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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 ...

Oct 3, 2024 · The Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, announced his updated list today for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, with election observers topping the list. The 2024 list comprises of: OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms UNRWA and Philippe Lazzarini International Court of Justice UNESCO and the Council of Europe ...

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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 contributors to the more than 122,000 battle-related deaths in 2023, despite a substantial decrease ...

A dataset of armed conflicts, both internal and external, in the period 1946 to 2008.

Oct 15, 2024 · Join us at PRIO from 15 to 16 October for a series of public seminars on the impact of artificial intelligence. Over two days, PRIO will host seven separate events focused on varying aspects of AI and its interplay with peace and conflict. The events range from ethical dimensions of AI in humanitarian contexts, to how authoritarian regimes exploit AI to consolidate power. PRIO’s AI Days will ...

In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Chenoweth – one of the world's leading scholars on the topic – explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings ...

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 …

Journal of Peace Research is an interdisciplinary and international bimonthly, covering scholarly work in peace research. It strives for a global perspective on peace and peacemaking, with particular focus on the causes of violence and conflict resolution. JPR is edited by Gudrun Østby (Editor), Sebastian Schutte (Editor), Marianne Dahl …