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Thursday, 10 Feb 2022
New Book Chapter: “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future

​The new book chapter "We Are Alive, but Have No Life": Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future written by Senior Researcher Marte Nilsen, explores some of the everyday strategies of survival that stateless, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh make use of to navigate under the precarious conditions of being denied rights and recognition.

Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021
INSPIRE Seminar Series Autumn 2021

Please be invited and save the dates for the INSPIRE seminar series autumn 2021! The seminars will take place monthly, on Wednesdays from 12:00-13:00 CET, online, with invited researchers and artists.

Friday, 25 Jun 2021
Klo Kwe Moo Kham Successfully Defends Master's Thesis

Klo Kwe Moo Kham has successfully defended his thesis "The Quest for Peace in Kawthoolei: The Strategies, Outcomes, and Sustainability of Peacebuilding in Southeast Myanmar, 2012-2020".

Congratulations Klo!


Monday, 3 May 2021
Call for Applications: Three New PhD Positions at PRIO

​PRIO invites applications for three Doctoral Researcher positions.

Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021
POPAGANDA – Funding in Place for Project

​How do political opposition groups in Myanmar and Thailand use popular culture and art to generate legitimacy for their political causes and propagate their messages?

Friday, 18 Dec 2020
NORHED II funding for global network on Peace and Conflict and Human Rights research

Norad has awarded funding through its NORHED II scheme for a six-year project to strengthen higher education institutions' ability to produce high-quality research and teaching. The project was initiated by The Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in partnership with five leading institutions in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
Stateless in the Bengali borderlands — Funding in Place for New Project

​The project will investigate the current crisis of statelessness affecting millions of people in the Bengali borderlands, including the Rohingya population of Myanmar and Bengali Muslims in the Northeast Indian state of Assam.

Friday, 4 Dec 2020
PRIO's Youth & Peacebuilding Research

Next Tuesday December 8th at 14.00 CET (Oslo time) we will have the PRIO Annual Peace Address, this time with young peacebuilders Hajer Sharief and Ilwad Elman.

On this occasion we wanted to highlight projects and research that focus on youth activism. We're sharing our work on young engagement in political change, because social movements that turn into positive societal transformation are not only initiated by people in power, but very often are initiated or inspired by youth trying to improve their communities. Here are some of the projects showing the importance of youth in peacebuilding.

Monday, 5 Oct 2020
Creative Methods Workshop for the INSPIRE Project

​On October 5-6th a workshop on creative methods was held for the INSPIRE project. The goal was to discuss creative approaches to study inspiration and social justice. Workshop participants were INSPIRE team researchers; Katarzyna Grabska, Cindy Horst, Marte Nilsen, Trude Stapnes and Sara Christophersen as well as invited artists and academics; Anna Konik (visual artist and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), George Mahashe (artist, photographer, academic and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), Solveig Korum (Senior Advisor at Kulturtanken and advisory board member for the INSPIRE project), Cathy Wilcock (musician and academic) and Marisa Cornejo (visual artist).

Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020
Successful First Advisory Board Meeting for the INSPIRE Project

​​On September 15th the INSPIRE advisory board and INSPIRE researchers had their first meeting. Due to corona virus restrictions the meeting was held online.

Thursday, 23 Jan 2020
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the INSPIRE Project

​​From January 22-23, 2020 a kick-off workshop was held for the INSPIRE project. The kick-off marked the formal start of the INSPIRE project. 

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Funding Secured for Project on Artists in Times of War

​PRIO's Centre on Culture and Conflict has received funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project Inspirational Creative Practice: the Work of Artists in Times of War (INSPIRE). Congratulations to project leaders Katarzyna Grabska and Cindy Horst, as well as Marte Nilsen and Covadonga Morales Bertrand, who will also take part in the project. There will also be a PhD position.

INSPIRE studies the role of artists and creative practice in and after violent conflict, exploring both what inspires and motivates those engaged in creative practice as well as how artistic expressions inspire and move others into action for social justice.

Wednesday, 31 Jul 2019
PRIO Researchers Contribute to New Book on Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics

The book describes women’s efforts as agents for change in Myanmar and examines the potential of the peace process as an opportunity for women’s empowerment.

