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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.

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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

Nobel Peaze Prize 2021 infographic. Illustration: Olaf Kosinsky and Franz Lopez

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.

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2023

Photographing 1948: Robert Capa’s Absent Palestinians

Journal Article in Journal of Palestine Studies

PRIO Blogs

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 ...

Conference paper

2020

Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar

Conference paper

2020

Role of Social Media in the Rise of Buddhist extremism in Myanmar

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 27 Mar 2023

Russian and Central African Republic flags are waived by demonstrators gathered in Bangui on March 5, 2022 during a rally in support of Russia. Carol VALADE / AFP

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 ...

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 18 Mar 2022

News editor interupting Russian state-controlled broadcast. Just Click’s With A Camera /Flickr

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 ...

Conference paper

2020

Psychological Warfare on Facebook: A Case from Myanmar

Master thesis

2021

The "Low Road": Ethnic Division and Bosnian Newspaper Coverage of Landmark Cases of Sexual Violence at the ICTY

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022

President of Ukraine Official Website / Reuters

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 ...

Conference paper

2020