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Se inspelningen från lanseringen av "Samhällen i fara"

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:38:00 GMT

Missade du lanseringen av Samhällen i fara i våras och önskar lära dig mer om projektets kommande forskning kring verkningarna av väpnad konflikt på mänsklig utveckling? Nu kan du se inspelningen från lanseringseventet via projektets YouTube-kanal.

Welcome to the launch of the new research project 'Societies at Risk' on 20 May 2022

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:38:00 GMT

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new six-year research project at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research: ‘Societies at Risk: the Impact of Armed Conflict on Human Development’.

RJ announces 39.7M SEK grant for 'Societies at Risk'

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:16:00 GMT

Uppsala University awarded a 39.7M SEK grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to study the effect of armed conflict on human development

Call for applications: Programmer, Department of Peace and Conflict Research

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:34:00 GMT

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research seeks a programmer to work with the project ViEWS and The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP).

Call for applications: Researcher, ViEWS

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:44:00 GMT

Prediction competition

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:20:00 GMT

ViEWS featured in the November/December issue of MIT Technological Review

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:42:00 GMT

In the article 'We are finally getting better at predicting organized conflict', MIT Technological Review looks into advancements in the field of conflict prediction. The article features ViEWS and the Early Warning Project from the US Holocaust Museum and Dartmouth College.

Open Access - ViEWS overview article in Journal of Peace Research

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:04:00 GMT

ViEWS published its overview article in Journal of Peace Research 56(2), pp. 155–174. The article is openly available and can be accessed here.

Policy Dialogue Day

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:16:00 GMT

The Policy Dialogue Day is an event organized by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute, the QoG (Quality of Government) Institute, GLD-Gothenburg (Program for Governance and Local Development), UCPD (Uppsala Conflict Data Program) and ViEWS (a Political Violence Early- Warning System). The conference aims to provide insight on questions relating to democracy and governance, and to serve as a meeting platform for practitioners, policy makers, and academics.

New blog post in Monkey Cage: "U.N. peacekeeping really can be effective."

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:22:00 GMT

First public forecasts from ViEWS: a political Violence Early-Warning System

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:34:00 GMT

The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where it is not expected. With funding from the European Research Council, ViEWS is developing a system that is rigorous, data-based, and publicly available to researchers and the international community. On 7 June, ViEWS released its first public forecasts for Africa.

Policy Dialogue Day

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:16:00 GMT

ViEWS welcomes new researcher

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:30:00 GMT

First annual ViEWS workshop

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:28:00 GMT

ViEWS held its first annual workshop 25-26 September in Uppsala. The workshop consisted of a total of 30 participants who over the course of two days discussed forecasting advances in the field as well as within the project.

Håvard Hegre receives the Lilly and Sven Thuréus award

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:49:00 GMT

The Department congratulates Håvard Hegre who received the Lilly and Sven Thuréus award, the technical-economic class, on 29 August.

Håvard Hegre elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science Letters

Wed, 03 May 2017 13:19:00 GMT

Dag Hammarskjöld Professor Håvard Hegre was elected into the Norwegian Academy of Science Letters in March 2017.

Kick-off meeting for the ViEWS project

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:53:00 GMT

In the photo from the left: Lisa Hultman, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Desirée Nilsson,
Jonas Nordkvelle, Hanne Fjelde, Stina Högbladh, Nina von Uexkull, David Randahl,
Mihai Croicu, Håvard Hegre, Frederick Hoyles, Halvard Buhaug, Sayeed Auwn Muhammed

The ViEWS project started up with a kick-off meeting on 17–18 January. The project, directed by Håvard Hegre and involving Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman, Desiree Nilsson, as well as an international team of researchers, will develop, test, and iteratively improve a pilot Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS).

Håvard Hegre elected Vice-President of the International Studies Association

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 13:51:00 GMT

In the recent elections in the International Studies Association, Håvard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University was elected Vice-President for the 2018-19 term.