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Monday, 27 Mar 2023

Soft Power and Disinformation: The Strategic Role of Media in Wagner’s Expansion in Africa

After its first steps on the African continent in Libya in 2017, the Wagner Group has been deployed in Sudan, Mozambique, Madagascar, the Central African Republic, and at the end of 2021 in Mali. This rapid expansion over the years contributes to the instability and insecurity in these regions. The ...

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Sunday, 29 May 2022

Telenor’s Exit from Myanmar: An External Review Is Needed

Telenor’s sale of its Myanmar venture has been completed. Its new majority owner is Myanmar’s Shwe Byain Phyu group, which is mainly known for its petroleum trade. On 11 May, in their reports to Telenor’s Annual General Meeting, Chair of the Telenor Board Gunn Wærsted and CEO Sigve Brekke spoke at length about the extremely difficult situation Telenor ...

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Friday, 18 Mar 2022

In Autocracies, a Little Media Freedom Can Go a Long Way

Mobilization in autocracies is inherently difficult. Potential dissidents face several hurdles, even when grievances are widespread and a regime is unpopular. Participating in dissent is dangerous and leaves individuals at risk of repression by state security forces. Safety in numbers is possible if others also mobilize, but in autocracies people ...

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Monday, 27 Mar 2023

Soft Power and Disinformation: The Strategic Role of Media in Wagner’s Expansion in Africa

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Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022

The Digital Battlefield

Photos, stories and videos featuring victims of the war in Ukraine are spreading all over the world on social media. This will change our perception of war. So far, cyber attacks and cyber operations have played a smaller role than expected in the warfare in Ukraine, social media on the ...

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Monday, 13 Dec 2021

Peace Science Infrastructure: PRIO to Head Large New Collaboration

Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.

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Friday, 8 Oct 2021

PRIO Director Henrik Urdal Celebrates Journalists' Nobel Win

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov. "They are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions," said Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Sunday, 29 May 2022

Telenor’s Exit from Myanmar: An External Review Is Needed

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2022

Annual Peace & Security Review 2020

By Min Zaw Oo , Maung Ne Lynn Aung & Morgan Michaels

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Wednesday, 1 Dec 2021

The New Pattern of Conflict in Myanmar

A new conflict pattern has appeared in Myanmar. Amidst a spiraling economic, social and health crisis, armed fighting is no longer confined to ethnic minority areas but has cropped up in cities and regions where the ethnic Bamar are in majority. They see themselves as pursuing a nation-wide resistance. Preventive ...

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Friday, 18 Mar 2022

In Autocracies, a Little Media Freedom Can Go a Long Way

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Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021

Teuta Kukleci Successfully Defends Master's Thesis

Teuta Kukleci has successfully defended her master's thesis The “Low Road”: Ethnic Division and Bosnian Newspaper Coverage of Landmark Cases of Sexual Violence at the ICTY at the University of Oslo.

Congratulations to Teuta!

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Thursday, 18 Nov 2021 14:00-16:00

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Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics

Data about mass violence can seem to offer insights into patterns: is violence getting better, or worse, over time? Is violence directed more against men or women? But in human rights data collection, we (usually) do not know what we do not know – and worse, what we do not know is likely to be systematically different from what we do know.