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Annual Report 2014
Independent • International • Interdisciplinary
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PO Box 9229 Grønland, NO-0134 Oslo, Norway
Visiting Address: Hausmanns gate 7
Editors: Agnete Schjønsby & Martin Tegnander
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ISBN 978-82-7288-608-9 (print)
ISBN 978-82-7288-609-6 (online)
Cover photo: Boy in Bangui, Central African
Republic running through looted and burning
homes. Photo: Marcus Bleasdale
A Challenging Year
for World Peace
PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken
The new challenges
create a demand for new
knowledge and new
forms of engagement,
without forgetting that the
dramatic events of 2014
were neither unique nor
unpredictable.
I believe PRIO is well equipped to play our part
with a new and ambitious strategy for 2014–17,
which defines new research themes and identifies excellence in research communication as a
core objective. Here are three highlights from
PRIO’s work in 2014:
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It has been a year of
worrying setbacks for
peace in many parts of the
globe. We have seen the
rise of the Islamic State
and an escalating crisis
in the Middle East. In
Europe, tensions between
Russia and the West over
Ukraine are deepening.
There are worrying signs
of conflict in East Asia.
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Societal Security has long been central to
the PRIO agenda, with studies of how
societies respond to a variety of threats –
ranging from terrorism to pandemics – and the
ethical and societal impacts of the various preventative and ameliorating measures adopted.
A new EU-funded Network of Excellence,
SOURCE, with PRIO at the lead, brings
together leading research institutes and universities to work with industrial and policy actors,
integrating critical security perspectives with
technological and legal innovation. Later in the
year, PRIO launched a new Nordic Centre of
Excellence, NordSTEVA (Nordic Centre for
Security Technologies and Societal Values), to
examine the ways in which security technology
and societal values are mutually constitutive of
each other.
Gender, Peace and Security is another
PRIO signature area. The gender dimension is central within all research areas at
PRIO, and our long-standing gender-focused
research team continues to advance and impact
both research and policy agendas. With longterm support from the Norwegian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, in combination with the
Research Council of Norway’s recent funding
of a multi-year project on the negotiation of
gender equality norms in war-to-peace transitions, we have a stronger base than ever. The
impact is tangible, not least in the engaging of
the world’s leading mediators in the series of
UN High-Level Seminars on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes, a collaboration
between the UN Department of Political Affairs
(DPA), the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI)
and our own team. PRIO was also a co-host for
the Symposium on Women’s Rights and
Empowerment in Afghanistan in November,
featuring Norwegian Prime Minister Erna
Solberg and the First Lady of Afghanistan, Rula
Ghani.
Predicting the risk of conflict is a longstanding ambition in peace research. At
PRIO we possess broad knowledge of the
various factors that are robustly related to the
outbreak of internal armed conflict and, greatly
helped by new technological opportunities,
Photo: Martin Tegnander, PRIO
have used this to model statistically the likelihood of future outbreak in any given country.
Working with the universities of Uppsala and
Oslo, we are exploring how to gain more finegrained and, by implication, up to date predictions from ‘big data’. Models of prediction are
of great value to governments and organizations engaged in conflict prevention, and our
work has, for example, informed the EU Global
Conflict Risk Scan (EUGCRS), which is to
guide the EU in all its external action services.
On top of this, we have celebrated the 50th
anniversary of the Journal of Peace Research
(read the anniversary special issue!), hosted a
range of seminars addressing current issues,
and launched a new heavily trafficked blog
channel. Enjoy the report and follow PRIO
in 2015!
PRIO Organization
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Structure
Board
Bernt Aardal
Institute Council
Director´s Office
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Director
Inger Skjelsbæk
Deputy Director
Administration
Communication
Lene K. Borg
Agnete Schjønsby
Social Dynamics
Dimensions of Security
Conditions of Violence and Peace
PRIO Cyprus Centre
Cindy Horst
Inger Skjelsbæk / Pavel K. Baev
Halvard Buhaug
Harry Tzimitras
Research Groups
Cities and Populations
Civilians in Conflict
Conflict Patterns
Environment
Gender
Governance
Humanitarianism
Law and Ethics
Media
Migration
Projects administered by a specific Department Non-State Conflict Actors
Peacebuilding
Regions and Powers
Religion
Security
Cross-cutting thematic Research Groups
Strategic goals
2014–2017
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1. Develop new research initiatives
within the following thematic areas:
Technological Change
Inequalities and Insecurities
Contested International Engagements
Audiences
2. Maximize synergies across communication channels and
audiences
3. Pursue the highest standards in academic publishing
4. Inspire public discourse, inform debate
and challenge established truths
5. Engage in informed exchange with policy-makers,
practitioners and conflict actors
Assets
6. Cultivate recognition of the PRIO brand
7. Be an attractive employer which celebrates diversity,
flexibility, initiative, and learning
8. Secure a robust financial base
9. Expand strategic collaboration
with one or more Norwegian universities
10.Cultivate a leading editorial role in scholarly publishing
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Agenda
Dimensions
of Security
Staff in 2014
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Inger Skjelsbæk
Research Director
Until February
Pavel K. Baev
Research Director
From March
Bertrand
Lescher-Nuland
Department Manager
Vicky Ackx
Rocco Bellanova
Stine Bergersen
Ida Dommersnes
Anne Duquenne
Kai Eide
Maria Gabrielsen
Jumbert
Mareile Kaufmann
Åshild Kolås
Juliéta Lemaitre
Kristin Bergtora
Sandvik
Ranabir Samaddar
Anja Sletteland
Pinar Tank
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Department Manager
Bertrand Lescher-Nuland
Covadonga Morales
Bertrand
Antje Bierwisch
Nina Boy
J. Peter Burgess
Wenche Iren Hauge
Rozemarijn
van der Hilst
Jacob Høigilt
Elida Kristine Jacobsen
Research Staff
Pavel K. Baev
Rocco Bellanova
Covadonga Morales Bertrand
Nina Boy
J. Peter Burgess
Ida Dommersnes
Wenche Iren Hauge
Rozemarijn van der Hilst
Jacob Høigilt
Elida Kristine Jacobsen
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Mareile Kaufmann
Åshild Kolås
Pinar Tank
Simon Reid-Henry
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Ola Tunander
Synnøve Uglevik
Hilde Henriksen Waage
Visiting Researchers
Anja Sletteland
Antje Bierwisch
Maral Mirshahi
Marit Moe-Pryce
Marc-Antoine Pérouse
de Montclos
Simon Reid-Henry
Research Assistants
Stine Bergersen
Maral Mirshahi
Marit Moe-Pryce
Eirik Vold
Administrative Staff
Vicky Ackx
Anne Duquenne
Ola Tunander
Synnøve Ugelvik
Eirik Vold
Hilde Henriksen
Waage
PRIO Fellows at Brookings Institution
Pavel K. Baev
Kai Eide
PRIO Global Fellows
Julieta Lemaitre
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
Ranabir Samaddar
