Thursday, 16 May 2013
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New PRIO Policy Brief
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the disconnected region, which includes the Russian North Caucasus and three newly-independent states of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), has seen more violent conflicts than any other post-Soviet region.
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Monday, 13 May 2013
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Pavel K. Baev is now maintaining a blog with frequent comments on Arctic Politics and Russia's Ambitions.
Follow his blog on Facebook!
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Monday, 13 May 2013
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At the recent convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco 3–6 April, Håvard Hegre was elected Chair of the SSIP (Scientific Study of International Processes) section of the ISA. Every year, this section sponsors a number of sessions where PRIOites present papers. To our knowledge, it’s the first time this section has a chair from outside North America.
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013
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Scott Gates, research professor at PRIO and professor of political science at NTNU, became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) 3 May. Among the existing members are PRIO’s founder Johan Galtung, Nils Petter Gleditsch, and four former working group leaders at PRIO’s Centre for the Study of Civil War (Jon Elster, Ola Listhaug, Karl Ove Moene, and Kaare Strøm), as well as several former PRIOites. Scott has been a member of the Trondheim-based Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab) since 2008.
Read more here (in Norwegian).
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013
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In a new policy brief from PRIO, Political Parties and Peacebuilding in Myanmar (PRIO Policy Brief 5/2013), Marte Nilsen and Stein Tønnesson examine the role of Myanmar’s political parties and ask: How well are they equipped for the task of building peace? Are the ethnic-minority parties ready to take the lead role in promoting the interests of their constituencies? Will this cause armed groups to fade into the background? As previously marginalized opposition parties are playing an increasingly important role, an essential question in the run-up to the elections in 2015 is to what extent ethnic minority parties may be able to take over the role played by the armed groups in promoting ethnic-minority interests.
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