Jonas Vestby: All news

Today, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) released the beta version of PRIO-GRID 3.0, a major redevelopment of its widely used infrastructure for integrating and analyzing spatial data.

PRIO Senior Researcher Jonas Vestby has been awarded funding from the European Research Council(ERC) for a groundbreaking study on how artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs can transform the way peace and conflict data is connected, understood and used.

PRIOs Senior Researcher Jonas Vestby has been awarded a NOK 2 million grant to explore a radical new approach to conflict data.

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

The project Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig) is featured by the European Commission as a success story of impactful research.

Can migration be forecasted in today's unpredictable world? How can policymakers and scholars navigate inherent uncertainty, with robust and realistic models?

Study finds that illiberal political rule and armed conflict are linked to higher human displacement in major floods.

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

​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.

​​The ambition of the ODAS project is to explain how online dangerous speech contributes to communal violence in Southeast Asia.

In a new study published in Nature Communications,PRIO researchers use a machine-learning analysis framework to identify leadingpredictors of contemporary asylum migration to the European Union.

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.

We are proud to congratulate two young PRIO scholars, who are on top of the list for the​ Jacek Kugler Political Demography and Geography Student Paper Award, which is awarded at the ISA conference starting in Baltimore tomorrow.

​​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 latest version of the PRIO-GRID is now available at grid.