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Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
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Journal Article in World Development
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Journal Article in Comparative Political Studies
Journal Article in International Studies Quarterly
Popular Article in VG
Popular Article in Political Violence at a Glance
Report - External Series
Popular Article in VG
COVID-19 has quickly changed everything from our daily routines, to the policies of governments, to the fortunes of the global economy. How will it continue to shape society and the conditions for peace and conflict globally in the near future and long after we manage to get the virus under control?
PRIO Research Professor Carl Henrik has received the prestigious Fridtjof Nansen award for young researchers.
Knutsen, who is also a Professor at the Department of Political Science, won the prize for "the importance of [his] studies of political institutions, in particular the connection between governance and economic growth, where democracies generally seem to contribute to a higher growth rate," said committee leader Professor Øyvind Østerud.
PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.
As of 2020 PRIO houses three major projects that simultaneously are investigating mass mobilizations and protests. As a result, we will have a large team of leading experts in the field. This is something that no other research institution can boast of, either nationally or internationally.
Read more about this in Tora Sagård's summing up of these projects and the links between them.
Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Tore Wig's article on protests in the Washington Post was the fifth most popular of 2019 on the website.
Why do some pro-democracy movements succeed while others fail?
I en ny rapport krever forskere fra Institutt for fredsforskning (PRIO) og Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) en konsekvensutredning av ‘Plan S’.
Ved å tilslutte seg denne planen har Forskningsrådet tatt mål av seg til å snu opp ned på hvordan forskning kvalitetssikres, forbedres, vurderes og deles. Til grunn for dette ligger ingen utredning av konsekvenser, og ingen høring blant dem som blir berørt.
Forskerne bak rapporten støtter kravet om åpen forskning, men mener dette kan oppnås på andre måter, uten de mest alvorlige konsekvensene. Rapporten peker på en lang rekke problematiske sider ved planen, som svekkelse av kvalitetssikring, mindre internasjonalisering og dårligere muligheter for å skille mellom god og dårlig forskning.
Rapporten kommer med anbefalinger som er rettet mot å sikre åpen tilgang til forskningsresultater, samtidig som forskningens integritet og samfunnsverdi opprettholdes.
Yesterday, the NEPS Medal for the best publication in peace science, was awarded in Verona to Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Tore Wig for their aricle in World Politics: 'Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing Tool or Force for Change?'.
Congratulations!