Seminar om Kai Eides nye bok, "Høyt spill i Afghanistan", som er en frtittalende beskrivelse av hans to år som FNs øverste mann i Afghanistan. Toppdiplomaten Kai Eide er for tiden tilknyttet PRIO. Kommentarer: Harald Stanghelle, Aftenposten og Anne Kristin Sydnes, Kirkens Nødhjelp. Seminaret vil bli ledet av Kristian Berg Harpviken.
Open seminar on Women's Rights in Islam, seen from a Sudanese post-conflict perspective. Presented by Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt and Liv Tønnessen, researchers at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Opening remarks and chair: Torunn Tryggestad, PRIO. Based on the policy brief "The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas".
Open seminar on Women's Rights in Islam, seen from a Sudanese post-conflict perspective. Presented by Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt and Liv Tønnessen, researchers at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Opening remarks and chair: Torunn Tryggestad, PRIO.
Based on the policy brief "The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas".
This is the unedited footage of a seminar that took place on 26 April 2011. Magnus Marsden (PhD, Cambridge) is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Marsden talked about the relationship between mobility, militancy and trade in the lives of people he knows and has known in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
This is the unedited footage of a seminar that took place on 26 April 2011.
Magnus Marsden (PhD, Cambridge) is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Marsden talked about the relationship between mobility, militancy and trade in the lives of people he knows and has known in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
The purpose of the conference was to present and summarize the main findings of the research undertaken in the INEX project and discuss general thematic issues related to the project. Video of the various panels are available above.
Professor Stuart Kaufman of the University of Delaware, USA, is currently Fulbright Scholar as Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy at the University of Vienna in Austria.The seminar was chaired by Scott Gates, Director of CSCW.
The official opening of the Research School in Peace and Conflict will take place at PRIO on Monday 11 April. The research school is organized in collaboration with the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The opening includes a lecture by Professor Mats Berdal, King’s College London, on the topic 'Research, Policy and Practice: Reflections on the Study of Peace and Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era'.
The official opening of the Research School in Peace and Conflict will take place at PRIO on Monday 11 April. The research school is organized in collaboration with the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
The opening includes a lecture by Professor Mats Berdal, King’s College London, on the topic 'Research, Policy and Practice: Reflections on the Study of Peace and Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era'.
In this seminar, Cindy Horst will present a Handbook for interaction with diasporas in peacebuilding, written for practitioners.
As a major regional power, Egypt’s constructive participation is required for a peaceful and successful political transition in the Sudan. With the referendum concerning the future of Southern Sudan only months away, it is urgent to discuss policy options in Sudan-Egypt relations. It is important for the future development of the whole region that Egypt finds a way to continue a constructive interaction with political forces in both Northern and Southern Sudan.
With less than 100 days remaining before the deadline for the Southern Sudanese people's right to a referendum on secession from the North, this timely seminar with Dr. Luka Biong Deng (Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Government of National Unity), provides an unique opportunity to hear the perspectives of an involved party to the peace agreement. Important Note: Representatives of the National Congress Party, the dominant party in the Government of National Unity, were invited to supplement Dr. Luka Biong's presentation and to contribute contrasting views and perspectives on the political situation in the Sudan. They were however not able to participate. It is hoped that a future seminar with a National Congress Party representative will be organised.
With less than 100 days remaining before the deadline for the Southern Sudanese people's right to a referendum on secession from the North, this timely seminar with Dr. Luka Biong Deng (Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Government of National Unity), provides an unique opportunity to hear the perspectives of an involved party to the peace agreement.
Important Note: Representatives of the National Congress Party, the dominant party in the Government of National Unity, were invited to supplement Dr. Luka Biong's presentation and to contribute contrasting views and perspectives on the political situation in the Sudan. They were however not able to participate. It is hoped that a future seminar with a National Congress Party representative will be organised.
The PRIO Annual Peace Address 2010, the first in a new series, will be given by Jon Elster. One of the world’s most influential voices in social science, Elster is currently affiliated with Collège de France (Paris), Columbia University (New York) and Peace Research Institute Oslo. Elster will give the 2010 Address on the topic of Justice, Truth, Peace.
Seminar with Jubin Goodarzi (Professor at Webster University, Geneva) about the creation of Syrian-Iranian axis in the Middle East and beyond, the factors contributing to the importance and uniqueness of the alliance, the foreign policy objectives of the two partners, the six stages in the evolution of the alliance, major milestones, its changing power structure, and its salience in the post-2003 period (phase six) since the US-led war on Iraq. The seminar was chaired by Kristian Berg Harpviken, PRIO, and Jørgen Jensehaugen, PRIO, was discussant.
