The long war of attrition may deliver more surprises, and Putin’s confidence in controlling the strategic initiative could be shattered yet again. He relies more on the resignation and adaptability of ...

Economic inequality between countries has long been recognized as a key driver of international migration. However, inequality within communities of origin has received far less attention in the ...

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Afghanistan ranks worst of 177 countries in terms of the status of women, according to this year’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index launched today ...

New data shows conflict at historic high as U.S. signals retreat from world stage Monday, 9 Jun 2025 ...

Johan Galtung passed away this morning. He was born in 1930 on 24 October, the same day that 15 years later would see the founding of the United Nations.

PRIO launched a conflict prediction challenge in 2023 to enhance the accuracy and usefulness of conflict early-warning systems, by inviting researchers to forecast the number of fatalities in ...

EMPOW is a two-year initiative designed to provide novel open access data on women's mobilization for peace and gender equality reforms in the wake of war.

The world’s population is increasingly concentrated in cities. Research on urbanization’s implications for peace and security has been hampered by a lack of comparable data on political mobilization ...

This new FAIR case brief by Eli Stamnes and Cedric de Coning focuses on the peace negotiations resulting in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan ...

A new comprehensive review reveals that the detrimental effects of armed conflict extend far beyond the battlefield, with war reverberating through every aspect of human development. The study ...

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