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October 12, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Larissa Fast (University of Manchester), Adèle Garnier (Macquarie University), Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

Red Lines and Grey Zones: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations and the need for a research agenda

October 2, 2020 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO) & Kristina Roepstorff (University of Magdeburg)

From Moria to the UN Security Council: Norwegian Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Ambitions

October 1, 2020 — Written by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO), Jørgen Jensehaugen (PRIO) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

Moria’s male refugees need help just as much as anyone else

September 22, 2020 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (ISS)

The dramatic effects of covid-19 on everyday life in Gadarif

September 21, 2020 — Written by Hussein Sulieman (University of Gadarif)

Fighting racism and decolonizing humanitarian studies: toward mindful scholarship

August 18, 2020 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (ISS)

Israeli annexation plan will spark catastrophe for besieged Palestinians: the world must act

August 14, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Mohammed Alkahlout

The Politics of Humanitarian Aid to Myanmar

August 4, 2020 — Written by Marte Nilsen (PRIO)

In a critical moment for Yemen, donor fatigue can have disastrous consequences

June 12, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Belal Abdo

COVID-19 could kill off Muslim charities in the West that fail to adapt

June 4, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Omar Gamal

Ramadan and Social Responsibility During Coronavirus

June 3, 2020 — Written by Kaja Borchgrevink (PRIO), Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO) & Gina Lende (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society)

Peace in Afghanistan? Watch the militias

May 28, 2020 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI) and Antonio De Lauri (CMI)

“Is Mediterranean Search and Rescue a pull factor?” Or is that an irrelevant question?

May 14, 2020 — Written by Pål Nesse (Norwegian Refugee Council)

Search and Rescue: A necessary presence in the Mediterranean as long as people are drowning

— Written by Kyrre Lind (MSF Norway)

The duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea

— Written by Erik Røsæg (University of Oslo)

The “pull factor”: How it became a central premise in European discussions about cross-Mediterranean migration

— Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

The controversial lifesavers: NGO search and rescue in the Mediterranean

— Written by Katja Franko (UiO) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

Afghanistan’s Corona Threat Contagion Knows No Borders

May 8, 2020 — Written by Birgitte Lange (Save the Children Norway) & Kristian Berg Harpviken (PRIO)

The COVID-19 Resettlement Freeze: Towards a Permanent Suspension?

May 7, 2020 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Macquarie University), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) & Amanda Cellini (UiO)

Context matters – Why Africa should tailor its own measures to fight COVID-19

May 6, 2020 — Written by Nina Wilén (Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations & Lund University)

Digital dead body management: A new issue for human rights research

May 5, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

The “real” transformation of migrant smuggling in the time of COVID-19

April 24, 2020 — Written by Gabriella Sanchez (European University Institute) & Luigi Achilli (European University Institute)

Humanitarian Wearables and the Future of Aid in the Global Data Economy

April 20, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

“We are all fragile, but we are not all equally fragile”: Humanitarian operations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

April 8, 2020 — Written by Andrea Silkoset (PRIO)

There must be something I can ‘help with’

March 5, 2020 — Written by Salla Turunen (CMI)

Governing global health emergencies: the role of criminalization

March 2, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo)

The end of protection? Cessation and the ‘return turn’ in refugee law

February 10, 2020 — Written by Jessica Schultz (University of Bergen/CMI)

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East

January 24, 2020 — Written by Kjersti Berg (CMI) and Are John Knudsen (CMI)

The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and Refugee Protection in Latin America

December 12, 2019 — Written by Liliana Lyra Jubilut (Universidade Católica de Santos), Marcia Vera Espinoza (Queen Mary University of London) & Gabriela Mezzanotti (University of South-Eastern Norway)

Who are the Civilians in South Sudan?

December 4, 2019 — Written by Nicki Kindersley (University of Cambridge) & Øystein Rolandsen (PRIO)

Humanitarian governance and localization: What kind of world is being imagined and produced?

November 28, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo) & Dennis Dijkzeul (Ruhr University Bochum)

The Weaponization of Killer Trucks: Vehicular Terror and Vehicular Crypts

November 19, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

New Directions in Humanitarian Governance: Technology, Juridification and Criminalization

November 11, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo) & Dennis Dijkzeul (Ruhr University Bochum)

Protecting children’s digital bodies through rights

November 1, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO)

R.I.P., Europe

October 11, 2019 — Written by Antonio De Lauri (CMI)

Preventing the Work of Rescue Vessels in the Mediterranean Will Not Save More Migrants

October 3, 2019 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

What Can Data Governance Learn from Humanitarians?