Wednesday, 3 Apr 2019
Call for Abstracts: ‘Political agency and moral action in times of war’


Research in contexts of war often focuses on violence or studies how people cope during and after war and displacement. We know far less about the many small and large acts of resistance to dehumanizing trends of exclusion and abuse in times of war and oppression. What are defining moments when people’s political agency is awakened? Why do individuals engage in acts of empathy, care and protection towards others? When and how do individuals mobilize larger non-violent collective movements and what changes have occurred in such mobilizations as a consequence of technological developments? How do professionals inspire social justice activism during or after war and oppression? And what role do education and art play in these processes? We aim to debate these and other questions in an academic workshop that brings together scholars with a wide background of disciplines, methodological approaches, geographical interests and thematic expertise.​​

Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018
Call for Applications: PhD Course on Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

​The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology: Approaches, Tools and Ethics to take place in Oslo on 19-22 March 2018. The deadline for applications is 1 February.

Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018
Call for Applications: SECURITY in the ARCTIC

The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course SECURITY in the ARCTIC to take place in Kirkenes 16-20 April 2018. The course is organized by the Centre for Peace Studies in collaboration with the Barents Institute, UiT. The deadline for applications is 1 February.

Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017
Call for Members: The Research School on Peace and Conflict

​PhD Candidates are invited to apply for membership in the Research School on Peace and Conflict. Members get direct access to research courses, as well as to internal seminars and generic skills training with leading experts. 

Deadline: 15 January 2018

Tuesday, 20 Jun 2017
Marte Nilsen New Coordinator of the Research School on Peace and Conflict

As from June, Marte Nilsen will take over the coordination of the Research school on Peace and Conflict. Nilsen is a Senior Researcher at PRIO and a Historian of religions with a PhD degree from Lund University.

PRIO would like to express gratitude to Kristoffer Lidén and Covadonga Morales Bertrand for their excellent coordination of the Research School. Morales Bertrand will assist Nilsen for a transitional period until the end of August.

Friday, 16 Jun 2017
Call for Members: Research School on Peace and Conflict

​PhD Candidates are invited to apply for membership in the Research School on Peace and Conflict. Members get direct access to research courses, as well as to internal seminars and generic skills training with leading experts. 

Monday, 12 Jun 2017
Call for Applications: PhD Course ‘Governance, Identity and War’

​The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Governance, Identity and War to take place in Oslo on 31 August – 6 September 2017. The deadline for applications is 23 June.

Friday, 2 Jun 2017
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the TRANSFORM project

​The TRANSFORM project had its kick-off workshop 1-2 June 2017.

​The workshop functioned as the formal start of the TRANSFORM project. 

The project researchers devloped a shared understanding of aims, research questions, methods, communication strategy and output. 

The team members also defined each other's roles and responsibilities.

Tuesday, 20 Dec 2016
PRIO Leads New Project on Social Transformation in Conflict Settings

​​​The project will focus on how individual deeds, in times of radical uncertainty and flux, inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction a society takes. The emphasis will lie on the small but often heroic everyday acts of common people who attempt to challenge dehumanizing trends of exclusion and abuse in violent conflict and civil war in Syria, Somalia and Myanmar.

Tuesday, 17 Jun 2014
Two New PRIO Projects on the Effect of Aid

​​​​​The Research Council of Norway (RCN) funds two PRIO projects on the effects of aid: “Conflict of Interest? ‘Business For Peace’ as Development Aid in Volatile Environments” and “Aid in Crisis? Rights-Based Approaches and Humanitarian Outcomes”.​

Thursday, 29 May 2014
Thailand’s Fragile Democracy

​​Two days after the military coup in Thailand at least 13 bombs exploded, approximately simultaneously, in the city of Pattani. Three people, including a five-year-old child, were killed, and approximately 60 people injured. On Sunday there were clashes between anti-coup demonstrators and soldiers in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. A symptomatic feature of Thailand’s enduring power struggle is a failure to address the country’s underlying political conflicts. With last week’s military coup, the Thai army has once again put the country in a precarious position. Thailand, which most Norwegians know as a peaceful and beautiful holiday paradise, is in a state of extreme political tension that carries a significant risk of long-lasting violent conflict.

Wednesday, 8 May 2013
PRIO Policy Brief on Political Parties and Peacebuilding in Myanmar

In a new policy brief from PRIO, Political Parties and Peacebuilding in Myanmar (PRIO Policy Brief 5/2013), Marte Nilsen and Stein Tønnesson examine the role of Myanmar’s political parties and ask: How well are they equipped for the task of building peace? Are the ethnic-minority parties ready to take the lead role in promoting the interests of their constituencies? Will this cause armed groups to fade into the background? As previously marginalized opposition parties are playing an increasingly important role, an essential question in the run-up to the elections in 2015 is to what extent ethnic minority parties may be able to take over the role played by the armed groups in promoting ethnic-minority interests.

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