West Africa – Peace Research Institute Oslo Development Website

19/06/2019
Open Position: Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc), ethnographic research on migration in West Africa

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) invites applications for a three-year, full-time position within the project Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI), funded by the European Research Council.

Kwesi Aning & Ilana Axelrod (2021)
Tackling extremism bolstered by foreign, domestic assistance

Popular article in Graphic Online

Mathias Czaika & Marie Godin (2019)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis for migration and development research

MIGNEX Background Paper

Chris Wilson & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (2018)
The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency

Journal article in Journal of International Humanitarian Action

Jørgen Carling (2016)
West and Central Africa

Book chapter in Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A Global Review of the Emerging Evidence Base

María Hernández-Carretero & Jørgen Carling (2012)
Beyond "Kamikaze Migrants": Risk Taking in West African Boat Migration to Europe

Journal article in Human Organization

Karin Dokken (1993)
ECOWAS i omforming, Drivkrefter i den vestafrikanske integrasjons-prosessen

Journal article in Internasjonal Politikk

Jan 2016 –
Critical Perspectives on Migrant Smuggling

Sept 2011 – Mar 2016
The Impact of Armed Conflict on Maternal and Women’s Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jul 2011 – Jan 2016
Leaving to Belong: Migration, Transnational Connectedness and Social Becoming

Jun 2010 – Dec 2016
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict (SVAC)

Mar 2009 – Aug 2014
Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM)

Monday, 16 Jan 2023
Russia, China and New Power Dynamics in the Sahel Region

Thursday, 14 Oct 2021
Misconception of Power and the Case of Guinea’s President Alpha Condé

Thursday, 7 Oct 2021
Military Coups d'État and Guinea’s Rocky Road to Political Stability

Tuesday, 24 Nov 2020
Police Brutality and Nonviolent Protest: The Case of Nigeria

Tuesday, 24 Nov 2020
Protests, Elections, and Ethnic Tensions in West Africa: What are the Driving Forces?

Thursday, 2 Apr 2020
COVID-19 in Conflict-Torn Mali

Tuesday, 5 Sept 2023
Seeking New Leadership? Military Coups in Africa and Their Implications

Tuesday, 27 Nov 2018
Stretched Thin: When Fragile States Face Climate Hazards