Finalist for the Falling Walls ‘Science Breakthroughs of the Year’ award 2023 The Falling Walls Global Call is an international competition format with an ambition to bring together science enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds, and identifying the most recent and innovative […]
On 6-7 December VIEWS director Håvard Hegre and Prof. Nils Lid Hjort, will host an invitation-only workshop for the Stability and Change project on “Prediction with Uncertainty” at the Peace […]
On 23 – 24 November, Ph.D. Candidate Maxine Leis attended the HiCN (Households in Conflict Network) annual workshop hosted by Warwick University. The seminar’s theme was individual-level consequences of exposure to violent […]
On Monday, 28 November, VIEWS Director Håvard Hegre was invited to meet with the Anticipatory Action in Conflict Practitioners Working Group. In this meeting, Håvard presented VIEWS and outlined its […]
This morning marked the launch of the synthesis report “Moving from Reaction to Action: Anticipating Vulnerability Hotspots in the Sahel” in support of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the […]
On October 27-28, project members from the Societies at Risk work packages gathered for a workshop to present ongoing work and brainstorm new ideas. Topics covered during the two days included Data […]
The special issue from our 2020 prediction competition is now available as International Interactions Volume 48, Issue 4 (2022). The competition invited researchers from different fields (political science, statistics, peace […]
We are seeking to expand the team developing VIEWS with a position as senior developer at PRIO in Oslo, Norway. PRIO conducts research for a more peaceful world, and is […]
Presented at the “State of the science of “political futures”: Exploring how to improve the representation and usability of socio-political factors in the SSPs” workshop at the German Institute of […]
On Thursday, Nov 3rd, VIEWS Director Håvard Hegre participated as a speaker and panelist in a webinar on the technical feasibility of using conflict prediction models to support anticipatory action. […]
From 19-20 October the “Stability and Change” project hosted a workshop titled “From Processes to Models” which focused on how statistical models are derived from underlying processes. The workshop was […]
Join us for a webinar organised by the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data this Thursday, November 3, at 4-5 PM CET! Anticipatory action enables humanitarian organizations to get ahead of […]