News & Events
The latest updates from the VIEWS consortium
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Posted on 3 Jul 2023
“What are the climate challenges in the Middle East?” – Panel with Stefan Döring at Almedalsveckan
Panel on climate challenges in the Middle East, featuring VIEWS researcher Stefan Döring, held during the annual week-long conference “Almedalsveckan”.
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Posted on 3 Jul 2023
VIEWS AWARDS
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 Breakthroughs of the Year. We are happy to share that Håvard Hegre has been selected…
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Posted on 3 Jul 2023
VIEWS at NEPS and ESRA
Between June 26-28 the 2023 Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference was held at the University of Bologna. VIEWS researcher Paola Vesco presented The underreported death toll of wars: a probabilistic reassessment from a structured expert elicitation co-authored with Håvard Hegre, David Randall and Stina Högblad. David Randahl is also one of the authors of…
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Posted on 3 Jul 2023
Vacancy: 1-3 System administrators
As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the deployment of our new pipeline. Collaborating closely with our team of data scientists and researchers, you will contribute to the development and implementation of the infrastructure. Additionally, you will work with, and potentially manage, external consultants during the initial phase of…
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Posted on 16 Jun 2023
The 2023 Blue Planet Prize awarded to Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir
This week the Blue Planet announced the laureates of the 32nd Blue Planet Prize and we are excited to congratulate our Societies at Risk colleague Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir as one of the honourable laureates. Read the full announcement on the Blue Planet website.
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Posted on 12 Jun 2023
Vacancy: Lead Machine Learning Engineer
As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the deployment of our new pipeline. Collaborating closely with our team of data scientists and researchers, you will contribute to the development and implementation of the infrastructure. Additionally, you will work with, and potentially manage, external consultants during the initial phase of…
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Posted on 7 Jun 2023
VIEWS awarded CRAF’d funding for cutting-edge innovation to forecast the need for humanitarian assistance
VIEWS has been awarded USD 700 000 from the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d) to study and forecast the impact of armed conflict and climate shocks on humanitarian needs through the new PRIO-based research project VIEWS People in Need (VIEWS-PIN). Forecasts from the project will be made publicly available for decision-makers and stakeholders through the…
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Posted on 23 May 2023
VIEWS on Insights into Extremism
The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) recently released the result pack from Research and Strategies to Prevent Radicalisation and Violent Extremism available in six different languages. Here you can read about the contribution from VIEWS, supported by the European Research Council.
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Posted on 3 May 2023
Vacancy: Research Assistants
We are looking for 1-2 Research Assistant(s) to join the team within Societies at Risk at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. The position(s) are full-time, starting 1 of June 2023, or as agreed. Read more and apply before the 18th of May.
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Posted on 10 Mar 2023
Meet us at ISA
Several members of the VIEWS core team are traveling to the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Montréal. Please join us for interesting discussions! WC49: Wednesday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM Rebel and Opposition Politics Forecasting armed conflict escalation at rebel group level from large bodies of natural language text – Mihai Croicu TD64: Thursday…
