Peace and Stability Operations Programme
The aim of the PSOP-project is to strengthen the ability of UN and other peace and stability actors and institutions to respond to global security challenges, adapt to a changing globa...
Theory seminar: The Planetary Test-bed: Notes to a Theory of Technospheric Governance
At this theory seminar, Professor Orit Halpern will present her draft paper "The Planetary Test-bed: Notes to a Theory of Technospheric Governance”.
Korea’s unfinished war: The UN Command 73 years after the armistice
Norway's role in the Korean War is largely forgotten at home, but South Korea still remembers it. During the war, 683 Norwegians served at NORMASH...
Digital Peacebuilding? The Socio-Technicality of Transforming Armed Conflict
This book explores how we can make sense of the increasing use of digital technology in peacebuilding. It studies digital peacebuilding at different stages of conflict, including conflict prevention, conflict mitigation, peace mediation, and sustainable transitions from armed conflict. Moving beyond a focus on individual tools, the book encourages a ‘post-digital’ posture that enables a reflexive position vis-à-vis the appeal of digital innovation. It suggests exploring how technologies are always socially embedded, and how the socio-technicality of digital peacebuilding conditions prospects of conflict transformation. To this end, the book develops the concept of apomediated peacebuilding, which suggests that authoritative knowledge about conflict and peace that underpins digital peacebuilding is generated in decentred peer-to-peer networks that involve both humans and machines. It also encourages a critical-reflexive engagement with how claims about technology and society shape digital peacebuilding. In addition, the book is interested in how these dynamics and outcomes differ globally depending on variations in the degree of digitalization of the conflict context and levels of political repression. The book presents comparative empirical research on digital peacebuilding initiatives in South Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Northern Ireland, as well as illustrative examples from several other cases. It delves into a variety of applications, including social media monitoring to counter harmful speech, the use of mobile phones and mobile apps to enable localized early warning and early response, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital dialogues to support peace processes, and everyday online interactions that can foster societal reconciliation and political change.
Hvordan bør Norge forvalte rominfrastrukturen i nord?
How should Norway manage its space infrastructure in the High North when it is at once a security asset, an economic resource and an arena for great-power rivalry? Amid growing pressure from state and commercial actors, Norway’s ability to monitor its own maritime areas, contribute to stability on Svalbard and remain relevant in allied cooperation increasingly depends on this infrastructure.
Simulating Peace: Inside the Adaptive Peace Simulation
In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, Cedric de Coning (NUPI) sits down with Dirk Bruin and Tomas Veloz of the Center Leo Apostel f...
Africa’s Geostrategic Paradox in a Changing Global Order
This event will examine the AU's evolving role in a changing global order and how it can strengthen Africa's influence in international decision-making.
Arctic Ocean 2050
The new 10-year research program Polhavet 2050 – Arctic Ocean 2050 unites 18 Norwegian research institutions in an unparallelled effort to address how the Arctic Ocean will change in t...