​The new open access book Lives in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world's oldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises.

The journalist Joshua Goodman of the Associated Press yesterday released the article “Global COVID deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate». He refers to the PRIO battledeaths data and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program to illustrate the deadliness of the virus.

This news story has since it’s publication been shared by more than 1,300 news outlets worldwide, and the number keeps growing by the hour. One example is this piece from the Huffington Post.

The Journal of Peace Research has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implications of climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard Buhaug. The special issue contains 12 original research articles and viewpoint essays, supplemented by an introductory article by the guest editors that presents a review the state of the art. This is the second time JPR dedicates a special issue to climate change and conflict; the first time was in 2012, edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch. The new issue represents the most up-to-date collection of studies on the subject. Several articles, including the introduction, are available as open access.

Read the special issue here.

​Today is PRIO founder Johan Galtung´s 90th birthday. We congratulate him with a text written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, and published on the PRIO blog. Folllow this link and enjoy!

See also Henrik Urdal's 2019 interview with Galtung: "Inspiration from a Father".

Follow this link for more information!

• Click here for the original comments made by the award committee (an English translation is available here)
  
  
• Nils Petter has responded by writing the Confessions of a Defector from Sociology, which you can read at the PRIO blog.
  

Congratulations!