As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course Conflict Trends, 3-5 June. Siri Aas Rustad led the course.
The past few years have been the most violent since the Cold War. We see more global tension, democratic backsliding, and an increasingly complex conflict picture. The students explored how we can understand this development, and what the numbers and facts tell us. The course Conflict Trends provided the students with a better understanding of the larger global conflict trends in the world, such as the level and type of conflicts, the geography and demography of the conflict, as well as protest and nonviolent mobilization. The course was data-driven and gave insight into how conflict data is collected and coded, and how we can understand trends by understanding what is included and not included in the material.
The NORHED II project enabled PRIO to host students from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Makerere University (Uganda), Mekelle University (Ethiopia), African School of Economics (Benin), and Birzeit University (Palestine). Together with students from a range of international universities, they explored conflict trends using large conflict datasets.
