Andreas Forø Tollefsen: All news

Study finds that illiberal political rule and armed conflict are linked to higher human displacement in major floods.

​​The Fulbright Alumni Association Norway (FAAN) has by scholarly committee awarded Gudrun the Fulbright Article Prize for 2022.

​Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.

We invite submissions of abstracts for a proposed session at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference in Oslo, on migrant-host interactions in the Global South.

What about conflict drives some people to move, while others stay behind? Proposed session for the Annual Meeting of American Geographers 2022, on the geographies of migration during conflict and the dynamics of migration-decision making in conflict settings.

​The P3A project will advance the understanding of how, and under what conditions, private sector development exacerbates or mitigates conflict in Africa.

​Round two of conflict prediction in the Conflict Cartographer project is now open.

​Join the winter seminar in human geography session on geographical perspectives on migration and borders (Thursday 11 March 10.

PRIO has conducted a study for Save the Children estimating the number of children at risk of experiencing wartime sexual violence.

Save the Children has released its 2020 report on children in conflict.

​​The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course "GIS and the Geography of Armed Conflict: Applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and georeferenced data for Peace and Conflict Research" to take place at NTNU in Trondheim on 15-19 June 2020.

Andreas Forø Tollefsen has been granted funding for the three-year project Geographies of Conflict-Induced Migration (CONMIG).

​Despite the magnitude of displacement, extant knowledge on how refugees affect host populations is derived almost exclusively from Western societies.

Save the Children has released its 2019 report on children in conflict.

The Research Council of Norway’s NORGLOBAL funding has been decided for the 2018 round of applications.

On 27-28 September2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIOco-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala.

​Andreas Forø Tollefsen has successfully defended his doctoral thesis today, 4 November, at the University of Oslo.

​​​​​The latest version of the PRIO-GRID is now available at grid.

Successful project kickoff meeting

Women, Power and Politics: The Road to Sustainable Democracy

New Young Research Talent Project

​​The majority of civil wars are local phenomena confined to limited parts of a country’s territory.

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