The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) is a research collaboration between the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Uppsala University that brings together three distinct but interrelated research projects: the political Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS) and the interdisciplinary conflict impacts projects Societies at Risk and ANTICIPATE.
VIEWS and its components are directed by Research Professor Håvard Hegre at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.
The Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS) is a publicly available, data-driven forecasting system. It generates monthly predictions of the number of fatalities in impending state-based conflict 1-36 months ahead, as well as probabilistic assessments of the likelihood that given conflict thresholds will be met – for each country and 55×55 km location in Africa and the Middle East.
ANTICIPATE at Peace Research Institute Oslo and Societies at Risk at Uppsala University are multi-disciplinary research programs directed by Research Professor Håvard Hegre. They bring together scholars from public health research, economics, political science, peace and conflict research, and natural disaster science to study the impacts of armed conflict on human development. Seeking to provide a comprehensive, forward-looking assessment that allows for well-informed decision-making and anticipatory action, the two programs will focus on six interlinked systems:
Economy
Health
Social psychology
4Water availability
Forced displacement
Political institutions
The programs will, in close collaboration with each other, pool the insights of specialists from the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet (KI), V-Dem at the University of Gothenburg, the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), International Security and Development Center (ISDC), and the University of Pittsburgh.
PRIO conducts research for a more peaceful world, and is committed to using the best of what technology has to offer to achieve that purpose. Having been at the forefront of data-driven social science research since its foundation in 1959, PRIO seeks to strengthen its data science competence by inviting applications for a Senior Developer. The successful candidate will join the team developing VIEWS – the Violence & Impacts Early Warning System that seeks to develop an early-warning system for the humanitarian impacts of armed conflict.
Please read the full announcement here
Deadline 30 November
Håvard Hegre has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of EUR 2.5 million for the project ANTICIPATE - Anticipating the impact of armed conflict on human development.
The research project ViEWS - A political Violence Early-Warning System has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant as the only project in Norway in this round of competition.
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