Oct 3, 2024 · The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, announced his updated list for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize today, with election ...

Jan 20, 2025 · 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, effectively banning the Agency. This will have dire consequences for UNRWA and the Palestinians in ...

Jun 10, 2024 · Last year saw the highest number of state-based conflicts since 1946. In addition, the past three years were the most violent in the last three decades, according to new conflict trend analysis.

Russian Counter-Offensive in the International Arena Has Lost Momentum. One of the key goals for 2024 that President Vladimir Putin had apparently set at the end of the second year of the Ukraine war was to execute a sustained foreign policy counter-offensive to reduce Russia’s international isolation to irrelevance.

“Why do people migrate?” is a question that forms the pivot of migration studies, and migration theory in particular. But it has hardly found satisfactory answers. In this article, I reapproach the question from an array of diverse angles and provide …

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2023 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2023, 59 state-based conflicts were recorded in 34 countries, the highest number of conflicts registered since 1946. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza were the primary ...

Polity 3D. The POLITY3D dataset was collected using the POLITY3 data as a baseline, but added to that specific dating information about each polity change to allow for better temporal calibration with other datasets.

This PRIO Paper examines conflict trends in Africa between 1989 and 2021. 30 state-based conflicts were recorded in 2021, resulting in 19,325 battle-related deaths. 8,917 of these deaths were related to conflicts in Ethiopia between the government and the …

Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg & Håvard Strand, 2002. 'Armed Conflict 1946–2001: A New Dataset', Journal of Peace Research 39(5): 615–637.

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2022 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2022, 55 state-based conflicts were recorded in 38 countries, and 8 of thse conflicts were classified as wars. The wars in …