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Reid-Henry, Simon (2025) Pandemic Financing Should Learn From Revolving Funds, The Lancet 405 (10473): 122–123.

Cole, August; Don Howard; Robert Latiff; George Lucas; Gregory M. Reichberg & Kaushik Roy (2024) Artificial Intelligence in Military Planning and Operations. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. This PRIO paper seeks to identify and address the ethical issues encountered through the expanding use of artificial ...

Anu Abraham is an economist with specialization in development economics, receiving her PhD in Economics from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2021.

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2023 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2023, 59 state-based conflicts were recorded in 34 countries, the highest number of conflicts registered since 1946. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza were the primary ...

The recruitment of children for use in armed conflict is one of the so-called ‘six grave violations’ against children in conflict, as well as one of the most significant consequences of armed conflict in terms of children’s wellbeing. Children in many parts of the world are being recruited by ...

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2022 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2022, 55 state-based conflicts were recorded in 38 countries, and 8 of thse conflicts were classified as wars. The wars in …

Contemporary military technologies raise political, ethical and legal questions that stretch beyond the operational dynamics of the battlefield. For this reason, their regulation is a matter of international diplomacy to which armed forces, governments, …

Palik, Júlia; Anna Marie Obermeier & Siri Aas Rustad (2022) Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2021. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. This PRIO Paper examines trends in armed conflicts in the Middle East between 1989 and 2021 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In addition, we ...

This PRIO Paper examines conflict trends in Africa between 1989 and 2021. 30 state-based conflicts were recorded in 2021, resulting in 19,325 battle-related deaths. 8,917 of these deaths were related to conflicts in Ethiopia between the government and the …