Ethics

News

Monday, 17 Apr 2023

Lea K Matthaei has successfully defended her MA thesis under the On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation (FAIR) project

Lea K Matthaei has successfully defended her MA thesis under the On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation (FAIR) project, with final title: "Ethics in Peace Negotiations: Roles and Considerations According to Experts"!

Read the thesis here and kindly see the below abstract for further details.

News

Thursday, 2 Mar 2023

Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Webinars on Syria, Afghanistan

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.

News

Thursday, 8 Dec 2022

Academic workshop: ‘Holding Aid to Account. The Role of Local Humanitarians’

PRIO to co-host academic workshop in Kampala on the role of local humanitarian actors and their accountability practices. Abstracts deadline: 15 January.

News
Publications
Audio & video

Book Chapter

2023

AI in Cyber Operations: Ethical and Legal Considerations for End-users

By Gregory M. Reichberg, Henrik Syse, Kirsi Marjaana Helkala, James Cook, George R. Lucas Jr. & Frank Pasquale

News

Monday, 17 Apr 2023

Lea K Matthaei has successfully defended her MA thesis under the On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation (FAIR) project

Read the thesis here and kindly see the below abstract for further details.

Event Recording

Thursday, 16 Feb 2023 09:00-10:30

01:24:02

Terrorism Ill-Defined? Data, Health Services, and the Law

Recent acts of terrorism in Norway – the 22 July attack, the 2019 Bærum mosque attack, the 2021 Kongsberg killings and the 2022 Oslo Pride Parade attack – illustrate a phenomenon observed in other countries: that perpetrators and would-be perpetrators of terrorist attacks often suffer from mental illness.

News

Thursday, 8 Dec 2022

Academic workshop: ‘Holding Aid to Account. The Role of Local Humanitarians’

PRIO to co-host academic workshop in Kampala on the role of local humanitarian actors and their accountability practices. Abstracts deadline: 15 January.

Master Thesis

2023

Ethics in Peace Negotiations: Roles and Considerations According to Experts

By Lea Kirsten Matthaei

News

Thursday, 2 Mar 2023

Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Webinars on Syria, Afghanistan

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.

Event Recording

Friday, 10 Feb 2023 14:00-15:30

Webinar on Red lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan

This roundtable is the second in a series on the ethics of humanitarian action, and follows the earlier roundtable on the ethics of humanitarian neutrality in Syria.

Event Recording

Friday, 21 Apr 2023 13:00-14:30

Webinar on Engaging with the Taliban then and now: Lessons learned, lessons spurned?

This virtual roundtable examined engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, including similarities and differences between current international engagement and what happened over 20 years ago.

Further details and the podcast available here.

Journal Article

2023

Tools of war and virtue – institutional structures as a source of ethical deskilling

By Sigurd Hovd in Frontiers in Big Data

Event Recording

Monday, 16 Jan 2023 13:00-14:30

Webinar on the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria

This virtual roundtable examined the principle and practice of humanitarian neutrality during the Syrian civil war since 2011. This webinar was organised by PRIO and the NCHS.