This seminar will explore how global policy frameworks are responding to the complex realities of displacement and migration, linked to environmental stressors.
In this upcoming event, experts will explore how historical racial violence continues to shape U.S. society and policy, while drawing lessons from Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to consider pathways toward justice and democratic renewal.
This seminar on digitalization and women’s (dis)empowerment in India discusses the country's digitalization and societal change, with a focus on the experiences of women.
PRIO Director Nina Græger has published her updated list for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which includes Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms and Committee to Protect Journalists.
A record 676 million women – nearly 17% of the global female population – lived near deadly conflict last year, the highest figure since the Cold War. A new PRIO report warns that such exposure deepens gender inequalities, threatening women’s safety, health, education and livelihoods.
The widely used PRIO-GRID data framework has been awarded the prestigious J. David Singer Data Innovation Award. The PRIO-GRID is a global dataset that divides the world into small grid cells and provides local information, like population and resources, to study conflict and development.
PRIO researchers have recently been awarded grants for exciting new projects, from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and the European Research Council (ERC).
Can we continue to call Israel a democracy? The answer is no, and paradoxically enough, neither electoral defeat for Netanyahu nor a halt in the Gaza war will change this, argues Research Professor Jørgen Jensehaugen.
The US President's claim of ending six wars in six months is overstated, as several were ongoing disputes or partial agreements that left key issues unresolved, writes Research Director Siri Aas Rustad.
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 history to fuel ambitions and challenge the West, writes Research Professor Pavel Baev.
Europe is moving to a shared, flexible defence model as US support declines. This new approach could strengthen security but still faces coordination problems.
This study presents a dataset of over 1,400 major protest movements from 1789–2019, tracking their goals, methods and participants. It finds that the much-discussed relationship between nonviolent movements and democratization hinges on specific, contextual factors, including the social composition of movements and their goals.
