PRIO has recently secured several external research grants, highlighting strong confidence in the Institute’s research and ...

Mawdsley, Jocelyn & Bruno Oliveira Martins (2025) War economy vs European Silicon Valley? The EU's competing sociotechnical ...

In 2026, PRIO will continue to connect researchers, policymakers and the public in pursuit of a more peaceful world. Our mission endures: to generate knowledge that enables informed policy decisions ...

I mainly research the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in particular on the various diplomatic endeavours ranging from the late 1940s up until today. I have researched and ...

PRIO is excited to announce that its two flagship journals, Journal of Peace Research and Security Dialogue, are now being ...

The Director of PRIO, Henrik Urdal, announced his list today for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, with Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms topping the list. The 2025 list comprises of Sudan's Emergency ...

The war in Ethiopia's Tigray region accounted for over 100,000 battle-related deaths in 2022, even more than Russia's invasion of Ukraine which accounted for more than 81,000 deaths, according to new ...

Strand, Håvard; Siri Aas Rustad; Henrik Urdal & Håvard Mokleiv Nygård (2019) Trends in Armed Conflict, 1946–2018, Conflict Trends, 3. Oslo: PRIO. The number of armed conflicts in 2018 was slightly ...

The world’s population is increasingly concentrated in cities. Research on urbanization’s implications for peace and security has been hampered by a lack of comparable data on political mobilization ...

Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Kjersti G. Berg & Lex Takkenberg (2025) Consequences of the Israeli UNRWA Ban, MidEast Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO. From 28 January 2025 Israel will implement two anti-UNRWA laws, ...

Ukraine, Palestine/Israel, Sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria are projected to see the highest battle-related death tolls in 2026, according to a world-leading AI-driven conflict forecasting system. The ...