Missing Peace Symposium 2013

Sexual Violence in Conflict

PRIO is co-hosting a 3-day global symposium on sexual violence in conflict. The symposium takes place in Washington DC 14-16 February.

The aim of the symposium is to include findings from the latest academic research, as well as insights from practitioners working in conflict and post-conflict situations, including civil society actors, the military, and police.

Read more about the Symposium

ERC Starting Grant to Essex and PRIO

Conflict, Strategies, and Violence

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch of the University of Essex and PRIO has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for the project ‘Conflict, Strategies, and Violence: An Actor-based Approach to Violent and Non-Violent Interactions’.

While existing research tends to equate conflict with violence, this project examines conflict in terms of incompatibilities between actors, where the structure of the incompatibilities and the actors’ strategies and interactions determine whether we see escalation to violence or alternative outcomes, such as accommodation or regime change. The project will be hosted by the Department of Government at the University of Essex, but a significant component of the work will be conducted at PRIO, where Håvard Strand will play an important role in the project. The new project will also draw on the PRIO project on Effective Non-Violence? Resistance Strategies and Political Outcomes, funded by the Research Council of Norway for the period 2012–15.

The ERC project started on 1 February and will run for five years.  The proposal summary follows below:

Call for Applications: Course on Nonviolent Resistance

Civil Resistance in an Age of People’s Uprisings

An academic course on strategic nonviolent resistance, organized by International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) in collaboration with PRIO.

Time: 12 – 14 May, 2013.
Venue: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Hausmanns gate 7, 0186 Oslo.

Deadline of applications: 01 March 2013. 

Nobel Peace Prize 2013: PRIO Director's speculations

1 February is the deadline for nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken once again speculates on who could or should get this year's prize.

Find out who is on the Director's shortlist this year on http://www.prio.no/About/PeacePrize/PRIO-Directors-Nobel-Speculations-2013/

Call for Applications - National Research School in Peace and Conflict

Deadline 01 March 2013

The University of Oslo (UiO), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) have been running a research school in peace and conflict studies since 2011. Recently, the school was granted status as a ‘National Research School’ by the Research Council of Norway, allowing for the consolidation and expansion of the school’s activities and outreach. The National Research School in Peace and Conflict offers advanced research training for the next generation of peace and conflict scholars by building on, and expanding, networks and expertise at UiO, NTNU, PRIO and beyond. The collaboration is characterized by multidisciplinary approaches to peace and conflict issues, international profile and outlook, and research excellence. For further information about the school, please consult its web-page: http://www.prio.no/Research-School/.