Concluding seminar of the Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding project, a three-year research project coordinated by PRIO that addresses the ethical dimensions of the liberal peacebuilding agenda. General findings from the project are presented by J. Peter Burgess (PRIO) and Kristoffer Lidèn (PRIO). Specific cases are presented by Stein Sundstøl Eriksen (NUPI, presenting on DR. Congo), Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh (Science Po/CERI - Afghanistan), Inger Skjelsbæk (PRIO - Bosnia), and Endre Stiansen (Norwegian MFA - Sudan). The seminar is followed by a rountable debate on the ethical premises of in particular the Norwegian peacebuilding engagement, chaired by Henrik Syse and including: Jan Egeland (Director at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI), Mariano Aguirre (Managing Director Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, Noref), Lars Christie (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Randi Lotsberg (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, NORAD), Morten Høglund (FrP, and member of Norwegian Parliament, Committee of Foreign Affairs & Defence), and Kristian Berg Harpviken (Director at International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, PRIO).
This conference marks the end of the three-year European Science Foundation-sponsored ‘GROW’ project Disaggregating the Study of Civil War, involving PRIO/NTNU, University of Essex, and ETH Zurich.
Seminar with Nigel Roberts, leader of the 2011 World Development Report, the most well-known and important of the World Bank's annual publications. In 2011, the special topic is Conflict, Security and Development, and will focus in particular on forms of violence that threaten the development prospects of a state. Nigel Roberts presents the work with the report and points to some preliminary conclusions. PRIO is involved in the work with the report, and studies the economic, human and social cost of conflict. Håvard Hegre presents the effect of civil wars on achieving the Millenium Development Goals. PRIO is contributes to the report with a comprehensive background report. Three other research teams (Stanford University, Oxford Universty and New York University) are working in parallel, and the outcome will be the main data source for the World Development Report. In addition to PRIO, researchers from NUPI, FAFO and CMI also present their work for the project. The seminar was chaired by PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken.
Seminar with Nigel Roberts, leader of the 2011 World Development Report, the most well-known and important of the World Bank's annual publications.
In 2011, the special topic is Conflict, Security and Development, and will focus in particular on forms of violence that threaten the development prospects of a state.
Nigel Roberts presents the work with the report and points to some preliminary conclusions. PRIO is involved in the work with the report, and studies the economic, human and social cost of conflict. Håvard Hegre presents the effect of civil wars on achieving the Millenium Development Goals.
PRIO is contributes to the report with a comprehensive background report. Three other research teams (Stanford University, Oxford Universty and New York University) are working in parallel, and the outcome will be the main data source for the World Development Report.
In addition to PRIO, researchers from NUPI, FAFO and CMI also present their work for the project.
The seminar was chaired by PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken.
Throughout history and across cultures, combatants in the world’s many wars have overwhelmingly been male. Why this is so has been an enduring puzzle for which various academic disciplines have proposed answers. At this seminar, Joshua Goldstein will review evidence from history and biology, among other disciplines, about whether women are ill-suited to fight in wars as compared to their male counterparts. On the whole, the evidence shows that not only do women meet the physical and psychological requirements for fighting, but when given the chance they have performed quite well. This conclusion deepens the mystery of why societies, which hightly value success in warfare, have so rarely mobilized the potential military power of women as combatants.
At this seminar, Joshua Goldstein will review evidence from history and biology, among other disciplines, about whether women are ill-suited to fight in wars as compared to their male counterparts. On the whole, the evidence shows that not only do women meet the physical and psychological requirements for fighting, but when given the chance they have performed quite well. This conclusion deepens the mystery of why societies, which hightly value success in warfare, have so rarely mobilized the potential military power of women as combatants.
Seminar with John J. Mearsheimer, professor at the University of Chicago.The seminar will be chaired by Kristian Berg Harpviken, PRIO Director. Discussant: Stein Tønnesson.
The main speaker is Jan F. Qvigstad, Deputy Governor of Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway). The seminar is chaired by Kristian Berg Harpviken (director of PRIO). Discussants; Henrik Syse (PRIO) and Karl Ove Moene (CSCW and University of Oslo).
Discussants; Henrik Syse (PRIO) and Karl Ove Moene (CSCW and University of Oslo).