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Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Doing Business During a Crisis - PRIO Research in Harvard Business Review

PRIO researchers have contributed to a survey of seven cities around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. This survey offers clues to how businesses handle crises, and the results are summed up in an article in Harvard Business Review.

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Monday, 16 Aug 2021

Missing Peace Workshop Convened Online

The Missing Peace Initiative brings together expert scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and military and civil society actors. By bringing together these different actors, the initiative aims to examine the issue of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, identify gaps in knowledge and reporting and explore how to increase the effectiveness of current responses to such violence. Research Professor Inger Skjelsbæk heads the project at PRIO.

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Monday, 9 Aug 2021

Burden of Pandemic May Motivate Violent Protest and Antigovernment Sentiment

The sometimes-violent antigovernment demonstrations that erupted during 2020 and 2021 were fueled in part by the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiratorial thinking, and political polarization. New research published in the journal Psychological Science also puts some of the blame for civil unrest and political violence on the psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Friday, 19 Nov 2021

Doing Business During a Crisis - PRIO Research in Harvard Business Review

Journal Article

2021

Drone Use for COVID-19 Related Problems: Techno-solutionism and its Societal Implications

By Bruno Oliveira Martins, Chantal Lavallée & Andrea Silkoset in Global Policy

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Monday, 16 Aug 2021

Missing Peace Workshop Convened Online

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 9 Jul 2021

What a Year with No Travel Taught Us about the Future of Fieldwork

For many researchers working on projects that spanned international borders, the imposition of travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid change in ways of working. Drawing on their own experience and those of colleagues of carrying out fieldwork during the pandemic, Talitha Dubow and Marta ...

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2021

When is Conventional Wisdom Wise? Testing the Assumptions behind Preventing Violent Extremism

By Tora Sagård

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 30 Sep 2021

Corona Apps – Going Global

On 8 April 2020, less than a month after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was a pandemic, Mareile Kaufmann posted a PRIO blog entitled “Corona Apps – Where Are We Headed?” on the use of digital tools in the “war against corona”, asking what the ...

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Monday, 9 Aug 2021

Burden of Pandemic May Motivate Violent Protest and Antigovernment Sentiment

Policy Brief

2021

What Affects the Distribution of Protests against Coronavirus Measures?

By Katharina Pfaff, Eric Neumayer & Thomas Plümper, Conflict Trends

Journal Article

2021

SMEs and Exogenous Shocks: A Conceptual Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

By Jason Miklian & Kristian Hoelscher in International Small Business Journal

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 26 Jul 2021

Myanmar’s Pandemic: The UN Must Act!

More than 1/3 of those tested for Covid-19 in Myanmar now test positive. The crematorium in Yangon can hardly handle all the bodies. Many health workers remain on strike since the February 1 coup. When they try to help people on a voluntary basis, they risk arrest. Social media is ...