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During the early days of March, project members and collaborators with the ANTICIPATE project gathered at PRIO in Oslo to discuss progress, challenges, and possibilities in anticipating the impact of armed conflict on human development. The workshop integrated perspectives and action points from policy and research on, for instance, the connection between conflict, food security,…

The latest member of the VIEWS team, Simon Polichinel von der Maase’s research spans the field of conflict studies, data science, and machine learning. He works on conflict forecasting with a focus on Gaussian processes and cutting-edge deep learning architectures – all in a generative and probabilistic setting. Given this expertise, the VIEWS prediction models…

On January 18 Director Håvard Hegre presented at the World Bank Africa climate thought seminar series. The topic of the seminar was Climate, Conflict and Migration: Can We Use Data and Information to Do Better, Do Different, and Drive Change?

The Expert Group for Aid Studies have published a Development Dissertation Brief (DDB) on the role of water resources for cooperation and conflict among non-state actors by Societies at Risk and ANTICIPATE researcher Stefan Döring. Building on statistical modeling, the analyses make extensive use of geographic information to gauge the relationship between water access and…

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 conflict. It emphasized innovative designs, new methods, and data to identify the causal impacts of exposure to armed violence on individuals’ social, economic, and political…

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 Sahel (UNISS). The report is a product of the Sahel Predictive Analytics project, in which VIEWS has served as a key partner over the past…

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 and conflict research, computer science) to present innovative models to predict changes in armed conflict fatalities over time. Read the introduction, conclusion, or why not…

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 committed to using the best of what technology has to offer to achieve that purpose. Having been at the forefront of data-driven social science research…

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