PRIO was founded in 1959 and became a fully independent institute in 1966. It was one of the first centres of peace research in the world, and it is Norway’s only peace research institute. Its founding and early influence were instrumental in projecting the idea of peace research.
PROGRAM 09:00 Velkommen v/ Stein Tønnesson, Direktør på PRIO Torunn L. Tryggestad, forsker, PRIO – Ordstyrer for dagen 09:15 Innledninger • Fredsaktivisten: Ingrid Eide om kvinneperspektiv/kjønnsperspektiv i PRIOs første år: historie, saker, aktører og rollemodeller • Reporteren: Sigrun Slapgard om medienes dekning av krig og konflikt • Bistandsarbeideren: Marte Gerhardsen om det å drive kvinnerettet bistandsarbeid • Forskeren: Inger Skjelsbæk om kjønnsforskningens historie og utvikling på …
PRIO invites you to a seminar with Karin Aggestam, associate professor at Lund University and deputy member of PRIO’s board. The seminar will be chaired by Hilde Henriksen Waage, who will also give a comment to Aggestam’s talk. Please register with [email protected] if you want to take part in this seminar. Peacemaking in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Middle East peace process may be described as a “roller coaster”. It contained a significant number of agreements between the parties. At the …
Seminar med Amina Loukili, marokkansk journalist og foreleser ved avd. for mediefag, Høgskulen i Volda. Utdrag fra presentasjonen: With large growing communities of immigrants dispersed in different parts of the world, eager to preserve their identities and cultures, the Internet has become an ideal cost-effective communication tool that facilitates interaction within the diaspora. As Moroccan immigrants seek to maintain ties with their homeland, many are increasingly embracing the Internet to …
Fra PRIOs hjemmesider: “We are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Ambassador Ma Zhengang, President of China Institute of International Studies. The title of his lecture will be ‘China’s Development and Its foreign Policy’. Ambassador Ma is in Oslo in connection with the China-Nordic Roundtable 23-25 March. Ambassador Ma Zhengang is President of China Institute of International Studies and Vice-chairman of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative …
Klipp og lim: We are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Immanuel Wallerstein. The title of his lecture will be "Living in a Post-American World. Wallerstein is in Oslo in connection with the launch of the Norwegian translation of his book “European Universalism. The Rhetoric of Power”. The seminar is organized by the joint PRIO-NUPI project State Failure and Regional Insecurity. The seminar will be chaired by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the …
Welcome to a seminar on intervention in Afghanistan organized by the PRIO Strategic Institute Programme Arms against a Sea of Troubles. January 19, 10.00, at PRIO – registration to [email protected] Discussant: Kristian Berg Harpviken. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh is, since September 2005, the Director of the newly created Center for Peace and Human Security at L’Institut d’ Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, previously Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at …
Welcome to a seminar on intervention in Afghanistan organized by the PRIO Strategic Institute Programme Arms against a Sea of Troubles. January 19, 10.00, at PRIO – registration to [email protected] Discussant: Kristian Berg Harpviken. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh is, since September 2005, the Director of the newly created Center for Peace and Human Security at L’Institut d’ Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Tadjbakhsh worked as a staff member of the UNDP in various field assignments. Her last …
An international conference on the costs of security and the value of liberty in an age of trans-national terrorism.
Foredrag med Olivier Roy, fransk statsviter og forsker på islam og Europa. han har utgitt blant annet ‘La laïcité face à l’Islam’ (2005) og ‘L’islam mondialisé’ (2002). Han skriver for tidsskriftet Esprit og for Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Newsweek, etc. Foredraget er del av foredragsrekken ’Tankens uavhengighet som det franske kultursenter og PRIO samarbeider om. Påmelding til [email protected]
PRIO and Pax Publishing are proud to be able to invite you to the launch of Hanne Eggen Røislien’s Bosettere på hellig grunn: En reise blant jødiske nybyggere [On Holy Ground: A Journey Among the Jewish Settlers of the Middle East]. Written with the general reader in mind, the book provides a personal account of Røislien’s encounters with various individuals and groups in the Middle East. The launch event will include a presentation of the book, after which the audience will be invited to …
The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and the University of Oslo have the pleasure of inviting you to two linked seminars with Middle East expert Professor William B. Quandt. The first seminar will focus on ‘What Has Worked?’, the second on ‘What Has Not Worked?’. Both seminars will be chaired by Hilde Henriksen Waage, Associate Professor (UiO) and Senior Researcher (PRIO). This seminar will focus on the three ‘success cases’: • Kissinger and the disengagement agreements • …