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Research Director
Inger Skjelsbæk (until February)
Pavel K. Baev (from March)
Social Dynamics
Staff in 2014
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Cindy Horst
Research Director
Jenny Kathrine
Lorentzen
Department Manager
Trond Bakkevig
Endre Begby
Kaja Borchgrevink
Jørgen Carling
Annik Cecilie
Saxegaard Falch
Kristian Berg
Harpviken
Nicole Monique
Hartwell
Rahmatullah Hashemi
Kristoffer Lidén
Jason Miklian
Marte Nilsen
Ceri Oeppen
Inger Skjelsbæk
Francis Steen
Mette Strømsø
Henrik Syse
Jennifer Wu
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Department Manager
Jenny Kathrine Lorentzen
María Hernández
Carretero
Lina Elter
Marta Bivand Erdal
Rojan Tordhol Ezzati
Helga Hernes
Kristian Hoelscher
Heidi Hudson
Noor Jdid
Christin Marsh
Ormhaug
Erlend Paasche
Greg Reichberg
Tove Heggli Sagmo
Research Staff
Kaja Borchgrevink
Jørgen Carling
María Hernández Carretero
Marta Bivand Erdal
Rojan Tordhol Ezzati
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Nicole Monique Hartwell
Rahmatullah Hashemi
Helga Hernes
Kristian Hoelscher
Cindy Horst
Noor Jdid
Kristoffer Lidén
Jason Miklian
Marte Nilsen
Christin Marsh Ormhaug
Erlend Paasche
Greg Reichberg
Tove Heggli Sagmo
Inger Skjelsbæk
Mette Strømsø
Henrik Syse
Torunn Lise Tryggestad
Stein Tønnesson
Jennifer Wu
Visiting Researchers
Trond Bakkevig
Annik Cecilie Saxegaard Falch
Francis Steen
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Research Assistants
Cathrine Talleraas
Shahrbanou
Tadjbakhsh
Cathrine Talleraas
Stein Tønnesson
Torunn Lise Tryggestad
MA Students
Lina Elter
Administrative Staff
Jennifer Wu
PRIO Global Fellows
Endre Begby
Heidi Hudson
Ceri Oeppen
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Research Director
Cindy Horst
Conditions of Violence
and Peace
Staff in 2014
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Halvard Buhaug
Research Director
Matthias Basedau
Ragnhild Belbo
Helga Malmin
Binningsbø
Ingrid Marie Breidlid
David Cunningham
Kathleen Gallagher
Cunningham
Marianne Dahl
Christian Davenport
Håvard Hegre
Helge Holtermann
Bjørn Høyland
Carl-Henrik Knutsen
Idunn Kristiansen
Elise Must
Fanny Nicolaisen
Jonas Nordkvelle
Ragnhild Nordås
Håvard M. Nygård
Kari Paasonen
Martin Smidt
Ricardo Sousa
Håvard Strand
Monica Duffy Toft
Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Ukoha O. Okiwo
Belén González
Damian Laws
Department Manager
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Research Director
Halvard Buhaug
Department Manager
Damian Laws
Hanna Bugge
Lars-Erik Cederman
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Erica Chenoweth
Primus Che Chi
Scott Gates
Elisabeth Gilmore
Kristian Skrede
Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Helene Molteberg
Glomnes
Luka Biong Deng Kuol
Michele Leiby
Cyanne Loyle
Nicholas Marsh
Shabana Mitra
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Kaushik Roy
Ida Rudolfsen
Siri Camilla Aas
Rustad
Espen Geelmuyden
Rød
Research Staff
Helga Malmin Binningsbø
Ingrid Marie Breidlid
Halvard Buhaug
Erica Chenoweth
Primus Che Chi
David Cunningham
Kathleen G. Cunningham
Marianne Dahl
Scott Gates
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Håvard Hegre
Helge Holtermann
Bjørn Høyland
Carl-Henrik Knutsen
Nicholas Marsh
Shabana Mitra
Jonas Nordkvelle
Ragnhild Nordås
Håvard M. Nygård
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Siri C. Aas Rustad
Espen Geelmuyden Rød
Håvard Strand
Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Henrik Urdal
Tore Wig
Gerdis Wischnath
Gudrun Østby
Visiting Researchers
Matthias Basedau
Christian Davenport
Elisabeth Gilmore
Michele Leiby
Cyanne Loyle
Elise Must
Kari Paasonen
Ricardo Sousa
Research Assistants
Ragnhild Belbo
Helene Molteberg Glomnes
Belén Gonzales
Idunn Kristiansen
Fanny Nicolaisen
Ida Rudolfsen
MA Students
Ragnhild Belbo
Hanna Bugge
Martin Smidt
Henrik Urdal
Tore Wig
Gerdis Wischnath
Gudrun Østby
PRIO Global Fellows
Lars-Erik Cedermann
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Christian Davenport
Luka Biong Deng Kuol
Kaushik Roy
Monica Duffy Toft
Ukoha O. Ukiwo
PRIO Cyprus Centre
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Harry Tzimitras
Director
Guido Bonino
Administrator
Ayla Gürel
Mete Hatay
Olga Demetriou
Giorgos Charalambous
Director
Harry Tzimitras
Administrator
Guido Bonino
Senior Research Consultants
Giorgos Charalambous
Olga Demetriou
Ayla Gürel
Mete Hatay
Consultants
Rebecca Bryant
Juliette Dickstein
Fiona Mullen
Rhodri Williams
For publications from the PRIO Cyprus
Centre, please consult page 31.
Projects in 2014
■ Borders
and Materialities, Olga Demetriou
the Divide, Mete Hatay
■ Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons,
Ayla Gürel and Harry Tzimitras
■ Ethics and Politics of Crisis, Olga Demetriou
■ Gender Rights and Peacebuilding, Olga Demetriou
■ Human Trafficking in Cyprus and the Region,
Juliette Dickstein
■ Nationalism and Landscape in Cyprus, Mete Hatay
■ Political Culture and Behaviour in the Republic of
Cyprus during the Crisis, Giorgos Charalambous
■ Political Culture in Unrecognized States,
Mete Hatay and Rebecca Bryant
■ Politics of Demography in Cyprus, Mete Hatay
■ Refugeehood in Cyprus, Olga Demetriou
■ Religion in Cyprus, Mete Hatay
■ Source of Conflict or Purveyor of Peace?
The Peace Potential of Hydrocarbon Resources,
Harry Tzimitras
■ The Cyprus Critical History Archive
(in collaboration with the Association for
Historical Dialogue and Research – AHDR),
Mete Hatay and Rebecca Bryant
■ The Cyprus Peace Dividend Revisited,
Harry Tzimitras
■ The Property Issue in Cyprus, Ayla Gürel, Rhodri
Williams and Fiona Mullen
■ Conversations Across
Events in 2014
■ 16 April. Report
launch, The Independent Commission on Turkey (ICT): Turkey in the Europe: The
Imperative for change by M. Ahtisaari, E. Bonino, A.
Rohan, N. Tocci
■ 24 April. Conference on Crisis Politics in Southern
Europe: Challenges to Democratic Governance
■ 28 May. Report launch: The Cyprus Peace Dividend
Revisited: A Productivity and Sectoral Approach
■ 23 June – 3 July. Summer School: Nationalism,
Religion and Violence in South-East Europe
■ 6 – 11 October. Summer School: Peace and
Conflict Research: Theory and Issues
■ 17 – 18 November. Expert workshop conference:
Oil and Gas in the Eastern Mediterranean: The
Regional Challenges Ahead
■ 22 November. Conference on the Economic Crisis
and Democratic Deficits in Southern Europe
(2009-2014)
■ 28 – 29 November. PCC Annual conference:
Conflict in Europe - Europe in Conflict: The
Changing Nature of Conflict in Europe and its
Neighborhood
■ 17 December. Book launch, Resolving Cyprus: New
Approaches to Conflict Resolution ed. James Ker
Lindsay
www.peace-research-endowment.org
Peace Research
Endowment
Board of Directors in 2014
Greg Reichberg
Executive Committee
Cynthia P. Schneider
Executive Committee
David Beasley
Board Member
Abigail E. Disney
Board Member
Haleh Esfandiari
Board Member
James D. Fearon
Board Member
Karin Forseke
Board Member
James Davison Hunter
Board Member
Edward Martin
Board Member
Steven Pinker
Board Member
Inger Skjelsbæk
Board Member
Elisabeth Jean Wood
Board Member
Gina Torry
Executive Director
Ingeborg Haavardsson
Special Advisor
Kate Boyce
Special Advisor
Staff in 2014
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Joe Reeder
Chair
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Research Groups
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How urban and demographic transitions create conditions for peace and
conflict
Coordinator: Kristian Hoelscher
Projects
■ Armed Violence in Urban Settings:
New Challenges, New Humanitarianisms.
