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.
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.
Preventive war is wrong: Why recent attacks on Iran fail an important moral test
Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action – action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary’s capacity to wreck future harm?
PRIO Paper
Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2024
PRIO Paper
Moscow Seeks to Regain Initiative in the Game of Peace Talks
Jubilation in Moscow after the phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on February 12 has given way to contemplations of the consequences and even to confusion caused by the barrage of statements...
Protection of Civilians in Crisis: Geneva Conventions at 75
With the devastating news from Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan among other wars, we witness a crisis of the international regime for protecting civilians in armed conflict. However, this is not a total collapse but a return to the troubling world that the...
473 million Children Live in Conflict Zones
The world is suffering from escalating levels of conflict. The Civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the bombing of Gaza have all significantly contributed to dramatic increase in battle deaths in recent years...
Putin’s Much Ado About the BRICS Summit
The BRICS summit on October 22–24, held in Kazan, Russia, was met with great fanfare in Russian propaganda, which hailed it for its “epochal” significance. The BRICS summit, held in Kazan, was met with great fanfare in Russian propaganda. Propagan...
Wednesday, 25 Aug 2004 10:00–17:00 UTC+02
Making a Difference
Today, The Centre for Development and the Environment (University of Oslo), The Ethics Programme (University of Oslo) and the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) organized an international seminar on poverty and conflict in co-op...
Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 00:00–00:00 UTC+02
West Versus West
André Glucksmann gave a talk for an audience of more than 200 at a seminar in Oslo on 28 April.
Wednesday, 5 Apr 2006 13:00–15:30 UTC+02
Political Islam in the Sudan
Around 60 people gathered for a PRIO seminar on the historical background of political Islam in the Sudan.
Wednesday, 21 Mar 2007 10:00–13:00 UTC+01
African Developments Seminar
PRIO and the South African Embassy invite you to a seminar with Vasu Gounden and Kwezi Mngqibisa, both with extensive experience of security and conflict resolution in Africa.
30 Nov 2006–1 Dec 2006
Failed States and Regional Insecurity
Workshop hosted by the NUPI-PRIO SIP on Failed States and Regional Insecurity and the working group on Transnational and International Facets of Civil War within the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW).
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Failed States and Regional Insecurity
Workshop hosted by the NUPI-PRIO SIP on Failed States and Regional Insecurity and the working group on Transnational and International Facets of Civil War within the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW).
18–19 Aug 2008
Niger Delta Conflict Seminar
PRIO and the Nordiska Afrikainstitutte organized a conference on the conflict in the Niger Delta at PRIO on the 18 and 19 August.
Friday, 31 Oct 2008 09:30–12:30 UTC+01
Gender Mainstreaming in Mine Action
The AMAC project and the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines invite you to a seminar on gender mainstreaming in mine action on the occasion of the anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women and conflict.
Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009 09:00–11:30 UTC+01
Afghanistan Between Hope and Fear
The Reconstruction of Afghanistan: Success or Failure?
11–12 Jun 2009
Joint CSCW WG3/GROW-Net workshop
In association with PRIO’s 50th Anniversary Week in Oslo in June 2009, the CSCW Working Group on Environmental Factors in Civil War (WG3) and the CSCW node of the ESF/ECRP project “Disaggregating Civil Wars“ (aka GROW-Net) are organizing a joint ...
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 10:00–11:00 UTC+02
The present political situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina – and thoughts for the future
Ljuljjeta Goranci – Brkić who is the General Manager at the Nansen Dialogue Center (NDC) in Sarajevo will visit PRIO and give a short talk from 10:00 – 11:00 in the Peace Room.
Wednesday, 15 Jun 2011 13:30–15:00 UTC+02
South Asia Seminar with Tridivesh Singh Maini
PRIO is delighted to welcome Tridivesh Singh Maini for a presentation and dialogue on 15 June at 1:30 PM in PRIO’s Philosopher’s Hall, with former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Amb.
Wednesday, 15 Jun 2011 13:30–15:00 UTC+02
India-Pakistan Relations After 26/11
Seminar with Tridivesh Singh Maini
Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 18:00–19:30 UTC+01
Horn of Africa: A Bad Neighborhood?
PRIO Debate at Litteraturhuset
Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012 13:00–14:30 UTC+01
Al Shabaab and Kenya's Somali invasion: security, development and humanitarian intervention in eastern Africa
PRIO Seminar with Professor David M. Anderson
Friday, 29 Jun 2012 16:00–19:00 UTC+02
Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Haiti: Insights from Marginalized Communities
Seminar with Presentation of Research Findings
Monday, 10 Jun 2013 13:30–15:30 UTC+02
Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991
Seminar with Professor Lidwien Kapteijns
9–11 May 2013
Struggles over Emerging States in Africa
Conference at Durham University, 9-11 May
Thursday, 6 Jun 2013 08:30–10:00 UTC+02
Engaging Diaspora in the Promotion of Peace: Lessons from Canada
Migration Breakfast Seminar
Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:00–19:30 UTC+01
Revisiting the Politics of State Survival
Violence, Legitimacy and Governance in the Greater Horn of Africa
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014 14:00–17:30 UTC+03
Building Trust for a United Cyprus
A discussion to mark 50 years of peacebuilding in Cyprus organised by the Embassies of Finland, Sweden and Norway
Thursday, 19 Jun 2014 08:15–10:00 UTC+02
Norway's Readmission Agreement with Ethiopia: What Happened?
Migration Breakfast Seminar