Pinar Tank: All news

As World Refugee Day 2026 is being marked, it is worth pointing to the strong foundations that exist based on research, which can inform policy at a time when humanitarian needs are pressing, while border control practices lead to migrant deaths.

PRIO has developed a new EU Matchmaking Guide to support organisations preparing project proposals under Horizon Europe in identifying relevant researchers.

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.

The Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East is a joint initiative co-organized by IBEI, Catalonia International and IEMed.

PRIO is pleased to announce that its Centre on Gender, Peace and Security (GPS Centre) has entered into a new multi-year funding agreement with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Research Council of Norway announced new research funding this week under its Democracy and Global Development panel. PRIO was successful in securing funding for three exciting new research projects.

PRIO was awarded new funding this week by the Research Council of Norway for a 3-year project, Russian Approaches to Peace Processes.

For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights.

​On 12 May, researchers and practitioners held interesting discussions on Syria at a roundtable at PRIO.

​Russia’s war in Ukraine has been met with global condemnation drawing NATO and the EU closer together in coordinating collective responses.

​In a series of brief blog posts, researchers of the PRIO Middle East Centre offer their reflections on the unfolding Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Listen to PRIO Senior Researcher Pinar Tank’s lecture on the current situation

​In May, a new PRIO Middle East Centre project started.

​The MidEast Policy Brief series was launched in late 2019.

​Inthe new PRIO Paper ‘The Shifting Turkish Agenda inSyria’s Evolving Conflict: Understanding the Drivers of Turkey’s Policy in Syria’, Pinar Tank critically examines the Turkishagenda in Syria, identifying Turkey’s domestic drivers and situating thecountry’s policies within an ever-changing regional and international context.

​On the occasion of the Royal visit – by His Majesty King Harald V and Queen Sonja –  to Jordan 2-4 March, PRIO co-hosted the seminar 'Preserving Spaces for Dialogue in the Middle East' in collaboration with the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan.

King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway will visit Jordan 2-4 March, accepting an invitation from King Abdullah II.

​​​​Several new PRIO projects have received funding from the Research Council of Norway's FRIHUMSAM funding program.

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A course organised by the Research School on Peace and Conflict

Policy Brief by Pinar Tank

Pinar Tank is as of 1 August the new leader of the Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (CRPB) programme.

Pinar Tank defended her dissertation at the University of Oslo on Friday 19 June.

The new SIP will study the relation between security and insecurity in Europe in the period since the attacks of 11 September 2001, focusing on six empirical cases of non-conventional insecurity in Europe: the threat of terrorist attack, social insecurity, the threat of pandemic, insecurity related to migration, gender-related insecurity, and insecurity caused by religious conflict.

State Secretary Vidar Helgesen of the Norwegian MFA attended the successful opening of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus.