We Need to Talk About Children Born of War
Every day, children are born in war and armed conflict, in Ukraine, on the Gaza Strip, in South Sudan, in Myanmar and elsewhere. Some of these children might have parents who are enemies, that is, parents who are on opposite sides of the conflict....
Friday, 1 Nov 2024
Inger Skjelsbæk nominated for Brageprisen 2024
PRIO Research Professor Inger Skjelsbæk has been nominated for the prestigious Norwegian book award ‘Brageprisen 2024’ for her non-fiction book Sarajevos roser. Krigen i Bosnia og dens etterliv [Sarajevo Rose: The war in Bosnia and its aftermath].
Monograph
Sarajevos roser: krigen i Bosnia og dens etterliv
Monograph
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 10:00–11:00 UTC+02
The present political situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina – and thoughts for the future
Ljuljjeta Goranci – Brkić who is the General Manager at the Nansen Dialogue Center (NDC) in Sarajevo will visit PRIO and give a short talk from 10:00 – 11:00 in the Peace Room.
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Grbavica
Grbavica is the name of a part of Sarajevo, and the film with the same name tells the story of a mother and her 12 year old daughter.
Monday, 31 Aug 2009
Three new FICHL seminars
The Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law have three upcoming seminars on cutting edge topics: on the relationship between universal jurisdiction and complementarity (4 September, Oslo); on abbreviated criminal procedures for core ...
Thursday, 28 May 2020
PRIO Welcomes New Global Fellows
PRIO welcomes seven new researchers to the PRIO Global Fellows Programme.
Adela Cernica
PRIO Global Fellow
Aida Ibričević
Project Jan 1999 – Dec 2003
Balkan Dialogue Project
Journal Article
Just War, Clausewitz and Sarajevo
Journal article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article
Paradigm Shifts and 9/11: International Relations After the Twin Towers
Journal article in Security Dialogue
Children Born of War Are Not the Enemy. How Can They Be Integrated into Society?
This year, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to the Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and the Iraqi human rights activist, and witness and survivor of human-trafficking, Nadia Murad. These two voices are an extremely important contributi...
Ceasefire as a Fig Leaf for Carnage and Confusion
Just a couple of weeks ago, Aleppo was seen as a crucial battlefield in the Syrian civil war and was compared with Sarajevo as a tragedy of intolerable proportions not only by hard-hitting journalists but also by such responsible politicians as Mi...
Bosnia 20 Years On
The Dayton agreement ended the war. But with children from different ethnic groups unable to attend school together in many places, its intentions concerning reconciliation have unfortunately not been realized. “Of course I don’t need good grades ...
Tainted by Stigma
Imagine being at a dinner party with friends. Some you know from before and some are new to you. You are served a welcome drink, smile, and begin to greet the other guests. The conversation starts amicably with exchanges about the weather, where y...
How did the Paris Killers Acquire their Guns?
At present we have very little information on the guns used last week by Saïd and Chérif Kouachi to commit a massacre at the offices of the publication Charlie Hebdo; and by Amedy Coulibaly in several shootings in Paris. They were armed with Kalas...
Bosnia and Herzegovina – a Failed State 25 Years After the Peace Accords
The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are governed by three presidents, 14 prime ministers, 180 ministers, and 700 members of parliament (who sit in 14 different parliaments). A ping on my phone last fall told me that she was now a widow. The messa...
The Peace Policy Maker: Dan Smith Interviewed by Stein Tønnesson
Dan Smith, interviewed by Stein Tønnesson.
Personal Stories of Home, Belonging, and Refuge at the War Childhood Museum
Entirely unprepared for what I was about to experience, I walked through the thick, dark curtain leading up to the main hallway of the War Childhood Museum. I had stepped into a different realm, one of physical objects telling stories of growing u...
Europe’s Betrayal of Bosnia and Herzegovina
An internal battle is currently underway within the European Union (EU) about the best way to understand the Western Balkans. To vastly over-simplify: one view is that the Western outside what we can truly think of as Europe, and will always be un...
Peace Is More Than the Absence of War: Inger Skjelsbæk Interviewed by Cindy Horst
Inger Skjelsbæk, interviewed by Cindy Horst.