Simon Reid-Henry
■ The Property Issue in Cyprus. Ayla Gürel
■ Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict. Henrik Urdal
(project leader), Primus Che Chi
■ Urbanizing India (URBIN): Urbanization,
Exclusion and Climate Challenges. Halvard
Buhaug (project leader), Kristian Hoelscher,
Jason Miklian, Gerdis Wischnath
■ Youth and Violence in South Sudan
(YuViSS). Øystein Rolandsen (project
leader), Ingrid Marie Breidlid
Completed Doctoral Projects
■ Hoelscher, Kristian: Institutions and Social
Violence. (Supervisor at PRIO: Henrik Urdal)
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■ Chi, Primus Che: The Impact of Armed
Conflict on Maternal and Women’s Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Henrik Urdal)
Events
■18
– 19 November:
Emerging Challenges in an Urbanising India:
Governance, Security and Climate Change
■ 3 December:
Reframing Urban Violence in Latin-America
How the actors in peacebuilding can
influence the peacebuilding agenda
Coordinator: Wenche Iren Hauge
Projects:
■Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management
in Haiti: Insight from Marginalized Communities. Wenche Iren Hauge (project leader),
Rachelle Doucet, Alain Gilles
■Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development:
Towards an Understanding of the Gendered
Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan,
and Liberia. Øystein H. Rolandsen
■Power-Sharing, Democracy and Civil Conflict.
Scott Gates (project leader), Helga Malmin
Binningsbø, Marianne Dahl, Helge Holtermann, Håvard Strand, Kaare Strøm
■The Cyprus Critical History Archive.
Mete Hatay, Rebecca Bryant
■Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization. Åshild Kolås (project
leader), Covadonga Morales Bertrand, Ola
Tunander
■The International Management of Peaceful
Development: Afghanistan and the Maghreb/
Sahel region. Kai Eide
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Lidén, Kristoffer: Between Intervention and
Sovereignty: Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding and
the Philosophy of Global Governance. (Supervisor at PRIO: J. Peter Burgess)
■Tryggestad, Torunn L.: International Norms
and Political Change: ‘Women, Peace and Security’ and the UN Security Agenda.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Helga Hernes)
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Dommersnes, Ida: Argentum Ad Captandum vs. Unified Effort. An Examination of
Strategic Narratives in ISAF. (Supervisor at
PRIO: Kristian Berg Harpviken)
■Sagmo, Tove Heggli: Return and Reintegration in a Post-Conflict Society: A Case Study
on Burundi. (Supervisor at PRIO: Jørgen
Carling)
Events
■20
May: Anthropology and the Latest Afghan
War (2001–Present)
■22 May: Decolonizing Intervention: Postwar
Statebuilding in Mozambique
■15 September: Book Launch:
The Long Road to Peace
■19 September: Hispaniola 2014: Justice,
Nationality and Migration
■3 December: Reframing Urban Violence in
Latin-America
Civilian agency and victimization in
conflict and post-conflict situations
Coordinator: Ragnhild Nordås
Projects:
■ Armed Conflict and Maternal Health in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Gudrun Østby (project
leader), Ragnhild Belbo, Primus Che Chi,
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Andreas Forø
Tollefsen, Henrik Urdal, Philip Verwimp
■ Conflict Trends (See page 20). Henrik
Urdal (project leader), Halvard Buhaug, Scott
Gates, Helene Molteberg Glomnes, Håvard
Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Ida Rudolfsen, Siri Aas Rustad,
Håvard Strand, Andreas Forø Tollefsen
■ Effective Non-Violence? Resistance Strategies and Political Outcomes. Kristian Skrede
Gleditsch (project leader), Erica Chenoweth,
Scott Gates, Belén González, Ida Rudolfsen
■ Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC.
Gudrun Østby (project leader), Ragnhild
Nordås, Lynn P. Nygaard, Siri Aas Rustad
■ Gender-based Violence in Armed Conflict.
Ragnhild Nordås
■ Protection of Civilians: From Principle to
Practice. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (project
leader), Cindy Horst, Kristoffer Lidén, Maral
Mirshahi, Simon Reid-Henry, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Pinar Tank
■ Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC).
Ragnhild Nordås (project leader), Scott Gates,
Helga Binningsbø, Siri Aas Rustad, Inger
Skjelsbæk, Gudrun Østby
■ Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict. Henrik Urdal
(project leader), Primus Che Chi
Completed Doctoral Projects
■ Rød, Espen Geelmuyden:
Mass Mobilization in Autocracies.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Hegre)
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Events
■ 3
March: Female Empowerment in DRC
– 9 May: Actors, Strategies and Tactics in
Contentious Direct Action. Workshop
■ 21 November: Armed Conflict and Maternal
Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
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How migration and transnational
ties interact with societal change
during peace and conflict.
Coordinator: Marta Bivand Erdal
Projects:
■ Active Citizenship in Culturally and Religiously Diverse Societies (ACT). Cindy Horst
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Noor
Jdid
■Nationalism and Landscape in Cyprus.
Mete Hatay
■Negotiating the Nation: Implications of
ethnic and religious diversity for national
identity (NATION). Marta Bivand Erdal
(project leader), Michael Collyer, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Katrine Fangen, Åshild Kolås,
Thomas Lacroix, Mette Strømsø, Cathrine
Talleraas, Mari Vaage
■Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and
Resilience after 22/7 (NECORE). Henrik Syse
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Mareile Kaufmann, Jennifer
Wu
■Possibilities and realities of return migration
(PREMIG). Jørgen Carling (project leader),
Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan Tordhol Ezzati,
Ceri Oeppen, Erlend Paasche, Tove Heggli
Sagmo, Cathrine Talleraas, Jennifer Wu
■ Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to
Poverty Reduction. Kristian Berg Harpviken
(project leader), Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta
Bivand Erdal
■Refugeehood
in Cyprus. Olga Demetriou
Property Issue in the Cyprus Conflict
Ayla Gürel (project leader), Fiona Mullen,
Rhodri Williams
■The Somali Diaspora’s Role in Somalia:
Implications of Return. Cindy Horst
■Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in
Migration (TRiMM). Jørgen Carling (project
leader), María Hernández Carretero, May-Len
Skilbrei
■Transnational Lives in the Welfare State
(TRANSWEL). Jørgen Carling (project
leader), Grete Brochmann, Godfried Engbersen, Marta Bivand Erdal, Marije Faber, Erik
Snel, Cathrine Talleraas
■The
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Ezzati, Rojan Tordhol: Collective Identities
in Post-Terror Norway. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Marta B. Erdal)
■Hernández Carretero, Maria: Negotiating Unequal Life Chances through Migration:
Exploring the Role of Risk, Money and Moralities in Migrants’ Quest for Success.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Jørgen Carling)
■Strømsø, Mette: A Spatial Lens on the Lived
Experience of National Identity and Diversity in
Norway. (Supervisor at PRIO Marta B. Erdal)
■Paasche, Erlend: From the Return Decision
Making Progress to Actual Return and (Re)
integration: A Study of Iraqi Kurdish Migrants,
Returnees and Non-Migrants.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Jørgen Carling)
■Sagmo, Tove Heggli: Return and Reintegration in a Post-Conflict Society: A Case Study
on Burundi. (Supervisor at PRIO: Jørgen
Carling)
■Jdid, Noor: Active Citizenship in Religiously
and Culturally Diverse Societies.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Cindy Horst)
Events
■4 March: The Rise and Decline of a Global
Security Actor: UNHCR, Refugee Protection
and Security
■13 March: Somalis in Oslo: Presentation of
the Report
■10 April: Closed Sea: Protection of Borders,
Protection of Migrants?
■19 June: Norway’s Readmission Agreement
with Ethiopia: What Happened?
■5 December: Broadening Approaches to
Radicalization: Youth, Identity and Belonging
■18 December: Blessing or Blockage? Religion
and Development in Pakistan
■18 December: Islamic Charity in Norway:
Exploring a Well Hidden Secret
What are the trends in conflict?
