PRIO was awarded new funding this week by the Research Council of Norway for a 3-year project, Russian Approaches to Peace Processes.
Both the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria and the Red Lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan webinars were recorded and can be streamed via the seminar webpages.
PRIO has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Developmental Peace? Local Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan (AsiaPeace).
Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.
In an article for UIK Panorama, Research Professor Pavel Baev writes about the inherent weaknesses in Russia's capacity to pursue an ambitious foreign policy, which are getting exposed in the wake Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are organizing a series of thematic roundtable meetings about current issues on the Security Council's agenda.
On 9-10 September 2021, around 20 researchers met for a hybrid online-offline workshop to share their research on specific cases of ethical issues in peace negotiations and mediation.
In a new policy brief on the importance of a neighborly concert for Afghan peace, Kristian Berg Harpviken examines the present state of affairs in each of the main regions surrounding Afghanistan: Central Asia, South Asia and the Gulf.
The large PRIO-led project MIGNEX examines migration and development at the local level across Africa and Asia.
Please note the dates: 13 - 17 March, and have a look at the programme as it now stands.
The seminar series «PSYOPS: The Psychology of Political Struggle» aims to bring academics and professionals from different disciplines and fields of experience together to discuss topics in the borderland between psychology and politics.
Integrating Gender into Foreign Policy
The Afghanistan Week is joint effort by PRIO, the Norwegian Afghanistan Committe (NAC), and the Chr.
A New Era for Constructive Interaction?
In this commentary on the PRIO blog, General Lieutnant Robert Mood reflects on the military intervention in Afghanistan, successful in its immediate goal of bringing about regime change, but challenged in its longer term goals of contributing to build a functioning state.
Many asylum seekers who opt for assisted return come home to countries ruined by war and conflicts.
PRIO Associate Researcher Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh has just published a PRIO Paper entitled 'Regional Responses to Radicalization in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Opportunities and an Agenda for Action'.
The second Afghanistan Week was organized last week by the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee, CMI and PRIO.
New Blog Post by Shaharzad Akbar
The current situation in Afghanistan is the subject of two opposing narratives: one is a success story about international support and involvement since 2001; the other is a story where much has gone wrong and everything can only get worse.
Conflict Trends by Anna Marie Obermeier, Håvard Strand & Georgina Berry
PRIO Paper
PRIO Paper
MIGNEX Handbook Chapter
Book chapter in Lives in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories
Conflict Trends by Haakon Gjerløw & Solomon Negash
Journal Article in UIK Panorama
Popular article in Political Violence @ a Glance
Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor
Popular article in Aftenposten
Popular article in Order from Chaos
PRIO Policy Brief by Kristian Berg Harpviken
PRIO Policy Brief by Kristian Berg Harpviken
Popular article in The National Interest
Conflict Trends by Siri Aas Rustad, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård & Fredrik Methi
Journal Article in Journal of Refugee Studies
Book chapter in The SAGE Handbook of Asian Foreign Policy
NUPI Report
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Book chapter in Building peace, creating conflict? Conflictual dimensions of local and international peace-building