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.
Russia’s influence in Middle East takes hit from Israeli strikes
Israel’s decision to launch a series of missile and bomb strikes on Iran on June 13 was a shocking surprise for Moscow, where the working assumption had been centered on the presumably protracted U.S.-Iranian talks on the limitations of the nuclea...
Journal Article
Coding as analytical process: From profound to productive uncertainty
Journal article in Area
Decision Point for Putin is Set Too Close for His Comfort
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Steven Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s key negotiator, last Friday, in St. Petersburg, likely to buy himself more time before making any concessions. On Sunday, Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian...
Putin Weighs Risks of U.S. Readiness to Move on From Stalled Peace Efforts in Ukraine
The Kremlin has used delays and distractions to gain all the time and concessions available to it before seriously engaging in peace talks, or at least a genuine pause, in its war against Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon be comp...
The Hype, Delusions and Risks of the Arctic Geopolitics
The surge of political attention to the Arctic may appear counter-intuitive to the experts overtaxed with assessing the consequences of the global trade war, perplexed by the deadlock of the Ukraine War, and frustrated by the deepening indifferenc...
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...
Report – Other
The Elephant in the Room: How Saudi Arabia’s Multiple Roles in Yemen Influence Mediation Efforts
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 ...
The Silent Winner of Myanmar’s Northern Conflict
From the chaos of the conflict in Shan State, the United Wa State Army has emerged as a potentially decisive force. On the morning of July 28, a convoy of soldiers from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) drove through Lashio, the capital of the north...
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.
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...
Monday, 27 Mar 2023
PRIO’s Historical Archive Is Now Publicly Available
The PRIO Archive (about 1500 physical boxes) is now deposited at the National Archives of Norway.
Research Director
Louise Olsson
Kathrine Holden