 Thursday, 04 Mar 2010 | Op ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof of New York Times yesterday wrote the op ed "Divorced Before Puberty". The op ed is about the situation in Yemen, in light of the book I am Nujood, Age 10 and divorced. Kristof links to his further comments in his NYT blog "On the Ground". Here, he cites PRIO researcher Henrik Urdal's work on age distribution and risk of conlict. More... |
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 Tuesday, 02 Mar 2010 | The Research Council of Norway's popular magazine Forskning has published an interview portraying Nils Petter Gleditsch. The interview was made on the occassion of Gleditsch being awarded the prize for excellent research - the Möbius prize. More... |
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.jpg) Thursday, 07 Jan 2010 | PRIO is an academic research institue. We see our commitment to scholarly excellence as the foundation for influencing policy and for visibility in media. More... |
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 Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010 | J. David Singer passed away on 28 December 2009. He had a long career as a prominent scholar of international relations. He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan from 1964 and remained as a Professor Emeritus after his retirement in 2002. He served as President of the Peace Science Society (1972-73) and the International Studies Association (1985-86). However, he is best known as the founder of the Correlates of War Project, for over four decades the leading provider of data on armed conflict and, more recently, on a number of characteristics of states and dyadic factors used in the scientific study of war. More... |
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Monday, 16 Nov 2009 | Vacancy at PRIOPRIO is seeking to fill the position of Managing editor for Journal of Peace Research. Application deadline: Friday 4 December 2009. More... |
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 Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 | Tonight, the Research Council of Norway awards its annual prize for excellent research - the Möbius prize - to research professor Nils Petter Gleditsch. More... |
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 Monday, 12 Oct 2009 | Applications for PRIO's Student Scholarships starting in 2010 are now invited. Deadline is 16 November 2009. More... |
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 Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | The International Studies Association (ISA) has decided to fund a one-day Workshop on Water Security in New Orleans on 16 February 2010, one day prior to the main ISA convention. The workshop is organized by CSCW researcher Halvard Buhaug in collaboration with Ariel Dinar (University of California, Riverside) and Thomas Bernauer (ETH Zurich) and involves about ten papers on various security aspects of water and transnational rivers. More... |
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 Wednesday, 05 Aug 2009 | The Stuart A. Bremer Graduate Travel Award 2009 committee has decided to give this year's award to Andreas Forø Tollefsen, research assistant at CSCW (PRIO). His paper on “Predictive Probabilistic Modeling of Conflicts using Geographical Information Systems” has been chosen as the best European paper of a young scholar presented at the Tinbergen Peace Science Conference. More... |
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 Monday, 03 Aug 2009 | The August issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution is a special issue dedicated to output from the Disaggregating Civil War project. This project (GROW) is a collaboration between CSCW (PRIO), University of Essex and ETH Zürich. This special issue is edited by Lars-Erik Cederman and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. More... |