Report – External Series
Snapshot of migration to Cyprus in the last five years
FES and PCC briefing
Tuesday, 29 Apr 2025
Oslo Conference to Mark 25 Years of UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
PRIO’s Centre on Gender, Peace and Security is co-hosting a conference marking the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
Journal Article
Discourse and Norms along China’s Digital Silk Road
Journal article in Asia Policy
PRIO Blogs
The Hype, Delusions and Risks of the Arctic Geopolitics
The surge of political attention to the Arctic may appear counter-intuitive to the experts overtaxed with assessing the consequences of the global trade war, perplexed by the deadlock of the Ukraine War, and frustrated by the deepening indifferenc...
PRIO Blogs
How Should Europe Respond to the Demonstrations in Turkey?
All across Turkey, a battle is being waged over the country’s future. For more than a decade, the country’s democratic institutions have steadily deteriorated and now thousands have taken to the streets in an attempt to save the remains of its dem...
PRIO Blogs
What Now for Humanitarian Studies?
Humanitarianism has long been in crisis, but since early 2025 the sector has been experiencing an unprecedented organizational, institutional, normative, and political collapse. As scholars active in the broad, inter-, and multidisciplinary field ...
PRIO Blogs
Contesting the AI-Cybersecurity Nexus: Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom
In an age where so-called artificial intelligence (AI) seems to revolutionise every corner of our lives, it’s no surprise that its intersection with cybersecurity has become a major focus for governments worldwide. Where cybersecurity and AI were ...
Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025
Moving and Staying: the Path to Middle Class Life in Asia
A Filipino nurse with family in Manila, three intertwined lives in Mumbai, a ‘self-made’ man in Karachi and the journey of a woman in Hanoi. Through four animations, the MigrationRhythms project explores how migration shapes social mobility across...
PRIO Blogs
Trump’s Logic of Deal-Making Versus Putin’s Logic of War-Making
As the Ukraine War approaches the grim mark of three years, it appears both ripe for an armistice and impossible to bring to an end. For US President Donald Trump, this war is a senseless waste of people and resources, which should be stopped imme...
Security Dialogue
Can Videogames Shape Public Understandings of Weaponized Artificial Intelligence?
Image byLukasfromPixabay Millions of consumers play videogames like Call of Duty and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon. The battlefields these series portray increasingly feature drones, tanks, and robots that select and engage targets on their own, thanks...
Monday, 6 Jan 2025
Apply now: PRIO Peace Research Course at the International Summer School
The PRIO Peace Research Course at the International Summer School is now opening for students to apply for places for the 2025 programme.
PRIO Blogs
Russian Counter-Offensive in the International Arena Has Lost Momentum
One of the key goals for 2024 that President Vladimir Putin had apparently set at the end of the second year of the Ukraine war was to execute a sustained foreign policy counter-offensive to reduce Russia’s international isolation to irrelevance. ...
PRIO Blogs
Unwinnable Wars, Risks of Escalation, and the Nuclear Taboo
The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize on October 11 coincided with a dangerous phase in two long wars — Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine — that are both poised for escalation. This ...
PRIO Blogs
No Shortcut to Hard Road to Peace in Ukraine
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its 33rd month, no drastic changes are expected on the battlefield. Ukraine has intensified its behind-the-scenes multilateral political maneuvering, as evidenced by Ukrainian President Volodym...
Thursday, 8 Aug 2024
Great Fear Among Norwegians of World War, Survey Shows
In a survey carried out for the Peace Research Institute Oslo, 41 per cent of people questioned in Norway believe it is likely that a new world war will break out within 10 years. Just as alarming, 55 per cent anticipate a new armed conflict in Eu...
PRIO Blogs
Prisoner Exchanges and the Prospects for Peace Talks
The timing of the unprecedented exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West on August 1 remains a difficult question. The final decision was most likely made in the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s red carpet reception of the rele...
Friday, 2 Aug 2024
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Elected as Fellow to the British Academy
PRIO Research Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch has been elected as a Fellow of The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
PRIO Blogs
Russian Intrigues in Middle East Surge
On July 24, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was summoned to Moscow for a secret meeting in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the US Congress....
Policy Brief
Getting to Completion: Funding Mine and Cluster Munition Clearance in Lebanon, Mauritania and Zimbabwe
PRIO Policy Brief
Wednesday, 3 Jul 2024
The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) releases forecasts from its Prediction Challenge
VIEWS releases forecasts from participating teams to the Prediction Challenge 2023/2024.
Thursday, 20 Jun 2024
PRIO’s Kristian Berg Harpviken Appointed New Director of The Nobel Institute
PRIO congratulates Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of The Nobel Institute.
Monograph
Decided Return Migration: Citizenship, Emotions, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Monograph
PRIO Blogs
Can High-Level Diplomacy Turn the Tide of the Ukraine War?
World politics in the first half of June is set to be enlivened not only by elections in such major powers as India, Mexico and South Africa, but also by a heavy concentration of international summits, conferences and visits. Agendas are rich and ...
Journal Article
Politics of Shared Humanity: On Hospitality, Equality and the Spiritual in Rural Gambia
Journal article in Anthropological Forum
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2005 10:00–16:00 UTC+02
The Processes of International Negotiations
The Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO organized an open seminar with leading experts on International Negotiation.
Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 09:00–12:30 UTC+02
Law, Governance and Legitimacy in Afghanistan
Seminar with Ali Wardak, Seema Ghani and Kanishka Nawabi
21–23 Jun 2005
Human Security and Climate Change
An International Workshop
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2005 10:00–16:00 UTC+02
PIN-Project Roadshow
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 ...
Monday, 14 Dec 2009 09:00–18:00 UTC+00
Recruitment into Extra-Legal Organisations
A key focus of this workshop will be to discuss the ways in which recruits into extra-legal organizations signal that they are trustworthy and have the necessary skills to become a member and also how organizations screen and test recruits for tru...