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The PRIO Centre on Culture, Conflict and Coexistence is a hub for interpretive research on the cultural aspects of violent conflict and peaceful coexistence.

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Edited volume

2024

Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa: An Axel Sommerfelt Collection. Edited by Tone Sommerfelt, Marek Jakoubek and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Afterword by Adam Kuper

Edited volume

Recorded event

Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024 10:45–13:00 UTC+02

'We keep asking the same questions'. Illustration: Reem Al Jeally

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Sudan Roundtable: Artistic Creativity and Social Transformations in Times of Political Upheavals

As part of the final conference of the INSPIRE project, we invite you to this engaging roundtable meeting on art and activism in Sudan.

Book review

2023

Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border

Book review in Contemporary Southeast Asia

News

Thursday, 2 Nov 2023

New book! 'Creative resistance. The social justice practices of Monirah, Halleh and Diala'

How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration? In this new book Research Professor Cindy Horst engages with this question through the prism of lived reality, with her interlocutors, three extraordinary individuals.

Book review

2023

Buddhist Violence and Religious Authority: A Tribute to the Work of Michael Jerryson

Book review in Journal of Buddhist Ethics

Monograph

2023

Creative resistance: The social justice practices of Monirah, Halleh and Diala

Monograph

Book chapter

2024

Introduction

Book chapter in Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa: An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Recorded event

Monday, 22 Apr 2024 10:45–13:00 UTC+02

'Burying Yesterday's Headlines'. Illustration: Chuu Wai

01:38:40

Myanmar Roundtable: Artistic Practices after the Coup

As part of the final conference of the INSPIRE project, we invite you to this engaging roundtable meeting on art and activism in Myanmar.

Recorded event

Monday, 11 Dec 2023 15:00–16:00 UTC+01

Recording new Bunuba language songs in Fitzroy Crossing, with Gillian Howell for Tura’s Sound FX project. Photo: Edify Media

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The Power of Voice in Arts-based Dialogues for Justice, Peace, and Intergenerational Healing

Who decides which voices are heard and which stories are told? In this seminar we explore the roles of voice, storytelling, and deep listening as resources for dialogue and peacebuilding.

News

Wednesday, 27 Sep 2023

Diala Brisly and Khalid Shatta painting during Rotterdam Residency. Photo: Cindy Horst

PRIO Co-Hosts Artist Residency Festival Week in Rotterdam

In a two-month residency, a group of international artists and researchers have investigated how creative practice can enable new ways of seeing, relating to and understanding individual and collective experiences of violent conflict and oppression.

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 29 Aug 2023

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - 2023/07/24: Protestors chant and gesture as another holds a sign that read in Hebrew: 'be furious' during an anti-judicial overhaul demonstration out side the Knesset (Israel's Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israel's parliament approved the first major law in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious plan to overhaul the country's justice system, triggering a new burst of mass protests and drawing accusations that he was pushing the country toward authoritarian rule. (Photo by Eyal Warshavsky/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images). Photo: © 2023 SOPA Images

In the Israeli Democracy Protests, the Flag Has Become the Contentious Topic – The Occupation Is Not.

For the past few months Israel has experienced mass demonstrations both for and against the attempted judicial “reforms” by the current right-wing government. A striking visual theme of these protests have been the ubiquity of the Israeli flag. The use of national symbols like the Israeli flag is nothing unusual for Israel’s right-wing ...

Journal article

2024

Politics of Shared Humanity: On Hospitality, Equality and the Spiritual in Rural Gambia

Journal article in Anthropological Forum

News

Thursday, 18 Apr 2024

Applications now open for the "Culture, Conflict and Politics" course held October 29-31, 2024

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is now accepting applications for the "Culture, Conflict and Politics" course to be held on October 29-31, 2024.

Journal article

2023

Life History Research and the Violence of War: Experiencing Binary Thinking on Pain and Privilege, Being and Knowing

Journal article in Genealogy

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023

“It’s Been More than 40 Days and Sunday Never Came”

The sentence in the heading is often recalled and reshared by many Sudanese people who had to, and still are, enduring war, suffering, and displacement after the breakout of conflict between two armed forces, the Rapid Support Forces of Lt. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Daglo (also known as Hemedti), and the ...

Multimedia

Monday, 28 Aug 2023

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Rooftops and Paper Planes at PRIO

Syrian Artist Diala Brisly has completed her mural “Rooftops and paper planes” in PRIO’s offices.

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