A Comprehensive Study of Civil War

Civil war is now the dominant form of war. It inflicts tremendous human suffering, in terms of casualties and refugees, in addition to severely damaging societies, economies and the environment. Civil war is more frequent in poor countries and further weakens their prospects for economic development. Yet, civil war is less studied than interstate war.

CSCW aims to clarify the ways in which actors respond to civil war, in all its phases from onset to post conflict, whether as primary participants, general citizenry or intervening powers.

CSCW research seeks to strengthen the foundation for preventive and conflict-resolving initiatives of governments and other public bodies, organizations that participate in peacebuilding operations, and agencies assisting refugees in war zones.

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13 Jun 2012 12:00-13:30 - The Bicameral and Ideological Roots of Congressional Deadlock: Analyzing Partisan Polarization Through the Lens of Majority Rule
06 Jun 2012 12:00-13:30 - Not Going to War: Commitment Problems and a Non-Case of Military Intervention
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07 Feb 2012 18:00-21:30 - How to Start a Revolution - Gene Sharp in Oslo!
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26 Jan 2012 18:00-19:30 - Horn of Africa: A Bad Neighborhood?
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28 Nov 2011 12:00-13:30 - Improving the Large-N Analysis of Conflict Causes: A Categorical Disaggregation of Intrastate Armed Conflict
11 Nov 2011 12:00-13:30 - Climate Change and Civil War? On Climate Variability and Armed Conflict in Asia
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27 - 28 Oct 2011 - The Legacy of War Time Rape
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17 Oct 2011 08:30-19:00 - Business as an Instrument of Peace
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07 Sep 2011 12:00-13:30 - CSCW Brownbag with Jonathan Mark
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27 Apr 2011 12:00-13:30 - CSCW Brownbag with Helga Malmin Binningsbø
28 Apr 2011 12:00-13:30 - Warfare in South Asia
04 May 2011 12:00-13:30 - CSCW Brownbag with Helge Holtermann
12 Apr 2011 13:15-14:45 - Between ethnonationalism and multiculturalism - the quest for a national identity in postwar Bosnia and Kosovo
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11 Apr 2011 14:00-16:30 - Opening of Research School in Peace and Conflict
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02 - 05 May 2011 - PhD course on Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
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04 - 05 Nov 2010 - Political Institutions and Conflict Resolution
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18 Aug 2010 15:00-19:00 - PRIO Annual Peace Address
23 - 24 Aug 2010 - Political Parties and Civil Peace
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09 - 10 Apr 2010 - Conference on Social Conflict
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29 - 30 Apr 2010 - The Principals and Agents of Violence
17 Jun 2010 09:00-17:00 - Facts and Myths about Civil Wars
03 Mar 2010 08:00-09:30 - The Capitalist Peace
19 Jan 2010 11:00-12:30 - World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development
14 Jan 2010 18:00-20:00 - Climate Change and Conflict
03 - 06 May 2010 - PhD course on Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
14 Dec 2009 09:00-18:00 - Recruitment into Extra-Legal Organisations
08 Dec 2009 13:00-15:00 - Could the Financial Crisis have been Avoided?
12 Jan 2010 13:00-15:00 - Gender and War
30 Oct 2009 09:30-11:00 - Lessons learned from the collapse of Oslo Accords
15 - 16 Oct 2009 - CSCW Working Group Meeting
21 - 24 Jun 2010 - Conference on Climate Change and Security
17 Sep 2009 18:45-22:00 - Persepolis - Film Seminar
11 - 12 Jun 2009 - Joint CSCW WG3/GROW-Net workshop
10 Jun 2009 18:30-21:00 - Film Seminar: Waltz with Bashir
23 - 25 Oct 2009 - Civic and uncivic values in Bosnia
09 - 10 Jul 2009 - Pro-Government Armed Groups and Militias
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06 Jun 2009 17:00-20:00 - Vernissage - PRIO Anniversary Exhibition
16 Feb 2009 10:00-11:45 - Fifty Years of Peace Research
16 - 17 Apr 2009 - Institutional Constraints to Violence
04 - 05 Dec 2008 - Youth Exclusion and Political Violence: Breaking the Link and Engaging Young People Positively in Development
11 - 12 Dec 2008 - State Failure and Regional Insecurity
16 - 17 Oct 2008 - Transnationalism, Mechanisms and Civil War
18 - 19 Aug 2008 - Niger Delta Conflict Seminar
24 - 25 Nov 2003 - Central African Rift Seminar
19 - 20 Jun 2006 - Second Workshop on Political Institutions, Development And a Domestic Civil Peace (PIDDCP)
26 - 29 Apr 2006 - Polarization and Conflict Workshop in Nicosia, April 2006
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14 - 15 Nov 2003 - Federalism
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26 - 30 May 2008 - Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - CSCW/UiO doctoral course
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16 Mar 2003 13:00-16:00 - Human Security Research in Norway
22 Mar 2006 14:00-15:30 - World System in Flux
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01 - 03 Jun 2006 - Child Soldier Workshop
14 Jun 2006 10:00-12:00 - Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights
19 - 20 Jun 2006 - Workshop on Post-Conflict Transitions: Political Institutions, Development, and a Domestic Civil Peace
17 - 18 Aug 2006 - The Role of First Actors in Civil War
27 Sep 2006 13:00-14:30 - Rising Militancy in the Niger Delta
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11 Oct 2006 19:00-21:00 - Film Seminar: Myth, History and Present Conflict
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22 Jan 2007 19:00-21:00 - Geographical Aspects of Civil War
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10 Nov 2005 10:00-12:00 - The Civil Wars of Northeast India
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21 Sep 2004 10:00-12:00 - Civil War Since 1945. What Can be Done?
17 Sep 2004 18:30-18:30 - Civil War and Suicide Bombers
13 May 2004 13:00-15:30 - Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution
24 Mar 2004 14:00-15:30 - Will George W. Bush Be Re-elected in 2004?

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