Johan Vincent Galtung is a Norwegian sociologist who is the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo is a private research institution in peace and conflict studies,based in Oslo,Norway,with around 100 employees. It was founded in 1959 by a group of Norwegian researchers led by Johan Galtung,who was also the institute's first director (1959–1969). It publishes the Journal of Peace Research,also founded by Johan Galtung.
Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts,with a view towards understanding those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition. A variation on this,peace studies (irenology),is an interdisciplinary effort aiming at the prevention,de-escalation,and solution of conflicts by peaceful means,thereby seeking "victory" for all parties involved in the conflict.
The Journal of Peace Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews in the fields of peace and conflict studies,conflict resolution,and international security. It was established by Johan Galtung in 1964 and has been published since 1998. Nils Petter Gleditsch was editor-in-chief from 1983 to 2010;between 2010 and 2017 the editor was Henrik Urdal,and as of July 2010 the editor is Gudrun Østby.
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is a data collection program on organized violence,based at Uppsala University in Sweden. The UCDP is a leading provider of data on organized violence and armed conflict,and it is the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war,with a history of almost 40 years. UCDP data are systematically collected and have global coverage,comparability across cases and countries,and long time series. Data are updated annually and are publicly available,free of charge. Furthermore,preliminary data on events of organized violence in Africa is released on a monthly basis.
Vegard Bye is a Norwegian political scientist,writer,consultant and ex-politician. He has represented the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Angola and Bolivia,written extensively on Latin America,and is a consultant specializing on human rights,democracy,conflict and post-conflict societies as well as solar energy. He served as a Substitute Representative (Vararepresentant) to the Norwegian Parliament for the Socialist Left Party from Oslo (1993-1997),meeting in the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Helga Marie Hernes is a German-born Norwegian political scientist,diplomat,and politician for the Labour Party.
Kristian Berg Harpviken is a Norwegian sociologist and researcher,and since 2009 director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Harpviken is foremost known for his competence on Afghanistan,where he has travelled extensively and conducted multiple field works since he first engaged with the country in 1989.
Nils Petter Gleditsch is a Norwegian sociologist and political scientist. He is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). In 2009,Nils Petter Gleditsch was awarded the annual Award for Outstanding Research by the Research Council of Norway. He won the Norwegian Sociological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Scott Gates is an American political scientist and economist based in Norway. He was director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)'s Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW),which was a Norwegian Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway for a twelve-year period 2002-2013. He is currently a Research Professor at PRIO,a Guest Researcher at ESOP in the Department of Economics at the University in Oslo and also holds a professorship in the Department of Political science at the University of Oslo. He used to work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Michigan State University (MSU).
Jørgen Carling is a Norwegian researcher specializing on international migration. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo and is Research Professor of Migration and Transnationalism Studies. Carling has worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) since 2002,where he has been Research Director since 2012.
J. Peter Burgess is a philosopher and political scientist. He is Professor and Director of the Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the Ecole Normale Supérieure,Paris. He is series editor of the Routledge New Security Studies collection. His research and writing concern the meeting place between science,culture and politics in particular in Europe,focusing most recently on value theory and digital technologies. He has published 18 books and over 100 articles in the fields of philosophy,political science,gender studies,cultural history,security studies and cultural theory. He has contributed to research and educational policy in Norway,France,Poland and the European Commission. In addition,he has developed and directed a number of comprehensive collaborative research projects with Norwegian and European partners.
Inger Skjelsbæk is a Norwegian gender studies scholar,who is professor of gender studies at the Centre for Gender Research in Oslo. She was an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo between 2015 and 2019. Skjelsbæk is also a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and served as the institute's deputy director from 2009 to 2015.
Dan Smith OBE is a British author,cartographer and peace researcher. He is currently the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The Armed Conflict Location &Event Data Project (ACLED) is a non-governmental organization specializing in disaggregated conflict data collection,analysis,and crisis mapping. ACLED codes the dates,actors,locations,fatalities,and types of all reported political violence and demonstration events around the world in real time. As of 2022,ACLED has recorded more than 1.3 million individual events globally. In addition to data collection,the ACLED team conducts analysis to describe,explore,and test conflict scenarios,with analysis made freely available to the public for non-commercial use.
Henrik Syse is a Norwegian philosopher,author,and lecturer. He is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO),and a part-time Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College in Oslo. He was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,which awards the Nobel Peace Prize,from 2015 to 2020,and was a member of the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission from 2002 to 2016. Syse also teaches at the Norwegian Defence University College,BI Norwegian Business School,MF Norwegian School of Theology,the University of Oslo,and other institutions of higher learning,and he is Chief Editor of the Journal of Military Ethics,a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor &Francis.
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is a Norwegian political scientist and a professor at the University of Essex,holding the title of Regius Professor. His main fields of research are on the topics of conflict,democratistation and non-violent mobilisation.
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict," according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement on 5 October 2018 in Oslo,Norway. "Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on,and combating,such war crimes," according to the award citation. After reading the citation,Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that the impact of this year's award is to highlight sexual abuse with the goal that every level of governance take responsibility to end such crimes and impunities.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Director's Shortlist is a list of candidates considered worthy to win the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts and actions for the promotion of peace. It has been prepared by the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo since 2002,and is a list of the most worthy potential Nobel laureates based on independent research and assessments.
Matthias Basedau is a German political scientist and director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies in Hamburg.
