Marte Heian-Engdal left PRIO in 2017. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
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Journal Article in Babylon
This year Israel celebrates 75 years since it was established. That spawned the Arab-Israeli conflict and the displacement of the Palestinians, known as the Nakba. PRIO researchers have done extensive research on the formative years of Israel and the events surrounding the establishment.
The summer graduate course in Peace Research has been taking place every summer since 1969. This year, Senior Researcher Marte Heian-Engdal and Research Assistant Ida Roland Birkvad are coordinating the course.
On the occasion of the visit to Oslo by the Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar, H.E. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, a closed roundtable discussion on the Middle East was hosted by PRIO, in association with the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) at the Doha Institute.