Peace, crisis and conflict

  • Pandemics

    Pandemics are global crises that may have vast impact on international politics. They are primarily health crises, but also deep economic crises, which in turn can lead to a social and political crisis.Covid-19 is a current example that raises several ...

    Pandemics
  • Conflict

    How do various actors contribute to peaceful resolution of conflicts?At NUPI, research on conflict resolution often has a practical aim: to improve the methods uses for creating dialogue and reconciliation among the parties to a conflict. This can involve ...

    Conflict
  • Humanitarian issues

    The civilian population often suffer in humanitarian crises, regardless of whether these are conflicts created by human beings or natural catastrophes.  The international humanitarian assistance apparatus is made available in crises where the local ...

    Humanitarian issues
  • Peace operations

    Peace operations aim at stabilizing a conflict and helping to implement a ceasefire or comprehensive peace agreement.NUPI’s work on peace operations is closely tied to peacebuilding. With peace operations as well as peacebuilding, our research ...

    Peace operations