The PRIO Conflict Recurrence Database expands and deepens our understanding of when, where and under what conditions armed conflicts persist and recur. The PRIO Conflict Recurrence Database extends on ...

The following publications by PRIO staff have replication data files available to download. For replication data files for articles in the Journal of Peace Research, see the JPR data page.

Since early July, Ukraine has expanded its middle- and long-range aerial and naval drone strikes from isolating the Crimean Peninsula to also disrupting Russia’s maritime traffic in the Sea of Azov ...

PRIO Global Fellows are academics with strong scholarly records and a commitment to the research agenda on peace and conflict. They all have their main positions elsewhere but work closely with PRIO ...

CSCW and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (PCR) at Uppsala University, Sweden have collaborated in the production of a dataset of armed conflicts, both internal and external, in the ...

This book argues that the technological revolutions of the twenty-first century are transforming the foundations of global politics. The competition between great powers no longer concerns supremacy ...

Never before have so many journalists been killed in a single year. A record 124 journalists and media workers were killed in 2024 alone, with nearly 70% of those deaths in the Israel–Gaza war.

Ukraine, Palestine/Israel, Sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria are projected to see the highest battle-related death tolls in 2026, according to a world-leading AI-driven conflict forecasting system. The ...

A new study published in The Lancet journal, co-authored by PRIO Research Professor Håvard Hegre, finds that the human cost of the conflict in the Gaza Strip from October 2023 to January 2025 was ...

The report, Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2025, documented eight interstate conflicts in 2025 – twice as many as the previous year and the highest number recorded since 1946. “The return of ...

The world is experiencing a surge in violence not seen since the post-World War II era. 2024 marked a grim new record: the highest number of state-based armed conflicts in over seven decades. A ...

Mykola Kuleba and Save the Children Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms The World Trade Organization Committee to Protect Journalists The International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court ...