Jon Elster left PRIO in 2012. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Email: je70@columbia.edu
Work phone: 22547700
Working experience:
Education:
Mag.art.(philosophy) from the University of Oslo, 1966. Thesis: "Prise de conscience dans la Phénoménologie de l'Esprit de Hegel".
Docteur ès lettres et sciences sociales from the University of Paris V, 1972. Thesis: "Production et reproduction: Essai sur Marx".
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Please see the external homepage at Columbia University for more information about this person.
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
PRIO Policy Brief
Book Chapter in Making Sense of Suicide Missions
Book Chapter in Islamistisk Terrorisme
Monograph
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Edited Volume
The Prize is the Academy's bi-annual Prize for Outstanding Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year, the prize has been awarded to Jon Elster.
Two former PRIO associates, both working group leaders at our Centre for the Study of Civil War (2002–12), have been honoured for their outstanding academic contributions.
Today Jon Elster will present the first PRIO Annual Peace Address on the topic of transitional justice: Justice, Truth, Peace.
The Address will be followed by comments by Elisabeth Wood and Dagfinn Føllesdal.
Watch the Address at Youtube.
PRIO and the Colombian Vice-Presidency organised a highly successful international seminar on the role of law in peace negotiations in Bogotá 15-16 June 2007. The seminar focused on ways in which law can serve as a constraint and incentive in peace negotiations. The seminar was part of the PRIO research project on accountability-related measures and peace processes. Jon Elster played a key role in the seminar.
Norway has produced a number of social scientists who are well known in the rest of the world. Today, perhaps the most cited and influential of these is the philosophically oriented Jon Elster, who has just been appointed to a top scholarly position in Paris.
Elster is a Working Group leader with the Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO.
The book 'Islamistisk terrorisme' [Islamist Terrorism], edited by Bjørn Erik Rasch, discusses how to understand - and prevent - the use of terror as a weapon. Several of the contributors within this edited volume are researchers at PRIO and/or PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War.
'Closing the Books - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective', is an analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present.