Hoelscher, Kristian; Taibat Lawanson & Jeffrey Paller (2025) Political Change in African Cities: Transforming State-Society Relations, World Development.

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 ...

Some of this signaling is likely aimed at shaping the agenda for the much-anticipated high-level dialogue with the United States, but much of it amounts to willful self-deception. Russia’s position 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 ...

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (2025) PRIO Annual Report 2024. Oslo: PRIO. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, ...

Rebels often go beyond security and taxation to offer services such as education, healthcare and infrastructure. In this theory-building article, we provide a juxtapositional comparison of ...

Independent – International – Interdisciplinary The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people.