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

Martins, Bruno Oliveira & Lise Endregard Hemat (2025) Outside the social making of interoperability: Problematizing the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Russia's war against Ukraine; Russian military reform; Russia's conflict management in the Caucasus and Central Asia; energy interests in Russia's foreign and security policy; Russia's relations with ...