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Wednesday, 1 Feb 2023

Nobel Peace Prize 2023: PRIO Director’s Shortlist Announced

The director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, announced his shortlist today for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, with human rights activists topping the list.

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Thursday, 8 Dec 2022

Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, and the Russian human rights organization Memorial for their promotion of “the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens.” This year’s prize constitutes ...

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Wednesday, 12 Oct 2022

No Escape for Putin from His Lonely and Tight Corner

On October 7, celebrations in Russia for President Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday were rather muted and distinctly half-hearted. For the big day, Putin opted to stage an informal gathering of six leaders from post-Soviet states — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan — in St. Petersburg. The formal meeting of ...

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Wednesday, 1 Feb 2023

Nobel Peace Prize 2023: PRIO Director’s Shortlist Announced

The director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, announced his shortlist today for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, with human rights activists topping the list.

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Wednesday, 12 Oct 2022

No Escape for Putin from His Lonely and Tight Corner

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Friday, 30 Sep 2022

PRIO Director Henrik Urdal's 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Shortlist

PRIO Directors have made it a tradition to offer their personal shortlists for the Nobel Peace Prize, based on their professional assessments. With the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize announcement approaching, Henrik Urdal is releasing his final and revised Nobel Shortlist for the year.

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Monday, 11 Oct 2021

What Difference the Nobel Peace Price Makes - or Doesn't

The decision of the Norwegian Nobel committee to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Dmitry Muratov (together with courageous Philippine journalist Maria Ressa) announced last Friday astonished, angered or elated everybody in Russia who has even a slight interest in politics or minimal exposure to media. Muratov himself was ...

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Thursday, 8 Dec 2022

Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy

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Sunday, 9 Oct 2022

Nobel Peace Prize Honors Courage and Dignity

The Norwegian Nobel Committee had to make an exceedingly difficult decision this year. At a time of war raging in Europe, was the proposition of a peace prize even relevant? Ukraine is certainly fighting a just war and deserves every measure of support that the global West can muster, but ...

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Tuesday, 1 Feb 2022

Nonviolent Pro-Democracy Mobilization Tops Director's Nobel Shortlist

PRIO Directors have made it a tradition to offer their personal shortlists for the Peace Prize.

Sivilsamfunnet jobber i motbakke for å forsvare demokratiet

By Marianne Dahl, Hanne Fjelde, Ida Rudolfsen & Sirianne Dahlum in Morgenbladet

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Friday, 7 Oct 2022

PRIO Congratulates the Nobel Peace Prize Winners of 2022

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.

What Difference Will the Nobel Peace Prize Make in Russia?

By Pavel K. Baev in Eurasia Daily Monitor

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