Upcoming Events

Political Agency and Moral Action in Times of War

Academic Workshop

Wed, 09 October 2019 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

This academic workshop focuses on political agency and moral action before, during and after violent conflict and war.

Actors or Victims? Understanding Political Violence Targeting Women

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:00-13:30 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

This seminar presents novel data on political violence targeting women and discusses what these findings mean, both for Norway’s efforts in the United Nations on protection and on women’s participation in peace processes, and for research on political violence.

In the UN Security Council’s Open Debates on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), held in October each year, increasing demands have been raised for improved protection of women human rights advocates and women’s organizations working for peace. Simultaneously, many caution against making protection from conflict related sexual violence a too dominant WPS theme as this risks downgrading women from political actors to victims. To an outside observer, this can appear to be a puzzling contradiction. Is protection beneficial or detrimental to women’s agency and participation?

Social Media and Protest

Lunch Seminar

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:00-13:30 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

In this seminar the authors will present the findings resulting in the book The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies, written by Nils B. Weidmann and Espen Geelmuyden Rød. Their research has studied this in the context of the Arab Spring.

A light lunch will be served from 11:30

More information about this seminar will follow.

Transnational lives in the welfare state: Presentation of findings

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:30-10:00 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

A growing number of people live partly in one country and partly in another. Some divide work and leisure between two countries, some commute across borders, and some spend most of their time in one country but have their source of income in another. There are many ways of living in two countries, and we describe these lives as 'transnational lives'. The research project Transnational lives in the welfare state (TRANSWEL) has examined what it means to live in two countries and how such a way of life affects the relations between individuals and the welfare state. In this seminar we present some of our findings.