Media centre

If you are a journalist, PRIO’s Communication Department can connect you with our expert researchers who can speak across a diverse range of issues, and in a number of languages.

Topics and regions we cover

PRIO’s current peace and conflict research focuses on 143 countries across the globe.

Many of our researchers have extensive knowledge that is country-specific. Read more about the countries we cover on our Locations page, which includes a list of research carried out on each country, and the researcher who managed the project.

Read more about the full range of issues PRIO has expertise on our Topics page, which includes aid, children, conflict trends, COVID-19, extremism, gender, peacebuilding, drones, terrorism and the war in Ukraine.

PRIO’s Director releases an annual list of recommendations for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is covered extensively in the media. Read more about the current and former lists on our Nobel Shortlist pages.

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Latest press releases

PRIO in the media

Torunn L.Tryggestad

PRIO researcher Torunn L. Tryggestad wrote an opinion piece on the election of the new UN Secretary-General, published in the Norwegian news outlet Panorama nyheter.

PRIO seminar covered by TV2

A seminar organized by PRIO on European security was featured in an article published by Norwegian media company TV2, the article can be read here.

Paola Vesco

PRIO researcher Paola Vesco co-wrote an opinion piece on the number of people killed in the war in Sudan, which was published by The Conversation.

Stein Tønnessen

PRIO researcher Stein Tønnesson was interviewed about the health of North Korea’s leader, by Norway’s TV2.

Jørgen Jensehaugen

Jørgen Jensehaugen was interviewed by Norway’s NRK Nyheter TV (watch at 4mins 30secs) about food aid cuts in Gaza. He was also quoted in an article about elections in Israel by Dagsavisen, VG and Klar Tale.

Security Dialogue featured in Khrono

Marit Moe-Pryce and Bruno Oliveira Martins were the focus of an article by the Norwegian research magazine, Khrono, on an advocacy campaign Security Dialogue spearheaded to bring together over 50 journals in an initiative on the use of AI in academic publishing.

Ilaria Carrozza

Ilaria Carrozza was interviewed about China’s training programmes for Somali military and security forces, by The South China Morning Post.

Ilaria Carrozza

Ilaria Carrozza was interviewed about foreign surveillance in Norway, for the Japanese news magazine Nikkei Asia.

Haakon Gjerløw

PRIO Acting Director Haakon Gjerløw co-wrote an opinion piece for the Norwegian newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv (DN), on the impact of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on the relationship between Norway and the US.

State-sponsored disinformation

Jørgen Carling was interviewed by Norway’s NRK Nyhetsmorgen, TV and radio (43:45), about the apparent role of state-sponsored disinformation in the mass incursion of migrants into Ceuta in late August.

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