Coordinator: Marianne Dahl
Projects:
■Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
(ACLED). Clionadh Raleigh
■Conflict Prediction. Håvard Hegre (project
leader), Scott Gates, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jonas
Nordkvelle, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Martin
Smidt, Håvard Strand, Henrik Urdal
■Conflict, Strategies, and Violence: An Actorbased Approach to Violent and Non-Violent
Interactions (CSV). Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
(project leader), Håvard Strand
■Conflict Trends (See page 20). Henrik
Urdal (project leader), Halvard Buhaug, Scott
Gates, Helene Molteberg Glomnes, Håvard
Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Ida Rudolfsen, Siri Aas Rustad,
Håvard Strand, Andreas Forø Tollefsen
■Forecasting Civil Conflict under Different
Climate Change Scenarios. Halvard Buhaug
(project leader), Elisabeth Gilmore, Håvard
Hegre, Jonas Nordkvelle
■Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers
(NISAT). Nicholas Marsh
■Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC).
Ragnhild Nordås (project leader), Scott Gates,
Helga Binningsbø, Siri Aas Rustad, Inger
Skjelsbæk, Gudrun Østby
■Small Arms Survey, Nicholas Marsh
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Marsh, Nicholas: Armed Groups’
Procurement of Small Arms. (Supervisor at
PRIO: Halvard Buhaug)
■Tollefsen, Andreas Forø: Disaggregating the
Conflict Trap: A Spatial Analytical Approach.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Strand)
Events
■17 September: PRIO Annual Peace Address
2014 (see page 19): Civil Conflict: What are the
Current Risks, and What are the Realistic Solutions?
■19 September: Social Media and Social
Sciences; or, Research 2.0
■4 December: The Conflict Horizon to 2030
and Beyond in a Nutshell
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Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■ Chi, Primus Che: The Impact of Armed
Conflict on Maternal and Women’s Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Supervisor
at PRIO: Henrik Urdal)
■ Dahl, Marianne: Desisting from Violence:
The Selection of Non-Violent versus Violent
Strategies. (Supervisors at PRIO: Scott Gates
& Kristian Skrede Gleditsch)
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How physical factors
condition human affairs
Coordinator: Siri Aas Rustad
Projects:
■Conflict Trends (See page 20). Henrik
Urdal (project leader), Halvard Buhaug, Scott
Gates, Helene Molteberg Glomnes, Håvard
Hegre, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Ida Rudolfsen, Siri Aas Rustad,
Håvard Strand, Andreas Forø Tollefsen
■Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons. Ayla Gürel (project leader), Harry
Tzimitras
■Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC.
Gudrun Østby (project leader), Ragnhild
Nordås, Lynn P. Nygaard, Siri Aas Rustad
■Forecasting Civil Conflict under Different
Climate Change Scenarios. Halvard Buhaug
(project leader), Elisabeth Gilmore, Håvard
Hegre, Jonas Nordkvelle
■Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts (SVAC).
Ragnhild Nordås (project leader), Scott Gates,
Helga Binningsbø, Siri Aas Rustad, Inger
Skjelsbæk, Gudrun Østby
■The Sudan: Peacekeeping in an Oil-Booming
Subsistence. Øystein H. Rolandsen
■Urbanizing India (URBIN): Urbanization,
Exclusion and Climate Challenges. Halvard
Buhaug (project leader), Kristian Hoelscher,
Jason Miklian, Gerdis Wischnath
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Miklian, Jason: ‘Green Mining’:
Displacement and the Maoist Conflict in India.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Åshild Kolås)
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Nordkvelle, Jonas: Climate Change and Civil
Conflict: Investigating Long Term Mechanisms.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Hegre)
Events
■3
March: Female Empowerment in DRC
– 19 November: Emerging Challenges in
an Urbanising India: Governance, Security and
Climate Change
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How media play a key role
in the strategic planning of different
actors within conflict
Coordinator: Jason Miklian / Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati
Projects:
■ Active Citizenship in Culturally and Religiously Diverse Societies (ACT). Cindy Horst
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Noor
Jdid
■ The Cyprus Critical History Archive. Mete
Hatay, Rebecca Bryant
■ Peacebuilding, Diversity and Human Security. Jason Miklian (project leader), Åshild
Kolås
■ Negotiating the Nation: Implications of
Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National
Identity (NATION). Marta Bivand Erdal
(project leader), Michael Collyer, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Katrine Fangen, Åshild Kolås,
Thomas Lacroix, Mette Strømsø, Cathrine
Talleraas, Mari Vaage
■ Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and
Resilience after 22/7 (NECORE). Henrik Syse
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Mareile Kaufmann, Jennifer
Wu
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■ Dommersnes, Ida: Argentum Ad Captandum vs. Unified Effort. An Examination of
Strategic Narratives in ISAF. (Supervisor at
PRIO: Kristian Berg Harpviken)
■ Ezzati, Rojan Tordhol: Collective Identities
in Post-Terror Norway. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Marta B. Erdal)
Events
■ 19
September: Social Media and Social Sciences; or, Research 2.0
How political institutions
contribute to peace and conflict
Coordinator: Tore Wig
Projects:
■Conceptualization and Measurement of
Democracy (CMD). Håvard Hegre (project
leader), Scott Gates, Bjørn Høyland, Carl
Henrik Knutsen, Idunn Kristiansen,
Shabana Mitra, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård,
Håvard Strand, Gudrun Østby
■Conflict Prediction. Håvard Hegre (project
leader), Scott Gates, Elisabeth Gilmore, Jonas
Nordkvelle, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Martin
Smidt, Håvard Strand, Henrik Urdal
■Destabilising Accumulation. Nicholas Marsh
■Power-Sharing, Democracy and Civil Conflict.
Scott Gates (project leader), Helga Malmin
Binningsbø, Marianne Dahl, Helge Holtermann, Håvard Strand, Kaare Strøm
■Reassessing the Role of Democracy: Political Institutions and Armed Conflict (PIAC).
Håvard Hegre (project leader), Matthias
Basedau, Ragnhild Belbo, Fernando CantuBazaldua, Hanne Fjelde, Bjørn Høyland, Carl
Henrik Knutsen, Idunn Kristiansen, Jonas
Nordkvelle, Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Ida
Rudolfsen, Martin Smidt, Tore Wig, Gudrun
Østby
■Strategic Justice During Civil Conflict.
Cyanne Loyle (project leader), Helga Malmin
Binningsbø, Scott Gates
■The Dynamics of State Failure and Violence.
Øystein H. Rolandsen (project leader), Ingrid
Marie Breidlid, Helene Molteberg Glomnes,
Fanny Nicolaisen
■The Sudan: Peacekeeping in an Oil-Booming
Subsistence. Øystein H. Rolandsen
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Rød, Espen Geelmuyden: Mass
Mobilization in Autocracies.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Hegre)
■Wig, Tore: Beyond the Democratic Civil
Peace: Subnational Political Institutions and
Internal Armed Conflict.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Hegre)
Events
■19 March: Regime Change and Non-State
Conflicts in Weak States
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How the humanitarian system
changes with new tools, donors, and
perceptions of local dynamics
Coordinator: Maria Gabrielsen
Jumbert
Projects:
■ Armed Violence in Urban Settings: New
Challenges, New Humanitarianisms. Simon
Reid-Henry
■ Brazil’s Rise to the Global Stage. Maria
Gabrielsen Jumbert (project leader), Paulo
Esteves, Eduarda Hamann, Kristian Hoelscher, Liliana Jubilut, Torkjell Leira, Kristin
Bergtora Sandvik
■ Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: The
Regional and Global Significance of Brazil,
India, Indonesia, China, South Africa and
Turkey. Pinar Tank
■ Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to
Poverty Reduction. Kristian Berg Harpviken
(project leader), Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta
Bivand Erdal
■ Protection of Civilians: From Principle to
Practice. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (project
leader), Cindy Horst, Kristoffer Lidén, Maral
Mirshahi, Simon Reid-Henry, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Pinar Tank
■ The Significance of Political Organization
and International Law for Displaced Women
in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De
Mujeres. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
■ The Somali Diaspora’s Role in Somalia:
Implications of Return. Cindy Horst
■ Conflict of Interest? ‘Business For Peace’ as
Development Aid in Volatile Environments.
