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Friday, 10 Oct 2025

Maria Corina Machado. Photo: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Reactive statement on Nobel Peace Prize announcement by PRIO Director Nina Græger

Today’s Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is, above all, a prize for democracy.

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Friday, 3 Oct 2025

PRIO building. Julie Lunde Lillesæter/PRIO

PRIO secures new funding from RCN and ERC

PRIO researchers have recently been awarded grants for exciting new projects, from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and the European Research Council (ERC).

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Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

PRIO secures funding for three ground-breaking projects

PRIO has successfully secured funding for three timely projects on authoritarian AI (mis)use, biodiversity financing politics and ethical dilemmas in Norway’s preparedness strategies.

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Friday, 26 Sep 2025

Inger Skjelsbæk and Helga Malmin Binningsbø. Photo: PRIO

New funding for project on Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission in the South Saami area

Analyzing the case of the Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission in the South Saami area.

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Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Daniel Kjebekk Drivdal Awarded the 2025 Gløbius Prize

Daniel Kjebekk Drivdal has been awarded the Gløbius Prize for 2025 for his MA thesis on Climate Mitigation and Conflict.

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Thursday, 25 Sep 2025

Migration Rhythms survey documentation (PRIO paper 2025). PRIO

MigrationRhythms Survey Documentation Published Ahead of Open Access Dataset

A new PRIO Paper offers in-depth documentation of the MigrationRhythms survey, shedding light on urban middle classes, social mobility and internal & international migration across four major Asian cities.

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Monday, 22 Sep 2025

A woman carries a child through the crater from an Israeli air strike as she makes her way across the border from Lebanon into Syria on 5 October 2024. Photo: Getty Images

Record number of women living in conflict in 2024

An estimated 676 million women – nearly 17 percent of the global female population – lived within 50 kilometres of a deadly conflict last year, according to a new PRIO report.

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Thursday, 18 Sep 2025

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: PRIO Director’s updated list announced

The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Nina Græger, announced her updated list today for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Friday, 12 Sep 2025

PRIO-GRID wins data innovation award

The widely used PRIO-GRID data framework has been awarded the prestigious J. David Singer Data Innovation Award.

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Friday, 5 Sep 2025

Meanings and Measures of Migration Aspirations. Illustration: Jørgen Carling

Call for abstracts: Meanings and Measures of Migration Aspirations

We invite abstracts for a workshop that will explore the forefront of research on the nature of migration aspirations and related concepts. That is, how can we conceptualize and empirically examine people’s thoughts and feelings about potentially migrating?

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Thursday, 4 Sep 2025

PRIO Senior Researcher Julia Palik secures prestigious ERC grant to study how rituals shape the social reintegration of former combatants

PRIO is immensely proud to announce that Senior Researcher Julia Palik  has been awarded the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for the groundbreaking project titled Com2Civ: Rituals in Combatant-to-Civilian Transformation.

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Friday, 29 Aug 2025

GenderJustice team meeting at PRIO . Photo: PRIO

Kickoff Workshop for GenderJustice at PRIO

The Religious Gender Justice Activism (GenderJustice) project was successfully launched in August 2025.

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Friday, 22 Aug 2025

Eirin Haugseth has successfully defended PhD thesis

Eirin Haugseth has today defended her PhD thesis: 'Displacement and discontent. Consequences of displacement on local host communities' at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Sociology and Political Science.

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Thursday, 21 Aug 2025

International departures. Photo: Frédérick Tubiermont

PRIO migration project selected as 'success story'

The project Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig) is featured by the European Commission as a success story of impactful research.

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Wednesday, 13 Aug 2025

Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+). Photo: PRIO

PRIO project wins security innovation award 2025

This summer, the EU-funded project Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+) was awarded the Security Innovation Award 2025 for Best Open Source Innovation.

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Tuesday, 5 Aug 2025

A wall with bullet holes. Photo: Getty Images

Survey shows rise in war fears among Norwegians

Anxiety among Norwegians about the state of global peace and security continues to grow, according to a new survey released by PRIO.

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Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025

PRIO co-organizes Vatican conference on religious dimensions of peacemaking

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences hosted an international conference in July on Religious Dimensions of Peacemaking, co-organized by PRIO and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

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Monday, 7 Jul 2025

Arina Kosareva successfully defends masters thesis

Arina Kosareva has successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University of Oslo

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Monday, 30 Jun 2025

Oxford University Press. Photo: Getty Images

PRIO to partner with Oxford University Press for journal publishing from 2026

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is proud to announce that its two flagship journals – Journal of Peace Research and Security Dialogue – will be published by Oxford University Press from 2026.

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Friday, 27 Jun 2025

Samar Abbas Nawaz. Photo: PRIO / Indigo Trigg-Hauger

Samar Abbas Nawaz has successfully defended PhD thesis

Samar Abbas Nawaz has today defended his PhD thesis: 'Safe integration of civil drones: Law, self-operation & infrastructure'.