Cocciarelli, Andrea; Olesia Fesenko; Johanne Rokke Elvebakken; Inger Skjelsbæk; Lina Stotz; Torunn L. Tryggestad & Ingvill ...

A new study from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) represents one of the first large-scale investigations into how ...

PRIO researchers have recently been awarded grants for exciting new projects, from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and ...

Sakor, Bintu Zahara; Olumayowa Albert; Nicholas Erameh & Henrik Urdal (2025) Unlocking Nigeria’s future demographic dividend ...

"Today’s Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado is, above all, a prize for democracy. Research shows that democracy is an ...

The September 2025 military parade in Beijing – attended by the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea – was less about alliance-building and more about contrasting historical narratives; each uses ...

Extraordinary international attention was focused on the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on October 10. Anxiety was palpable in Moscow, where official skepticism had dominated since the award of the ...

The landslide victory of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the 2006 parliamentary elections in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the movement’s military takeover of the Gaza ...

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2023 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2023, 59 state-based conflicts were recorded in 34 countries, the ...

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2022 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2022, 55 state-based conflicts were recorded in 38 countries, and 8 ...

PRIO Researchers Stein Tønnesson, Henrik Syse and Gregory M. Reichberg’s PRIO blogpost on what Ukraine can learn from an ancient Greek war continued to be picked up by multiple media outlets, ...

I am a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a law professor at UiO. I co-founded and directed the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. I teach ethics, sociology of law, legal ...