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Ukraine War

Research-based comments and analysis on the Ukraine War

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Monday, 22 Jun 2026

Illustration photo. Photo: Ruma Aktar/Getty Images

Shadow of Anchorage no-deal looms over Ukraine peace no-talks

The long-deadlocked Ukraine war has from the start of 2026 changed quite drastically in the tactical, strategic and geopolitical dimensions, but has remained immobile on the diplomatic track.

Tuesday, 9 Jun 2026
SPIEF鈥�26 highlighted Russia鈥檚 growing economic troubles

Tuesday, 2 Jun 2026
Russia hits strategic ceiling with attacks, strikes, and bluffs

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Surge in nuclear brinksmanship cannot regain Russia鈥檚 position of strength

Thursday, 7 May 2026
Putin missed another potential chance to work toward peace

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Friday, 19 Jun 2026

Gaza in June 2026. Photo: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images

Does ‘ceasefire’ still have any real meaning?

We're seeing an incredibly dangerous development where ceasefires are changing character, as conflict parties accept high levels of violence within the label 鈥榗easefire鈥�.

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Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

G7 summit in Evian, France in June 2026. Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

How the G7 can reset global finance

When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will host more than another summit. It will host a test of whether rich-country coordination can still solve problems that no country can manage alone.

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Friday, 17 Apr 2026

Peter Magyar, lead candidate of the Tisza party, after polling stations closed during Hungarian parliamentary elections on April 12, 2026 in Budapest. Photo: Janos Kummer/Getty Images

As Hungary rejoices, Moscow keeps counting down its comrades and clients

The crushing defeat of Viktor Orban鈥檚 seemingly entrenched and deeply corrupt political regime in Hungary signifies a massive setback for Russia鈥檚 foreign policy.

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Friday, 17 Apr 2026

Wall painting from a museum in Kitgum, Northern Uganda. Photo: 糖心网页版

Attacks on education cause lifelong harm

The recent bombing of a girls鈥� school in Iran, killing at least 165 schoolgirls, is a stark reminder of how brutally war affects children.

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Thursday, 9 Apr 2026

Florida State lawmakers approved the name change of a portion of Southern Boulevard to “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard' in January 2026. Photo: Getty Images

Political realism in the era of Donald Trump

Donald Trump鈥檚 behaviour lies far outside the bounds of traditional political realism, making it challenging both to conduct and to interpret international politics and diplomacy in the era of Trump.

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Wednesday, 8 Apr 2026

Jubilee Library, Brighton, United Kingdom. Photo: Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It’s time for academics to take community action on AI

The situation is critical 鈥� Academic publishing urgently needs life support.

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Tuesday, 31 Mar 2026

Russian soldiers mobilized for the war against Ukraine. Moscow, 2022. Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Putin’s war calculus keeps oscillating as spring offensive stumbles

The effect of the ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf on Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine grows more complex as the parties of both conflicts experience attrition of various kinds

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Monday, 23 Mar 2026

Lebanese families displaced after Israeli military warnings forcing residents to leave their homes and spend time on the streets. Beirut, Lebanon on March 14, 2026. Photo: Murat Sengul/Anadolu via Getty Images

Lebanon in the crossfire: Ten key points about the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran

Lebanese resilience is being tested in a population worn down by conflict, once again caught in the crossfire of regional rivalries.

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Wednesday, 18 Mar 2026

Board of Peace. Photo: Getty images/Chip Somodevilla

Peace with an entry fee: Trump’s Board of Peace as a blueprint for ending wars

Talk of peace and war has been prevalent of late. In the last few weeks, President Trump鈥檚 Board of Peace met for the first time, tasked with securing peace amidst ongoing violence in Gaza.

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Monday, 16 Mar 2026

Care situation. Photo: zeljkosantrac/Getty images

Rights and duties in the Norwegian welfare state

How do we think about the balance of duties and rights in the welfare state: and specifically in the Norwegian welfare state?

