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.
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.
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
China isn’t winning the digital order – yet
In Southeast Asia, Beijing is building the digital infrastructure, but not (yet) writing the rules.
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
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).
Popular Article
The Ukraine War takes new turns in the Black Sea theatre
Popular article in Global Panorama
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.
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...
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
AI is neither the autocrat’s silver bullet nor democracy’s death sentence
AI does not map neatly onto a spectrum running from democratic vulnerability to authoritarian advantage.
Norwegian peace diplomacy - is it facilitation or mediation? And why this matters.
It is a tradition in Norwegian peace diplomacy to say they are “only facilitators”, and theories on mediation are seen as of little relevance.
How the G7 can reset global finance
When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will host more than another summit. It will host a test of whether rich-country coordination can still solve problems that no country can manage alone.
Do we need peace research when Norway is threatened by war?
War once again threatens Norway’s security. One might ask what we need peace research for at this moment.
Wednesday, 3 Jun 2026
PRIO convenes global meeting on the future of development finance
PRIO Research Professor Simon Reid-Henry convened a high-level ministerial meeting of the Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment, an initiative he launched with partners at the United Nations Financing for Development IV Conference i...
Friday, 29 May 2026
Looking for Horizon Europe partners? Explore PRIO’s new EU Matchmaking Guide
PRIO has developed a new EU Matchmaking Guide to support organisations preparing project proposals under Horizon Europe in identifying relevant researchers.
Friday, 29 May 2026
PhD course on Gender, Peace and Conflict successfully convened
As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies , PRIO and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security hosted a PhD-level course on Gender, Peace and Conflict, from May 27 to 29.
Report – Other
NORM Project – Research Design and Methodology
PRIO Report
Horizon Europe Matchmaking Guide 2026
Matchmaking Guide
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Amara Thiha successfully defended his doctoral thesis “The Ritual State”
On 18 May 2026, Amara Thiha successfully defended his doctoral thesis “The Ritual State: The Cultural Infrastructure of Political Authority in Myanmar” at the University of Coimbra.