Wellbeing of women goes hand in hand with wellbeing of nations
In 2024, 676 million women lived in proximity to conflict, that is almost every 6th woman in the world — the highest number and proportion ever recorded.
Journal Article
A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the “Slop Economy,” and Democracy in the Age of AI
Journal article in Information, Communication and Society
Thursday, 18 Dec 2025
Top 5 most-read PRIO policy briefs in 2025
The most-read PRIO policy briefs of 2025 covered key global conflict issues including Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, women’s exposure to violence, ethical challenges in peace processes and resource stress in fragile regions.
Where is civilian drone research going?
The future of civilian drones is not predetermined. It will emerge through dialogue among researchers, regulators, industry, security actors and civil society.
The UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza: Age of Consent or Recipe for Conflict?
On 17 November, the UN Security Council (UNSC) issued Resolution 2803, endorsing US President Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza. The resolution envisages a Board of Peace (BoP) to govern Gaza as an interim administration, as well as the establishment...
Quality of mediation is a major issue in the Ukraine peace process
The ongoing talks between the US, Russian and Ukrainian teams of negotiators may yet produce a “peace deal” – so desired by President Donald Trump – by the end of the tumultuous year 2025, or at least before the disastrous war comes to the four-ye...
Commanding change: What can we learn from the Swedish Armed Forces’ leadership program on gender equality?
What can we learn from senior military leaders on how to create sustainable organizational capacity building and improved recruitment and retention of personnel by better considering gender equality?
Putin’s elites could become proponents of peace
Generational and social divisions shape elite attitudes toward Moscow’s war, with mid-level security operatives enforcing loyalty to Russian President Vladimir Putin and younger privileged figures largely indifferent to patriotism but obedient to ...
Monday, 10 Nov 2025
Norwegian Government receive Afghanistan review report with key insights from PRIO experts
On 6 November, Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide and Defence Minister Tore O. Sandvik received the report from the Afghanistan Commission assessing Norway’s engagement in the country.
Conference Paper
Towards Reliable Disaster Detection: Comparing Semantic and Heuristic Filters for Multimodal Data
Conference paper
Journal Article
Decentred dereliction in digital international relations: PeaceTech, ethics, and the cascading of moral responsibility
Journal article in Review of International Studies
Friday, 3 Oct 2025
PRIO secures new funding from RCN and ERC
PRIO researchers have recently been awarded grants for exciting new projects, from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and the European Research Council (ERC).
Thursday, 25 Sep 2025
MigrationRhythms Survey Documentation Published Ahead of Open Access Dataset
A new PRIO Paper offers in-depth documentation of the MigrationRhythms survey, shedding light on urban middle classes, social mobility and internal & international migration across four major Asian cities.
Journal Article
Beyond Hate Speech: Online Rumors and Out-Group Resentment in Divided Societies
Journal article in Comparative Political Studies
Friday, 12 Sep 2025
PRIO-GRID wins data innovation award
The widely used PRIO-GRID data framework has been awarded the prestigious J. David Singer Data Innovation Award.
PRIO Paper
Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia: Survey documentation
PRIO Paper
Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
PRIO migration project selected as 'success story'
The project Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig) is featured by the European Commission as a success story of impactful research.
Wednesday, 13 Aug 2025
PRIO project wins security innovation award 2025
This summer, the EU-funded project Driving Innovation in Crisis Management for European Resilience (DRIVER+) was awarded the Security Innovation Award 2025 for Best Open Source Innovation.
Conference Paper
From Sirens to Smartphones: Expanding Emergency Communication in Norway: A case study of the implementation of Emergency Alert on mobile in Norway
Conference paper
Journal Article
The Phone Status Index: A Versatile Measure of Individual Socio-Economic Status in Developing Countries
Journal article in The Journal of Development Studies
Adding a new piece to the puzzle: How the UN Peace and Security Data Hub can support peace and conflict research
By offering structured, publicly accessible and regularly updated data on various aspects of UN peace support, the UN Peace and Security Data Hub opens new avenues for empirical research and policy-relevant analysis – not least for forecasting pla...
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?
Popular Article
"Reasonable Sufficiency" should guide Europe's search for nuclear deterrence
Popular article in Brookings Commentary
Policy Brief
Ethical Questions in Peace Negotiations: A Guide
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Paper
Ethics in Peace Negotiations: Key Questions
PRIO Paper
National Security and Defense Research: The Imperative of Academic Freedom and Open Debate
What kind of peace and security is to be established, nourished and preserved through the collaborative efforts to support and develop the Norwegian military?
30–31 May 2008
Civic & Uncivic Values in Serbia
The post-Milošević era
26–30 May 2008
Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - CSCW/UiO doctoral course
Thursday, 17 Jun 2010 09:00–17:00 UTC+02
Facts and Myths about Civil Wars
Policy-Oriented Conference
14–15 Jun 2011
INDSEC Workshop