Kremlin struggles to project global relevance amid peace talks
Vladimir Putin may persist with his “military victory” war plan, but he also wants to keep the diplomatic attention of U.S. President Donald Trump, who wants to bring the war against Ukraine to an end.
Journal Article
Urbanisation and the political demography of African cities
Journal article in World Development
Conference Paper
Evolving Structures of Interagency Collaboration in Disaster Response: A Social Network Analysis of Cyclone Idai
Conference paper
Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025
PRIO receives new funding for a large-scale project on the human consequences of the war in Ukraine
PRIO has received new funding from the Swedish research foundation, Östersjöstiftelsen, for an interdisciplinary project involving scholars from Norway, Sweden and Ukraine, to study the human consequences of the war in Ukraine.
Wednesday, 17 Dec 2025
A glimpse into the multifaceted work of Manuel E. Salamanca Rangel in the RedLines project
In this interview, Dr. Prof. Salamanca Rangel of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, tells about his work as a research partner in the PRIO led project Red Lines and Grey Zones: exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiatio...
Thursday, 18 Dec 2025
Sharing research results in Cape Verde and The Gambia
Research with theoretical objectives can also yielded new insights of relevance to policy and public debate in the communities where the research was carried out.
Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025
Extended Application deadline: Two new postdoctoral positions at PRIO
The deadline for the two postdoctoral positions has been extended to 26 January 2026. The positions, in social psychology and anthropology, are part of the ERC-funded project Rituals in Combatant-to-Civilian Transformation (Com2Civ), led by Júlia ...
Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025
Workshop on Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience at WPS@25
On December 1st, a three-day workshop began in Nairobi, dedicated to deepening the understanding of women’s agency and mobilization for peace, development, and security.
Book Review
Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters. The Electoral Geography of African Campaign Violence
Book review in JPR Book Notes
What are duties good for? Lessons from the pandemic
The concept of duty can be clarifying of social and political relations.
Why Hezbollah endures
The most recent Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon, launched to destroy Hezbollah—and still ongoing despite a ceasefire in November 2024—is part of a routine. It represents the latest escalation in a continuous war that Israel and its Weste...
An unpalatable Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize must not motivate or encourage aggression, contrary to the apparent effect of this year’s prize, awarded to Maria Corina Machado.
Preparing for the wrong war? The need to broaden the focus beyond defence spending towards a comprehensive approach to peace and security
Europe is rearming. What are the likely consequences of this strategy?
Wednesday, 29 Oct 2025
Research results on young people's dreams captivate audiences in Cape Verde
"What is your most important dream in life" was a key question in a large survey of young people, and the source of thought-provoking results.
Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025
PhD course on Mass Mobilization and Democratization
As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course on Mass Mobilization and Democratization, from October 29 to 31.
Conference Paper
Towards Reliable Disaster Detection: Comparing Semantic and Heuristic Filters for Multimodal Data
Conference paper
Conference Paper
Towards Trustworthy Disaster Severity Scoring: Combining Semantic Alignment and Chain-of-Thought LLMs
Conference paper
More money, more security? Norwegian Defense spending and the need to rethink the tempo of rearmament
While the Norwegian defense budget continues to grow at breakneck speed, the relationship between increased spending and national and societal security remains uncertain – and insufficiently discussed.
Monday, 27 Oct 2025
New report raises alarm on lack of progress globally for women’s rights and wellbeing
Progress for women’s rights and wellbeing has stalled globally, according to the 2025/26 Women, Peace and Security Index launched today in New York.
Monograph
Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability
Monograph
Book Chapter
Jus Ante Bellum and AI-Enabled Weapons
Book chapter in Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence
Report – Other
Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI) Survey Results
Journal Article
Education Provision in Rebel Governance: Comparative Insights from Yemen and Syria
Journal article in Civil Wars
Multipolarity matures, but not according to Putin’s plan
The intensity of turbulence on the global arena has reached such high levels that the 2025 BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on 6–7 July attracted far less attention than expected.
Wednesday, 25 Jun 2025
Øyvind Østerud (1944–2025) in Memoriam
We are saddened by the passing of Øyvind Østerud (1944–2025), a towering figure in Norwegian political science.
Book Chapter
International Capital, National Politics and Investment in Secondary Cities in Africa: The Case of the Stalled Bagamoyo Port Project in Tanzania
Book chapter in Foreign Direct Investment and Cities: Global Case Studies for Theory and Practice
How do women ambassadors reshape diplomacy at the UN Security Council?
On the occasion of the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, 24 June.
Journal Article
Business survival strategies in a polycrisis: SME experiences from Beirut, Lebanon
Journal article in Business Horizons
Journal Article
Discussions on locally-led humanitarian assistance amongst European INGOs and donors — shifting practices or challenging mental models?
Journal article in Fennia
Peace research is not defense research: Time to insist on tougher questions
It requires greater engagement from us as a peace research community to show why peace itself is important — indeed, the most important — public good of our time.