Johan Galtung left PRIO in 1969. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
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Sunday, 8 May 2022
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.
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Saturday, 24 Oct 2020
Today is PRIO founder Johan Galtung´s 90th birthday. We congratulate him with a text written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, and published on the PRIO blog. Folllow this link and enjoy!
See also Henrik Urdal's 2019 interview with Galtung: "Inspiration from a Father".
Johan Galtung was at the core of the group of intellectuals behind the establishment of PRIO in 1959. Without Galtung's enormous effort and personality, PRIO would never have come true.
Johan Galtung was the founding editor of Journal of Peace Resarch in 1964.
Galtung left PRIO in 1969, to become Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of Oslo. He maintained informal ties to the institute for some time after his departure. For the last decades, however, he has had little contact with PRIO and has not had any formal links to the institution.
In 1993 Johan Galtung and Fumiko Nishimura founded the conflict mediation organization Transcend.
An extensive interview with Johan Galtung by Henrik Urdal was published as part of the 60th Anniversary series PRIO Stories in May 2019.
Monograph
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Monograph
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
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.
Today is PRIO founder Johan Galtung´s 90th birthday. We congratulate him with a text written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, and published on the PRIO blog. Folllow this link and enjoy!
See also Henrik Urdal's 2019 interview with Galtung: "Inspiration from a Father".
Journal of Peace Research is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year. To mark the anniversary, JPR has published its Anniversary Special Issue, offering broad reviews of research areas that have been central both to the journal and to the field of peace and conflict research generally. In addition, as part of the celebrations, all articles from JPR's 50 years have been made available for free download for 50 days!
Eva Fetscher will be defending her PhD dissertation in History titled The Peace Prophet and the Iconoclast. The Chair in Conflict and Peace Research at the University of Oslo, 1963–1985 on Friday 18 October. The dissertation discusses the lobbying that led to the establishment of the chair in conflict and peace research that was held by Johan Galtung 1969–77, the struggle over the succession, and Øyvind Østerud’s tenure from 1980 and his decision to change the designation of the chair to ‘international conflict studies’. Although the main focus is on events at the University of Oslo, the dissertation contains a great deal of discussion of the history of PRIO and of peace research in general.
Today (Sunday 24 October 2010), pioneering peace researcher Johan Galtung celebrates his 80th birthday.
Johan Galtung was the leader of the group of young, dedicated people, that founded PRIO in 1959. Without Galtung, PRIO would not have been there to celebrate it's 50th anniversary in 2009.
Today (Monday 24 October 2005), the United Nations celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding. On the same day, pioneering peace researcher Johan Galtung celebrates his 75th birthday.