Why Would Humans Do Anything Boring, Difficult or Dangerous in Star Wars? Science Fiction’s Reluctance to Embrace Its Own Technology.
This blog post contains spoilers for the first series in Andor, and other science fiction shows.
Thursday, 24 Mar 2022 17:00–19:00 UTC+01
Identity and Cultural Authenticity – A Conversation and Concerts with Harpreet Bansal and Sankung Jobarteh
The PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict (CCC) invites you to a conversation on identity and cultural authenticity, followed by a double concert with violinist and composer Harpreet Bansal and guitarist, kora-player and vocalist Sankung Jo...
Thursday, 18 Jan 2024 16:00–20:00 UTC+01
PRIO Annual Peace Address 2023: Disinformation Wars – Impacting Policy in a Post-truth World
A conversation with Nima Elbagir, CNN's Chief Investigative Correspondent.
Thursday, 8 Apr 2010
Submarine sound - 12 October 1982
Monday, 18 Nov 2024
How Civil Society Can Counter Global Authoritarianism – Insights from the PRIO Annual Peace Address
PRIO hosted the 15th Annual Peace Address on 12 November, focusing on a pressing global concern: the state of democracy and the vital role of civil society in its preservation and renewal.
Project Sep 2011 – Feb 2015
Turkey's AKP and the Politics of Contention
Since its accession to power in 2002, Turkey's Justice and Development party (AKP) has tested the ideological foundations of the Turkish secular state.
Book Review
Ukraine's unnamed war
Book review in JPR Book Notes
Conference Paper
The Remnants of War: Thugs as Residual Combatants
Conference paper
Journal Article
What Kind of War? 11 September and Beyond
Journal article in Security Dialogue
Journal Article
Conflict Specific Capital: The Role of Weapons Acquisition in Civil War
Journal article in International Studies Perspectives
Journal Article
On Growth Projections in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Journal article in Global Environmental Politics
The Syrian Refugee Crisis & The Two Europes
In the early September days of 2015, for the second time in a quarter century, Hungary became the site of a European refugee drama. In 1989, during the months preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of East Germans trying to flee their “Wo...
Aborted Offensive in Donbass on the Eve of the G7 Summit
The swiftly terminated rebel attack on Maryinka was probably meant to be Putin’s “warning shot” to the Western leaders. But he only succeeded in reminding them about the near certainty (rather than risk) of a summer spasm in the “hybrid war.” Whil...
Leading the Charge Against Injustice
Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘It is hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.’ It takes belief and faith, it takes self-confidence and persistence, to lead a cavalry charge against injustice – and John Lewis has displayed...
Summit in Hiroshima Charts Ending for War in Ukraine
From May 19 to 21, Japan hosted the most recent meeting of the seven heads of state (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as the European Union in the so-called G7 format. Overall, the key point ...
Karaoke politics: the Bulgarian election results in limbo
On 4 April, while some countries celebrated Easter and spring break, Bulgarians all around the world cast their votes in one of the most exciting parliamentary elections in decades. In Majorstuen, Oslo, over 500 people waited for up to 3 hours at ...
Institutionalizing the Dreadful Victory in Post-War Sri Lanka
On August 5, 2020, over 11 million voters cast their votes to elect the 225 members in the Sri Lankan Lower House. With a two-thirds majority of the Sri Lankan People’s Democratic Alliance in this election, the Rajapaksa brothers, who were f...
Black Scholars Matter: Power and Prejudice in Academia
With summer holidays around the corner, I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a vacation so much. I’m exhausted after months of alternating between being terrified I would die from a mysterious bat virus, frustrated with having to learn how to...
Searching the Archives for a Missing Peace: Hilde Henriksen Waage Interviewed by Henrik Syse
Hilde Henriksen Waage, interviewed by Henrik Syse.
Illusions and Peace Plans in the Middle East
Both the two-state and one-state solutions exist only in the imagination. Time has run away from them, as things stand today. The violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been going on for 75 years, with Israel emerging stronger fr...
Security Dialogue
Book review: Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power, and Democratic Life
by Sergei Prozorov, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 192 pp., ISBN: 9781474485784 Rarely does a book of political philosophy manage to triangulate three themes of public interest as effectively as Sergei Prozorov’s Biopolitics After Truth: Knowle...
Security Dialogue
Valuing Critical Feminist Insights on Militarism and Security
By Annick Wibben Many Security Studies scholars still query the usefulness of feminist approaches to security. Or rather, they quite simply ignore the significant contributions made by Feminist Security Studies scholars [see e.g. Stern & Wibbe...
Climate & Conflict
Common climate impact assessments underestimate future vulnerability
Climate-related disasters are a major source of human and material losses. Poverty and low level of economic development are important determinants of environmental vulnerability. Achieving stable and sustainable development thus represents an imp...