Additional positions:
Professor of History, University of Oslo
Email: hilde@prio.org
Mobile phone: (+47) 971 14 503
Hilde Henriksen Waage's current main project is The Missing Peace:
Few adversaries have been enmeshed in a more vicious spiral of hostility than Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours. Except for the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt (1978) and the peace agreement with Jordan (1994) have countless efforts by individuals, organisations, large and small states to open up direct channels of dialogue ended in failure. The United States has for years been trying to stop the fighting over the land that Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab neighbours claim to be theirs. So has the United Nations. Why have all mediation attempts between these parties so far proved unsuccessful? What are the conditions that need to be met in order to have a solution that could be tolerated by them? Why isn't there any ongoing peace process? To what extent is third party intervention necessary or desirable? Have the many failed interventions lacked the necessary skill, the political will, the clout – or all three? Does perhaps the power asymmetry between a strong Israel, on the one hand, and the weak Arab states and Palestinians, on the other, explain the lack of any peaceful outcome?
News
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022
For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights. The series of events are called Oslo Peace Days.
PRIO will contribute to this year's Oslo Peace Days with four events, including the prestigious PRIO Annual Peace Address.
2005-present: Professor of History, University of Oslo
2005-present: Researcher at PRIO in a part-time capacity
1996-2005: Deputy Director at PRIO
1995-2005: Senior Researcher at PRIO
2001-2003: Programme Leader, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Programme, PRIO
1992-1993: Acting Director at PRIO
2013-: Bachelor student in Modern Hebrew
1997: Dr. philos., University of Oslo (History)
1987: Cand.philol., University of Oslo (History)
1982: Cand. mag., University of Oslo
Book Chapter in Lives in Peace Research: the Oslo Stories
Book Chapter in Lives in Peace Research: the Oslo Stories
PRIO Paper
MidEast Policy Brief
Journal Article in Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier
Book Chapter in Krig Og Fred I Det Lange 20. Århundre
Book Chapter in Ways Out of War: Peacemakers In the Middle East and Balkans
Edited Volume
Monograph
Journal Article in International History Review
This year Israel celebrates 75 years since it was established. That spawned the Arab-Israeli conflict and the displacement of the Palestinians, known as the Nakba. PRIO researchers have done extensive research on the formative years of Israel and the events surrounding the establishment.
For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights. The series of events are called Oslo Peace Days.
PRIO will contribute to this year's Oslo Peace Days with four events, including the prestigious PRIO Annual Peace Address.
Today, for the fifth time in just over three years, Israelis are holding an election.
The new open access
book Lives
in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world's
oldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survived
through crises.
In the PRIO Paper 'The Geopolitics of Syria's Reconstruction', Research Professor Hilde Henriksen Waage and Research Assistant Magnus Seland Andersson address the geopolitical competition which has effectively deadlocked the civil war in Syria.
The MidEast Policy Brief series was launched in late 2019. The series aims to disseminate timely and relevant research to the wider public on topics relating to the MENA region, and provide research-based policy advice. Three policy briefs have been published in the series. The first assesses the viability of Kurdish and Palestinian quests for self-determination, the second lays out misconceptions about the Yemen War, while the third scrutinizes the foundations of the EU policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In connection with the seminar Camp David at Forty – Lessons and Prospects PRIO is proud to present a unique primary source from the 1978 negotiations – the notes of US Middle East advisor William B. Quandt.
PRIO organized a seminar with Karin Aggestam, associate professor at Lund University and deputy member of PRIO's board. The seminar was be chaired by Hilde Henriksen Waage, who also also gave a comment to Aggestam's talk. The seminar was attended by 60 people.
The Palestinian Minister of Refugee Issues, Atef Adwan, visited PRIO on Monday 15 May. He was received by Director Stein Tønnesson and researchers from PRIO’s Middle East research program, led by Hilde Henriksen Waage.