Sebastian Schutte

Great initiative, Haakon, happy to contribute. Anyone else chipping in?

Online speech drives real-world violence, new PRIO study finds – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) A new study from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) represents one of the first large-scale investigations into how online discourse can both inc ...

Online hate isn’t just virtual. Posts with Hindu nationalist hashtags on India’s Koo platform precede real-world attacks on Muslims & Christians.

When the internet shuts down, so does the violence.

Fresh research from colleague @sschutte.bsky.social et al

Read more 👉 www.prio.org/news/3644

Widening the ceasefire toolkit: The promise of geophysical monitoring in Ukraine and beyond Any monitoring mission deployed to observe an end to the hostilities in Ukraine is likely to incorporate a range of remote-sensing technologies to support its verification activities. Drawing on insig...

A new policy brief by Dr Ben D.E. Dando, @kjolvegeland.bsky.social, and @sschutte.bsky.social draws on insights from the Norwegian institute NORSAR’s real-time monitoring of the 2022 Ukraine conflict.
europeanleadershipnetwork.org/policy-brief...

Even subtle online rumors about out-group can ⬆️ resentment & conflict-related emotions. Results from large pre-registered experiment out in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
, with Mathilde B. Mjelva,
@sschutte.bsky.social
, Helga M. Binningsbø.
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Online speech and communal conflict: Evidence from India

First publication from the ODAS project (www.prio.org/projects/1955) is out! We scraped 80% of Koo (Indian Twitter clone) and find that religious references predict increases and reductions in subsequent Hindu-Muslim violence (with Daniel Karell and Ryan Barrett): academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Debatt: Norsk bidrag til overvåkning av våpenhvile i Ukraina Norge har avgjørende ekspertise og kan spille en viktig rolle i utviklingen av et overvåkningssystem for en våpenhvile i Ukraina.

The “Easter Truce” that broke down quickly shows that Ukraine will need a ceasefire monitoring solution. We think we can build one (på norsk): www.dn.no/innlegg/ukra... (in English): chatgpt.com/share/68075b...

YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo Could a Breakthrough Technology Transform the War in Ukraine?

Arnaud Siad from PRIO's "Peace in a Pod" has talked to Oleksandra Matviichuk and me about how new technologies could help with ceasefire monitoring in Ukraine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLg...

Norwegian research foundations develop new technology for studying war crimes against Ukraine – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) PRIO and NORSAR, both Norway-based research foundations, today announced a joint effort to use cutting-edge sensor technology for uncovering and analys ...

New collaboration with NORSAR on using remote sensing to research the war in Ukraine. We try to understand where civilians are at highest risk, how traditional event data compare to remote tech, and applications to ceasefire monitoring: www.prio.org/news/3607

One theme at EPSA '24 was experimenting on German public views to increase military support for Ukraine. As I wrote a year ago, the rank order of national preferences here is perfectly predicted by WWII experiences. So please know your bias, everyone: blogs.prio.org/2023/04/with...

Not quite by pigeon, but the Event Horizon Telescope data was indeed trucked and flown instead of uploaded: new.nsf.gov/science-matt...

Very possibly so, please drop me a line if you want to propose a panel. Good initiative!