Upcoming seminar: Climate change, conflict and Russia’s war on Ukraine

Join this PRIO breakfast seminar to take stock of global food insecurity and discuss how it relates to climate change, armed conflict, and the war in Ukraine.

From asylum seekers to kin

This article for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies explores the building of kinship between Norwegian citizens and asylum seekers from the Middle East.

New NCHS paper: Is there legal pluralism in Afghanistan?

This NCHS paper examines the use of the term legal pluralism in Afghanistan and argues that where access to justice is particularly difficult or neglected, social actors face an absence rather than a plurality of legal orders.

World disasters report released by IFRC

The World Disasters Report 2022: Trust, Equity and Local Action was published by the IFRC in January 2023. The report examines lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and how to avert the next global crisis.

Humanitarianism through the lens of climate resilient development

In this new Talking Humanitarianism podcast series, host Edwige Marty (NMBU) explores humanitarianism through the lens of climate resilient development, with a focus on three cases from Kenya.

Against the humanitarian grain

In this episode of the Talking Humanitarianism podcast, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh delivers the NCHS Annual Lecture titled ‘Against the humanitarian grain’ at the 2022 NCHS Annual Conference.

Recording of UNRWA seminar now available

If you missed the conversation with Leni Stenseth, Deputy Commissioner General for UNRWA about the agency’s political and financial challenges, you can now listen to a recording of the discussion.

Humanitarianism in a post-liberal age

In this latest episode of the Talking Humanitarianism podcast, Michael Barnett delivers the keynote address titled ‘Humanitarianism in a post-liberal age’ to open the 2022 NCHS Annual Conference.

Continental encampment

Edited by Are John Knudsen and Kjersti G. Berg (CMI), ‘Continental Encampment’ explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe.

Breakfast seminar: Uncertain future for millions of Palestinian refugees

The PRIO MidEast Centre is hosting a breakfast conversation about UNRWA on 15 February with Leni Stenseth, Deputy Commissioner General for UNRWA.