Cindy Horst (project leader), Jason Miklian,
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■ Borchgrevink, Kaja: Private Islamic Charity
and Approaches to Poverty Reduction in Pakistan and the Diaspora. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Kristian Berg Harpviken)
Events
■ 29
January: Killer Robots at the UN
February: Colombia: Ending the War –
Ending the War on Drugs?
■ 4 March: The Rise and Decline of a Global
Security Actor: UNHCR, Refugee Protection
and Security
■ 5 March: Key Pointers for Evidence-Based
Humanitarian Action: Lessons from Syria,
Chad and Uganda
■ 10 March: Closed Sea: Protection of Borders,
Protection of Migrants?
■ 22 May: Decolonizing Intervention:
Postwar Statebuilding in Mozambique
■ 28 May: Crisis in Nigeria: Monitoring
Violence and Accounting for the Dead
■ 7 October: Ebola: A Humanitarian
Crisis or a Crisis of Humanitarian Governance?
■ 22 September: The Humanitarian Triad
■ 24 September: Human Rights and Drones
■ 9 October: Beyond the Humanitarian Crisis
in Gaza: What now for Israel and Palestine?
■ 23 October: The International Politics of
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
■ 28 – 30 October: PhD Course: Humanitarian Action and the Protection of Civilians
■ 11 December: Humanitarian Innovation
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■Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to
Poverty Reduction. Kristian Berg Harpviken
(project leader), Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta
Bivand Erdal
■Religion in Cyprus: Mapping Cyprus’ New
Religious Landscape. Mete Hatay
■War, Religion, and Ethics. Gregory M. Reichberg (project leader), Nicole M. Hartwell,
Henrik Syse
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Borchgrevink, Kaja: Private Islamic Charity
and Approaches to Poverty Reduction in Pakistan and the Diaspora. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Kristian Berg Harpviken)
■Ezzati, Rojan Tordhol: Collective identities
in post-Terror Norway. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Marta B. Erdal)
Completed Doctoral Projects:
■Steen-Johnsen,Tale: Oil on Troubled Waters.
Religious Peacebuilding in Ethiopia
Events
■16 December: Book Launch: Religion, War
and Ethics
■5 December: Broadening Approaches to
Radicalization: Youth, Identity and Belonging
■18 December: Blessing or Blockage? Religion
and Development in Pakistan
■18 December: Islamic charity in Norway:
exploring a well hidden secret
How religious actors, ideas,
and institutions influence social and
political change
Coordinator: Kaja Borchgrevink
Projects:
■Comparative Ethics of War. Gregory M.
Reichberg (project leader), Nicole M. Hartwell, Kaushik Roy, Henrik Syse
■Negotiating the Nation: Implications of
Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National
Identity (NATION). Marta Bivand Erdal
(project leader), Michael Collyer, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Katrine Fangen, Åshild Kolås,
Thomas Lacroix, Mette Strømsø, Cathrine
Talleraas, Mari Vaage
■Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and
Resilience after 22/7 (NECORE). Henrik Syse
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Mareile Kaufmann, Jennifer
Wu
How norms and rules contribute to
peaceful relations and justice
Coordinator: Kristoffer Lidén
Projects:
■Bearing Witness. Inger Skjelsbæk
■Communicating Risk in the Digital Age
(DIGICOM). Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
(project leader), Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova,
J. Peter Burgess, Anne Duquenne, Elida K.
U. Jacobsen, Mareile Kaufmann, Kristoffer
Lidén
■Comparative Ethics of War. Gregory M.
Reichberg (project leader), Nicole M. Hartwell, Kaushik Roy, Henrik Syse
■Ethics of War and Peace. Gregory M.
Reichberg (project leader), Endre Begby,
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■28 May: Order in Chaos: Intra-Party Coordination in Open List PR Systems
■12 October: "The New Kings of Crude":
China and Conflict Resolution in the Sudans
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Ingierd, Dieter Janssen, Henrik Syse
■Protection of Civilians: From Principle to
Practice. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (project
leader), Cindy Horst, Kristoffer Lidén, Maral
Mirshahi, Simon Reid-Henry, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Pinar Tank
■Negotiating Values: Collective Identities and
Resilience after 22/7 (NECORE). Henrik Syse
(project leader), Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan
Tordhol Ezzati, Mareile Kaufmann, Jennifer
Wu
■Regulating Cyberwar: Understanding Challenges to Norwegian Security and International
Law. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
■SOURCE: Virtual centre of excellence for
research support and coordination on societal
security. See page 20 – 21. J. Peter Burgess
(project leader), Stine Bergersen, Nina Boy,
Anne Duquenne, Kristoffer Lidén, Marit
Moe-Pryce
■Strategic Justice During Civil Conflict.
Cyanne Loyle (project leader), Helga Malmin
Binningsbø, Scott Gates
■The Significance of Political Organization
and International Law for Displaced Women
in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De
Mujeres. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
■War, Religion, and Ethics. Gregory M. Reichberg (project leader), Nicole M. Hartwell,
Henrik Syse
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Lidén, Kristoffer: Between Intervention and
Sovereignty: Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding and
the Philosophy of Global Governance. (Supervisor at PRIO: J. Peter Burgess)
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Hayashi, Nobuo: Military Necessity. (Supervisor at PRIO: Gregory M. Reichberg)
Events
■21
January: Killer Robots at the UN
February: The Road Towards Colombian
Peace: Field-Based Perspectives
■4 February: Colombia: Ending the War –
Ending the War on Drugs?
■22 September: Ytringsfriheten under press
[Freedom of Speech under Pressure]
■23 October: The International Politics of
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
■16 December: Book Launch: Religion, War
and Ethics
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Events
How non-state actors contribute
to peace and conflict
Coordinator: Øystein H. Rolandsen
Projects:
■Conflict, Strategies, and Violence: An Actorbased Approach to Violent and Non-Violent
Interactions (CSV). Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
(project leader), Håvard Strand
■Conflict of Interest? ‘Business For Peace’ as
Development Aid in Volatile Environments.
Cindy Horst (project leader), Jason Miklian,
Øystein H. Rolandsen
■Effective Non-Violence? Resistance Strategies and Political Outcomes. Kristian Skrede
Gleditsch (project leader), Erica Chenoweth,
Scott Gates, Belén González, Ida Rudolfsen
■Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC.
Gudrun Østby (project leader), Ragnhild
Nordås, Lynn P. Nygaard, Siri Aas Rustad
■Gender-based Violence in Armed Conflict.
Ragnhild Nordås
■Nationalism and Landscape in Cyprus.
Mete Hatay
■Protection of Civilians: From Principle to
Practice. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (project
leader), Cindy Horst, Kristoffer Lidén, Maral
Mirshahi, Simon Reid-Henry, Øystein H.
Rolandsen, Pinar Tank
■The Dynamics of State Failure and Violence.
Øystein H. Rolandsen (project leader), Ingrid
Marie Breidlid, Helene Molteberg Glomnes,
Fanny Nicolaisen
■The Sudan: Peacekeeping in an Oil-Booming
Subsistence. Øystein H. Rolandsen
■Youth and Violence in South Sudan
(YuViSS). Øystein Rolandsen (project
leader), Ingrid Marie Breidlid
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Breidlid, Ingrid Marie: Youth, Identities
and State-Society Relations in the Dynamics of
Violence in South Sudan. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Øystein H. Rolandsen)
■Dahl, Marianne: Desisting from Violence:
The Selection of Non-Violent versus Violent
Strategies. (Supervisors at PRIO: Scott Gates
& Kristian Skrede Gleditsch)
■9 May: Actors, Strategies and Tactics in Contentious Direct Action. Workshop
■11 September: Palestinian Challenges in the
Aftermath of the Gaza War
■10 December: "The New Kings of Crude":
China and Conflict Resolution in the Sudans
How the global power balance affects
regional conflict dynamics
Coordinator: Pavel K. Baev
Projects:
■ Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective.
