South Asia – Peace Research Institute Oslo

24/06/2021
NORM: New Project on the Digital Silk Road

The NORM project aims at finding out how China’s Digital Silk Road shapes the digital world order and its norms, and the agency that recipient developing countries exercise in response. This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.

30/06/2017
New issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update

The second issue in 2017 the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is now out.

The lead story in this issue includes an interview with researchers Christine Amisi (ICART) and Gudrun Østby (PRIO) about their research on support programmes for survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

09/06/2017
Successful Doctoral Defense by Kaja Borchgrevink

Kaja Borchgrevink has defended her thesis today, 9 June 2017 'With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?' at Department of International Environment and Development Studies Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society at NMBU Ås Campus.

Her trial lecture:
Is women's apparently increasing involvement in religious life, including piety movements and religio-political organisations, likely to contribute to egalitarian social change in southern Asia?

Evaluation committee:

First opponent: Emeritus Professor Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK

Second opponent: Dr. Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth, UK

Committee coordinator: Dr. Poul Wisborg, Noragric, NMBU, Norway

Supervisors:

Associate Professor Ingrid Nyborg, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), NMBU

Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway

17/01/2013
Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia

This book, published by Cambridge University Press, challenges the view, common among Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a tradition of military philosophy. It traces the evolution of theories of warfare in India from the dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu philosophy.

Kaushik Roy is a senior researcher at PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War, and a Reader in History at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India.