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Could Annexation be Putin’s Response to NATO Enlargement?

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has energized the North Atlantic Alliance in every possible way, reviving its purpose and unity, and granting it new attractiveness in Europe and greater prominence in the Indo-Pacific. The prospect of Finland and Sweden joining the 30 member-states was hypothetical last autumn, when Moscow issued the ...

News

Friday, 13 May 2022

UN Resident Coordinator for Syria Visits PRIO

On 12 May, researchers and practitioners held interesting discussions on Syria at a roundtable at PRIO.

Policy Brief

2022

Rebel Governance: Ansar Allah in Yemen and the Democratic Union Party in Syria

By Júlia Palik & Pinar Tank, MidEast Policy Brief

Journal Article

2022

The relationship between the G5 Sahel Joint Force and external actors: a discursive interpretation

By Marie Sandnes in Canadian Journal of African Studies

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 9 May 2022

On the Big Occasion of May 9, Putin Had Nothing to Say

It stood to every political and strategic reason that President Vladimir Putin would announce a major decision opening the Victory Day military parade at the Red Square. Over the years, he has altered the meaning of this holiday from celebrating the allied triumph in the struggle against Nazi Germany to ...

Policy Brief

2022

Negotiating Disarmament – The Gender Dimension: Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Disarmament Negotiations

By David Felipe Gómez, Ida Rødningen, Nicholas Marsh & Júlia Palik, GPS Policy Brief

News

Friday, 6 May 2022

New PhD-Level Course: Survey Methods in Migration Research

PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Putin's Blood Trail from Syria to the Ukraine: Western Failures in the Face of Power-Play, Propaganda and De-humanization

One of the tragic side-effects of the war in Ukraine is that at long last – and unfortunately only now – the last person in the West may have come to understand what really happened in Syria, especially after Russian intervention. This does not help those Syrians who have been ...

News

Monday, 16 May 2022

PRIO Joins Scholars At Risk Network

PRIO has joined Scholars at Risk (SAR), a network of over 400 higher education institutions in 39 countries working to protect threatened scholars, prevent attacks on higher education and promote academic freedom.

News

Friday, 13 May 2022

PhD-Level Course: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Drones in the Ukraine War: An Initial Strategic and Sociological Assessment

Drones have played a very important, multidimensional role since the beginning of the current iteration of the war in Ukraine. This importance mirrors what happens in modern conflict all over the world: both in more conventional conflict and in other insurgency / counter-insurgency settings, drones have become a central part ...

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 9 May 2022

Finland and Sweden’s Move to NATO

Russia’s war on Ukraine has repercussions also in Northern Europe. Finland and Sweden, despite their longstanding policy of military non-alignment, are more than likely going to submit their applications for NATO membership before the summer. In light of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war and both countries’ close existing partnership with ...

Report

2022

Gender-Related Risk in Peace Mediation

By Carina Strøm Smith & Pinar Tank

Event Recording

Friday, 06 May 2022 12:30-13:30

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War in Ukraine and the Fight for Democracy in Belarus

PRIO open lecture with leader of democratic Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

News

Thursday, 5 May 2022

New Case Brief: The Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS)

This new FAIR case brief by Eli Stamnes and Cedric de Coning focuses on the peace negotiations resulting in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), finalized in September 2018.

News

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

NORM Project Kick-Off Meeting

The NORM project ('Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia') was officially launched with a kick-off meeting on 4 May.

Upcoming events

Event

Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00-11:30

Refugee Education Reimagined: A Pedagogy of Hope

Join us for a morning of research findings, animations and debate on how education can enable refugees and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be.

Time: 20 May 2022 09:00-11:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Event

Wednesday, 01 Jun 2022 09:30-12:30

What Does It Mean to Be a Child Born of War?

Launch of the EuroWARCHILD Project.

Time: 01 Jun 2022 09:30-12:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Event

Tuesday, 07 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

What Lebanon after the Collapse? - MidEast Breakfast Seminar

Lebanon seems to be always at the crossroads. Yet this time it is surely different. Two overlapping crises have made the present moment unlike any other in Lebanon's recent history. In this seminar, Bassel F. Salloukh from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies shares his analysis.

Time: 07 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Event

Wednesday, 08 Jun 2022 12:00-13:00

INSPIRE Seminar Series: Identity, Alienation and Exclusion – a Conversation with Ibrahim Mursal

We invite you to the last INSPIRE seminar this spring with filmmaker Ibrahim Mursal.

Time: 08 Jun 2022 12:00-13:00

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Event

Wednesday, 15 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

Are We Moving toward a ‘Post-American’ Regional Security Dynamic in the Gulf? - MidEast Breakfast Seminar

Gulf leaders' responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to rising oil prices have focused attention on the emerging tensions between the United States and several of its most significant political and security partners in the Gulf. The sight of the de facto leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE declining to speak with President Biden, while taking calls from President Putin, would have seemed unimagineable just a few months back, but has now become emblematic of new regional geopolitics.

Time: 15 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

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