Jon Elster left PRIO in 2012. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Jon Elster
Working Group Leader, CSCW; Professor, Columbia University
Email: je70@columbia.edu
Work phone: 22547700
Working experience:
- Research director, Institute for Social Research, Oslo, 1984 to present.
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1988
- Member, Academia Europaea since 1989
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 1990-92.
- Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1991
- Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, 1995 to present.
- Adjunct Professor, Centre for the Study of Civil War, Oslo 2003-2007
Please refer to the full CV for a complete list.
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".
External homepage:
Please see the external homepage at Columbia University for more information about this person.
Latest publications
All publications
Armed Conflict and Post-Conflict Justice, 1946–2006: A Dataset
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Land and Peace
PRIO Policy Brief
Suicide Missions: Motivations and Beliefs
Book Chapter in Making Sense of Suicide Missions
Selvmordsaksjoner
Book Chapter in Islamistisk Terrorisme
Closing the Books
Monograph
Exploring Exploitation
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
De utro tjenere. Embetsverket i EF-kampen
Edited Volume
Latest news
Jon Elster Receives Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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.
Honours Awarded to Jon Elster and Kalle Moene
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.
PRIO Annual Peace Address
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.
Law in peace negotiations
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.
Jon Elster Professor at Collège de France
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.
Islamist Terrorism
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'
'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.
Latest events
All events
What do we know about Civil War?
Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism
PRIO Annual Peace Address 2010: Justice, Truth, Peace
Emotions and Civil Wars
Law in Peace Negotiations
The Role of First Actors in Civil War
Workshop on Conflicts and Economics, 14-15 December 2005
Transitional Justice and Civil Conflicts Settlements
Thucydides and Civil War
The Boundaries of Civil Wars