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Friday, 13 Mar 2026

Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026. Photo: U.S. Navy via Getty Images

The US may become trapped in its own escalation

In just over one week, the US, together with Israel, has struck over 3,000 targets in Iran and dropped thousands of bombs.

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Wednesday, 11 Mar 2026

Vladimir Putin during the 7th summit in Astana format in Tehran, Iran on July 19, 2022. Photo: Ali Balikci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Russia expects Iran to endure U.S.–Israeli strikes

The shock in Moscow from the February 28 launch of ongoing U.S.鈥揑sraeli strikes on Iran has eased, and extensive Russian commentary has shifted to asserting that superior air power alone cannot guarantee a meaningful victory.

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Saturday, 7 Mar 2026

2025 Women, Peace and Security Index Covert Art . Illustration: GIWPS/糖心网页版

Wellbeing of women goes hand in hand with wellbeing of nations

In 2024, 676 million women lived in proximity to conflict, that is almost every 6th woman in the world 鈥� the highest number and proportion ever recorded.

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Friday, 6 Mar 2026

Tehran March 02 2026. Picture has been converted to black and white. Photo: Contributor/Getty Images

Dilemmas for Greece with the war against Iran

The current state of affairs, characterized by the circumvention of the law, the discrediting of institutions, the normalization of exception and the legitimization of bullying, is disastrous for us.

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Tuesday, 3 Mar 2026

The Persian Gulf, a vital oil and natural gas maritime corridor between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. The Gulf channels energy exports from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Oman. The route passes through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint in the global energy supply chain. . Photo: Gallo Images/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025

The outbreak of war against Iran also affects grandiose designs, such as the Vertical Corridor

The tactics of the European leadership could be considered careless.

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Tuesday, 3 Mar 2026

The minaret of a mosque is visible behind the ruins of a police headquarters that is completely destroyed in U.S.-Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on March 2, 2026.
. Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Russia struggles to find a response to U.S.–Israel attack on Iran

The U.S.鈥揑sraeli airstrikes against Iran that began on February 28 shocked Moscow.

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Friday, 27 Feb 2026

Joint Press Conference on Asylum, Migration and Visa Strategies in Brussels. Belgium on January 29, 2026. Photo: Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images

What problems are third‑country asylum centres intended to solve?

The EU is considering moving parts of asylum processing out of Europe, and several countries are pushing for third-country solutions.

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Tuesday, 17 Feb 2026

With a keystroke, the Trump administration shifted the world’s attention onto something that didn’t happen. . Photo: Malte Mueller / Getty Images

Trump’s attention-grabbing tactics

With a keystroke, the Trump administration shifted the world鈥檚 attention onto something that didn鈥檛 happen. At the same time, the most serious abuses happened absent our attention.

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Tuesday, 10 Feb 2026

Signing the peace plan for Gaza in October 2025. One woman present (Meloni). . Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

Naming the moment without despair: Women mediators in a shifting global order

Women mediators are not guests in the future order 鈥� they are architects.

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Tuesday, 10 Feb 2026

Russian hybrid warfare is recognized as a major challenge to transatlantic security. Photo: Gorodenkoff / Getty Images

Russian hybrid warfare backfiring

Russian provocations, from cutting cables on the seabed to drone incursions into the European Union, are recognized as a major challenge to transatlantic security.

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Friday, 6 Feb 2026

Poster warning of the expiration of the New START treaty. As the last remaining limit on U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, the poster quotes President Trump, who has said it is 'not an agreement you want expiring.'. Photo: Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images

Lamentations for the New START Treaty are immaterial

The聽sum total聽of shortcomings has not only made the New START Treaty irrelevant but also turned it into a false promise.

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Nobel Peace Prize

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Tuesday, 3 Feb 2026

Caracas, January 2026. Photo: Jesus Vargas/Getty Images

Venezuela: Bombs and sanctions – the humanitarian consequences

It is high time for the international and Norwegian media to focus on the humanitarian consequences of the U.S attack and sanctions on Venezuela, and on Machado鈥檚 shared responsibility for them.

