Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Afghanistankomiteens generalsekretær Liv Kjølseth i samtale med forfatter Åsne Seierstad om hennes nye bok ‘Afghanerne’.

This panel will take us back to the early autumn of 2021 and examine how the international donor community responded to the Taliban takeover, and how humanitarian assistance was rapidly...

How does the Taliban govern? After taking power in August 2021, the Taliban merged their own shadow government with remnants of the administration of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to...

The Norwegian Godal Committee from 2017 stated that ''the support the Intelligence Service provided to the Special Forces through the National Intelligence Support Team (NIST) was the most comprehensive and...

This new book, by Afghan academic Timor Shahran maps out how political networks and centers of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality. Such networks effectively constituted the Afghan state...

Preventing Afghanistan from becoming the ground for new terror attacks against the US and its allies was the major justification for the intervention in 2001. During almost 20 years of...

After the Taliban takeover women’s rights have dramatically worsened. Women are more and more invisible in public space. They are ordered to cover their faces, prohibited from travelling alone or...

The Taliban have now controlled Afghanistan for over a year, and the relationship between the new rulers and its neighbours are taking shape. The level of continuity in the relations...