Monday, 10 Nov 2025
Norwegian Government receive Afghanistan review report with key insights from PRIO experts
On 6 November, Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide and Defence Minister Tore O. Sandvik received the report from the Afghanistan Commission assessing Norway’s engagement in the country.
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025
Handbook highlights Nordic cooperation as a model for global collaboration
The newly published Handbook of Nordic Cooperation was launched last week in Denmark at a seminar co-hosted by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen and Edward Elgar Publishing.
Policy Brief
Youth bulges and political participation in sub-Saharan Africa: What will the future bring?
PRIO Policy Brief
Preparing for the Wrong War? The need to broaden the focus beyond defence spending towards a comprehensive approach to peace and security
Europe is rearming. What are the likely consequences of this strategy?
Friday, 31 Oct 2025
Security Dialogue welcomes new editorial team from 2026
From 1 January 2026, the international journal Security Dialogue will be led by a new editorial team based at its institutional home, PRIO.
Policy Brief
De facto economic integration of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
PRIO Policy Brief
An unpalatable Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize must not motivate or encourage aggression, contrary to the apparent effect of this year’s prize, awarded to Maria Corina Machado.
Nuclear means come to front of Putin’s long-war strategy
Moscow commentators were taken aback over U.S. President Donald Trump’s message on resuming nuclear testing “immediately” and also “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.
What do the recent drone sightings in Denmark and Norway mean?
The intensity of the response to the recent airport shutdowns of Oslo’s and Copenhagen’s main airports was unprecedented.
Peace and sustainability – two sides of the same coin
The world is severely off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the rise in armed conflicts a major cause.
Tuesday, 21 Oct 2025
Two new postdoctoral positions at PRIO
PRIO is announcing two postdoctoral positions linked to the ERC-funded project Rituals in Combatant-to-Civilian Transformation (Com2Civ), led by Senior Researcher Júlia Palik.
Policy Brief
Unlocking Nigeria’s future demographic dividend through its youth
PRIO Policy Brief
Russia ignores global peace developments to focus on Putin’s war
Extraordinary international attention was focused on the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on October 10. Anxiety was palpable in Moscow, where official skepticism had dominated since the award of the 2022 prize to the Memorial Society.
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.
Thursday, 25 Sep 2025
MigrationRhythms Survey Documentation Published Ahead of Open Access Dataset
A new PRIO Paper offers in-depth documentation of the MigrationRhythms survey, shedding light on urban middle classes, social mobility and internal & international migration across four major Asian cities.
Thursday, 25 Sep 2025
Daniel Kjebekk Drivdal Awarded the 2025 Gløbius Prize
Daniel Kjebekk Drivdal has been awarded the Gløbius Prize for 2025 for his MA thesis on Climate Mitigation and Conflict.
Imagining War in the Neurotechnological Age
According to neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, founding member of NeuroRights Foundation, “We are entering a world, where technologies no longer simply threaten our bodies. They are directly affecting our minds”.
Putin attempts to shift nuclear brinkmanship
Russian President Vladimir Putin is shifting from overt nuclear brinkmanship to using Russia’s nuclear energy program as a “peaceful” tool of influence.
Thursday, 18 Sep 2025
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: PRIO Director’s updated list announced
The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Nina Græger, announced her updated list today for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
Popular Article
Putin raises the stakes of rejecting peace deal
Popular article in Eurasia Daily Monitor
Moscow downplays drone incursion on Poland
The incursion of at least 19 Russian drones into Polish airspace on September 9–10 produced plenty of shock but hardly any awe.
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.
Putin raises the stakes of rejecting peace deal
Three years and seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, all international initiatives to bring the war to an end have seemingly discontinued.
Friday, 12 Sep 2025
PRIO-GRID wins data innovation award
The widely used PRIO-GRID data framework has been awarded the prestigious J. David Singer Data Innovation Award.
Security policy for globalized science
Research security is a new concept in research policy. Donald Trump introduced it in a National Security Presidential Memorandum in 2021. Other NATO countries soon followed up.
Israel is not a democracy
Can we continue to call Israel a democracy? The answer is no, and paradoxically enough, neither electoral defeat for Netanyahu nor a halt in the Gaza war will change this.
The starvation of Gaza is a deliberate policy
In recent days, Israel has commenced new attacks on Gaza, with humanitarian aid playing a key role in its forced expulsion of Palestinians.
Carving out space for peace – in space
Fifty years ago, two spacecraft met in space as part of a unique mission: After nearly two decades of intense space rivalry, the Soviet Union and the USA joined forces. We have much to learn from that landmark event today.
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.