September 9, 2019 — Written by Sean Martin McDonald (Digital Public, FrontlineSMS, Duke Center on Law & Technology, Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab)

Europe’s new border guards

August 14, 2019 — Written by Gunnar M. Sørbø (CMI)

It’s Time for Flying to Become the New Smoking

June 25, 2019 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam and PRIO Global Fellow)

Safeguarding: good intentions, difficult process

May 24, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

Penal Humanitarianism: Jus Puniendi in the International? (Part VI)

May 23, 2019 — Written by Teresa Degenhardt, Queen’s University Belfast

Penal Humanitarianism: The fight against impunity for sexual violence in conflict (Part V)

— Written by Kjersti Lohne, University of Oslo, & Anette Bringedal Houge, Norwegian Red Cross

Penal Humanitarianism: Projecting European Penal Power Beyond Europe (Part IV)

— Written by Eva Magdalena Stambøl, Doctoral Researcher, Aalborg University

Penal Humanitarianism: Moral Discomfort at the Border (Part III)

May 22, 2019 — Written by Katja Franko, University of Oslo, & Helene O.I. Gundhus, University of Oslo.

Penal Humanitarianism: Sovereign power and migration (Part II)

— Written by Mary Bosworth, Director, Border Criminologies

Penal Humanitarianism: Introducing a new blog series (Part I)

May 21, 2019 — Written by Kjersti Lohne, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oslo

Understanding the ‘internal protection alternative’ (Part II)

May 10, 2019 — Written by Jessica Schultz, Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute

Understanding the ‘internal protection alternative’ (Part I)

April 9, 2019

Do you speak humanitarian?

March 20, 2019 — Written by Simon Reid-Henry, Associate Professor in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London & PRIO affiliate

What Shapes Which Migration Flows We Study?

July 2, 2018

Aid Agencies Can’t Police Themselves. It’s Time for a Change

April 10, 2018 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst, Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam and PRIO Global Fellow

New Mapping of Children Affected by Armed Conflict

February 28, 2018 — Written by Gudrun Østby (PRIO), Karim Bahgat (PRIO), Kendra Dupuy (PRIO), Siri Camilla Aas Rustad (PRIO), Håvard Strand (PRIO/University of Oslo), Tore Wig (University of Oslo)

From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation

December 22, 2017 — Written by Sean Martin McDonald (FrontlineSMS), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University)

End impunity! Reducing conflict-related sexual violence to a problem of law

December 19, 2017 — Written by Anette Bringedal Houge (UiO), Kjersti Lohne (UiO)

Humanitarian experimentation

November 29, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University), Sean Martin McDonald (FrontlineSMS)

Unpacking the Myth of ICT’s Protective Effect in Mass Atrocity Response

September 27, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Nathaniel A. Raymond (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative)

Building a Sociology of Law for the Humanitarian Field

August 20, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Kjersti Lohne (UiO)

Nordic welfare humanitarianism at Nordic Branding Kick-Off Conference (June 12-13 2017)

August 3, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Amanda Cellini (PRIO)

The myth of ICT’s protective effect in mass atrocity response

June 16, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Nathaniel A. Raymond (HHI)

Response to Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

May 22, 2017 — Written by Cecilia M. Bailliet (UiO)

For too many refugees, life passes while waiting for return

May 19, 2017 — Written by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO)

Introductory Post: A series of reflections on Refuge

May 18, 2017 — Written by Amanda Cellini (PRIO)

A double message about safety and security for field research: “Protection is crucial” and “Don’t overdo it”

May 2, 2017 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst

Reform of the rape law in Sudan: Lip service to the International Criminal Court

April 10, 2017 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)

An Incomplete Picture of the Humanitarian Crisis in the Lake Chad Region

April 2, 2017 — Written by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (IRD, CEPED)

UiO: Nordic conference: The Nordic model of global humanitarianism: contestations and contextualisations

March 31, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) and Johan Strang (University of Helsinki)

A review of humanitarian issues in 2016

March 8, 2017 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

With Orwell to the West Bank

February 28, 2017 — Written by Marte Heian-Engdal (PRIO)

The Whimper, Not Bang, of Humanitarian Drones

February 15, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

No-Man’s Land

January 20, 2017 — Written by Marte Heian-Engdal (PRIO)

Resettlement in contemporary Norway – lessons from a discourse analysis of the Norwegian debate on the Syrian refugee crisis

