FUMI Survey data collection in The Gambia 🇬🇲 kicked off today. Over the coming weeks our Center for Research and Policy Development colleagues will interview 1000 young adults about their lives and dreams. prio.org/fumi PRIO

📚Check out this new QuantMig H2020 Project report on Empirical Analyses of Determinants of Migration Aspirations! By Maryam Aslany, Tone Sommerfelt & Jørgen Carling (PRIO) 🔗bit.ly/3BE67mR

How come polyandry persists in some corners of the world? And what is it all about? Unique study from Tibet by Heidi Fjeld on marriage practice, kinship, society and seemingly unexpected directions of cultural change. Warmly recommended!

Nuanced analyses of the recent «coup within a coup” in BF where different branches within a “poly anarchic” army turn to France and Russia for support, in fights against jihadi forces. Burkina Faso’s Military Coup Makes Its Security Crisis Worse | WPR worldpoliticsreview.com/burkina-faso-m…

PRIO and Director Henrik Urdal (Henrik Urdal) congratulate Ales Bialiatski (Viasna), Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties on being awarded the #NobelPeacePrize2022! Read more here👉 prio.org/news/2974 #NobelPeacePrize #Nobel

Lucky to get early copy of new book on WhatsApp and West Africa edited by Hassan Idayat & @jchitchen w Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies. Especially interested in Gambia chapter by Sait Matty Jaw. Well done all, looks great.

📢Call for Applications📢 ​Universitetet i Oslo master's #students are now invited to apply for a place on the UiO-PRIO #Student Programme! For more information about the Student Programme, and to apply, click here👉 prio.org/education/ma Deadline🗓️: 28 November 2022. #vacancy

Onward #Migration and Multi-Sited #Transnationalism book #OpenAccess ✨ Our chapter considers ‘destination(s)’ in complex migration trajectories 🇵🇱🇵🇭🇳🇴++ 🇵🇸 @hunting4tea.bsky.social 🇵🇸 ⁦⁦⁦⁦PRIO⁩ Jill Ahrens⁩ ⁦⁩ Migrant transnationalism(MITRA) - also on Bluesky⁩ ⁦⁦ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, staged a vote to extend his 43-year-rule of a tiny, authoritarian state where once plentiful oil wealth has been in a rapid decline. Obiang has given former authoritarian president Jammeh of The Gambia a new home. reuters.com/world/africa/w…

Researching #migration, development & policy links, the #MIGNEX project is also committed to transparent research practice. We did qualitative data collection in 26 research areas, in 10 countries: so, how did that work out? Check out our #Documentation to find out! A short 🧵

To stay on top of new research & publications is important, yet takes time. For PRIO on #migration #displacement, #refugee education, #migration aspirations & more 👉🏽 see our Migration Update, out today! Sign up: migration.prio.org/Subscribe/ More here: migration.prio.org

Ousman Sonko to be tried for crimes against humanity in Swiss court. He “rejects allegations that crimes against humanity took place .. at the time.” TRRC process tells other story. S. didn’t leave his post as interior minister under Jammeh till 2016 bbc.com/news/live/worl…

Mass deaths at sea are to the EU what mass shootings are to the US. - It keeps happening. - And every time, politicians pretend to be concerned. - And every time, politicians keep in place the government policies at the root of the problem. - And it keeps happening.

Jollof rice, Benechin, cheep… A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the Jollof rose is and remains Senegambian 😉

Sic! Macron är verkligen ett problem. C'est sérieux dèh!

New book: Join us for the launch of "Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa: An Axel Sommerfelt Collection," at The Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, April 1th, 4-6pm! Published by Berghahn Books. @Unioslo_anthro Kulturhist. museum PRIO khm.uio.no/english/resear…

Europeiske myndigheter bruker millioner av euro på å advare mennesker mot å migrere. Stadig mer forskning reiser tvil om dette er velbrukte midler, men det kommer an på hva som er tiltakenes målsetting. Kollega Jørgen Carling kronikk: panoramanyheter.no/asylpolitikk-f…

Hearty congrats to PRIO’s own Kristian Berg Kristian B Harpviken who has been appointed the new Director of the Nobel Institute. We very much look forward to working closely with him in his new role. nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-re… PRIO The Nobel Prize