Friday, 7 Nov 2025
An unpalatable Peace Prize

Wednesday, 15 Oct 2025
Russia ignores global peace developments to focus on Putin鈥檚 war

Monday, 13 Oct 2025
Mar铆a Corina Machado鈥檚 Nobel Peace Prize captures the spirit of our age

Thursday, 9 Oct 2025
Why Trump is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize

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Monday, 26 Jan 2026

Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG women fighters in Syria. Photo: Ahmet Sik/Getty Images

The repercussions of the Syrian government offensive against the Kurds

Syria is balancing on a knife鈥檚 edge, and the question of how the country鈥檚 minorities are treated is a key piece of the puzzle.

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Thursday, 8 Jan 2026

Large parts of Syria resemble Gaza, with ruins extending as far as the eye can see. Damascus in November 2025. Photo: Hisam Hac Omer/Anadolu via Getty Images

Assad’s fall gave hope, but the future hangs by a thin thread

Just over a year has passed since Assad鈥檚 brutal dictatorship fell and millions of Syrians regained hope. But with faltering support for refugees and reconstruction, and fears of new conflicts, hope is wearing thin.

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Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025

A DJI S1000 being used for archaeological surveying in Peru. Photo: Faine Greenwood

Where is civilian drone research going?

The future of civilian drones is not predetermined. It will emerge through dialogue among researchers, regulators, industry, security actors and civil society.

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Tuesday, 16 Dec 2025

Participants at the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum meeting held in Huairou, China, as part of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in September 1995. Photo: UN Photo/Milton Grant

The UN’s International Women’s Year generated enthusiasm for women’s peace work

At a time when both feminism and the peace movement are facing significant challenges, we can learn from how earlier generations of women and peace activists overcame challenges, generated enthusiasm, and collaborated with each other.

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Wednesday, 10 Dec 2025

Male and female members of The Stockholm Marine Regiment, are seen during Stockholm Archipelago Endeavour 2025. Photo: Narciso Contreras/Anadolu via Getty Images

Commanding change: What can we learn from the Swedish Armed Forces’ leadership program on gender equality?

What can we learn from senior military leaders on how to create sustainable organizational capacity building and improved recruitment and retention of personnel by better considering gender equality?

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Monday, 8 Dec 2025

Gaza City, November 2025. Photo: Getty Images

The UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza: Age of Consent or Recipe for Conflict?

On 17 November, the UN Security Council (UNSC) issued Resolution 2803, endorsing US President Trump鈥檚 20-point plan for Gaza. The resolution envisages a Board of Peace (BoP) to govern Gaza as an interim administration, as well as the establishment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) mandated to ensure stability, demilitarization and the disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups.

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Beyond the COVID Curve

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Thursday, 4 Dec 2025

Soldiers guide members of the public at a rapid vaccination centre in June 2021 in Bolton, England. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

What are duties good for? Lessons from the pandemic

The concept of duty can be clarifying of social and political relations.

Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Pandemic Aftermath: Reflecting on the Value and Compensation of Essential Workers

Monday, 14 Feb 2022
What Happens to Childhood Vaccine Rates in Conflict Zones? This Analysis Found Some Surprises

Thursday, 13 Jan 2022
Even at Times of Crisis, Children Must Go to School

Thursday, 30 Sep 2021
Corona Apps 鈥� Going Global

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Monday, 1 Dec 2025

Devastation after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region, in Derna, Libya on September 17, 2023. Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Peace and good institutions save lives from floods

Why do some countries succeed in minimising the human toll of floods, while others face repeated catastrophes? The answer lies not only in meteorological or economic conditions, but also in political ones.

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Thursday, 27 Nov 2025

A woman listening to an AI at an AI exhibition in Toulouse. Photo: Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images

It comes in peace? AI’s promise and peril for women, peace and security

Can AI help revive the WPS agenda or does it risk deepening the challenges that WPS meant to overcome?

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Monday, 24 Nov 2025

Drones in the UK. Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Aeropeace in airspace: from defensive measures to positive peace

Peace can no longer be imagined without a peaceful sky 鈥� without 鈥楢eropeace鈥� 鈥� but what does that entail?

