Nils Petter Gleditsch: All news

Several PRIO researchers feature in the 2026 edition of the Stanford / loannidis Author Ranking, a widely used global index identifying the most-cited researchers across scientific disciplines.

Ole Magnus Gaalaas-Hansen has won the 2026 Gløbius Award for his Master's thesis in Political Science, titled Foreign Experts in Autocratic Media: A Study of Modern Russian Propaganda Strategies.

PRIO is proud to announce the publication of a special issue of Journal of Global Security Studies, guest-edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch and Gerald Schneider.

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway visited PRIO today for a series of briefings on pressing global challenges, including developments in the Middle East, emerging technologies, migration and the human consequences of war.

Daniel Kjebekk Drivdal has been awarded the Gløbius Prize for 2025 for his MA thesis on Climate Mitigation and Conflict.

Juliane Stötter has won the 2024 Gløbius Award for her Master’s thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies, Precipitation Variability, Rebel Group Resilience, and the Duration of Civil Conflicts.

​The PRIO Archive (about 1500 physical boxes) is now deposited at the National Archives of Norway.

​Nils Petter Gleditsch turns 80 years today.

​The new open accessbook Livesin Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world'soldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survivedthrough crises.

The journalist Joshua Goodman of the Associated Press yesterday released the article “Global COVID deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate».

The Journal of PeaceResearch has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implicationsof climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and HalvardBuhaug.

​Today is PRIO founder Johan Galtung´s 90th birthday.

Although there is still almost a week remaining before our first anniversary events, we would like to let you know that the celebrations are already starting today, as we enter the seventh decade of PRIO's existence!

​This year, we will celebrate PRIO's 60th Anniversary, with a peak in our Anniversary Week at the beginning of June.

Nils Petter Gleditsch has received the Norwegian Sociological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2018.

Gene Sharp died peacefully in his home in Boston on 28 January.

On 17 July 2017, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Research Professor at PRIO and former editor of the Journal of Peace Research turned 75 years old.

Nils Petter Gleditsch has been awarded the 2017 Founders' Medal from the Peace Science Society for his many scientific contributions to peace research.

New book with PRIO contributions

Nils Petter Gleditsch, Peter Wallensteen, and Galia Golan were honored with the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association at ISA’s recent annual convention in Atlanta, GA.

​​​Yesterday, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge​, President Obama and over 100 members of the US Congress celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march in Selma, a turning-point in the non-violent civil rights movement.

New Blog Post by Nils Petter Gleditsch

​​PRIOs two leading international scientific journals, the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) and Security Dialogue, are now ranked among the world’s Top 10 most influential journals in international relations.

​​Welcome to an information meeting about the Research School on Peace and Conflict at the University of Oslo 8 May 2014.

​​​​Journal of Peace Research is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year.

International Studies Perspectives special issue

Article featuring the UCDP/PRIO Dataset on Armed Conflicts

​A video interview with Nils Petter Gleditsch, Research Professor at PRIO, has recently been published as a part of the MINDfields interview series.

Edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch

J. David Singer Data Innovation Award