Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten left PRIO in 2011. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten
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Monday, 29 May 2006
PRIO Annual Report 2005
The Annual Report 2005 for PRIO is ready. The report includes the Annual Report for Centre for the Study of Civil War, which is also published separately.
You may download the report from the link below, or you may order a paper copy from info@prio.no. Please use the same e-mail address if you have any comments to make on the report.
Languages spoken:
English, Norwegian - and the IT people can add Perl, C, C++, C# and Javascript ;)
Education:
See curriculum.
New PRIO Website
We are proud to present the new PRIO website!
Much of the content is available due to a larger data integration project at PRIO: The PRIO Portal Project. Information from our administrative/economic system is transferred to our internal project management tool, and selected parts of this moves on to the external website. This is made possible by topic map technology.
PRIO Annual Report 2005
The Annual Report 2005 for PRIO is ready. The report includes the Annual Report for Centre for the Study of Civil War, which is also published separately.
You may download the report from the link below, or you may order a paper copy from info@prio.no. Please use the same e-mail address if you have any comments to make on the report.
Luc Ferry: Secularism
As part of the lecture series on Independence of the Mind, organized by the French Cultural Centre and PRIO, Luc Ferry has visited Norway, hosting a seminar on secularism. The seminar had an attendance of almost 250 people.
Luc Ferry is a model public intellectual, able to draw on multiple roles as a political scientist, philosopher, commentator, essayist and former minister of education and research in France.
CSCW Annual Report
The Annual Report for 2004 is now available. You may download the report from the below link, or you may order the printed version by sending an e-mail to cscw@prio.no
PRIO Annual Report
The Annual Report for 2004 is now available. You may download the report from the below link, or you may order the printed version from info@prio.no.
Europe and Peace
PRIO and the French Cultural Centre organized a seminar with Simone Veil. The seminar is the 5th in the series Independence of the Mind. The Simone Veil seminar attracted an audience of around 450 in the University Aula.
European Masochism
PRIO and the French Cultural Centre today organized a seminar with the French philosopher, essayist and novelist Pascal Bruckner. During the seminar, Bruckner presented his thoughts on the 'masochistic' tendencies of a Europe consumed by and constantly feeding its own sense of guilt. The seminar attracted 160 people.
West Versus West
André Glucksmann gave a talk for an audience of more than 200 at a seminar in Oslo on 28 April. His topic was West Versus West on the relationship between Europe and the USA and between countries in Western Europe. The seminar was the third in a series of seminars organized by PRIO, the French embassy and the French Cultural Centre in Norway.
Europe and Islam
Professor Gilles Kepel of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (IEP) gave a talk 7 March during a seminar on Europe and Islam. The seminar was attended by 320 people, and was the second in a series of seminars organized by PRIO, the French embassy and the French Cultural Centre in Norway.
Independence of the Mind
In observance of the 100th anniversary of Norwegian independence PRIO, the French Embassy and the French Cultural Centre are pleased to present a series of learned talks by some the world’s most prominent thinkers of religion, politics, and identity in Europe. Read more...