Kristian Berg Harpviken (project leader),
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
■ Brazil’s Rise to the Global Stage. Maria
Gabrielsen Jumbert (project leader), Paulo
Esteves, Eduarda Hamann, Kristian Hoelscher, Liliana Jubilut, Torkjell Leira, Kristin
Bergtora Sandvik
■ Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons. Ayla Gürel (project leader), Harry
Tzimitras
■ Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: The
Regional and Global Significance of Brazil,
India, Indonesia, China, South Africa and
Turkey. Pinar Tank
■ Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization. Åshild Kolås (project
leader), Covadonga Morales Bertrand, Ola
Tunander
■ Nationalism and Landscape in Cyprus.
Mete Hatay
■ Peacebuilding, Diversity and Human Security. Jason Miklian (project leader), Åshild
Kolås
■ Political Culture in Unrecognized States.
Mete Hatay, Rebecca Bryant
■ Religion and Political Activism among Youth
in the West Bank and Gaza after 2007.
Jacob Høigilt
■ Russia in Search of a New Role in the Middle
East. Pavel K. Baev
■ Russian and Caspian Energy Developments.
(RUSSCASP). Pavel K. Baev
■ Security in South Asia: India’s Emerging
Role. Åshild Kolås (project leader), Halvard
Buhaug, Scott Gates, Kristian Berg Harpviken, Jason Miklian
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Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■ Jacobsen, Elida Undrum: Biopolitics in
India: Identity Management and the Unique
Identification System. (Supervisor at PRIO: J.
Peter Burgess)
Events
■ 21 January: Local Security Forces in Afghanistan – Now and Beyond 2014
■ 9 February: Human Rights Human Wrongs:
Camp 14: Total Control Zone
■ 6 – 7 March: The Cyprus Peace Dividend
Revisited: A Productivity and Sectoral Approach
■ 18 March: Norges rolle i Afghanistan:
Oppdrag utført? Hva nå? [The Role of Norway
in Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished. What
Now?]
■ 19 March: Elections in Afghanistan
■ 21 March: Re-Examining Intervention: Rising
Powers Approaches to Conflict Resolution
■ 15 April: Building Trust for a United Cyprus
■ 23 April: Brytningstid for utenrikspolitikken?
[A Time of Change for Foreign Policy?]
■ 24 April: Crisis Politics in Southern Europe:
Challenges to Democratic Governance
■ 28 April: Imagined Sovereignties under Construction
■ 5 May: Anti-Communism and South Korean
Politics
■ 8 May: Revisiting the Politics of State Survival
■ 29 May: Report Launch: The Cyprus Peace
Dividend Revisited - A Productivity and Sectoral
Approach
■ 30 May: Imagining Basque Sovereignty:
Voices From Civil Society
■ 30 May: Workshop on Basque Nationhood in
a Globalizing World
■ 3 – 5 June: Language Change in the Arab
World. Workshop
■ 16 June: Turkey in Europe: The Imperative
for Change
■ 26 June: India’s Foreign Policy Future
■ 4 July: Summer Seminar on Nationalism,
Religion and Violence
■ 12 August: Toward Agreement on Iran’s
Nuclear Program? A Close-up of the Vienna
Talks
■ 26 August: Sino-Japanese Relations
■ 2 September: What Next for Turkey?
■ 11 September: Palestinian Challenges in the
Aftermath of the Gaza War
■ 15 September: Book Launch: The Long Road
to Peace
■ 19 September: Hispaniola 2014 – Justice,
Nationality and Migration
■ 9 October: Beyond the Humanitarian Crisis
in Gaza: What now for Israel and Palestine?
■ 23 October: Economic Crisis and Democratic
Deficit in Southern Europe (2009-2014)
■ 24 November: Peace and a New Constitution
Matters for Every Nepali
■ 13 November: Police Reform and the Rocky
Road of Democratization in the Arab Spring
■ 17 November: Book Launch: Resolving
Cyprus: New Approaches to Conflict Resolution
■ 19 November: War and State-Building in
Afghanistan
■ 28 November: Conflict in Europe – Europe
in Conflict
How armed conflicts affect women
and men differently
Coordinator: Helga Hernes / Torunn
L. Tryggestad
Projects:
■Armed Conflict and Maternal Health in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Gudrun Østby (project
leader), Ragnhild Belbo, Primus Che Chi,
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Andreas Forø
Tollefsen, Henrik Urdal, Philip Verwimp
■Bearing Witness. Inger Skjelsbæk
■Female Empowerment in Eastern DRC.
Gudrun Østby (project leader), Ragnhild
Nordås, Lynn P. Nygaard, Siri Aas Rustad
■Gender-based Violence in Armed Conflict.
Ragnhild Nordås
■Gender, Conflict and Peacebuilding Research
at PRIO. Helga Hernes (project leader),
Jenny Kathrine Lorentzen, Inger Skjelsbæk,
Torunn L. Tryggestad
■Gender in Politics in Somalia: Access and
Influence in a Post-Conflict State. Cindy Horst
(project leader), Inger Skjelsbæk, Torunn L.
Tryggestad
■Gender Rights and Peacebuilding.
Olga Demetriou
■Making Women Count for Peace: Gender,
Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia.
Åshild Kolås (project leader), Elida K.U.
Jacobsen, Jason Miklian, Torunn L. Tryggestad
■OSCE Study on National Action Plans and
Other National Strategies. Torunn L. Tryggestad (project leader), Helga Hernes, Christin Marsh Ormhaug
■Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development:
Towards an Understanding of the Gendered
Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan,
and Liberia. Øystein H. Rolandsen
■Positioning Women for Research Professorship
(POWER). Lynn P. Nygaard
■Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to
Poverty Reduction. Kristian Berg Harpviken
(project leader), Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta
Bivand Erdal
■Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC).
Ragnhild Nordås (project leader), Scott Gates,
Helga Binningsbø, Siri Aas Rustad, Inger
Skjelsbæk, Gudrun Østby
■The Significance of Political Organization
and International Law for Displaced Women
in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De
Mujeres. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
■Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict. Henrik Urdal
(project leader), Primus Che Chi
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Ormhaug, Christin Marsh: Health
Consequences of Civil War.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Håvard Hegre)
■Tryggestad, Torunn L.: International Norms
and Political Change: ‘Women, Peace and Security’ and the UN Security Agenda.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Helga Hernes)
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Borchgrevink, Kaja: Private Islamic Charity
and Approaches to Poverty Reduction in Pakistan and the Diaspora. (Supervisor at PRIO:
Kristian Berg Harpviken)
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■ Thailand’s Missing Peace. Stein Tønnesson
(project leader), Marte Nilsen
■ The East Asian Peace (EAP) Programme.
Stein Tønnesson (project leader),
Pavel K. Baev
■ The Ideology and Sociology of Language
Change in the Arab World. Jacob Høigilt
■ The Impact of China–Russia Partnership
on Stability in East Asia. Stein Tønnesson
(project leader), Pavel K. Baev
■ The International Management of Peaceful
Development: Afghanistan and the Maghreb/
Sahel region. Kai Eide
■ The Taliban in Context. Rahmatullah
Hashemi
■ Turkey’s AKP and the Politics of Contention.
Pinar Tank
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■Chi, Primus Che: The Impact of Armed
Conflict on Maternal and Women’s Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Henrik Urdal)
■Jdid, Noor: Active Citizenship in Religiously
and Culturally Diverse Societies.
