Monday, 17 Jun 2013
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By invitation only
This week at Voksenåsen Hotel in Oslo, the PRIO Gender Team organizes a High-Level Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes for envoys, senior mediators and their teams in collaboration with the UN Department of Political Affars (DPA) and the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI). The seminar is organized with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Participation in the seminar is by invitation only.
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Monday, 10 Jun 2013
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On the basis of past collaboration with Google Ideas, PRIO, and the Igarapé Institute are launching a small arms and ammunition trade visualization tool.
While overall rates of gun violence are declining in most of the developed world, certain underdeveloped regions are facing a crisis of epidemic proportions. Latin America and the Caribbean together with Central and Southern Africa feature homicide rates that are between two to ten times the global average.
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Friday, 07 Jun 2013
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Helge Holtermann successfully defended his thesis at the University of Oslo on Friday 7 June. His work is titled: Economic Development, Rebel Mobilization, and Civil War Onset.
He has been a student with the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, and PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW).
- Kristine Eck, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, University of Uppsala
- Dr. Indra de Soysa, Warden of St. Thomas College, MT. Lavinia, Sri Lanka
- Jon Hovi, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
His supervisors are both at PRIO:
Håvard Hegre
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Tuesday, 04 Jun 2013
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Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Senior researcher Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen have co-edited a special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Interactions between Integration and Transnationalism. The special issue is the result of a panel organised by Erdal and Oeppen at the Royal Geographic Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in 2010.
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
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On Tuesday 28 May, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) hosted a seminar on the new Basque peace process and recent developments in the Basque country, marking the launch of a new PRIO project on Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization. The project aims to shed new light on conflicts over political representation, citizenship rights, and territoriality in a globalizing world.
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