PRIO Research Director Louise Olsson and GPS Coordinator Stine A. Bosheim contributed to the Action with Women and Peace ...

In the episode, Kristian Berg Harpviken, research professor at PRIO and future Head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, joins Sabine Fischer, a Russia expert at the German Institute for International ...

Since the end of World War II, the practice of peace mediation was restricted to the diplomatic circles and the international organizations, such as the UN. Nevertheless, in the last decades, the ...

PRIO has successfully secured funding for four new projects to support research addressing today’s critical societal challenges, including two focused on Norwegian security and defence. PRIO has ...

Can migration be forecasted in today's unpredictable world? How can policymakers and scholars navigate inherent uncertainty, with robust and realistic models? Welcome to a virtual book launch for the ...

Tunander, Ola (2001) Swedish-German geopolitics for a new century - Rudolf Kjellén's 'The State as a Living Organism', Review of International Studies 27: 451–463.

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The following list provides access to the datasets used by authors of articles appearing in Journal of Peace Research since 1998. Details on this policy can be found on our Submissions andEnquiries ...

In 2022, there were more battle-related deaths from state-based conflicts than in any year since 1984. While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated news headlines, it was the war in Ethiopia that was ...

This article focuses on the secret "back channel" negotiations that led to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo agreement of September 1993. The author traces the evolution of Norway's role ...

Contemporary military technologies raise political, ethical and legal questions that stretch beyond the operational dynamics of the battlefield. For this reason, their regulation is a matter of ...

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 ...