Locating missing persons in Ukraine
How do you find missing persons in the midst of war?Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), explains how her organisation investigate cases, sea...
25 Apr 202327min
Norway’s work on climate, peace, and security in the UN Security Council
Climate security was one of Norway’s priority areas during its period as an elected member of the UN Security Council (2021–2022). What did Norway achieve? Hans Olav Ibrekk, Norway’s Special Envoy for...
24 Apr 202341min
Russia-West relations before, in and after the war on Ukraine
Was there ever a deal to be had with Putin before the war? Is Russia mainly motivated by domestic or foreign policy considerations? And is there anything Western leaders can do to win hearts and minds...
31 Mar 202348min
How to engage with China?
In this episode of The World stage, Rana Mitter, Professor at the University of Oxford, and Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson, Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, will first give an overview of China’s key domest...
31 Mar 202344min
The emergence of Non-Western and Global International Relations
In this episode of the World Stage podcast, NUPI’s Cedric de Coning is in conversation with Amitav Acharya and Stein Tønnesson on the emergence of non-Western and Global International Relations.The di...
30 Mar 202337min
How to make UN peace operations more effective?
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has set a process in motion to re-think the UN’s role in peace and security in the current global context. A team in the UN Secretariat is currently draftin...
28 Mar 202318min
Security realities of freezing politics and thawing landscapes in the Arctic
Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has had immediate and ongoing effects for Arctic security and cooperative governance at both a regional and international level. The region is impacted by the i...
17 Feb 202325min
Russian youth, war, and independent journalists in exile
The Russian online magazine DOXA is this year's winner of the Norwegian Student Peace Prize. The committee highlights their work exposing corruption and sexual harassment at universities, documenting ...
10 Feb 202331min
