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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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 ...
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...
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.
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].
Monday, 15 Oct 2012 11:00–17:15 UTC+02
Uniting for Peace in Colombia
[Sammen for fred i Colombia / Juntos por la Paz en Colombia]
Tuesday, 10 Nov 2020 15:00–16:00 UTC+01
How to impact policy making? The Role of Research Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This webinar discusses how the critical roles of research institutions and civil society organisations in advancing the WPS agenda can be further amplified through collaboration.
Friday, 11 Dec 2020 14:00–15:00 UTC+01
Translating migration theory into empirical propositions
How do we take the step from a diverse landscape of migration theory to doing empirical research? In this webinar the authors of a recent paper address this question.
Monday, 21 Nov 2022 16:00–18:00 UTC+01
Inspiring Serendipities - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Jad El Koury – heritage, memory, healing (INSPIRE Seminar Series)
Wednesday, 14 Jun 2023 14:30–16:00 UTC+02
Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists
In this roundtable discussion, Sudanese artists and curators will reflect on the role of arts in the current war and the previous revolutions, as well as comment on the ongoing fragile situation in Sudan.
Thursday, 29 Aug 2024 16:00–18:00 UTC+02
Antikkens drama speiler nåtidens asylproblematikk, demokratiutvikling og konflikt
Hvordan kan en nyoversettelse av et av antikkens store drama speile nåtidens asylsøkerproblematikk, demokratiutvikling og internasjonale konflikter?
Thursday, 4 Mar 2010
Henrik Urdal Cited in New York Times
Op ed columnist Nicholas D.
Thursday, 22 Sep 2011
Nils Petter Gleditsch receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Conflict Processes Section at the American Political Science Association (APSA) selected Nils Petter Gleditsch as the recipient of the prestigious bi-annual award, adding him to a short list of scholars who have fundamentally influenced the fi...
Thursday, 1 Dec 2011
Interview with Reuters
Thomas Grove from the Reuters Moscow bureau called me for a comment on the rising nationalism in Russia, a subject I am not that familiar and rather uncomfaitable with, and the result is here (http://www.
Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013
Regions & Powers group revisits the Middle East
Checking our assumptions and making new ones
Monday, 24 Jun 2013
PRIO Journals Ranking High
Each year around this time, the Web of Knowledge announces their 'Journal citation report', containing the most influential ranking of academic journals.
Monday, 3 Nov 2014
Successful research training in Bukavu, DRC
In October the PRIO-team working on the project 'Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC' visited Bukavu in order to conduct a three week Basic Training in Peace and Conflict studies, Research Methodology, GIS, and Academic Writing (13-29 October).
Monday, 2 May 2016
Torkel Brekke will be the new Deputy Director at PRIO
PRIO is happy to announce that Torkel Brekke will be the new Deputy Director at PRIO.
Wednesday, 21 Dec 2016
Call for Papers: African migration imaginaries: rumours, cosmologies, representations
Panel at the the 7th European Conference on African Studies, Basel, 29 June to 1 July 2017
Monday, 30 Jan 2017
Inger Skjelsbæk appointed Visiting Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Inger Skjelsbæk, Research Professor at PRIO, has been appointed Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics.
Thursday, 16 Feb 2017
PRIO Praised in New Institute Evaluation
The Research Council of Norway has launched the report from its evaluation of the social science institutes.