December 1, 2016 — Written by Linn Marie Reklev

The evolution of Danish Refugee Resettlement Policy, 1978-2016

November 24, 2016 — Written by Katrine Syppli Kohl (SFI)

Swedish cultural orientation programs and the notion of the “passive refugee”

November 16, 2016 — Written by Mehek Muftee (Jönköping University)

Give Us Your Phone and We May Grant You Asylum

October 18, 2016 — Written by Rocco Bellanova (PRIO), Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO), and Raphaël Gellert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Most Importantly a Nobel for the Colombian People and the Victims of the Civil War

October 7, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

The future of refugee resettlement: Will the September summits make any difference?

September 28, 2016 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Brazilian Peacekeeping: Challenges and Potentials in Turbulent Landscapes at Home and Internationally

September 26, 2016 — Written by Eric Cezne (University of Groningen), Eduarda Hamann (Igarapé Institute)

Refugee resettlement as humanitarian governance: The need for a critical research agenda

September 13, 2016 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), and Liliana Lyra Jubilut (Universidade Católica de Santos, Brazil)

Introductory Post: Nordic Resettlement Series

September 12, 2016 — Written by Amanda Cellini (PRIO)

Survey: Most humanitarians favour the use of drones in disaster zones

September 8, 2016 — Written by Denise Soesilo (Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD))

Reflections on World Humanitarian Day: Old stakes and new challenges for humanitarian aid workers

August 19, 2016 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

Building Humanitarian Studies: High scores for the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies in external review of HUMPOL

August 8, 2016 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)

What is the role of law in bringing imaginative and imaginary peace to Colombia?

July 4, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO)

Durable Solutions: Five Implementation Challenges and Possible Pathways for Improvement

June 16, 2016 — Written by André de Lima Madureira (MSc Human Rights, LSE, UK) and Liliana Jubilut (Professor, Unisantos, Brazil)

How Can Innovation Deliver Humanitarian Outcomes? Challenges and Approaches for Humanitarian Innovation Policy

June 2, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO), Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO) and Brita Fladvad Nielsen (NTNU)

Against the Merger of Humanitarianism with Development and Security

May 31, 2016 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)

The humanitarian quest for accountability: Examining the role of UNHCR

May 23, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO) and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen)

Brought Up to Be a War Criminal

May 18, 2016 — Written by Kjersti Lohne (PRIO) and Anette Bringedal Houge (IKRS, UiO)

Insecurity in the Humanitarian Cyberspace: A Call for Innovation

May 10, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/ PRIO)

Protection of Civilians (PoC): What did we learn?

May 6, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/ PRIO)

Why the Veto Powers All Support Protection of Civilians (And Why They Often Fail to Agree on It)

April 29, 2016 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO) and Simon Reid-Henry (PRIO)

Tailoring Protection of Civilians to State Capacity: The Role of Regional Human Rights Protection Measures

April 14, 2016 — Written by Julieta Lemaitre (Universidad de Los Andes) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

The GovLab Selected Readings on Data and Humanitarian Response

April 5, 2016 — Written by Prianka Srinivasan and Stefaan G. Verhulst

Futureproofing Humanitarianism for Permanent Emergencies: Unpacking the Promise of Cooperation

March 16, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Is The War on Drugs a Humanitarian Crisis?

March 8, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO)

The humanitarian–development nexus in Northern Uganda

January 27, 2016 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)

An academic New Year’s resolution for Colombia: understanding continued gendered violence as a threat to positive peace

December 11, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Attacks on Humanitarian Aid Workers: Five New Findings

December 4, 2015 — Written by Jason Miklian (PRIO), Håvard Mokleiv Nygård (PRIO) and Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO)

The Brazilian aid paradox

December 1, 2015 — Written by Torkjell Leira (University of Oslo) and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)

A strange silence in Kabul

October 6, 2015 — Written by Torunn Wimpelmann (Chr. Michelsen Institute)

Expanding and improving the quality of girls’ education in Afghanistan

September 1, 2015 — Written by Arne Strand (Chr. Michelsen Institute)

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Killing the ‘Robots-don’t-Rape’ Argument

August 31, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kjersti Lohne (University of Oslo)

From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Transition from Humanitarian Crisis through Law Reform?

