Nicholas Marsh: All news

Europe is not just rearming; it is redefining the role of defence industries in security innovation and European cooperation.

The PRIO Research School on Peace and Conflict hosted researchers from Masaryk University and the University of Helsinki for an academic skills course.

PRIO’s first European Security Week brought together researchers and experts for a series of debates on the future of European security. 

In September 2023, the PRIO NORM team was in Manila, The Philippines, to conduct fieldwork interviews and meetings with local stakeholders.

The NORM project ('Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia') was officially launched with a kick-off meeting on 4 May.

​The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.

PRIO seeks to recruit a Research Assistant in a 50% position, to work for 10 months on the DISARM project within the CVP department.

The DISARM project seeks is to identify the impact of disarmament processes on conflict recurrence and pinpoint the conditions under which disarmament can be the most effective.

​The NORM project aims at finding out how China’s Digital Silk Road shapes the digital world order and its norms, and the agency that recipient developing countries exercise in response.

PRIO has now joined the European Network of non-proliferation and disarmament think tanks, established by the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium.

​Nicholas Marsh has successfully defended his dissertation for the degree dr.

​Upon invitation from the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Middle East Centre researchers Júlia Palik, Bruno Oliviera Martins, and Nic Marsh participated in a closed seminar on the future strategic changes and challenges in the Middle East.

​December 5-7, PRIO hosted a workshop titled ‘Security Force Assistance in Fragile States’.

​​A new study published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, that has been co-authored by Nicholas Marsh of PRIO, is based upon information reported by 48 countries covering the years 2010-2013 and provides the most extensive available picture of trafficking in firearms, and their parts and ammunition.

​​​​​A new and interactive data visualization of global homicide data, the Homicide Monitor provides key insights into the nature of violence around the world.

​​​Several PRIO researchers have written on different aspects of the recent terror in France.

Issues for the International Community

Nicholas Marsh - Defining the Scope of Autonomy

Application Deadline: 13 October 2013

On the basis of past collaboration with Google Ideas, PRIO, and the Igarapé Institute are launching a small arms and ammunition trade visualization tool.

In a new blog post on the NISAT blog, Nic Marsh argues that the realization of the Treaty's potential depends on the force of it's ratification and implemetation among the signatory states.

Today, ​​PRIO organized the seminar What’s Wrong With the Arms Trade and What To Do About It.

The first global survey of the trade in ammunition for small arms and light weapons has just been launched at a UN conference on small arms and light weapons.

The Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT) project at PRIO is currently looking for a talented individual to fill the position of either Researcher or Research Assistant within the project.

The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, in collaboration with the NISAT Coalition, is holding an expert seminar on “Integrating Development Component into the UN Program of Action Process”.

Norwegian Church Aid and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) will launch the report: Who takes the bullet? – The impact of small arms violence.

PRIO invites you to a seminar with Cynthia Enloe.