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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thursday, 16 Dec 2021
Call for Applications to the PhD Level Course on Gender, Peace and Conflict
The NORHED II project, Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies and the Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD-level course Gender, Peace and Conflict to take place in Oslo on 23 – 25 May 2022.
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Monday, 13 Dec 2021
Peace Science Infrastructure: PRIO to Head Large New Collaboration
Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.
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Friday, 10 Dec 2021
Inger Skjelsbæk Shortlisted for the ‘Name of the Year in Academia’ Award
Inger Skjelsbæk is one of the finalists for ‘Name of the Year in Academia’, awarded by Khrono, the Norwegian online newspaper for higher education and research.
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Thursday, 9 Dec 2021
Vacancy: Information Technologist
PRIO invites applicants for the position of Information Technologist in PRIO's IT Section. The position is a parental leave replacement for a fixed term of six months. Start date is as soon as possible.
Please see the full announcement here.
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Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021
Syria and Yemen Top Statistic on Number of Children at Risk of Recruitment by Armed Actors
Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.
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Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021
Record Number of Children at Risk of Being Recruited by Armed Actors
Today, Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment. The report is based on a new mapping of children at risk of being recruited or used in armed conflict conducted at PRIO, as well an update of the yearly estimation of children living in conflict zones. The findings are alarming. In 2020, approximately 337 million children, or more than 1 in 8 children, were living in a conflict zone in which one or more actors recruited children. This is the highest recorded number of children at risk of being recruited by armed actors.
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Friday, 19 Nov 2021
The Impact of Armed Conflict on Human Development - New Research Programme
A new research programme titled Societies at risk: The Impact of armed conflict on human development, directed by PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre, has received funding. The aim of the programme is to assess the impact of armed conflict on human development in much more detail and more comprehensively than earlier studies by taking a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together scholars from economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict research.
