Sebastian Schutte is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Sebastian’s research investigates political violence, insurgencies, and civil wars using spatial and quantitative methods. He holds a PhD in political science from ETH Zürich and master’s degrees from the University of Freiburg and ETH Zürich. Sebastian currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Peace Research.
Sebastian Schutte
Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Content by Sebastian Schutte
Policy brief
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 insights from the Norwegian research institute NORSAR’s real-time monitoring of the 2022 Ukraine conflict, this policy brief by Ben D.E. Dando, Kjølv Egeland, and Sebastian Schutte, finds that scientific advances and a growing availability of relevant data have made ‘seismo-acoustic’ analysis a cost-effective means of complementing, backing up, and in some cases replacing other ceasefire monitoring technologies.