PRIO's Conflict Trends project collaborates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to answer questions relating to the causes, consequences and trends in conflict. The project will contribute to new conflict analyses within areas of public interest, and works to produce thorough and quality based analysis for the MFA. The project builds on the existing competence of PRIO with a strong emphasis on research and new data analysis.
The Center for the Study of Civil War (2003-2013) was engaged in path-breaking research on war and peace. The Conflict Trends project sustains and makes use of the competence and international connections that PRIO has developed. The project also aims to reduce the gap between science and research and to assure that the resources and knowledge obtained are beneficial to the public in general.
The project will focus especially on the following thematic areas in the first phase of the project:
The aim of the project is to outline short and informative policy brieds within different thematic schemes, while also focusing on more specific, country-based conflicts. In addition to describing the actors and main tendencies in conflict, the notes will include maps with an overview of conflict events, trends in conflict activity over time, and other relevant statistical indicators. The briefs in the Conflict Trends series can be found under the Publications tab below.
The project maintains a blog which monitors the situation in South Sudan.
On Saturday 5 November, Scott Gates gave the presidential address at the 56th annual meetings of the Peace Science Society (International) in Denver, USA.
The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) , will jointly release a major report analysing conflict trends in the Arab world from 1946 to 2019. A joint online conference will be held by both partners on 25 August 2021 (4:00 PM Doha time) to launch the report, which will be simultaneously made available on their websites.
The journalist Joshua Goodman of the Associated Press yesterday released the article “Global COVID deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate». He refers to the PRIO battledeaths data and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program to illustrate the deadliness of the virus.
This news story has since it’s publication been shared by more than 1,300 news outlets worldwide, and the number keeps growing by the hour. One example is this piece from the Huffington Post.
The 2020 update of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program is now available, and reveals interesting trends in armed conflict for the last year, including more conflicts but also fewer deaths.
Research Director Siri Aas Rustad will take part in the UNDP Symposium "A New Generation of Human Security" later today. The event brings together high-level participants both from the policy world and academia to discuss some of the large issues related to human security.
Round two of conflict prediction in the Conflict Cartographer project is now open. Country and area experts are invited to add their conflict predictions using the project app. The project focuses on 35 countries in Africa that have experienced conflict within the past five years.
PRIO has conducted a study for Save the Children estimating the number of children at risk of experiencing wartime sexual violence. A staggering 72 million children—17% of the 426 million children living in conflict areas globally, or 1 in 6—are living near armed groups that have been reported to perpetrate sexual violence against children.
In their first-ever report to examine conflict trends in the Middle East, PRIO researchers take a closer look at the hard data on the number of conflicts – between states, within states, as well as one sided violence – and at ceasefires as well as peace agreements.
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Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
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Report - Other
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Journal Article in Defence and Peace Economics
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Report - External Series
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Journal Article in Conflict Management and Peace Science
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Book Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development
Book Chapter in Handbook on Governance Statistics
Popular Article in Dagens Næringsliv
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
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Popular Article in Aftenposten
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Conference Paper
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Journal Article in International Interactions
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Book Chapter in Peace and Conflict 2017
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Book Chapter in People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
Journal Article in Cogent Social Sciences
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Report - Other
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Book Chapter in Africa's Population: In Search of a Demographic Dividend
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Book Chapter in What Do We Know About Civil Wars?
Book Chapter in Peace and Conflict 2016
Popular Article in Washington Post - Monkey Cage
Journal Article in Research and Politics
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Journal Article in Politica
Journal Article in Perspectives on Terrorism
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Popular Article in Ny Tid
Popular Article in Aftenposten innsikt
Journal Article in WIREs Climate Change
Journal Article in International Studies Review
Journal Article in International Studies Review
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Journal Article in International Area Studies Review
Journal Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Popular Article in Dagsavisen
Journal Article in International Area Studies Review
Journal Article in International Studies Quarterly
Popular Article in Morgenbladet
Book Chapter in Wettstreit um Ressourcen. Konflikte um Klima, Wasser und Boden
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