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Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

PRIO secures funding for three ground-breaking projects

PRIO has successfully secured funding for three timely projects on authoritarian AI (mis)use, biodiversity financing politics and ethical dilemmas in Norway’s preparedness strategies.

Journal article

2025

Ethics and the governance of digital data in humanitarian action

Journal article in Disasters

Comment

Monday, 23 Jun 2025

Tracer rounds and defense flares in the night sky over Tehran as Iran's air defense systems respond to incoming drones and missiles launched by Israel on June 14, 2025. Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images

Preventive war is wrong: Why recent attacks on Iran fail an important moral test

Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action – action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary’s capacity to wreck future harm?

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Journal article

2025

Rethinking human roles in AI warfare

Journal article in Nature Machine Intelligence

Comment

Monday, 23 Jun 2025

Preventive war is wrong: Why recent attacks on Iran fail an important moral test

Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action – action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary’s capacity to wreck future harm?

Journal article

2025

Tacit engagement in humanitarian action: making sense of silence and secrecy in humanitarian negotiations

Journal article in Journal of International Humanitarian Action

Book chapter

2025

Luigo Sturzo (1871–1959)

Book chapter in Just War Thinkers Revisited: Heretics, Humanists and Radicals

News

Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025

PRIO secures funding for three ground-breaking projects

PRIO has successfully secured funding for three timely projects on authoritarian AI (mis)use, biodiversity financing politics and ethical dilemmas in Norway’s preparedness strategies.

Policy brief

2025

Ethical Questions in Peace Negotiations: A Guide

PRIO Policy Brief

Humanitarian law and politics: two sides of the same coin

Ethics and the governance of digital data in humanitarian action

Journal article in Disasters

PRIO Paper

2025

Cover - Ethics in Peace Negotiations. PRIO

Ethics in Peace Negotiations: Key Questions

PRIO Paper

News

Monday, 9 Dec 2024

Ilaria Carrozza, Giacomo Bruni, Kaja Borchgrevink,
Gregory M. Reichberg. Photo: PRIO

PRIO secures funding for four new innovative projects

PRIO has successfully secured funding for four new projects to support research addressing today’s critical societal challenges, including two focused on Norwegian security and defence.