(Supervisor at PRIO: Cindy Horst)
Events
■8 – 10 January:
Gender in Peace and Conflict Studies
■4 February: The Road Towards Colombian
Peace: Field-Based Perspectives
■3 March: Female Empowerment in DRC
■20 March: The Role and Relevance of Gender
in Peace Mediation
■3 – 4 April: Expert workshop on the OSCE
study on National Action Plans for the implementation of UN SCR 1325
■13 – 15 May: Third High-Level Seminar on
Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes
■27 August: Meeting of the Research Network
on Gender, Peace and Security
■22 October: OSCE study on National Action
Plans on the implementation of UN Security
Council Resolution 1325
■ 28 October: NATO and the Women, Peace and
Security Agenda – Achievements and Challenges
■31 October: Gender Based Violence in War
and Conflict: Approaching and Assisting Survivors
■6 November: Gender, Empowerment and
Conflict in South Asia
■8 November: International Conference on
Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South
Asia
■18 – 20 November: Fourth High-Level
Seminar on Gender and Inclusive Mediation
Processes
■21 November: Armed Conflict and Maternal
Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
■23 November: Advancing Women’s Rights
and Empowerment in Afghanistan
How security actors and practices
affect concepts and understanding of
security
Coordinator: Mareile Kaufmann
Projects:
■CBRN Crisis Management: Architecture,
Technologies and Operational Procedures
(CATO). J. Peter Burgess
■Communicating Risk in the Digital Age
(DIGICOM). Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
(project leader), Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova,
J. Peter Burgess, Anne Duquenne, Elida K.
U. Jacobsen, Mareile Kaufmann, Kristoffer
Lidén
■Driving Innovation in Crisis Management
for European Resilience (DRIVER). J. Peter
Burgess (project leader), Stine Bergersen, Covadonga Morales Bertrand, Anne
Duquenne, Mareile Kaufmann
■European Security Trends and Threats in
Society (ETTIS). J. Peter Burgess (project
leader), Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova, Antje
Bierwisch, Anne Duquenne
■Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies
(IRISS). J. Peter Burgess (project leader),
Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova, Stine Bergersen, Maral Mirshahi
■LArge Scale Information Exploitation of
Forensic Data (LASIE) J. Peter Burgess,
Synnøve Ugelvik
■Nordic Centre of Excellence for Security Technologies and Societal Values (NordSTEVA)
J. Peter Burgess (project leader), Vicky Ackx,
Rocco Bellanova, Kristian Berg Harpviken,
Mareile Kaufmann, Kristoffer Lidén
■Protection of European Borders and Seas
through the Intelligent Use of Surveillance
(PERSEUS). Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
(project leader), Vicky Ackx, Stine Bergersen,
J. Peter Burgess, Rozemarijn van der Hilst,
Kristoffer Lidén
■Public Perception of Security and Privacy
(PACT). J. Peter Burgess (project leader),
Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova
■Securing Europe Through Counter-Terrorism: Impact, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness
(SECILE). J. Peter Burgess (project leader),
Rozemarijn van der Hilst
■Tactical Approach to Counter Terrorists in
Cities (TACTICS) J. Peter Burgess (project
leader), Vicky Ackx, Rocco Bellanova,
Kristoffer Lidén, Synnøve Ugelvik
■Virtual centre of excellence for research
support and coordination on societal security
(SOURCE). (See page 20 – 21). J. Peter
Burgess, Stine Bergersen, Nina Boy, Anne
Duquenne, Kristoffer Lidén, Marit Moe-Pryce
Completed Doctoral Projects
■Bellanova, Rocco: The Politics of Data Protection: What Does Data Protection Do?
■Lidén, Kristoffer: Between Intervention and
Sovereignty: Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding and
the Philosophy of Global Governance. (Supervisor at PRIO: J. Peter Burgess)
■Ugelvik, Synnøve. Inside on the Outside –
Norway and Police Cooperation in the EU.
Ongoing Doctoral Projects
■Dommersnes, Ida: Argentum Ad Captandum vs. Unified Effort. An Examination of
Strategic Narratives in ISAF. (Supervisor at
PRIO: Kristian Berg Harpviken)
■Jacobsen, Elida Undrum: Biopolitics in
India: Identity Management and the Unique
Identification System. (Supervisor at PRIO: J.
Peter Burgess)
■Kaufmann, Mareile: Modalities of Resilience
in the Networked Society. (Supervisor at PRIO:
J. Peter Burgess)
Events
■9 February: Human Rights Human Wrongs:
Terms and Conditions May Apply
■10 March: Closed Sea: Protection of Borders,
Protection of Migrants?
■20 June: Justice Past, Justice Present, Justice
Future: Three Messages to the European Council
■25 November: Terror og risikokommunikasjon [Terror and Risk Communication]
■8 – 12 December: PhD Course on Methods
in Critical Security Studies
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Civil Conflict: What are
the Current Risks, and
what are the Realistic
Solutions?
Comments by
Jonas Gahr Støre
former Minister of Foreign Affairs
18 September 2014 at PRIO, Oslo
The PRIO Annual Peace Address invites
distinguished guests to reflect on how to
contribute to the creation of a world in which
violence is the exception and peace is the
norm. The lecturers will include scholars,
policy makers, writers, artists and others with
a distinct voice on peace and war matters on
the world scene.
Paul Collier (right) engaging in a discussion with Jonas Gahr Støre.
Photo: Julie Lunde Lillesæter, PRIO
The PRIO Annual Peace Address is an
important part of our efforts to create awareness, stir public debate and increase understanding about the conditions for peace in
the world. We hope that the PRIO Annual
Peace Address can challenge the peace
research community by suggesting new
measures and bringing new perspectives
on peace and war. The questions asked and
the answers sought can only be improved by
critical challenges.
Previous Years
2010: Jon Elster: Justice, Truth, Peace
2011: John Lewis: The Role of Nonviolence
in the Struggle for Liberation
2012: Azar Gat: Peace for Our Time?
2013: Jody Williams: The Power of Global
Activism
EU Ambassador Helen Campbell giving a speech at the PRIO Annual Peace Addres, 2014.
Photo: Julie Lunde Lillesæter, PRIO
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PRIO's Conflict Trends project collaborates
with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to answer questions relating to the
causes, consequences and trends in conflict.
The project will contribute to new conflict
analyses within areas of public interest, and
works to produce thorough and quality based
analysis for the MFA. The project builds
on the existing competence of PRIO with a
strong emphasis on research and new data
analysis.
The Center for the Study of Civil War (20032013) was engaged in path-breaking research
on war and peace. The Conflict Trends
project sustains and makes use of the competence and international connections that
PRIO has developed. The project also aims to
reduce the gap between science and research
and to assure that the resources and knowledge obtained are beneficial to the public in
general.
Project Themes
The project currently focuses on the following thematic areas:
■ Natural resources and conflict
Both shortages and abundance of resources
have increasingly been linked to conflict
activity. How will the increased pressure
on land and water resources affect conflicts
in the world? Natural resources such as oil
and diamonds can affect the likelihood of
conflict, but also contribute to its prevention.
The project focuses the role of industry, and
how regional and local conditions can affect
the positive potential that natural resources
may have on institutional development and
distribution of goods.
■ Youth,
development and conflict
Large youth bulges can increase the risk of
armed conflicts and regime change. At the
same time, youth bulges can have a positive
impact on society and contribute to economic
growth. The project seeks to obtain increased
knowledge on how access to education and
work will affect the likelihood of conflict in
countries with large youth bulges.
Virtual Centre of Excellence for
Research Support and Coordination
on Societal Security
■ Political
The SOURCE Network of Excellence is a
five-year project that started up in 2014. The
project is built upon five types of activities:
change and stability
In the past years, many have warned that
democratic institutions have deteriorated in
several countries. The project will examine
democratic development from different perspectives, and report on statistical trends.
■ Human
costs of conflict
The human costs of conflict often go well
beyond those who are killed in direct battle.
The project focuses especially on the consequences of conflict on maternal health, and
inequality in access to education between
women and men, and between groups.
