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

This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

​Can Businesses Play a Role in Peace and Sustainable Development? Today a new edited volume is launched, debating this question in order to provide an essential guide for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the role of business in peace.

​The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Business for Peace: A New Dawn for International Peacebuilding?, to be held in Oslo on 8-10 March 2017.

The extended deadline for application is 3 February. There are few places left!

​​PRIO researchers write in The Guardian on the perceived dangers of humanitarian work following the Kunduz attack in Afghanistan.

​A workshop on  India’s Role in Global Nuclear Governance was co-organized by the Indian Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and PRIO as a part the IDSA-PRIO cooperation on India in the World: Emerging Perspectives on Global Challenges, and its subproject on Nuclear Governance.

​​Jason Miklian successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences on Friday 27 June. His thesis is titled Mining, Displacement and Conflict in Maoist India.

​​In April, 800 hundred million people began casting their ballots all across India in the largest election the world has ever seen. When we think of voting in India, we often picture a poor elderly villager showing a big ink-stained thumb and boasting a wide smile as proof of democracy in action. But elections in today's India mean big money, big ideas and a growing focus on big urban centers as the drivers of development that will continue to catapult it from a 20th century agrarian laggard to a 21st century global power.