Arne Strand is an External Associate at PRIO.
Email: arne.strand@cmi.no
Website: www.cmi.no/staff/arne-strand
Arne was Centre Manager for the PRIO Cyprus Centre from 2007 to 2009 and has also participated in numerous PRIO proejcts, notably on Pakistan and Afghanistan. Arne holds a PhD in Post-war Recovery Studies from the University of York from 2004.
Book Chapter in Lives in Peace Research: the Oslo Stories
Report - External Series
Book Chapter in Asylsøker: I Velferdsstatens Venterom
Report - Other
Book Chapter in Local Politics In Afghanistan : a Century of Intervention In the Social Order
Book Chapter in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
Report - External Series
Popular Article in Aftenposten
Book Chapter in A Constitutional Convention for Cyprus
Journal Article in The Cyprus Review
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.
The joint Chr. Michelsen Institute - United States Institute of Peace - PRIO project 'Achieving Durable Peace in Afghanistan' seeks to identify and clarify through research and dialogue key domestic issues and options for Afghanistan to move towards durable peace.
Gregory Reichberg, Research Professor and former Leader of the Ethics, Norms and Identities Programme at PRIO, has been offered, and has accepted, to replace Arne Strand as Manager/Director of PRIOs Cyprus Centre, as Arne Strand is to repatriate himself after serving PRIO in Cyprus for two and a half years.
PRIO and CMI researchers have written a new report together with Afghan researchers.
On the 21 and 22nd of November, The PRIO Liberal Peace and Ethics of Peacebuilding project and the PRIO Cyprus Centre (PCC) held a very successful two-days workshop, addressing ethical imperatives of peacebuilding policies.
PRIO and the Norwegian Red Cross organized a two day conference in Oslo, discussing roles and responsibility of various actors - humanitarian, developmental, civilian and miltiary - in Afghanistan. The conference gathered key representatives of the Afghan government, the Norwegian government, the UN, NATO, humanitarian NGOs and the International Committe of the Red Cross. The conference starts Tuesday. Conference proceeding are published by the end of the year.
This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI), to assess the programme for voluntary return to Afghanistan. The report has been written by a PRIO-CMI team, consisting of Arne Strand (team leader), Arghawan Akbari, Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Kristian Berg Harpviken, Akbar Sarwari, and Astri Suhrke.
This was the point message in a new report launched by the PRIO Cyprus Centre today. More than 100 people came to the Ledra Palace in the buffer zone of Nicosia to attend the presentation of the report The day after: Commercial opportunities following a solution to the Cyprus problem by the three authors: Fiona Mullen, Özlem Oguz and Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou.
PRIO has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with three of Afghanistan’s leaders, all prominent in the post-2001 statebuilding process. The speakers have been invited to do a ‘stocktaking’ of opportunities and challenges facing civil society, the parliament and the central government. They will each give their commentary on these three sectors.
The seminar will be chaired by Kristian Berg Harpviken, PRIO, with Arne Strand, CMI, as a discussant.
This morning, we woke up to news that parts of the wall separating Nicosia has been torn down during the night. This happened close to the PRIO Cyprus Centre, in the Ledra Street.