Peace Research Institute Oslo

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people.

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Summit in Hiroshima Charts Ending for War in Ukraine

From May 19 to 21, Japan hosted the most recent meeting of the seven heads of state (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as the European Union in the so-called G7 format. Overall, the key point on the agenda was certainly strengthening ...

News

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Digital inclusion in peace processes – no silver bullet, but a major opportunity

Digital inclusion is paving the way for women and other marginalized groups to participate in peace processes. Through digital platforms, those who are unable to participate in physical meetings, such as women with children, youth or disabled, can get their voices heard. However, digital technologies provide no silver bullet, and mitigating their risks requires careful context analysis and process design.

Policy Brief

2023

Israel and the Abraham Accords: A Failed Expansion

By Jørgen Jensehaugen, MidEast Policy Brief

Journal Article

2023

Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies

By Mathias Czaika, Marta Bivand Erdal & Cathrine Talleraas in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 22 May 2023

Thai Elections Mark Declining Public Interest in Nationalism, Patronage Politics

This week’s election results handed a surprising victory to the opposition Move Forward Party. While it remains to be seen if the conservative establishment will allow them to actually take power, the vote signals a turning point in the mindset of the Thai public. The Thai political map is now ...

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

What’s Next in Climate Security Studies? Exploiting Synergies between Practice and Research

The increase in global temperatures by over 1 degree Celsius since pre-industrial times is already having broad and significant impacts. An ongoing multi-year drought in Eastern Africa, for instance, has been attributed to global warming. Hunger crises, displacement, and exacerbated conflict between pastoralist groups are some of the reported dire consequences. This blog post reports on ...

News

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Vacancy: Research Assistants

Do you want to work in a leading international research institution with high academic standards and an interdisciplinary environment and contribute to a new and original area of research, developing forecasting systems and tool?

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 12 May 2023

Erdogan Struggles with Securing the Votes of Young People and Women in Turkey’s Fateful Election

In one of Turkey’s most popular soap operas Kizilcik Şerbeti [Cranberry Sorbet] Nursema, a young conservative woman in love with another man, is married off by her family to another against her own wishes. On her wedding night, in an argument with her new husband she is pushed off the balcony. ...

Policy Brief

2023

Earthquake Politics: A Reflection on Aftershocks in Cyprus

By Mete Hatay & Ipek Borman, PRIO Cyprus Centre Policy Brief

News

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Vacancy: Doctoral Researcher

Do you want to contribute to a new and original area of research and produce knowledge of immediate relevance to policy and planning? Do you want to work closely with a larger interdisciplinary team of researchers studying how societal development can moderate future climate change risks?

Journal Article

2023

Moving masculinities: Polish migrants in Norway navigating transnational gender hierarchies

By Kelly Fisher in NORMA International Journal for Masculinity Studies

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 22 May 2023

Central Asian Leaders Opted to Attend Curtailed Parade in Moscow

The Victory Day celebrated on May 9 is a hugely important and emotionally loaded holiday for the majority of Russians and Ukrainians, Kazakhs and Uzbeks, whose grandfathers fought together and defeated Nazi Germany back in 1945. In Russia, this solemn Remembrance Day was gradually converted by all-pervasive propaganda into a ...

Journal Article

2023

A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform

By Camille Bedock, Simon Otjes, Volker Best & Manes Weisskircher in Party Politics

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

The Other ‘Peace Process’ on Afghanistan: Geneva Talks 1982-1988

In the past three years, the US government’s role in the Doha Talks (2010-2020) has attracted scrutiny and criticism within the United States and abroad. Starting in November 2010, the Doha Talks was a process of intermittent negotiations between the United States and the Afghan Taliban. The culmination of this process ...

News

Sunday, 14 May 2023

Peace Mediators Discussed Gender-Inclusive Peace Processes during Challenging Time for Women’s Rights

The 12^th UN High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Strategies gathered senior peace mediation experts this week, to discuss how to strengthen women's role in peace processes. The topic is timely as women's rights are being pushed back in many conflict areas around the world.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Muted V-Day Celebrations in Russia Amid Disastrous War

Victory Day in Russia continues to resonate throughout Russia society, and official propaganda in the past decade has strived to change the meaning of this emotionally charged and solemn day of remembrance into a feast of militarism and jingoism. The slogan “we can do it again” (mozhem povtorit) pervaded loud ...

Upcoming events

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Thursday, 08 Jun 2023 09:00-11:00

Planetary Citizens: How Imaginary Ways of Thinking and Acting Alter the Concept of Duty in Citizenship

In this seminar, Professor Isin from the Queen Mary University of London, will outline the development of planetary movements in the 21st century and the possibilities of planetary citizenship.

Time: 08 Jun 2023 09:00-11:00

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Event

07 - 08 Jun 2023

Humanitarian Futures Conference

We invite you to join us for the ‘Humanitarian Futures’ conference to be held at the Litteraturhuset in Oslo on 7 and 8 June 2023. The conference will be organised around the central themes of: the future of humanitarian governance, the future delivery of humanitarian assistance, and the future for displaced people.

Time: 07-08 Jun 2023

Place: Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo

Event

Thursday, 15 Jun 2023 09:00-10:30

Visual Storytelling: At the Interface Between Research and Art

How can human lives be explored through comics, animations and paintings of research? How can visual storytelling be used as a fieldwork method, or as a tool of knowledge production? How do researchers best partner with artists and research participants to share knowledge?