Håvard Hegre: 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.

PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre has been awarded a prestigious Hernes-CAS Mobility Grant to develop a new research project exploring whether the long-term global trend towards more peaceful politics is continuing or beginning to reverse.

A new study published in The Lancet journal, co-authored by PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre, finds that the human cost of the conflict in the Gaza Strip was significantly higher than previously recorded by local health authorities.

Ukraine, Palestine/Israel, Sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria are projected to see the highest battle-related death tolls in 2026, according to a world-leading AI-driven conflict forecasting system.

The widely used PRIO-GRID data framework has been awarded the prestigious J. David Singer Data Innovation Award.

The 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction Challenge invites researchers to forecast conflict intensity as a probability distribution, fully accounting for uncertainty to improve decision-making and crisis preparedness.

A new comprehensive review reveals that the detrimental effects of armed conflict extend far beyond the battlefield, with war reverberating through every aspect of human development.

The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS), a collaborative project between PRIO and Uppsala University, has been awarded a Special Distinction by the prestigious Kluz Prize for PeaceTech.

PRIO hosts six research projects funded by prestigious grants for Europe’s most groundbreaking research. There is now an opportunity for journalists to spend 3-5 months at the institute and engage with these projects.

PRIO seeks to strengthen its data science competence by inviting applications for a three-year, full-time position as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer.

​PRIO has been awarded $US700,000 in funding by the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF'D) for its cutting-edge research into a revolutionary early warning system that assesses the impact of conflict and climate shocks on humanitarian needs.

Do you want to work in a leading international research institution with high academic standards and an interdisciplinary environment and contribute to a new and original area of research, developing forecasting systems and tool?

​The Violence and Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) team is committed to providing humanitarian groups with the earliest possible warnings to support anticipatory action.

Do you want to contribute to a new and original area of research, developing forecasting systems and tools? Do you want to work closely with a larger interdisciplinary team of researchers studying the impact of armed conflict on human development? 

​PRIO conducts research for a more peaceful world, and is committed to using the best of what technology has to offer to achieve that purpose.

Håvard Hegre has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of EUR 2.

​The research project ViEWS - A political Violence Early-Warning System has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant as the only project in Norway in this round of competition.

​Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.

​A new research programme titled Societies at risk: The Impact of armed conflict on human development, directed by PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre, has received funding.

The WFP has been a long-time favorite on Urdal’s shortlist

On 27-28 September2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIOco-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala.

I juni ble årets konfliktdata fra Uppsala universitet lansert i Journal of Peace Research.

Jonas Vestby has defended his thesis today, 9 March 2018: 'Climate, development, and conflict: Learning from the past and mapping uncertainties of the future' at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Oslo.

Halvard Buhaug will be serving in the International Studies Association's Governing Council as one of three at-large representatives (i.

​Håvard Hegre will give the Nansen Memorial Lecture today.

Hilde Henriksen Waage, Research Professor at PRIO and Professor of History at the University of Oslo, and Håvard Hegre, Research Professor at PRIO and Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, became members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) 9 March.

​In the recent elections in the International Studies Association, two PRIO associates were elected to leadership positions in the association.

​​The project will focus on the causal connection between adverse environmental change and discrete social upheavals, with examples including the ongoing civil war in Syria and the early Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

​The development of an early-warning system for armed conflicts will begin at Uppsala University after the European Research Council (ERC) has decided to contribute EUR 2,5 million to the project.

A PhD course organized by the University of Oslo, Department of Political Science