PRIO Paper
2026
Recorded event
Friday, 22 May 2026 10:15–11:45 UTC+02
Critical approaches broaden security debates beyond militaristic narratives us to understand security dynamics.
Thursday, 21 May 2026 09:00–10:30 UTC+02
A discussion on how states and other actors use information and psychological tools to gain influence, and what democracies can do in response.
Popular article
Popular article in Panorama
Journal article
Journal article in European Journal of International Relations
Journal article in One Earth
Friday, 22 May 2026 09:00–10:00 UTC+02
Russia’s increasingly repressive domestic politics, economic constraints, elite competition, and isolation shape its foreign policy toward Europe.
Monday, 18 May 2026 12:00–13:30 UTC+02
Norway’s worsening security environment demands better policy, improved societal resilience, and attention to shifting alliances.
Wednesday, 6 May 2026 15:00–16:30 UTC+02
How do scandals, controversies, and struggles enable or deactivate certain critiques of security?
News
Thursday, 23 Apr 2026
AsiaTech investigates how AI stabilizes autocracies and destabilizes democracies, exploring how state and non-state actors manipulate public opinion, conduct surveillance, and suppress dissent.
Event
10–12 Aug 2026
PRIO will host events on navigating the new world order, total preparedness and peace diplomacy at this year's Arendalsuka festival.
Wednesday, 12 Aug 2026 10:00–10:45 UTC+02
I Totalberedskapsmeldingen lover norske myndigheter å styrke beredskapen for nasjonale kriser som krig, pandemi og naturkatastrofer. Men det foreligger ikke noe rammeverk for hvordan disse skal prioriteres opp mot hverandre.
Pavel K. Baev
Research Professor
Wenche Iren Hauge
Senior Researcher
Louise Olsson
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Harry Tzimitras
Director. PRIO Cyprus Centre
Åshild Kolås
Pinar Tank
Nicholas Marsh
Kristoffer Lidén
Research Director
Marit Moe-Pryce
Managing Editor, Security Dialogue
Simon Reid-Henry
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Nina von Uexkull
Ben Hayes
Jacqui True
PRIO Global Fellow
Bruno Oliveira Martins
Júlia Palik
Maggie Dwyer
Ilaria Carrozza
Alaa Tartir
Giacomo Bruni
Doctoral Researcher
Malika Rakhmankulova
Linn Åmot
Research Assistant
Stine Bergersen
Yoshiharu Wakabayashi
Dylan Dornin Pinheiro
Machine Learning Developer
PRIO Fieldwork Network (FIWON)
Led by Marte Nilsen
Jan 2011 –
Energy in Cyprus and East Mediterranean
Led by Harry Tzimitras
Jan 2013 –
High-Level Seminars on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes
Led by Torunn L. Tryggestad
Feb 2013 –
Missing Peace Initiative
Led by Inger Skjelsbæk
Dec 2015 –
PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security
May 2017 –
Global Women, Peace and Security Index
Led by Siri Aas Rustad
Sep 2017 –
Children in Conflict: Basic Mapping
Led by Gudrun Østby
Jan 2019 –
Re-Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean
Jun 2019 –
Peace, Security and Global Digital Politics: ePOLITICS Initiative
Led by Åshild Kolås
Jan 2020 –
Delivering the Cyprus Peace Dividend
Aug 2020 –
PRIO's Peace in a Pod
Led by
Nov 2020 –
New Insights on Women, Peace and Security
Led by Louise Olsson
Dec 2021 – Aug 2026
Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia (NORM)
Led by Ilaria Carrozza
Apr 2023 – Jun 2026
Developmental Peace? Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan (AsiaPeace)
Sep 2023 –
The Leveraging of Cross-Border Mobility as an Issue-Linking Strategy: Above and Below the State
Led by Wilmer Rosell Öden
Jun 2024 – May 2027
CENTREPEACE – Central And Eastern European Security Cooperation Cluster
Led by Nicholas Marsh
Jan 2025 – May 2026
Navigating the New Space Race: Implications for Norwegian Security Policy and Defence Industry
Led by Giacomo Bruni
Jan 2026 – Dec 2029
The ethics of preparedness: questioning priorities in Norwegian policies of preparedness (PrepEthics)
Led by Kristoffer Lidén
Feb 2026 – Dec 2028
Understanding and countering the advance of AI-enabled digital authoritarianism in Asia
