Policy Brief
Monitoring of ceasefires and civil society
GPS Policy Brief
Allies at odds in the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize
President Trump has reacted negatively to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Navi Pillay.
The blind spot in emergency preparedness
There is a persistent lack of attention to the gendered dimensions of Norwegian emergency preparedness. Particularly to what is often referred to as ‘soft preparedness’.
Russia’s economic decay undercuts Putin’s global ambition
Russian President Vladimir Putin held the third Russia–Africa Summit in Moscow on October 28–29.
Will the next UN Secretary-General be a woman?
A woman leading the UN would be symbolically important at a time of systematic and widespread global setbacks for women's rights and gender equality.
Russian diesel deal and energy ceasefire expose Moscow’s limits
The U.S.–Russian diesel deal and an uncoordinated Russia–Ukraine energy ceasefire have generated diplomatic commotion.
Putin’s early October diplomacy fails to deliver
Putin may believe that he has caught fresh wind in the sails of his rotting gunboat, but his war course still goes through a sea of deep troubles.
Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026
The 2026 Oscarsborg Symposium Strengthens Nordic Business-State Networks in Defence and Preparedness
The 2026 Oscarsborg Symposium gathered leaders and experts from business, government, and research to examine the critical roles and conditions of businesses in defense and preparedness.
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026
Nobel Peace Prize 2026: PRIO Director’s updated list announced
PRIO Acting Director Haakon Gjerløw published his updated list for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, which includes Save the Children and the International Space Station.
Friday, 25 Sep 2026
PRIO’s GPS Center contributes input to EU’s WPS Action Plan
Senior Researcher Louise Olsson participated in a workshop organized by European Peacebuilding Liaison Office, September 21-23. The workshop concluded with concrete suggestions for the upcoming revision of the EU’s WPS Action Plan to the EEAS.
Putin’s ‘Special Electoral Operation’ could backfire
Elections in Russia over the two and a half decades of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule have never been free and fair. The scope of electoral manipulation has been steadily rising to the point that the recent system that selected members of...
Monday, 21 Sep 2026
PRIO-GRID 3.0 beta launches: A new generation of spatial data infrastructure
Today, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) released the beta version of PRIO-GRID 3.0, a major redevelopment of its widely used infrastructure for integrating and analyzing spatial data.
China isn’t winning the digital order – yet
In Southeast Asia, Beijing is building the digital infrastructure, but not (yet) writing the rules.
Escalation and the size of wars
The war in Ukraine underscores the severe human impact and economic consequences of large wars, but there has been remarkably little attention to why wars differ so much in severity in the first place.
Book Chapter
Introduction: Religious Minorities and Religious Education in a Plural Europe
Book chapter in Minorities, Migration, and Religion New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe
Book Chapter
Understanding the Interplay of Migration, Minorities, and Religion in European Societies Characterized by Migration-Driven Diversification
Book chapter in Minorities, Migration, and Religion New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe
Edited volume
Minorities, Migration, and Religion New Perspectives on Religious Education in Faith Communities and Schools in Europe
Edited volume
Journal Article
Solar extraversion: incumbent interests, foreign capital and the making of Morocco's megaproject strategy
Journal article in Globalizations
Popular Article
America’s Un-American AI Companies
Popular article in Project Syndicate
Civil wars cluster around the Equator – but why?
Civil war events are overrepresented around the Equator.
Is US patience with Israel running out?
Israel’s military campaigns in the Middle East depend on support from the United States. But how long will that support last?
Echoes of Partition: Migration, borders and shared humanity
Mid-August marks the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, but also the mass migration and violence that followed in the wake of Partition.
Journal Article
Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities
Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Popular Article
The Ukraine War takes new turns in the Black Sea theatre
Popular article in Global Panorama
When the deadline looms: political crises, displacement and the clock
In January 2017, the streets of Banjul, the tiny capital of The Gambia, fell silent. Shops shuttered. Families packed bags. Tens of thousands of people streamed across the border into Senegal – not because war had broken out, but because a deadlin...
The Ukraine War takes new turns in the Black Sea theatre
Wars of attrition are supposed to be static and predictable, but the Ukraine War definitely departs from this pattern. Its transformation is constant, and during this summer, new surprises have come, delivered primarily by Ukraine, which puts prio...
Only Moscow lacks new ideas for ending war against Ukraine
The July 23 meeting in Manila between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lasted only 35 minutes and produced no new momentum, according to the Kremlin (The Moscow Times, July 23).
Thursday, 2 Jul 2026
Satellites for Peace: An idea whose time has come
The idea that satellites can help build peace is no longer a distant vision. In July, PRIO convened leading voices from the humanitarian, diplomatic, scientific and space communities for the conference "Satellites for Peace: An idea whose time has...
Tuesday, 30 Jun 2026
New special issue on Johan Galtung’s intellectual legacy
PRIO is proud to announce the publication of a special issue of Journal of Global Security Studies, guest-edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch and Gerald Schneider.
Report – Other
‘Nothing about us without us’: The emergence and evolution of survivor-centred approaches to conflict-related sexual violence
The Missing Peace Series: Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence through Research, Policy and Practice