Marianne Dahl

Senior Researcher

Additional positions:

Deputy Editor for Journal of Peace Research

Email: mdahl@prio.org

Mobile phone: +47 98 82 28 86

Twitter: @mmariannedahl

Putins krig i Ukraina har forsterket vanlige folks vestlige orientering

By Kristin M. Bakke & Marianne Dahl in Aftenposten

Journal Article

2023

Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization

By Marianne Dahl & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch in European Journal of International Relations

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 8 Dec 2022

Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, and the Russian human rights organization Memorial for their promotion of “the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens.” This year’s prize constitutes ...

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Ukraine War

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Gender

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Governance

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Sexual Violence in Conflict

My major research interests includes: Non-Violence, Civil War Theory, Post-Conflict Stability, Political Economy and Statistical Modeling.

My PhD project; 'Desisting from Violence: The selection of Non-Violent vs. Violent Strategies', is on the strategic choices made by opposition groups, and what causes a non-violent, violent or mixed strategy.

Working Experience

2017 - : Senior Researcher

2017 - : Deputy Editor, Journal of Peace Research

Languages spoken

Norwegian, English and Spanish

Education

2017: PhD at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences - NTNU

2007-2009: M. Phil, Political Science, University of Oslo

2006-2007: Courses in Sociology and Political Science,

University of California, Berkeley

2003-2006: BA, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen

Latest publications

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Kristin M. Bakke & Marianne Dahl (2023)
Putins krig i Ukraina har forsterket vanlige folks vestlige orientering

Latest news

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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. The series of events are called Oslo Peace Days.

PRIO will contribute to this year's Oslo Peace Days with four events, including the prestigious PRIO Annual Peace Address.

Wednesday, 15 Jun 2022
The Women, Peace and Security Index Goes Viral on Social Media

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

Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022
Open Call for 2024 Special Issue of Journal of Peace Research

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. We welcome issues on topics that significantly advance the research frontier of the field, with a focus on causes and consequences of violence, conflict prevention and resolution, and nonviolent action.

Thursday, 24 Feb 2022
Ukraine: PRIO Expertise

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

Monday, 13 Dec 2021
Peace Science Infrastructure: PRIO to Head Large New Collaboration

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.

Tuesday, 3 Nov 2020
New Blog Post: Women’s Well-Being and the US Election

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.

Monday, 3 Aug 2020
What Does the Status of Women Reveal about a Nation’s Pandemic Preparedness and Response?

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. Are nations that perpetuate injustice, exclusion, and insecurity for women less prepared to handle an epidemic outbreak, like COVID-19?

Wednesday, 1 Jul 2020
Journal of Peace Research, Security Dialogue: Improved Rankings

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

Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (previously Web of Science/Thomson Reuter's) show the journals' two-year Impact Factor (IF). This is the most commonly used metric of journal influence measuring the average number of citations to articles published in the last two volumes.

Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020
Open Call for 2022 Special Issue of the Journal of Peace Research

JPR publishes annual special issues on topics of high relevance to the field of peace research, and is now soliciting proposals for the 2022 special issue. We welcome issues on topics that significantly advance the research frontier of the field, with a focus on causes and consequences of violence, conflict prevention and resolution, and nonviolent action.

Monday, 9 Mar 2020
PRIO Has the Leading Experts on Protests

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.

As of 2020 PRIO houses three major projects that simultaneously are investigating mass mobilizations and protests. As a result, we will have a large team of leading experts in the field. This is something that no other research institution can boast of, either nationally or internationally.