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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.
Honours Awarded to Jon Elster and Kalle Moene
Two former PRIO associates, both working group leaders atour Centre for the Study of Civil War (2002–12), have been honoured for their outstanding academiccontributions.
PRIO Annual Peace Address
Today Jon Elster will present the first PRIO Annual Peace Address on the topic of transitional justice: Justice, Truth, Peace.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
