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.
Predicting conflict fatalities with temporal fusion transformers
Introducing a performant, yet interpretable deep learning algorithm for conflict forecasting.
The return of interstate war should change how we think about conflict
The rise in interstate conflict signals a dangerous shift that demands new thinking in prevention, peacebuilding, and global governance.
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
China isn’t winning the digital order – yet
In Southeast Asia, Beijing is building the digital infrastructure, but not (yet) writing the rules.
Thursday, 3 Sep 2026
BRIDGE project pioneers new way to connect conflict data
PRIO Senior Researcher Jonas Vestby has been awarded funding from the European Research Council(ERC) for a groundbreaking study on how artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs can transform the way peace and conflict data is connected, underst...
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.
Tuesday, 25 Aug 2026
Russian employers less likely to hire veterans who volunteered for Ukraine war, study finds
Russian job applicants who disclose they voluntarily served Ukraine war are significantly less likely to hear back from employers than men who completed routine military conscription, according to a new article published in the Journal of Peace Re...
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?
Monday, 17 Aug 2026
Record 756 million women now live in the shadow of armed conflict
Almost one in five women globally were living within 50 kilometres of a deadly conflict event in 2025, according to a new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
Monday, 10 Aug 2026
Norwegians see Israel, Russia, the US and Iran as most likely to drag the world into another major war
Norwegians see Israel, Russia, the United States and Iran as the countries most likely to contribute to a future war involving one or more great powers, according to the Annual PRIO Survey on Norwegian Perceptions of War and Peace.
Policy Brief
Women exposed to armed conflict, 1990–2025
GPS Policy Brief
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...
How to make sense of the new world disorder
With two ongoing regional wars, a crumbling humanitarian architecture and a number of smaller, often ignored, crises, it is tempting to pronounce an end to the liberal international order as we have known it since the end of the Cold War. But is t...
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).
Seeing 22 July through transitional justice: what have we learned?
The new book After 22 July: Transitional Justice and Terror focuses on forms of accountability, reconciliation, and remembrance that have emerged in the years since the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway. Bringing together perspectives from multiple...
Ukraine ramps up drone strikes in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea
Since early July, Ukraine has expanded its middle- and long-range aerial and naval drone strikes from isolating the Crimean Peninsula to also disrupting Russia’s maritime traffic in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Putin intensifies missile attacks against Kyiv ahead of NATO summit
The Kremlin paired the July attacks with exaggerated battlefield claims and messaging aimed at the July NATO summit.
Ukraine’s expanding strike campaign undercuts Putin’s claims of steady progress
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a reputation for lashing out when cornered. According to some analysts, Putin’s pattern of responding to setbacks with escalation has made many Western leaders hesitant to supply heavy-impact weapon systems to ...
Thursday, 18 Jun 2026
World Refugee Day: Funding gaps and policy questions
As World Refugee Day 2026 is being marked, it is worth pointing to the strong foundations that exist based on research, which can inform policy at a time when humanitarian needs are pressing, while border control practices lead to migrant deaths.
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.
Does ‘ceasefire’ still have any real meaning?
We're seeing an incredibly dangerous development where ceasefires are changing character, as conflict parties accept high levels of violence within the label ‘ceasefire’.
Monday, 8 Jun 2026
Conflicts between states highest level since World War II
The number of armed conflicts fought directly between states doubled in 2025, reaching the highest level recorded in over 80 years, according to PRIO’s annual report mapping global conflict trends.
PRIO Paper
Conflict trends: A global overview, 1946–2025
PRIO Paper
Russia hits strategic ceiling with attacks, strikes, and bluffs
Each attempt at nuclear blackmail exposes the disarray in Russian elites and society.
The war in the shadow of Iran
While global attention is focused on the Iran conflict, the war between Pakistan and Afghanistan continues.
The Gaza effect
Following the war in Gaza, killings of journalists and UN staff have become part of Israel's modus operandi. If we allow these actions to continue, we risk them becoming a model for others.