Marianne Dahl: All news

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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.

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.

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe) - Funding for New Project

Why do some pro-democracy movements succeed while others fail?

Congratulations to project leader Hanne Fjelde on securing 3-year funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the project Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe). Other project members are Sirianne Dahlum, Tore Wig (UiO and PRIO), Carl-Henrik Knutsen (UiO and PRIO), Marianne Dahl (PRIO), Espen Geelmuyden Rød (Uppsala University and Nils W. Metternich (UCL).

Tuesday, 29 Oct 2019
Call for Applications: PhD course on Civil Resistance: Causes and Consequences

​The Research School on Peace and Conflict  invites applications for the PhD course on Civil Resistance: Causes and Consequences to take place at PRIO in Oslo on 11-13 February 2020. The course is a collaboration between the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) and PRIO.

The deadline for applications is 1 December 2019.

Tuesday, 22 Oct 2019
Best & Worst Countries for Women

​The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, in partnership with the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, will launch the second edition of the global Women, Peace and Security Index (WPS Index) today at the United Nations. PRIO Deputy Director and Director of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security Torunn L. Tryggestad will speak at the event. 

Thursday, 17 Oct 2019
We Gave National Geographic An Exclusive First Look At The Upcoming Women, Peace and Security Index

To join in the effort to build evidence, National Geographic teamed up with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) to illustrate our upcoming 2019–2020 Women, Peace, and Security Index. The index serves as a kind of report card on women’s well-being, ranking 167 countries from best to worst in three key areas: women’s inclusion in society, sense of security, and access to justice.

Tuesday, 2 Jul 2019
New JPR Editorial Team

Scott Gates is taking over from Gudrun Østby as Editor of the Journal of Peace Research. Gudrun Østby stays on as Deputy Editor, together with Marianne Dahl and Kendra Dupuy. Bertrand Lescher-Nuland is the Managing Editor of the journal, and Julia Palik is the Social Media Editor. All work in collaboration with the Associate Editors.


Friday, 21 Jun 2019
Journal of Peace Research Does Well on Ranking

PRIO's Journal of Peace Research is in the top quartile of International Relations and Political Science citation ranking.

According to the latest  Web of Science/Thomson Reuter's Journal Citation Reports, the Journal of Peace Research’s (JPR) two-year Impact Factor, the most used metric of journal influence measuring the average number of citations to articles published in the last two volumes, increased from 2.419 last year to 2.518 in 2018. JPR is ranked 13th in the International Relations (out of 91) and 35th in the Political Science (out of 176) categories.

Wednesday, 27 Jun 2018
PRIO Journals Ranking High

​Clarivate has just announced their 'Journal citation report', containing the most influential ranking of academic journals. 

As with previous years, PRIO's own journals, the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) and Security Dialogue (SD) remain highly ranked. SD is now placed 9th in the International Relations category, with an improved 2-year Impact Factor (IF) of 2.710 (they are not in the Political Science category). JPR is ranked 14th in the International Relations (out of 85) and 32nd in Political Science (out of 169) categories, also with an improved 2-year IF of 2.419.

Wednesday, 31 Jan 2018
PRIO Awarded Prestigious TOPPFORSK Grant

​The Research Council of Norway announced this morning that PRIO will receive TOPPFORSK funding for the project: "Securing the victory? Understanding dynamics of short-run and long-term success in popular uprisings and democratization". 

Wednesday, 20 Dec 2017
New Issue of PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update Out Now

​The December 2017 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is now out.  

The PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (GPS Update) is an electronic newsletter launched by the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security in response to growing interest among the public for information about gender, peace and security issues.

For any queries regarding the GPS Update, contact Julie Marie Hansen (julhan@prio.org).

Tuesday, 28 Nov 2017
Successful Launch of the Women, Peace and Security Index

Representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Georgetown Institute of Women, Peace and Security and PRIO celebrated the launch of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index today.

Tuesday, 4 Jul 2017
New Editors of the Journal of Peace Research

Gudrun Østby is the new Editor of the Journal of Peace Research, while Marianne Dahl is the new Deputy Editor. 

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.

Thursday, 30 Mar 2017
Successful Doctoral Defense by Marianne Dahl

Marianne Dahl successfully defended her doctoral thesis today, 30 March, at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences - NTNU. The title of her thesis is "Pockets of Opportunity: State Dissident Interactions and Regime Change".

Her trial lecture: "What role does social mobilisation play for regime stability and transition, particularly considering the broader social mobilisation literature?"

Tuesday, 25 Feb 2014
Violence and Non-Violence in Ukraine

​​​​The Ukrainian opposition is more likely to succeed if its campaign remains primarily non-violent, writes Marianne Dahl, Doctoral Researcher at PRIO.

Tuesday, 22 Jun 2010
Climate Change and Security: New Blog!

Follow the blog from a big conference in Trondheim, Norway, on climate change and security. You may also follow the conference on Twitter: @climatesecurity

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