Research Courses

11 - 13 Feb 2020

PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Civil Resistance: Causes and Consequences

​This course will introduce students to the literature and latest findings in the study of civil resistance and nonviolent action.

Application deadline: 1 December 2019 - The application form is now closed.

The accepted applicants will be notifed by mid December..



20 - 24 Apr 2020

PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Dynamics of Armed Conflict

​This course provides an overview and critical assessment of contemporary research on armed conflict.  It will be in equal measure backward looking, assessing the state of the art and what have we learned; and future oriented, exploring cutting-edge issues and challenges.  

The course is organized in collaboration between the University of Oslo (UiO) and PRIO.

The course will open for applications in January 2020.

15 - 19 Jun 2020

NTNU Trondheim, Campus Dragvoll

GIS and the Geography of Armed Conflict: Applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and georeferenced data for Peace and Conflict Research

This course is organized in collaboration between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and PRIO. 

The course will open for applications in January 2020

17 - 21 Aug 2020

PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies: Case Research and Process Analytics

The course will open for applications in January 2020




Recent Courses

30 Oct 2019 - 01 Nov 2019
Migration research and contestations over migration: Conceptual approaches, ethics and communication
26 - 30 Aug 2019
Advanced statistical analysis in social sciences
19 - 23 Aug 2019
Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies: Case Research and Process Analytics
06 - 08 May 2019
Gender, Peace and Conflict
29 Apr 2019 - 03 May 2019
Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
14 - 18 Jan 2019
Rational Choice in Empirical Political Science
28 - 30 Nov 2018
The Anthropology of Humanitarianism
17 - 19 Oct 2018
Societal Security: Critical Perspectives
14 - 20 Oct 2018
Cyprus Course on Peace and Conflict (For Research School members and their supervisors)
10 - 12 Sep 2018
Conflict Trends
20 - 24 Aug 2018
Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies: Case Research and Process Analytics
07 - 11 May 2018
Dynamics of Armed Conflict
16 - 20 Apr 2018
SECURITY in the ARCTIC
19 - 22 Mar 2018
Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology: Approaches, Tools and Ethics
20 - 22 Sep 2017
Contemporary conditions of critique: power, value(s), economy
31 Aug 2017 - 06 Sep 2017
Governance, Identity and War
21 - 25 Aug 2017
Advanced statistical analysis in social sciences
26 - 30 Jun 2017
GIS and the Geography of Armed Conflict
12 - 16 Jun 2017
Alliances, Coalitions and the Use of Force
05 - 09 Jun 2017
Advanced Quantitative Methods
24 - 27 Apr 2017
Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
08 - 10 Mar 2017
Business For Peace: A New Dawn for International Peacebuilding?
28 - 30 Nov 2016
Critique (2016)
21 - 23 Nov 2016
Gender, Peace and Security
09 - 15 Oct 2016
Cyprus course on peace and conflict (For research school members and their supervisors)
30 May 2016 - 03 Jun 2016
​The Dynamics of Civil War and International Conflict
02 - 04 May 2016
Ethnographic fieldwork methodology: approaches, tools and ethics
29 Feb 2016 - 02 Mar 2016
Societal security in Europe: a reassessment (2016)
09 Feb 2016 12:00-13:00
Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool
02 - 04 Dec 2015
Beyond Transitional Justice: From the Individual to the Community

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