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.

Yesterday, a video featuring the Global Women, Peace and Security Index went viral on TikTok, garnering over 700,000 likes so far.

​Every year, JPR publishes special issues on topics of high relevance to the field of peace research, and we are now soliciting proposals for the 2024 special issue.

​The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.

​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.

​What does Gender have to do with it? On US election day, with major gender issues on the ballot, and the American gender gap being larger than ever, PRIO researchers Marianne Dahl and Sunniva Unn Hustad examine how Women Peace and Security scores coincide with projections for the 2020 election.

​New research note co-authored by the PRIO Centre for Gender, Peace and Security and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security investigates the relationship between women’s wellbeing and risk factors associated with an overwhelming COVID-19 outbreak.

Security Dialogue (SD) and the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) remain in the top quartile of journal rankings.

​JPR publishes annual special issues on topics of high relevance to thefield of peace research, and is now soliciting proposals for the 2022 specialissue.

How does a country’s security apparatus react to a protest movement?And what happens in the aftermath of successful protests?PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.