Recent News

New PRIO Paper on the Women, Peace and Security Index

Wednesday, 08 Aug 2018

PRIO in collaboration with the Georgetown Institute for WPS (GIWPS) has just published a new PRIO Paper on the Women, Peace and Security Index: A Global Index of Women's Wellbeing. The paper is written by GIWPS researcher Jeni Klugman and PRIO researchers Marianne Dahl and Ingrid Vik Bakken.

New Issue of Gender, Peace and Security Update Out

Thursday, 28 Jun 2018

The June 2018 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is now out.

Helga Hernes becomes honorary member of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights

Saturday, 16 Jun 2018

On 16 June 2018, Helga Hernes was awarded honorary membership in the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights (Norsk Kvinnesaksforening, NKS).

Fulbright Article Prize awarded to Inger Skjelsbæk

Tuesday, 05 Jun 2018

The Fulbright Alumni Association Norway (FAAN) has by scholarly committee awarded Inger Skjelsbæk the Fulbright Article Prize for 2018, recognizing the past year’s best scientific article by a Norwegian Fulbright scholar. She receives the award for her article ‘Narratives of Support and Resistance: A Political Psychological Analysis of the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, co-authored with Elin Doeland and published in Political Psychology in 2017.

PRIO GPS Centre representatives attend annual consortium meeting of Gender/Women, Peace and Security Centres

Monday, 04 Jun 2018

On 31 May-1 June, Torunn L. Tryggestad, Julie M. Hansen and Linn Marie Reklev from the PRIO GPS Centre were in Prato, Italy for the annual consortium meeting of G/WPS Centres. The meeting was hosted by Monash Gender, Peace & Security (Australia), which is directed by PRIO Global Fellow Jacqui True. Representatives from the WPS Institute at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (Ghana), the LSE Centre for WPS (UK), and Georgetown Institute for WPS (US) also participated.