Why Trump is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. President Donald Trump has presented himself as a global peacemaker-in-chief, citing his role brokering several peace agreements and suggesting he belongs among the laureates.
Friday, 26 Sep 2025
New funding for project on Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission in the South Saami area
Analyzing the case of the Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission in the South Saami area.
Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
PRIO secures funding for three ground-breaking projects
PRIO has successfully secured funding for three timely projects on authoritarian AI (mis)use, biodiversity financing politics and ethical dilemmas in Norway’s preparedness strategies.
Journal Article
Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies
Journal article in Comparative Political Studies
Cover letters – what are they good for?
Some advice on cover letters for submission to academic journals from the Desk Editor of Journal of Peace Research.
Thursday, 4 Sep 2025
PRIO Senior Researcher Julia Palik secures prestigious ERC grant to study how rituals shape the social reintegration of former combatants
PRIO is immensely proud to announce that Senior Researcher Julia Palik has been awarded the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for the groundbreaking project titled Com2Civ: Rituals in Combatant-to-Civilian Transfor...
Putin’s Vladivostok Forum underwhelming and alarming
The outcomes of wars of attrition are typically decided by the capacity to mobilize material resources. The Kremlin appears to believe, however, that impressions matter more than real capabilities and the depth of public support.
Putin seeks People’s Republic of China’s support for war-to-victory stance
The PRC is marking the 80th anniversary not only of the defeat of Japanese aggression during World War II, but also the end of the long century of perceived humiliation by various imperialist powers — one of which was, in fact, Russia.
Wednesday, 13 Aug 2025
PRIO project wins security innovation award 2025
This summer, the EU-funded project Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+) was awarded the Security Innovation Award 2025 for Best Open Source Innovation.
Commemorating the terrorist attack July 22, 2011: a memorial map from below
Every year since 2011, from the middle of July, survivors, the bereaved, and the rest of Norway prepare for yet another commemoration of the July 22 terror attack.
The reintegration of 5 million veterans may be Ukraine’s next major battle: Results from a recent survey in Ukraine
While discussions of a ceasefire remain clouded by diplomatic uncertainty, Ukrainian soldiers continue to fight on the frontlines. Once the fighting on the ground ends, these women and men will likely face their next battle in reintegrating into c...
Preventive war is wrong: Why recent attacks on Iran fail an important moral test
Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action – action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary’s capacity to wreck future harm?
Putin’s preemptive maneuvering around NATO summit is cut off
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, investors from most parts of the world have stopped coming to Russia, so the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has turned into a show of fake innovation.
Friday, 6 Jun 2025
PRIO Marks Leadership Transition with event on “Peace Under Pressure”
PRIO welcomed guests for a special event this week, marking the transition of leadership from outgoing Director Henrik Urdal to incoming Director Nina Græger.
Journal Article
Online speech and communal conflict: Evidence from India
Journal article in PNAS Nexus
What Now for Humanitarian Studies?
Humanitarianism has long been in crisis, but since early 2025 the sector has been experiencing an unprecedented organizational, institutional, normative, and political collapse. As scholars active in the broad, inter-, and multidisciplinary field ...
American Democracy is in Danger, but Not Dead
Trump and his supporters are undermining American democracy, posing a real threat of democratic breakdown. The consequences would be dramatic, extending far beyond the United States. However, there is still a good chance that democracy, in the end...
Monday, 24 Feb 2025
Top UN Middle East Envoy Tor Wennesland Joins PRIO
Veteran diplomat Tor Wennesland joined the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as Practitioner in Residence in January.
Triumphalism in Moscow About Setback in Peace-Making for Ukraine Could be Short-Lived
Moscow’s mouthpieces competed to celebrate and ridicule the individuals involved in the February 28 talks in Washington, D.C. between Ukraine and the United States. To the surprise of many, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the White Ho...
Security Dialogue
Migrant deaths in the name of law
Image byJim BlackfromPixabay In international political sociology, a variety of scholars following Agamben and the so-called state of exception emphasize the routes of violence against migrants in the light of their privation of rights or “suspend...
Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024
Virtual book launch of 'From uncertainty to policy: A guide to migration scenarios' on International Migrants Day
Can migration be forecasted in today's unpredictable world? How can policymakers and scholars navigate inherent uncertainty, with robust and realistic models?
Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024
PRIO in the Republic of Korea for its Action with Women and Peace Conference
On December 10th, PRIO Research Director Louise Olsson and GPS Coordinator Stine A. Bosheim contributed to the Action with Women and Peace Conference (AWP), in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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....
Authorship and Involuntary Attribution: How and Why Should We Contest AI Manipulation?
Technology is radically changing the work and role of scholars and the function of academic publishing. Fake and fabricated content (data, facts, arguments, claims, conclusions) undermines the foundations of knowledge in a democratic society. Faki...
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].
21–22 Aug 2006
Power-Sharing and Democratic Governance in Divided Societies
Workshop at PRIO, 21-22 August 2006
Thursday, 19 Feb 2009 14:30–19:00 UTC+05
New York Launch of the Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics (PeacE)
New York, 19 February 2009
Wednesday, 18 Mar 2009 13:00–16:00 UTC+01
Oslo Launch of the Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics (PeacE)
Oslo, 18 March 2009
Monday, 27 June 2011
Conference on Pastoralism in China Today
Beijing, PRIO and Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
21–22 Sep 2012
ENCoRE COST meeting
The upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East in early 2011 caught most analysts and decision makers by surprise.