Commemorating the terrorist attack July 22, 2011: a memorial map from below
Every year since 2011, from the middle of July, survivors, the bereaved, and the rest of Norway prepare for yet another commemoration of the July 22 terror attack.
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
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.
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 ...
7–8 Dec 2007
Mimicry in Civil War
Workshop with Diego Gambetta
13–14 Dec 2011
Moralities of Migration
Monday, 4 Nov 2013 14:00–17:45 UTC+01
Soft Power and Sport Diplomacy
Workshop
23–24 Sep 2013
The Geopolitics of the Arctic
Conference on Commerce, Governance and Policy
Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017 14:00–16:00 UTC+02
Oslo Urban Peace Week: Urban Divides
The Role of Pluralism and Culture in Preventing Conflict and Fostering Peace
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)
Monday, 10 Dec 2018 12:00–13:30 UTC+01
Playing Data: Understanding the Ludic in the Information Age
Miguel Sicart, Associate Professor at the Center for Computer Game Research, IT University CopenhagenComputers have significantly affected the economy and culture of post-industrial societies.
Friday, 8 Mar 2019 08:30–10:30 UTC+01
Humanitarian Negotiations in Armed Conflict – dilemmas and diversity at the frontline of humanitarian action
Policy Exchange seminar
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
15–16 Mar 2022
Workshop: Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
New tools for the field of peace and conflict studies.
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, 1 Apr 2020
Ragnhild Hennum Joins the PRIO Board
Ragnhild Helene Hennum has been appointed by the University of Oslo to be a member of the PRIO board.
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...
Tuesday, 19 Apr 2022
Mete Hatay Receives the Necati Özkan Award
Last night, PRIO Cyprus Centre Senior Research Consultant Mete Hatay received the Necati Özkan Award by the Necati Özkan Foundation for best researcher of the last three years.
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.