Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert: All news

How did the arrival of growing numbers of refugees and other migrants in a non-violent setting and high-income country like Norway become framed as a ‘humanitarian crisis’? Is there a humanitarian crisis if nobody dies?

Today, Stine Bergersen defended her dissertation titled 'Conveying Complex Uncertainty: The Dilemmas of Communicating about Terror Threats' at Vrije University Brussels. Congratulations to Stine!

​Report finds ‘Do no digital harm’ has emerged as an important humanitarian imperative, following contributions from PRIO project.

​Minister Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol from South Sudan visited PRIO today.

​Arendalsuka concluded on Friday and PRIO Director Henrik Urdal sums up PRIO's contributions.

​PRIO participated at this year's Arendalsuka with three events, and with our researchers on several debate panels.

​Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

​A collaborative project in which PRIO participates has been awarded a large grant from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme.

On Tuesday, 8 March, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited PRIO to participate in a panel discussion.

​The Red Lines and Grey Zones project has been officially launched with a kick-off meeting on the 1st of March.

​The new book Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders, edited by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of aid at the borders of Europe, in a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean.

​Hosted by the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA), the Conference on Humanitarian Studies was held at Sciences Po, Paris between 3-5 November 2021, with the theme ‘New realities of politics and humanitarianism: between solidarity and abandonment’.

​Debate around possible offshore asylum processing by European countries has resurfaced recently, in the wake of Denmark's newly passed legislation, allowing for the relocation of asylum seekers to third countries while their applications are being processed.

​The project "Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation" has received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

​Ludvig Fæhn Fuglestvedt has successfully defended his thesis "Legal advocacy for the human rights of asylum seekers: A strategic analysis".

​As refugees and other migrants arrived in increased numbers to Europe during the summer of 2015, many citizens across Europe mobilized to provide basic assistance in different ways along the route: from food, shelter, clothes, to access to wifi and charging stations for mobile phones.

​In a new article recently published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Bruno Oliveira Martins and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert analyze the dynamics surrounding the adoption of technologies for EU border control.

The Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) has been a joint collaboration between CMI, NUPI and PRIO since its establishment in 2012.

How to better understand the relationship between individual duties and collective action in response to large-scale societal challenges.

​​All over the world, states are responding to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by invoking the state of emergency – generally characterized by an expansion of the state power, allowing it to perform actions that it could not carry in times of normal politics.

​The initial fieldwork for MIGNEX was being completed when the worldwide coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis erupted.

The large PRIO-led project ​MIGNEX examines migration and development at the local level across Africa and Asia.

The Norwegian Research Council’s program NORGLOBAL2 held its kick-off meeting for newly funded research projects at NORAD, on 25 April 2019, with participants from the MFA, NORAD, RCN, and researchers involved in the projects.

Call for contribution to edited volume, edited by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO) and Elisa Pascucci (University of Helsinki)

PRIO leads the EU-funded project MIGNEX, which seeks to produce new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

PRIO researchers have been prolific contributors to the field of humanitarian studies in 2018.

The Research Council of Norway’s NORGLOBAL funding has been decided for the 2018 round of applications.

​FourPRIO researchers have contributed to the upcoming book 'REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT:Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance'.

​The European Commission has awarded funding for what isprobably the largest-ever European-funded research project on migration, set tostart work in September 2018.

​While Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert has maternity leave, Kristoffer Lidén will be the Research Director of the Dimensions of Security Department, starting 28 May.