Helga Malmin Binningsbø

The ambition of the ODAS project is to explain how online dangerous speech contributes to communal violence in Southeast Asia. The ultimate ambition of ODAS is to test a causal connection between dangerous online speech and violence. To do so, speech and violence data must be merged.

This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

Thursday, 25 Apr 2019
NORGLOBAL2 Kickoff Features Presentations of Three New PRIO Projects

The Norwegian Research Council’s program NORGLOBAL2 held its kick-off meeting for newly funded research projects at NORAD, on 25 April 2019, with participants from the MFA, NORAD, RCN, and researchers involved in the projects.

Thursday, 11 Oct 2018
Three PRIO Projects, One Research Network Awarded NORGLOBAL Funding

The Research Council of Norway’s NORGLOBAL funding has been decided for the 2018 round of applications. PRIO was awarded one of the three networks: Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies: Research network on humanitarian efforts led by Maria Jumbert Gabrielsen. Additionally, three research projects were funded: Gudrun Østby’s project ‘EducAid’; Kristin Bergtora Sandvik’s project ‘Do no harm’ and Helga Malmin Binningsbø’s project ‘All is fair in law and war’. In addition, NUPI’s network Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network featuring Kristoffer Lidén was also funded. PRIO is also a partner in the NIVA project LED by Elizabeth Selig, involving Siri Aas Rustad and Andreas Tollefsen.

Congratulations to all involved!

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
PRIO Global Fellow Cyanne E. Loyle at PRIO this week

PRIO Global Fellow Cyanne E. Loyle visits PRIO this week to present her research with Helga Malmin Binningsbø and Scott Gates on During-Conflict Justice at the Norwegian MFA. She is director of the Political, Economic and Legal Institutions and Organizations Program at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University and member of the Political Science Faculty.

Monday, 10 Apr 2017
Out now: New issue of PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (1-2017)

The first issue in 2017 the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is now out.

The lead story in this issue includes an interview with Sarah Douglas, Gender Advisor at the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office, about how the UN Peacebuilding Fund has managed to surpass the target for financing gender-specific projects.

Friday, 24 Feb 2017
Cyanne Loyle appointed PRIO Global Fellow

Cyanne E. Loyle, Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, has recently been appointed PRIO Global Fellow. Loyle is working closely with PRIO researchers Helga Malmin Binningsbø and Scott Gates on various projects on the use and misuse of judicial processes during and after armed conflict.

Friday, 4 Dec 2015
New Project Funded: Development Aid, Effectiveness, and Inequalities in Conflict-Affected Societies

We are happy to announce that the Research Concil of Norway (FRIPRO) has funded a 3-year project studying whether development aid contributes to reduce intergroup health inequalities after conflict. The project will be led by Henrik Urdal, and will be an excellent complement to the ongoing Armed Conflict and Maternal Health in Sub-Saharan Africa project.

Congratulations to all the researchers involved!

Wednesday, 5 Dec 2012
More Funding in Place for PRIO

Today it was announced that no less than two research projects at PRIO have been granted funding from the FRISAM call at the Norwegian Research Council. The two projects are Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) led by Inger Skjelsbæk, and Negotiating the Nation: Implications of Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National Identity (NATION), led by Marta Bivand Erdal.

Tuesday, 2 Oct 2012
Strategic Justice during Civil Conflict

Researchers from West Virginia University and PRIO recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to collect a global dataset covering transitional justice processes implemented during civil wars from 1946 to 2010.

Monday, 2 May 2011
Succesful Doctoral defence by Helga Malmin Binningsbø

Helga Malmin Binningsbø succesfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday29 April in Trondheim at NTNU. Her thesis is called A Piece of the Pie: Power Sharing and Postconflict peace.

The committee:
Professor Tim Sisk, University of Denver
Dr. Kristin Bakke, University College London
Professor Ola Listhaug, NTNU

The oponents at the defence were Tim Sisk and Kristin Bakke.