News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, and interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

30 October 2023

Predicting Peace and Conflict: Insights from CAS's 'Stability and Change' Project Leaders

On the 26th of October, two of last year’s project leaders at CAS, Nils Lid Hjort and Håvard Hegre, held a lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

11 May 2023

Predicting conflicts and humanitarian impacts

Forecasting conflict intensity is a challenging exercise. Yet, it can save lives by enabling early warning systems. With the goal of improving the accuracy and certainty of forecasts, Håvard Hegre and the VIEWS team is launching a new prediction challenge.

10 September 2020

Is the world becoming more peaceful?

We asked Senior Researcher at PRIO, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, and Professor of Statistics and Data Analysis at UiO, Nils Lid Hjort, what their project Stability and Change is about.

08 September 2020

Announcing the CAS projects 2022/23: from influenza to peace-and-conflict, and algebra

For the first time, two of the project leaders come from our newest member institutions: OsloMet and PRIO. One of the projects is hyper-relevant for the Corona situation. These projects were elected to come to CAS in 2022/23