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Security Dialogue

Posts by authors and editors at Security Dialogue, a journal that aims to combine cutting-edge advances in theory with new empirical findings across a range of fields relevant to the study of security.

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Friday, 21 Nov 2025

Robot dog with surveillance camera. Photo: Mikkel William via Getty Images

Deciphering the militarizing effect of military practices of threat forecasting: the French Red Team Project and its relevance for contemporary civil-military relations

Imagine being a part of a government-backed initiative that recruits artists and scientists to envision future threat scenarios. Isn鈥檛 that a promising way to overcome organizational biases and group-thinking? In my recent article published in Security Dialogue, I examined the French Red Team project, a recent initiative of the French Ministry of Armed Forces that appears fascinating at first hand and more concerning at a closer look.

Friday, 21 Nov 2025
Why Hezbollah endures

Friday, 21 Nov 2025
Twenty years of vernacular security research

Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
Imagining War in the Neurotechnological Age

Wednesday, 3 Sep 2025
Translation: How Securitization of Islam travels from Right-wing to Left-wing Political Parties

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Friday, 21 Nov 2025

Fake news illustration. Photo: RichVintage via Getty Images

Why we should stop talking about “fake news”

The term 鈥渇ake news鈥� has taken root in public discourse, and this does more harm than good.

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Comment series Ukraine War

Shadow of Anchorage no-deal looms over Ukraine peace no-talks

Does ‘ceasefire’ still have any real meaning?

How the G7 can reset global finance

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Norwegian peace diplomacy - is it facilitation or mediation? And why this matters.

AI is neither the autocrat’s silver bullet nor democracy’s death sentence

Do we need peace research when Norway is threatened by war?

The war in the shadow of Iran

Putin’s Beijing visit promises few rewards

The Gaza effect

A challenging Presidency of a Union strained by a war-challenged member state

Russians appeal to Putin that he is misinformed about reality

The ceasefire with Iran expires on 22 April. What happens then?

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As Hungary rejoices, Moscow keeps counting down its comrades and clients

Attacks on education cause lifelong harm

Political realism in the era of Donald Trump

It’s time for academics to take community action on AI

Putin’s war calculus keeps oscillating as spring offensive stumbles

Lebanon in the crossfire: Ten key points about the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran

Peace with an entry fee: Trump’s Board of Peace as a blueprint for ending wars

Rights and duties in the Norwegian welfare state

The US may become trapped in its own escalation

Russia expects Iran to endure U.S.–Israeli strikes

Wellbeing of women goes hand in hand with wellbeing of nations

Dilemmas for Greece with the war against Iran

The outbreak of war against Iran also affects grandiose designs, such as the Vertical Corridor

Russia struggles to find a response to U.S.–Israel attack on Iran

What problems are third‑country asylum centres intended to solve?

Trump’s attention-grabbing tactics

Naming the moment without despair: Women mediators in a shifting global order

Russian hybrid warfare backfiring

Lamentations for the New START Treaty are immaterial

Comment series Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela: Bombs and sanctions – the humanitarian consequences

The repercussions of the Syrian government offensive against the Kurds

Assad’s fall gave hope, but the future hangs by a thin thread

Where is civilian drone research going?

The UN’s International Women’s Year generated enthusiasm for women’s peace work

Commanding change: What can we learn from the Swedish Armed Forces’ leadership program on gender equality?

The UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza: Age of Consent or Recipe for Conflict?

Comment series Beyond the COVID Curve

What are duties good for? Lessons from the pandemic

Peace and good institutions save lives from floods

It comes in peace? AI’s promise and peril for women, peace and security

Aeropeace in airspace: from defensive measures to positive peace

Comment series Security Dialogue

Deciphering the militarizing effect of military practices of threat forecasting: the French Red Team Project and its relevance for contemporary civil-military relations

Why we should stop talking about “fake news”

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Ukraine War

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Nobel Peace Prize

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Beyond the COVID Curve

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