giant Fake Ladybugs on Tanks? The Future of Warfare in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the Need for Ethics

In September this year, Chief Software Officer for the U.S. Air Force Nicholas Chaillian, unexpectedly resigned. The reason for his resignation? To protest the slow pace of technological transformation taking place in the U.S. military, and where he argued the U.S. had already lost the race for AI dominance to ...

Upcoming events

Event

Friday, 04 Feb 2022 15:00-16:30

One Year On: Norway and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the UN Security Council

January 2022 marks the halfway point in Norway’s two-year membership in the UN Security Council. In the context of Norway entering the last phase of its Security Council membership, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) published a summary outlining the country’s achievements in the Council so far. Norway's accomplishments – as proclaimed in this summary – include encouraging references to Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in Council resolutions. Norway's work to ensure references to women's participation in the resolution for the UN's mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and its efforts to promote the acknowledgement of the important role played by women in the global pandemic response, are examples of such work. Yet, beyond these references, has Norway delivered on its goal to meaningfully strengthen the WPS agenda?

Time: 04 Feb 2022 15:00-16:30

Place: Online event

Event

Wednesday, 09 Mar 2022 14:00-15:00

Book Launch: Documenting Displacement

The PRIO Migration Centre is pleased to invite you to the online book launch of Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, edited by Katarzyna Grabska and Christina R. Clark-Kazak.

Time: 09 Mar 2022 14:00-15:00

Place: Online event

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