This open access book explains how PRIO, the worlds oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is the worlds oldest independent peace research institute. In this book, a great number of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their personal experiences with peace and conflict, tell what drove their peace engagement, and discuss the balance sought in the field between the cold dictates from academic rigor and the hot pursuit of peace, a desire for research to make a positive difference. Most of the chapters are interviews where one colleague interviews another. Some are self-reflective essays, while others are memorial essays written about a peace researcher who has passed away. Taken together, the book presents a lively picture of a thriving world-leading research environment and a wealth of conflicting or mutually reinforcing perspectives on war, violence, conflict, conflict management and resolution, negotiations and mediation, peacemaking, peace building, and the contested concept of peace.
The Oslo Stories is an indispensable source to the history of peace research.
Dr. Olav Njølstad, Director, Nobel Institute, Oslo
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1 Inspiration from a Father: Johan Galtung |
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2 Uniting Nations for Peace: Ingrid Eide |
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17 | (14) |
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3 Organizing for Peace: Man Holmboe Ruge |
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31 | (16) |
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4 Pioneer and Patron of Social Science and Peace Research: Erik Rinde (1919-1994) |
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47 | (18) |
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5 A Social Democratic Peace: Nils Petter Gleditsch |
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65 | (26) |
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6 Peace with a Human Rights Perspective: Asbj0rn Eide |
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91 | (20) |
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7 The Lifelong Peace Advocate: Marek Thee (1918-99) |
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111 | (24) |
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8 Congo and Structural Violence: Helge Hveem |
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135 | (10) |
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9 The First Steps in the PRIO-Uppsala Connection: Peter Wallensteen |
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145 | (12) |
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10 From Anarchy to Enlightened Absolutism? Sverre Lodgaard |
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157 | (32) |
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11 The Peace Policy Maker: Dan Smith |
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189 | (34) |
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12 Truth and Logic for a More Peaceful World: Kristian Berg Harpviken |
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223 | (32) |
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13 On the Road to Peace: Wenche Iren Hauge |
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255 | (12) |
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14 PRIO's State Feminist: Helga Hemes |
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267 | (32) |
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15 Searching the Archives for a Missing Peace: Hilde Henriksen Waage |
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299 | (28) |
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16 Fresh Grounded Peace Research: Ashild Kolas |
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327 | (12) |
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17 The Democratic Civil Peace and Beyond: Scott Gates |
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339 | (26) |
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18 A Historian's Paths to Peace |
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365 | (26) |
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19 Managing Peace Researchers: Lene Kristin Borg and Grete Thingelstad |
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391 | (26) |
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20 Peace Is More Than the Absence of War: Inger Skjelsbaek |
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417 | (16) |
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21 A Migrant in the Common European House: Pavel Baev |
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433 | (22) |
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22 Non-pacifist Philosophy in Good Faith: Henrik Syse |
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455 | (22) |
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23 Creating a Third Space in the Cyprus Conflict: Mete Hatay |
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477 | (16) |
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24 Johan Galtung at 90: His Enduring Legacy to Peace Research in Oslo |
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493 | (8) |
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Stein Tųnnesson is Research Professor and former Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), associate editor for Asia in the Journal of Peace Research, a Toda Senior Research Fellow, and member of the editorial board of Global Asia. His areas of research are peace in East Asia, nation-building in Southeast Asia, conflict in the South China Sea, revolution and war in Vietnam, and the role of social media in Myanmars internal armed conflicts. During 201117 he led the East Asian Peace program at the University of Uppsala, from which he published the monograph Explaining the East Asian Peace (NIAS Press 2017) and the book chapters Peace by Development in E. Bjarnegård & J. Kreutz, eds. Debating the East Asian Peace (NIAS Press, 2017) and The East Asian Peace, in T. Inoguchi, ed. The SAGE Handbook on Asia Foreign Policy (SAGE, 2020).
