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, Nina Græger, 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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PRIO in the media

Håvard Hegre

PRIO researcher Håvard Hegre is part of a study covered by The Guardian, Telegraph, Le Monde, LBC, Middle East Eye, and Al Jazeera. Published in The Lancet Global Health, it presents the first independent, representative survey conducted in Gaza during the ongoing conflict, estimating a death toll substantially higher than previously reported.

Håvard Hegre

PRIO researcher Håvard Hegre was interviewed by NRK on the first independent, representative survey conducted in Gaza, which estimates a death toll much higher than earlier reports.

Jørgen Jensehaugen

PRIO researcher Jørgen Jensehaugen was interviewed by Klar Tale & adressa.no discussing why the two-state solution to the Israel–Palestine conflict appears less likely than ever.

Hilde Henriksen Waage

PRIO researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage appeared in Le Derniere Heure in connection with the missing documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs archive related to the Oslo process.

Pavel K. Baev

PRIO researcher Pavel K. Baev was interviewed by Forsvarets forum on how the willingness to sacrifice soldiers in the cold gives the Russians a tactical advantage in Ukraine.

Jørgen Jensehaugen

PRIO researcher Jørgen Jensehaugen wrote an op ed in Norwegian in Panorama Nyheter  arguing that U.S. President Donald Trump’s deliberate “attention war” over issues like Greenland has systematically diverted global focus toward sensational but less consequential events, at the expense of more serious humanitarian crises.

Henrik Syse

PRIO Researcher Henrik Syse was interviewed by Norwegian news outlet TV2 about finding small sources of hope and light in an otherwise dark and troubled world.

Ilaria Carrozza

PRIO Researcher Ilaria Carrozza was interviewed in South China Morning Post about how Western withdrawals in Africa create new security opportunities for China.

Hilde Henriksen Waage

PRIO researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage was interviewed by the independent higher education outlet Khrono about academic freedom and her experience of actors trying to silence her criticism of Norway’s role in the Middle East peace process.

Hilde Henriksen Waage

PRIO researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage was interviewed in the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land about how the Epstein revelations have harmed Norway’s reputation as a peace nation and could affect future peace efforts.

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