Sirianne Dahlum

Senior Researcher

Email: sirdah@prio.org

Twitter: @SirianneD

Website: siriannedahlum.com

Sivilsamfunnet jobber i motbakke for å forsvare demokratiet

By Marianne Dahl, Hanne Fjelde, Ida Rudolfsen & Sirianne Dahlum in Morgenbladet

Conference Paper

2022

The Dark Side of Mobilisation: Global Evidence on Authoritarian Protests

By Sirianne Dahlum, Marianne Dahl, Hanne Fjelde & Ida Rudolfsen

News

Friday, 2 Oct 2020

Sirianne Dahlum Joins Young Academy of Norway

The Young Academy of Norway has announced their new members for the period 2020-2024. Sirianne Dahlum is one of nine new members. She is currently a Senior Researcher at PRIO working on the project “Mobilizing for and against Democracy” and an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo.

Latest publications

All publications

Marianne Dahl, Hanne Fjelde, Ida Rudolfsen & Sirianne Dahlum (2022)
Sivilsamfunnet jobber i motbakke for å forsvare demokratiet

Latest news

Friday, 2 Oct 2020
Sirianne Dahlum Joins Young Academy of Norway

Friday, 3 Apr 2020
Beyond the COVID Curve: PRIO launches new blog series

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?

Monday, 9 Mar 2020
PRIO Has the Leading Experts on Protests

How does a country’s security apparatus react to a protest movement?

And what happens in the aftermath of successful protests?

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.

Friday, 3 Jan 2020
PRIO Researchers' Article Makes Washington Post Top Ten List

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.

Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019
Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe) - Funding for New Project

Why do some pro-democracy movements succeed while others fail?

Congratulations to project leader Hanne Fjelde on securing 3-year funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the project Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe). Other project members are Sirianne Dahlum, Tore Wig (UiO and PRIO), Carl-Henrik Knutsen (UiO and PRIO), Marianne Dahl (PRIO), Espen Geelmuyden Rød (Uppsala University and Nils W. Metternich (UCL).

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2019
Carl Henrik Knutsen Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant

Knutsen is a Research Professor at PRIO in a part-time capacity. His main position is as Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Nine researchers from Norway were awarded Consolidator Grants this year (out of 301 altogether).

Current projects

Jul 2020 – Jun 2023
Mobilizing for and against Democracy (MoDe)

Jul 2018 – Jun 2023
Securing the Victory? Understanding Dynamics of Short-run and Long-term Success in Popular Uprisings and Democratization

Research groups

Conflict Patterns

Governance