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​Beathe Øgård has succesfully defended her thesis "The Spring Revolution in Myanmar - Resisting a Closed Autocracy.

​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.

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.

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".

In societies at war or facing severe repression, what motivates individuals to take action for social justice when doing so involves great risk and uncertainty? How do such small but often heroic everyday acts of common people inspire larger transformations? And what is the impact of storytelling about everyday acts that challenge inequalities and injustices in places like Myanmar, Somaliland and Syria?The TRANSFORM research team has grappled with these questions for four years, and you will ...

​​On June 3rd 2021, the INSPIRE research platform was launched with a live performance by Faytinga and a presentation of artwork by Diala Brisly.

​PRIO invites applications for three Doctoral Researcher positions.

​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?

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 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.

Read up before the PRIO Annual Peace Address 2020

What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? PRIO is proud to share the first of a series of three animations and comics from Myanmar, Syria and Somaliland, made for the TRANSFORM project in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.

​On October 5-6th a workshop on creative methods was held for the INSPIRE project.

​​On September 15th the INSPIRE advisory board and INSPIRE researchers had their first meeting.

​​From January 22-23, 2020 a kick-off workshop was held for the INSPIRE project.

​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).

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.

This academic workshop focuses on political agency and moral action before, during and after violent conflict and war.

​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 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.

​PhD Candidates are invited to apply for membership in 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.

​PhD Candidates are invited to apply for membership in the Research School on Peace and Conflict.

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

​​​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.

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