Africa

​Security Force Assistance (SFA) – the training and equipping of a foreign security force – represent a common form of intervention into fragile states.

​The P3A project will advance the understanding of how, and under what conditions, private sector development exacerbates or mitigates conflict in Africa.

​Round two of conflict prediction in the Conflict Cartographer project is now open.

Andreas Forø Tollefsen has been granted funding for the three-year project Geographies of Conflict-Induced Migration (CONMIG).

​Congratulations to the team that has secured NORGLOBAL funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Green Curses and Violent Conflicts: The Security Implications of Renewable Energy Sector Development in Africa.

​Despite the magnitude of displacement, extant knowledge on how refugees affect host populations is derived almost exclusively from Western societies.

​On5-6 December 2018, PRIO and Chr.

Panel at the the 7th European Conference on African Studies, Basel, 29 June to 1 July 2017

​​Severe drought is associated with an increased incidence of armed conflict among agriculture-dependent populations in the least developed states.

PRIO Launches New Centre on Gender, Peace and Security

CSCW researchers Halvard Buhaug and Jan Ketil Rød have published an article in the May issue of Political Geography, an Interdisciplinary Journal for all Students of Political Studies With an Interest in the Geographical and Spatial Aspects.