New study ‘A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses’ was published in Psychological Medicine! Michal Onderčo was part of the research team led Jan Willem van Prooijen that worked on discovering relationships between conspiracy beliefs and health outcomes. Congratulations!
One or Many? Disentangling the Puzzle of Pro-Government Militia Deployment
In the new article by Kamil Klosek and Emil Souleimanov, you’ll learn why some countries harbor pro-government militias, while others do not. The study was published in the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and you can now read it right here!
The lesser evil? Experimental evidence on the strength of nuclear and chemical weapon “taboos”
A new article by Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, and Ondřej Rosendorf has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science! Our researchers present the results of a survey experiment, seeking to answer the question of whether people are more averse to the use of nuclear or chemical weapons.
Let us introduce the Nuclear Taboo Database!
At our new webpage nuclear-taboo.eu you can now search through a database of academic literature that examines one of the most intriguing puzzles in our field: Why have nuclear weapons not been used in military conflict since 1945?
New Publication: "From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO."
A new paper by Michal Smetana & Michal Onderčo has just been published in Journal of Conflict Resolution! The paper reports findings from the 2021 survey experiment in Russia, which investigated Russian public support for nuclear weapon use in the hypothetical conflict with NATO in the Baltics. Read here!
PRCP Policy Brief #017
Nikola Kurková Klímová wrote our new Policy Brief titled ‘Special tribunal for Ukraine: A way forward for international criminal justice?’
PRCP Annual Conference 2022
The Annual Conference of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP) is organized together with the Institute of Political Studies, Political Science Club, and Common Law Society.
This year, our distinguished speakers will discuss various aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian War, namely, its implications for the future of the world order and the potentiality of nuclear escalation.
“Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons” - new publication in International Studies Quarterly
We are proud to announce the publication of a new article by Michal Smetana and Michal Onderčo. The article “Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians” was published in the prestigious journal International Studies Quarterly and it systematically examines the differences between elite and public views of nuclear weapons in Germany.