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              Siri Aas Rustad

              Siri Aas Rustad

              Research Director

              Email: sirir@prio.org

              Mobile phone: 47 917 00 274

              Twitter: @SiriRustadPRIO

              Research Interests

              Conflict data and trends; Human consequences of conflicts; Natural resources and environment.

              Siri Aas Rustad
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              Comment

              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 ‘ceasefire’.

              News

              Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021

              Child inspects their destroyed house due to the war in Yemen. Photo: Copyright (c) 2018 anasalhajj/Shutterstock

              Syria and Yemen Top Statistic on Number of Children at Risk of Recruitment by Armed Actors

              ​Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.

              News

              Tuesday, 17 Aug 2021

              CHS and PRIO to Launch Report on Conflict Trends in the Arab World

              The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) , will jointly release a major report analysing conflict trends in the Arab world from 1946 to 2019.

              PRIO Paper

              2020

              Conflict Trends in the Middle East.

              Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2019

              PRIO Paper

              Recorded event

              Friday, 6 Dec 2019 13:30–15:00 UTC+01

              National Geographic featuring the Index. National Geographic
              01:27:57

              ​Where is it Worst or Best to be a Woman?

              Launching the Women, Peace and Security Index 2019/2020 - During Oslo Peace Days

              Policy brief

              2019

              Front cover of publication. PRIO

              The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (IS)

              Conflict Trends

              Popular article

              2026

              Har «våpenhvile» lenger noen reell betydning?

              Popular article in Aftenposten

              Event

              Wednesday, 25 Aug 2021 15:00–16:30 UTC+02

              Report Launch: Conflict Trends in the Arab World

              ​The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (Doha Institute) and PRIO are pleased to release a new report analysing Conflict Trends in the Arab World, 1946 – 2019.

              PRIO Blogs

              Wednesday, 30 Jun 2021

              A Syria Relief aid worker carrying an emergency foodpack to a survivor of the Beirut explosion in August 2020. Edwardtheeduard / Wikimedia Commons

              Do Cease-Fires in Syria Work? We Checked the Data.

              Our research looks at 10 years of truces in Syria. A missile attack last weekend in northern Syria left a hospital in ruins and further casualties in a residential area. But these types of attacks have become less common in Syria. Although this civil war remains among the most devastating ...

              News

              Thursday, 24 Sep 2020

              New Report on Conflict Trends in the Middle East

              ​In their first-ever report to examine conflict trends in the Middle East, PRIO researchers take a closer look at the hard data on the number of conflicts – between states, within states, as well as one sided violence – and at ceasefires as well as peace agreements.

              Report – other

              2019

              Yemen, Ceasefire Project Country Report

              PRIO Paper

              2022

              Conflict Trends in the Middle East.

              Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2021

              PRIO Paper

              Report – other

              2021

              Front cover of publication.

              Conflict Trends in the Arab World, 1946–2019

              Policy brief

              2020

              Front cover of publication. PRIO

              Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2019

              Conflict Trends

              Policy brief

              2020

              Front cover of publication. PRIO

              Are the Coronavirus Ceasefires Working?

              Conflict Trends

              Policy brief

              2019

              Front cover of publication. PRIO

              Mediation in the Yemeni Civil War: Actors, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned

              Conflict Trends
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