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Urbanizing India (URBIN) – Urbanization, Exclusion and Climate Challenges

Project Mar 2013 - Mar 2016

​​​​This three-year research project on urban security in India is funded by the Research Council of Norway’s INDNOR program. It involves PRIO researchers Halvard Buhaug (project leader), Kristian Hoelscher, Jason Miklian, and Gerdis Wi ...

Fluctuation of Hindu nationalism: Competing Political Concerns among Urban Hindus of Uttar Pradesh, India

Project Jan 1996 - Mar 2000

Security in South Asia: India's Emerging Role

Project Dec 2005 - Dec 2014

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India's Maoist Insurgency: A Federal Problem with a Federal Solution?

Project May 2009 - Dec 2010

Climate Changes, Natural Disasters and the Risk of Violence in India

Project Sep 2008 - May 2012

It is often suggested that climate change is likely to increase the risk of violent conflict, but robust scientific evidence for such a claim is lacking. This project analysed whether climate-related natural disasters (e.g. storms, floods and dro ...

India in the World: Emerging Perspectives on Global Challenges (INDWORLD)

Project Sep 2015 - Jan 2018

​​​INDWORLD is a project under the longstanding institutional cooperation between the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in Delhi and the Peace Research Institute Oslo.​​The IDSA-PRIO cooperation was started in ...

India's Regional Relations: Aspirations, Priorities and Practices in a New International Order

Project Sep 2014 - Oct 2015

​​This project will examine how theories of hegemonic power can help explain Indian foreign policy actions, engaging with Indian policymakers to find the practical realities of regionalism for emerging powers. ​The project is funded by NOREF.

Lethal Religions: Hindu Nationalism and Communal Violence in India

Project Jan 2004 - May 2005

The Securitization of Migration from Bangladesh to Assam in Select Indian Media

Project Mar 2008 - Dec 2009

Why Do Grassroots Activists in the Communist Party of India-Maoist Movement Turn to Violence as a Form of Resistance? What Do these Acts of Violence Mean to Them?

Project Jan 2008 - Nov 2008

Naxalism in 21st century India: The spread of Naxalism activity to Chhattisgarh and Karnataka

Project Jan 2008 - May 2011

Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India (CORE)

Project Jan 2010 - Dec 2013

​​This project  analyses the premises and operational initiatives of governance initiatives in conflict transformation processes through a combination of fieldwork, statistical analysis and theory development. The project  particul ...

'Green Mining': Displacement and the Maoist Conflict in India

Project May 2010 - Jun 2014

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Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India

Project Jan 2010 - May 2015

​​​​​PHD project at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, and a part of the CORE project at PRIO. Supervisor at PRIO: J. Peter BurgessSupervisor at University of Gothenburg: Maria Stern

Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: The Regional and Global Significance of Brazil, India, Indonesia, China, South Africa and Turkey

Project Jan 2010 -

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Peacebuilding, Diversity and Human Security

Project Dec 2013 - Dec 2015

​​This Institutional Collaboration between PRIO and the Malyavia Center for Peace Research (MCPR) in Benaras, India researches Indian peacebuilding efforts through two frames: Managing Diversity: Peacebuilding, Develop ...

Analyzing Regional and National Energy Governance Structures

Project Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

​This aim of this project was to produce a report for the Tata Energy Resource Institute (TERI) in India, written by Lars Even Andersen and Jason Miklian. The report used an assessment of oil and gas volatility through the Norwegian len ...

Demography and Domestic Armed Conflict

Project Jan 2003 - Feb 2007

Human Security and Development: Conceptual Critiques and Policy Implications

Project Dec 2005 - Jun 2007

The Geopolitics of Energy Security: The Rise of Asia

Project Oct 2006 - Dec 2006

Comparative Ethics of War

Project Jan 2007 - Dec 2014

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China - Nordic Dialogue Conferences

Project Jan 2007 - May 2008

Water Scarcity in Bangladesh and South Asia : Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation

Project Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

Making Women Count for Peace: Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia

Project Jun 2012 -

Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization

Project Mar 2013 - Dec 2017

​​Through an investigation and comparison of three empirical cases; Northeast India, Cyprus and the Basque country, this project explores the changing conditions and spaces for exercising and demanding sovereignty in the contemporary world, and h ...

Conflict Diamond Chain Tracing

Project Jan 2013 - Nov 2013

​​​Most of us have heard that high-value mineral resources have the potential to make violent conflict worse. Illegally-mined diamonds were traded for weapons during several African civil wars in the 1990s, and conflict diamonds became a focal po ...

Best Practices Regarding Combating Human Trafficking in Cyprus and the Region

Project Jul 2014 - Nov 2015

​​​​​Cyprus is a destination country for victims of trafficking mainly for sexual and labor exploitation. Victims have been identified from Cyprus, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cameroon, The Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, ...