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Moscow ponders reconfigured Middle East, finding few openings

The cessation of hostilities in the Gulf on 25 June was as surprising for Moscow as Israel’s strike on Iran on 13 June. Russia’s attempts to assess the consequences of the surge of the air war have to take into account apparent analytical miscalcu...

Thursday, 19 Jun 2025

PhD course on Conflict Trends

As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course Conflict Trends, 3-5 June. Siri Aas Rustad led the course.

Journal Article

Costly Concessions: Insights From 78 Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Provisions in Peace Agreements

Journal article in Global Policy

How do women ambassadors reshape diplomacy at the UN Security Council?

On the occasion of the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, 24 June.

Commemorating the 25 June 2022 terror attack against Oslo Pride: a chronology

As a political event the June 25 attack is remembered both in the context of domestic terror attacks and in the context of terror attacks against queer communities globally.

Journal Article

Coding as analytical process: From profound to productive uncertainty

Journal article in Area

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...

Making Women Combatants Visible: Steps Towards Gender-Responsive Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

In October the Security Council met for its annual Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Open Debate under the theme of “Women Building Peace in a Changing Environment.” Despite the WPS agenda’s goals for including women in all aspects of security and ...

Perplexed Vladimir Putin Reckons With Outcome of US Elections

The Kremlin had confidently expected confusion and turmoil following the US presidential election. Instead, a definite outcome and the commitment to a smooth transition of power are set to shape the US political environment for the next couple of ...

7–8 Dec 2007

Mimicry in Civil War

Workshop with Diego Gambetta

13–14 Dec 2011

Moralities of Migration

23–24 Sep 2013

The Geopolitics of the Arctic

Conference on Commerce, Governance and Policy

10–11 Dec 2018

Data, Security, Values: Vocations and Visions of Data Analysis

Annual Conference of the Nordic Centre for Security Technology and Societal Values (NordSTEVA)

Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 13:00–15:00 UTC+01

The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict – New Agendas

A roundtable on ethical, legal and political perspectives

Friday, 22 Jan 2010

The diaspora supports Haiti after the earthquake (in Norwegian)

Jørgen Carling comments on how the diaspora can assist Haiti after the earthquake.

Friday, 8 Jul 2011

PRIO signs commitment to the Charter and Code

The Charter and Code is an EU initiative to improve employment and working conditions for researchers, and refers to two documents describing recruitment, working conditions, career planning and mobility.

Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012

Nils Petter Gleditsch turns 70

Today, 17 July 2012, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Research Professor at PRIO and former editor of the Journal of Peace Research turns 70 years.

Thursday, 17 Jan 2013

Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence

Research project calls for greater transparency and accountability re use of surveillance systems

Monday, 9 Nov 2015

PRIO-GRID 2.0 Launches at grid.prio.org

The latest version of the PRIO-GRID is now available at grid.

Thursday, 8 Jun 2017

New Version of PRIO Dataset on Urban Unrest, 1960-2014

A new version of the Urban Social Disorder (USD) dataset is now available, featuring a longer time-span and vastly expanded set of cities across the developing world, making it one of the longest historical event datasets for conflict and protest...

Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018

Call for Applications: PhD Course on Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology: Approaches, Tools and Ethics to take place in Oslo on 19-22 March 2018.

Friday, 4 Oct 2019

Launch of the Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks at UN Headquarters in New York

The Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks was launched on 26 September.

Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020

New ERC Consolidator Grant to PRIO associate Inger Skjelsbæk

Inger Skjelsbæk, Professor at the University of Oslo and PRIO, has been granted a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to conduct research on ‘Innocent Children or Security Threats? European Children Born of War’ – also ...

Monday, 13 Dec 2021

Peace Science Infrastructure: PRIO to Head Large New Collaboration

Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private a...