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Thursday, 19 Sep 2024
PRIO Successful in Recent Norway Funding Round

The Research Council of Norway announced new research funding this week under its Democracy and Global Development panel. PRIO was successful in securing funding for three exciting new research projects.

Wednesday, 27 Sep 2023
PRIO Co-Hosts Artist Residency Festival Week in Rotterdam

In a two-month residency, a group of international artists and researchers have investigated how creative practice can enable new ways of seeing, relating to and understanding individual and collective experiences of violent conflict and oppression.

Thursday, 17 Aug 2023
PRIO Organizes Rotterdam Art Residency on Collective Healing From War

PRIO is organizing a unique art residency in Rotterdam this autumn.

Saturday, 1 Jul 2023
Successful Academic Workshop on Local Humanitarians and Accountability

Final AidAccount team meeting.

Tuesday, 13 Jun 2023
Hassan Aden Successfully Defends His PhD Thesis

​Today, Hassan Aden has defended his PhD thesis at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Thursday, 8 Dec 2022
Two new special issues: Art, conflict and contexts of displacement

In two new special issues of Conflict and society and Music and Arts in Action, the editors, PRIO researchers Katarzyna Grabska & Cindy Horst, and Katarzyna Grabska & Roy Huijsmans respectively, bring together important new research contributions.

Thursday, 8 Dec 2022
Academic workshop: ‘Holding Aid to Account. The Role of Local Humanitarians’

​PRIO to co-host academic workshop in Kampala on the role of local humanitarian actors and their accountability practices.

Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022
PRIO at Oslo Peace Days 2022

For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights.

Thursday, 22 Sep 2022
International PhD Students Participate in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology Course

​As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology.

Wednesday, 21 Sep 2022
Successful PhD Defence by Ebba Tellander

Ebba Tellander defended her PhD successfully on 20 Septeber 2022 at the Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam.

Thursday, 23 Jun 2022
Residency on Creative Practice and Activism in the Context of Conflict and Oppression

​On 15 August, PRIO, PRAKSIS and artist Motaz Habbash will kick offa month-long residency with ten artists whose creative practices respond tolived experiences of conflict and oppression.

Friday, 13 May 2022
PhD-Level Course: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

​​PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022.

Sunday, 8 May 2022
The History of PRIO and Peace Research: New Open Access Book

​The new open accessbook Livesin Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world'soldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survivedthrough crises.

Wednesday, 16 Feb 2022
Migration-Related PhD Courses

​Three migration-related PhD courses will be offered at PRIO in the course of 2022: (1) Migration theory: perspectives on time and temporalities, (2) Survey methods in migration research: design, implementation, and analysis, and (3) Ethnographic fieldwork methodology: approaches, tools, and ethics.

Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021
INSPIRE Seminar Series Autumn 2021

Please be invited and save the dates for the INSPIRE seminar series autumn 2021! The seminars will take place monthly, on Wednesdays from 12:00-13:00 CET, online, with invited researchers and artists.

Friday, 25 Jun 2021
New Online Exhibition from the TRANSFORM Project

In societies at war or facing severe repression, what motivates individuals to take action for social justice when doing so involves great risk and uncertainty? How do such small but often heroic everyday acts of common people inspire larger transformations? And what is the impact of storytelling about everyday acts that challenge inequalities and injustices in places like Myanmar, Somaliland and Syria?The TRANSFORM research team has grappled with these questions for four years, and you will ...

Thursday, 17 Jun 2021
New Animation Highlights Need for Refugee Education and Durable Futures

​Education in situations of conflict and crisis is central in efforts to protect children and youth in the near-term and fostering peaceful coexistence over the longer-term.

Monday, 14 Jun 2021
Artistic Encounters in War and Violent Conflict: New Platform for the INSPIRE Project Launched

​​On June 3rd 2021, the INSPIRE research platform was launched with a live performance by Faytinga and a presentation of artwork by Diala Brisly.

Thursday, 22 Apr 2021
Integration and Development: Need for Dialogue

​How does integration in the country of settlement matter for diaspora members’ development engagements in the Global South? And how has this intersection been addressed in policy and practice? A video from webinar the discussing these questions is available.

Monday, 15 Feb 2021
Call for artists to participate in workshops to explore inspiration

EXPLORING INSPIRATIONArtists living in Norway and working on themes related to violent conflict and exile are hereby invited to take part in a unique series of online workshops in March-April 2021 to Explore Inspiration.

Friday, 4 Dec 2020
PRIO's Youth & Peacebuilding Research

Read up before the PRIO Annual Peace Address 2020

Monday, 16 Nov 2020
A Future for Syria – Education Activism in Animation from PRIO

What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? PRIO is proud to share the second of a series of three animations and comics from Myanmar, Syria and Somaliland, made for the TRANSFORM project in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.

Friday, 30 Oct 2020
Virtual workshop on education in conflict and exile

​Over four sessions in October, 20 academics and practitioners from around the world met virtually to discuss the question of how education can enable refugee individuals and communities to build durable futures whenthere is great uncertainty about where these futures will be? Recognizing theprotracted nature of refugee situations, the latest UNHCR education strategyprioritizes the integration of refugees into the national education systems ofhost countries.

Monday, 26 Oct 2020
Myanmar Land Rights Activism in New Animation from PRIO

What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? PRIO is proud to share the first of a series of three animations and comics from Myanmar, Syria and Somaliland, made for the TRANSFORM project in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.

Monday, 5 Oct 2020
Creative Methods Workshop for the INSPIRE Project

​On October 5-6th a workshop on creative methods was held for the INSPIRE project.

Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020
Successful First Advisory Board Meeting for the INSPIRE Project

​​On September 15th the INSPIRE advisory board and INSPIRE researchers had their first meeting.

Thursday, 23 Jan 2020
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the INSPIRE Project

​​From January 22-23, 2020 a kick-off workshop was held for the INSPIRE project.

Wednesday, 1 Jan 2020
New Research Director for the Social Dynamics Department

Marta Bivand Erdal will take over as Research Director for the Social Dynamics Research Department from 1 January 2020.

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Funding Secured for Project on Artists in Times of War

​PRIO's Centre on Culture and Conflict has received funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project Inspirational Creative Practice: the Work of Artists in Times of War (INSPIRE).

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Holding Aid Accountable - Funding for New Project in Place

Little is known about how accountability is understood and practiced by (local and transnational) citizens in comparison to professional humanitarians.

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