June 16, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO), Julieta Lemaitre (Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá)

Political Violence and Humanitarian Technology

May 5, 2015 — Written by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in Sudan

April 29, 2015 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)

Emergency Exit for the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

April 10, 2015 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)

Beyond Sexual Violence: Gendered Political Insecurity as a Threat to Peace

April 9, 2015 — Written by Julieta Lemaitre (Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Evaluating Ebola: the politics of the military response narrative

March 16, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

PoC as a concept for UN peacekeeping

February 26, 2015 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI) and Benjamin de Carvalho (NUPI)

Conundrums in the Embrace of the Private Sector

February 24, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

UN at War

February 13, 2015 — Written by John Karlsrud (NUPI)

Fighting the War with the Ebola Drone

December 3, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Do they really care? Protection of Civilians and the Veto Powers in the UN Security Council

November 18, 2014 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén, PRIO

Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?

October 5, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Estranged violence in Tegucigalpa

September 29, 2014 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)

The humanitarian triad

September 17, 2014 — Written by Raymond Apthorpe (Royal Anthropological Institute, London)

Is it acceptable to lie for a good cause?

September 9, 2014 — Written by Henrik Urdal (PRIO)

A Humanitarian Technology Policy Agenda for 2016

August 14, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO), Christopher Wilson (The Engine Room), John Karlsrud (NUPI)

The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone: Giving Content to an Emerging Concept

June 30, 2014 — Written by Patrick Meier (iRevolution)

The Humanitarian–Development Nexus: Lessons from Northern Uganda

May 19, 2014 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)

Female Empowerment in DR Congo

April 1, 2014 — Written by Gudrun Østby (PRIO)

Impunity and the conflation of rape and adultery in Sudan’s Criminal Act

March 10, 2014 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)

Syria’s humanitarian crisis

February 8, 2014 — Written by Are J. Knudsen (CMI)

No prospects of cooling down: why the crisis in South Sudan must be solved immediately

December 21, 2013 — Written by Øystein H. Rolandsen (PRIO)

Sexual Violence: Monopoly of victimhood?

December 18, 2013 — Written by Åse Roti Dahl (Communication Adviser, CMI)

ICCM – The Annual Gathering of a Global Digital Village

December 3, 2013 — Written by Guro Åsveen

Somali Repatriation Pact: Insufficient Progress

November 19, 2013 — Written by Anab Nur (Researcher, The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies)

The promise and perils of ‘disaster drones’

November 1, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kjersti Lohne (UiO)

Reforming the Security Council: the question that won’t go away

October 22, 2013 — Written by Simon Reid-Henry (PRIO)

UNHCR – A Humanitarian Organization with a Mandate to Protect Civilians in Refugee Camps

October 15, 2013 — Written by Maja Janmyr (Research Fellow, University of Bergen)

Killer Robots: the Future of War?

September 25, 2013 — Written by Maral Mirshahi (PRIO) and Agnieszka Cybulska (Norwegian Centre for Human Rights)

Land of Confusion – Protection of Women and Children in Liberia

September 17, 2013 — Written by Benjamin de Carvalho (NUPI) and Niels Nagelhus Schia (NUPI)

Humanitarian challenges in Syria

September 2, 2013 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)

Jus Post Bellum

August 22, 2013 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI)

Mali: Humanitarian Challenges and Fragile Security, What Role for the UN?

August 15, 2013 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumpert (PRIO), John Karlsrud (NUPI) and Kristin B. Sandvik (PRIO)

Protection: From deeds to words?

June 20, 2013 — Written by Ole Jacob Sending (NUPI)

PoC: Protection clusters and the formation of ambiguity- the view from Bor and beyond

May 13, 2013 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)

PoC: The Politics of Counting Rape in Darfur

April 21, 2013 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)

Somalia from Humanitarian Crisis to Struggling Statehood

April 5, 2013 — Written by Cindy Horst (PRIO) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

Urban Humanitarianism: Accessing informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

April 3, 2013 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)

PoC: Where the Price for Mobilizing Protection Laws is Your Life – the Plight of Colombia’s Women IDP Leaders

March 21, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Julieta Lemaitre (Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá)

PoC: Protection, displacement and return to Somalia – Whose responsibility, whose rights?

March 11, 2013 — Written by Cindy Horst (PRIO)

Humanitarianism and Weapons: Should a ban on nuclear weapons rely on humanitarian principles?

March 6, 2013 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)

PoC: How the Security Council in 1999 came to consider protection of civilians in armed conflict

March 1, 2013 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI)

The Unspoken in Kabul: What does the future hold for humanitarian actors?

February 22, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)

A Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies?

February 18, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)