Currently I am interested in issues around power dynamics in environmental peacebuilding initiatives and local perspectives on humanitarian aid. In addition, I am focused on participatory methods and different ways of knowledge sharing can help close the the gap between local perspectives and practitioners.
Eva Chalkiadaki left PRIO in 2024. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Eva Chalkiadaki
Interests and experience
About: Eva Chalkiadaki works as a research assistant and centre coordinator at PRIO. She holds a MA in Development, Environment and Cultural Change and has experience with humanitarian work. Her research interests lay across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, particularly on the fields of peacebuilding, humanitarian action and migration and their intersections with the environment. Particularly, she is interests in Cyprus and the Middle East.
Eva wrote her MA thesis on the topic of the potentialities of environmental peacebuilding for inter-communal youth engagement in Cyprus in collaboration with PRIO Cyprus Centre through the UiO-PRIO Student Programme.
In her research related work at PRIO, Eva was engaged with two research projects: INSPIRE and AidAccount. This work included working on academic outputs, organization of workshops and seminars, website management, interviewing and social media communication strategy. In addition, Eva coordinated the Middle East Centre.
Languages: Greek, English, Norwegian
Latest publications
Marta Bivand Erdal et al. (2025)
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims
Tracing housing aid modalities and solutions to protracted displacement: experiences among Sri Lanka’s northern Muslims
Journal article in Journal of Refugee Studies
Eva Chalkiadaki et al. (2024)
Access, Power, Trust: Lessons from Humanitarian Aid in Protracted Displacement
Access, Power, Trust: Lessons from Humanitarian Aid in Protracted Displacement
PRIO Policy Brief
Cathrine Brun et al. (2024)
The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims
The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims
Journal article in Disasters
Latest news
Monday, 18 Mar 2024
Who Provides Aid in Protracted Internal Displacement over Decades?
Who Provides Aid in Protracted Internal Displacement over Decades?
In a new article in the journal Disasters we explore who provides aid, drawing on the case of the protracted internal displacement of Sri Lanka’s Northern Muslims. Based on this we offer insights of relevance to 'localisation' efforts in humanitarian practice.
Wednesday, 27 Sept 2023
PRIO Co-Hosts Artist Residency Festival Week in Rotterdam
PRIO Co-Hosts Artist Residency Festival Week in Rotterdam
In a two-month residency, a group of international artists and researchers have investigated how creative practice can enable new ways of seeing, relating to and understanding individual and collective experiences of violent conflict and oppression.
Saturday, 1 Jul 2023
Successful Academic Workshop on Local Humanitarians and Accountability
Successful Academic Workshop on Local Humanitarians and Accountability
Final AidAccount team meeting.
Monday, 8 May 2023
Congratulations! INSPIRE Art Award Nominees Announced
Congratulations! INSPIRE Art Award Nominees Announced
Close to 100 applications from talented artists around the world were received representing 35 countries, showing how many people and places are affected by war, displacement and political violence.
Sunday, 19 Feb 2023
INSPIRE Art Award - Open Call for Artists
INSPIRE Art Award - Open Call for Artists
Now more than ever we can see how the impact of war and violence changes societies and people.
Thursday, 8 Dec 2022
Academic workshop: ‘Holding Aid to Account. The Role of Local Humanitarians’
Academic workshop: ‘Holding Aid to Account. The Role of Local Humanitarians’
PRIO to co-host academic workshop in Kampala on the role of local humanitarian actors and their accountability practices.
Latest events
Monday, 13 May 2024 16:30–18:30 UTC+02
Visualizing Memories of Protracted Displacement
Visualizing Memories of Protracted Displacement
Friday, 22 Sept 2023 08:30–10:00 UTC+02
Pasts That Persist: Perspectives from Iraq and Palestine
Pasts That Persist: Perspectives from Iraq and Palestine
Wednesday, 14 Jun 2023 14:30–16:00 UTC+02
Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists
Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists
Monday, 8 May 2023 16:30–18:00 UTC+02
Parallel Histories of Palestine: Art, Archives and Solidarity
Parallel Histories of Palestine: Art, Archives and Solidarity
Thursday, 20 Apr 2023 09:00–10:00 UTC+02
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East
Monday, 17 Apr 2023 19:30–21:00 UTC+02
Contemporary Arts Within Revolutions in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Contemporary Arts Within Revolutions in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Monday, 13 Mar 2023 17:00–18:00 UTC+01
Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi
Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi
Monday, 6 Mar 2023 16:30–18:00 UTC+01
Migration of the Soul: A Conversation with Visual Artist Khalid Shatta - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Migration of the Soul: A Conversation with Visual Artist Khalid Shatta - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Tuesday, 28 Feb 2023 17:00–18:30 UTC+01
Moving Through War // Creating Art Away From Home: Hooman Sharifi - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Moving Through War // Creating Art Away From Home: Hooman Sharifi - INSPIRE Seminar Series
Wednesday, 15 Feb 2023 08:30–10:00 UTC+01
Uncertain Future for Millions of Palestinian Refugees: A Conversation about UNRWA
Uncertain Future for Millions of Palestinian Refugees: A Conversation about UNRWA
Recorded event
Visualizing Memories of Protracted Displacement
Visualizing Memories of Protracted Displacement
Recorded event
Pasts That Persist: Perspectives from Iraq and Palestine
Pasts That Persist: Perspectives from Iraq and Palestine
Recorded event
Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists
Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists
Recorded event
Parallel Histories of Palestine: Art, Archives and Solidarity
Parallel Histories of Palestine: Art, Archives and Solidarity
Recorded event
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East
Recorded event
Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi
Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi
Recorded event
Uncertain Future for Millions of Palestinian Refugees: A Conversation about UNRWA
Uncertain Future for Millions of Palestinian Refugees: A Conversation about UNRWA
Multimedia
Inspiring Serendipities
Inspiring Serendipities
The INSPIRE Seminar Series explores art-based and co-creative methods; ethics of doing research with artists; and engaged scholarship and art – all in the context of violent conflict and war.
Work positions
2021–2024
Research Assistant & Centre CoordinatorPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2021–2022
Editor and Communications AdvisorTvergastein Academic Journal
2017–2020
Committee Secretary Amnesty International University of Kent Section
Education
2020–2022
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
University of Oslo Development, Environment and Cultural Change
2016–2020
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons)
University of KentPolitics and International Relations
2018–2019
Erasmus+
Charles University Prague