Håvard Mokleiv Nygård: All news

Siri Aas Rustad will be the Research Director of the research department Conditions of Violence and Peace from 10 February.

​Håvard Mokleiv Nygård will be the new Director of Knowledge and Evaluations at Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

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

​Following external academic evaluations, the PRIO Board has awarded Research Professor competence to Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Siri Aas Rustad and Tore Wig.

A team of peace researchers and mathematicians from UiO, PRIO, and other institutions, will investigate “The Long Peace”

How does a country’s security apparatus react to a protest movement?And what happens in the aftermath of successful protests?PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.

​While Håvard Nygård is on paternity leave, Siri Aas Rustad will be the Research Director of Conditions of Violence and Peace Department, starting 4 March 2019.

​Yesterday, the NEPS Medal for the best publication in peace science, was awarded in Verona to Carl Henrik Knutsen, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård and Tore Wig for their aricle in World Politics: 'Autocratic Elections: Stabilizing Tool or Force for Change?'.

​The Research Council of Norway announced this morning that PRIO will receive TOPPFORSK funding for the project: "Securing the victory? Understanding dynamics of short-run and long-term success in popular uprisings and democratization".

​The announcement of FRIPRO funds from the Research Council of Norway has been published, and PRIO is very happy to see two important projects receiving funding: ‘Micro-Foundations of Conflict Escalation’ (MiCE), Young Researcher Talent project for Håvard Nygård'Street-level Autocrats -- Individual Decisions with Collective Consequences’, a researcher project led by Kristin Bakke More information about these projects will soon be available at the PRIO website.

PRIO is a founding member of the SDG 16 Data Initiative - a collective project by a consortium of organizations seeking to support the open tracking of the global commitments made by more than 194 countries on peace, justice, and strong institutions.

​​Håvard Mokleiv Nygård will take over as Research Director for the Conditions of Violence and Peace Department from 1 July 2017.

Atsushi Tago, Professor of Political Science at the Kobe University School of Law, has been appointed PRIO Global Fellow.

PRIO Partakes in New Data Initiative

​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.

​​PRIO researchers write in The Guardian on the perceived dangers of humanitarian work following the Kunduz attack in Afghanistan.

New Policy Brief from the Conflict Trends Project

​​The Conflict Trends Policy Brief, published today, on occasion of Paul Collier giving the PRIO Annual Peace Address, outlines that "the development consequences of armed conflict are profound and far-reaching.

New Blog Post by Håvard M. Nygård

​​​As Journal of Peace Research celebrates it's 50th Anniversary, we launch two new Policy Briefs and other core outputs from the Conflict Trends project: Peace on Earth? The Future of Internal Armed Conflict​ and ​Ukraine and the Role of the Security Forces in Popular Uprisings.

First output from PRIO Conflict Trends

​Håvard Mokleiv Nygård​ successfully defended his thesis at the University of Oslo on Friday 31 January.

Article in TIME

PRIO research on conflict and the Millennium Development Goals