Policy brief
2025
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Blogs
Monday, 7 Apr 2025
Africa is not a homogeneous entity. Unlike the United States or China, it does not have a unified political power capable of defending a common interest.
Journal article
Journal article in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
Recorded event
Friday, 6 Dec 2024 11:30–12:30 UTC+01
Is it still true that democracies rarely wage war against each other?
Tuesday, 12 Nov 2024 16:00–18:00 UTC+01
PRIO's Annual Peace Address, this year given by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Erica Chenoweth.
Tuesday, 5 Nov 2024
The US presidential election, which has been dominating the global news, will come to its natural culmination on November 5, even if the outcome remains uncertain for many more days. Even in Russia, where war and inflation are major concerns, official sources report that more than 60 percent of adults ...
Friday, 28 Mar 2025
All across Turkey, a battle is being waged over the country’s future. For more than a decade, the country’s democratic institutions have steadily deteriorated and now thousands have taken to the streets in an attempt to save the remains of its democracy and restore the rule of law. One of ...
Friday, 7 Mar 2025
Trump and his supporters are undermining American democracy, posing a real threat of democratic breakdown. The consequences would be dramatic, extending far beyond the United States. However, there is still a good chance that democracy, in the end, will survive — but this requires counter-mobilization. The warning lights are flashing ...
Friday, 17 Jan 2025
President Donald Trump has provoked strong reactions with his proposition to buy Greenland, not the least because the right to self-determination is a fundamental principle in international law, allowing peoples to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development. Home Rule Greenland has a long ...
News
Monday, 18 Nov 2024
PRIO hosted the 15th Annual Peace Address on 12 November, focusing on a pressing global concern: the state of democracy and the vital role of civil society in its preservation and renewal.
Event
Tuesday, 20 May 2025 09:00–10:30 UTC+02
Join us for an engaging discussion that connects the shifting world order with the digital revolution, exploring how Southeast Asia’s response to the Digital Silk Road could redefine the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century.
26–28 May 2025
The PRIO Cyprus Centre, UCLan Cyprus and the Estonian Research Council are co-organizing a conference titled, 'Contested Borderlands as Spaces of Negotiation and Adaptation'.
Pavel K. Baev
Research Professor
Scott Gates
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Håvard Hegre
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Research Professor (affiliated)
Håvard Strand
Senior Researcher
Helga Malmin Binningsbø
Kristian Hoelscher
Research Director
Marianne Dahl
Åshild Kolås
Nicholas Marsh
Kristoffer Lidén
Simon Reid-Henry
Kjersti Lohne
Ida Rudolfsen
Christian Davenport
Ben Hayes
Cyanne Loyle
Visiting Researcher and PRIO Global Fellow
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Ahmed M. Musa
Mauricio Rivera Celestino
Ilaria Carrozza
Haakon Gjerløw
Øyvind Stiansen
Alaa Tartir
PRIO Global Fellow
Eirin Haugseth
Researcher
Giacomo Bruni
Doctoral Researcher
Gabriel Elias Lönn
Research Assistant
Malika Rakhmankulova
Juliane Marga Katharina Stötter
Managing Editor, Journal of Peace Research
Yoshiharu Wakabayashi
Tobias Langås Handeland
Master's student
Jovana Davidovic
Mitt Regan
Associate Researcher
Apr 2019 –
Catering to Conflict-Affected Communities? The Trajectory and Relevance of Judicial and Non-Judicial Measures in Colombia
Led by Bård Drange
Jun 2019 –
Peace, Security and Global Digital Politics: ePOLITICS Initiative
Led by Åshild Kolås
Jan 2020 – Dec 2025
e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders
Feb 2020 –
COVID-19 and De Facto States
Led by Mete Hatay
Apr 2021 – Dec 2025
Stateless in the Bengali borderlands : New technologies and challenges for identity and identification
Led by Mohammad Salehin
Sep 2021 – Jun 2025
Elite Political Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies (ELITE)
Led by Haakon Gjerløw
Oct 2022 – Oct 2027
Enabling Politically Sensitive Climate Change Impact Assessments for the 21st Century (POLIMPACT)
Led by Halvard Buhaug
