Samar Abbas Nawaz has today defended his PhD thesis: ' Safe integration of civil drones: Law, self-operation & infrastructure ' at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of ...

von Uexkull, Nina & Halvard Buhaug (2025) Scientific uptake in United Nations Security Council debates on climate change and ...

Emilie Waldal is a Master's student of Human Geography at the University of Oslo, with particular interest to the humanitarian field, refugee and migration, climate and environment. She is currently ...

The world is experiencing a surge in violence not seen since the post-World War II era. 2024 marked a grim new record: the highest number of state-based armed conflicts in over seven decades. A ...

We’re excited to share that the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF'd) has awarded the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University funding for a ...

Kathrine Rudolfsen has successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University of Oslo, titled " The Impact of UN Peacekeeping on Humanitarian Aid Worker's Security: Exploring the Relationship ...

Tønnesson, Stein (2025) Review of Lubna Qureshi (2023) H-Diplo Roundtable on Qureshi, Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam War, in H-Diplo Roundtable 26 (37): 17–19.

Inspirational Creative Practice: The Work of Artists after War and Violent Conflict (INSPIRE) is an ongoing project running from 2020 to 2025, examining the impact of artists and creative endeavours ...

How can we explain peace and conflict in the world? What do security and insecurity do to a region and its people? How do different kinds of violence affect people, and how do societies tackle crises ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine has become a natural environment for Putin’s regime to survive. This reality cannot be reconciled with the U.S. administration’s aim to end the senseless war, or with the ...

Putin’s desire to postpone the necessary and broadly popular decision on ending his war against Ukraine is driven not by the expectations of gains but by the fear of the looming question about his ...

Moscow finds itself at the periphery of high-intensity political interactions focused on a geo-economic power struggle, but it is not spared the consequences of escalating tensions and multiple ...