Tuesday, 6 Oct 2026
The 2026 Oscarsborg Symposium Strengthens Nordic Business-State Networks in Defence and Preparedness
The 2026 Oscarsborg Symposium gathered leaders and experts from business, government, and research to examine the critical roles and conditions of businesses in defense and preparedness.
Trump has zero chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize
A year ago, Donald Trump seemed convinced that the Nobel Peace Prize should be his.
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.
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2026
Gløbius Award for 2026 goes to Ole Magnus Gaalaas-Hansen
Ole Magnus Gaalaas-Hansen has won the 2026 Gløbius Award for his Master's thesis in Political Science, titled Foreign Experts in Autocratic Media: A Study of Modern Russian Propaganda Strategies.
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2026
PRIO researchers publish in new special issue on European rearmament
Europe is not just rearming; it is redefining the role of defence industries in security innovation and European cooperation.
Monday, 28 Sep 2026
PRIO gathers Nordic leaders and experts at Oscarsborg Fortress to discuss the role of business in defence and preparedness
Leading decision-makers, business representatives, experts and researchers from across the Nordic region will gather at Oscarsborg Fortress on 1-2 October 2026 for the second annual Oscarsborg Symposium on Nordic Security. Hosted by PRIO.
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.
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.
Journal Article
Participants in peace-keeping forces
Journal article in Cooperation and Conflict
Journal Article
The security imperative: how crime conditions the electoral effects of inequality in Latin America
Journal article in Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
Popular Article
The BRICS: Much Ado About Nothing?
Popular article in Den norske Atlanterhavskomité
China isn’t winning the digital order – yet
In Southeast Asia, Beijing is building the digital infrastructure, but not (yet) writing the rules.
Putin’s Eastern voyage highlights Russia’s setbacks
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lately visited at least seven cities in Russia’s Siberian and Far Eastern regions.
Escalation and the size of wars
The war in Ukraine underscores the severe human impact and economic consequences of large wars, but there has been remarkably little attention to why wars differ so much in severity in the first place.
Predicting conflict fatalities with temporal fusion transformers
Introducing a performant, yet interpretable deep learning algorithm for conflict forecasting.
Is Europe up to Putin’s challenge – and vice versa?
For Europe, the challenge may no longer be only to deter Russia, but also to overcome the internal divisions that Russia seeks to exploit.
Conference Paper
From Peacebuilding to Conflict Management? Illiberal Powers engagement in the Astana Process in Syria
Conference paper
PRIO Paper
A structural theory of imperialism – Ten years later
PRIO Paper
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).
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?
Yes, we must create jobs, but not to prevent migration
An objective of curbing migration pressure is a poor guide for development policy.
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.
Echoes of Partition: Migration, borders and shared humanity
Mid-August marks the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, but also the mass migration and violence that followed in the wake of Partition.
Policy Brief
Women exposed to armed conflict, 1990–2025
GPS Policy Brief
The Ukraine War takes new turns in the Black Sea theatre
Wars of attrition are supposed to be static and predictable, but the Ukraine War definitely departs from this pattern. Its transformation is constant, and during this summer, new surprises have come, delivered primarily by Ukraine, which puts prio...
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.
Thursday, 2 Jul 2026
Satellites for Peace: An idea whose time has come
The idea that satellites can help build peace is no longer a distant vision. In July, PRIO convened leading voices from the humanitarian, diplomatic, scientific and space communities for the conference "Satellites for Peace: An idea whose time has...