The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people.

As 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the revised Geneva Conventions, which were developed to protect civilians during war, ...

PRIO’s Deputy Director Torunn L. Tryggestad and PRIO Research Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken are both appointed members of ...

Sigurd Hovd has today defended his PhD thesis: ‘ Tools of War and Virtue: On the Effects of AI on Human Ethical Expertise in ...

Moscow’s readiness to embrace such violent disruptors of stability in the Middle East as Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Houthis in Yemen reveals the ...

The PRIO Cyprus Centre cordially invites you to a presentation and discussion, with the authors, of its latest Policy Brief ...

Talleraas, Cathrine; Marta Bivand Erdal; Marianne Friisberg Larssen & Andreas Forø Tollefsen (2024) Refugee journey ...

Brun, Cathrine; Cindy Horst & Hilde Refstie (2024) Hva er veien videre for lokalt ledet respons? Et svar til utviklingsministeren [What road ahead for locally-led aid? Responding to the minister of ...

Urdal, Henrik (2024) Kan man dele ut fredspris i en verden fylt av krig? [Can We Award a Prize for Peace in a World Full of War?], Aftenposten. 9 October. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) ...

Serwajja, Eria & Hilde Refstie (2024) Self-reliance and refugee economics in Uganda, in Handbook on Forced Migration. Elgar Online DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104978.

Reflecting, in this this paper, on Cyprus’s 20 years of EU membership, we discuss the rationale for the island’s accession to the EU and the eurozone and assess in retrospect the resulting benefits.

Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship follows an oscillating pattern. The announcement of revisions in the nuclear doctrine is supposed to mark an upswing in Russia’s attempts at nuclear coercion. The Kremlin ...