■Output: The project publishes a series of
Conflict Trends Policy Briefs (see the publication list at page 31), and maintains the blog
Monitoring South Sudan.
People
Henrik Urdal (project leader)
Halvard Buhaug
Scott Gates
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Helene Molteberg Glomnes
Håvard Hegre
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
Ida Rudolfsen
Siri Aas Rustad
Håvard Strand
Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Events in 2014
■12 June: War and Peace over 50 years.
On the Occassion of Journal of Peace
Research 50 years.
■19 November: War and State-Building in
Afghanistan
■4 December: The Conflict Horizon to 2030
and Beyond in a Nutshell
1.networking activities
2.research
3.information gathering
4.education and training
5.knowledge-sharing
These five areas together address both the
ambitions and the expected impact of the
Work Programme specific to the Security call
of EU's 7th Framework Programme.
Through an integrated information gathering hub, education programmes across
the security sectors, and a comprehensive
programme of networking activities, the
SOURCE project will advance European
excellence in research and industrial innovation and form the foundation for a permanent virtual centre of excellence capable of
continuing to bring added-value to research
on societal security.
Through a broad set of concerted activities
the centre will gather experts and actors from
all levels of the security chain (researchers,
industry actors, policy-makers, civil society,
end-users and the public at large), all linked
by a common project of documenting, analysing and understanding the link between
security and the society in which it is played
out.
Through an array of networking activities,
meetings, scientific and popular publications,
film, press and social media, a scholarly
journal and the formation of an international
association for the study and improvement
of societal security, the SOURCE Network
of Excellence will meet the goals of raising
the awareness among policy makers and
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end-users, raising the competitiveness of the
security industry by better applying it to the
social layers of insecurity in society and, as a
consequence, contribute to the improvement
of the well-being and security of European
citizens.
The aim of the SOURCE Network of Excellence is to create a robust and sustainable
virtual centre of excellence capable of exploring and advancing societal issues in security
research and development.
People
J. Peter Burgess (project leader)
Stine Bergersen
Nina Boy
Anne Duquenne
Kristoffer Lidén
Marit Moe-Pryce
Events in 2014
■20 June: Justice Past, Justice Present,
Justice Future: Three Messages to the European Council
■25 November: Terror og risikokommunikasjon [Terror and Risk Communication]
■8 - 12 December: Methods in Critical Security Studies. Phd Course
The Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian
Studies is a joint CMI, NUPI and PRIO initiative which aims to promote and facilitate
critical and relevant research on key humanitarian issues. The centre serves as a hub for
research and policy discussion, and features
a national network of scholars working on
humanitarian issues from outside the three
core institutions. It also features an extensive network of international humanitarian
scholars.
PRIO People at NCHS
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Director)
Maral Mirshahi (Project Assistant)
Cindy Horst
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Julieta Lemaitre
Kristoffer Lidén
Simon Reid-Henry
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Pinar Tank
Events in 2014
■29
January: Killer Robots at the UN. PRIO
February: Colombia: Ending the War Ending the War on Drugs? PRIO
■4 February: The road towards Colombian
peace – Field-based perspectives. PRIO
■27 February: The Humanitarian Cyber
Space: Expanding Frontiers or Shrinking
Space? PRIO
■4 March: The rise and decline of a global
security actor: UNHCR, refugee protection
and security. PRIO
■4 March: The role and utility of research in
driving evidence based aid. PRIO
■5 March: From Actionable Information
to Assessments of Impact: Key Pointers for
Evidence-Based Humanitarian Action. PRIO
■19 March: Afghanistan: humanitarian
efforts and development assistance. Afghanistan Week 2014 (CMI, PRIO, NAC)
■4 April: R2P and protection of civilians.
Roundtable with professor Michael Ignatieff.
NUPI
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■8 May: Launch of Civil-Military Coordination Report. NUPI
■22 May: Book Launch: Protecting Civilians
in Refugee Camps. Bergen Resource Centre
for International Development. (CMI, Univ.
of Bergen)
■27 May: UNRWA and the Palestinian
Refugee Camps. (CMI, NUPI)
■3 June: Roundtable: Refugee Resettlement
and the Political Economy of Protection.
■22 September: The Humanitarian Triad.
Seminar with Raymond Apthorpe. (Bjørknes
Univ. College, Research School on Peace and
Conflict, PRIO)
■24 September: Research Seminar: Human
Rights and Drones. (PRIO, Norwegian
Centre for Human Rights)
■7 October: Ebola: A Humanitarian Crisis or
a Crisis of Humanitarian Governance? (MSF
Norway, NRC, Norw. Red Cross, PRIO)
■9 October: Beyond the Humanitarian
Crisis in Gaza: What now for Israel and Palestine? (PRIO, NOREF)
■17 October: The (D)evolution of a Norm:
R2P, the Bosnia Generation, and the Future
of Humanitarian Intervention. NUPI
■23 October: The International Politics of
Human Rights and the Responsibility to
Protect. PRIO
■28 – 30 October: Humanitarian Action and
the Protection of Civilians. (PRIO, NUPI,
CMI, Research School on Peace and Conflict)
■21 October: Armed Conflict and Maternal
Health - Policy and Research Seminar. PRIO
■3 December: Reframing Urban Violence in
Latin-America: Humanitarian and Military
Responses. (PRIO, Norwegian Latin America
Research Network)
■11 December: Humanitarian Innovation.
PRIO
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Norwegian Centre for
Humanitarian Studies
(NCHS)
humanitarianstudies.no
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Henrik Urdal
Editor
Ragnhild Nordås
Deputy Editor
Halvard Buhaug
Deputy Editor
Bertrand LescherNuland
Managing Editor
Idunn Kristiansen
Managing Editor
Volume 51, 2014
6 issues, 796 pages.
Special issues
Anniversary Special Issue
Guest Editors: Halvard Buhaug & Jack S Levy
Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the
Year Award 2014
Corinne Bara for her article ‘Incentives and
opportunities: A complexity-oriented explanation of violent ethnic conflict’ in JPR 51(6):
696-710
JPR Best Visualization Award 2014
Thomas Chadefaux for his article 'Early
warning signals for war in the news' in JPR
51(1): 5-18
Associate Editors 2014
Kristin M. Bakke, University College London
Michael Brzoska, University of Hamburg
Margit Bussmann, University of Greifswald
Sabine Carey, University of Mannheim
Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, University
of Maryland
Han Dorussen, University of Essex
Håvard Hegre, Uppsala University & PRIO
Scott Gates, PRIO
Desirée Nilsson, Uppsala University
Ragnhild Nordås, PRIO
Stein Tønnesson, PRIO & Uppsala University
Editorial Committee 2014
Alex Braithwaite, University College London
Allan Dafoe, Yale University
Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex
Cullen Hendrix, College of William and Mary
Kristine Höglund, Uppsala University
Bjørn Høyland, University of Oslo
Jo Thori Lind, University of Oslo
Päivi Lujala, NTNU
David Sobek, Louisiana State University
Håvard Strand, University of Oslo and PRIO
Isak Svensson, Uppsala University
Monica Duffy Toft, Oxford University
Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, NTNU
Marijke Verpoorten, University of Antwerp
Nils Weidmann, University of Konstanz
Magnus Öberg, Uppsala University
Security Dialogue
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J. Peter Burgess –
Editor
(on leave)
Volume 45, 2014
6 issues, and 600 pages.
Special issues
Border Security as Practice.
Edited by: Karin Côté-Boucher, Frederica
Infantino & Mark B. Salter. 45 (3)
Preemption, Practice, Politics.
Guest Editors: Marieke de Goede & Stephanie Simon. 45(5)
Associate Editors 2014
Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University
Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam
Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School
Mark B. Salter, University of Ottawa
Anna Stavrianakis, University of Sussex
Maria Stern, University of Gothenburg
Book Review Editors 2014
Louise Amoore, Durham University
Peter Andreas, Brown University
Jens Bartelson, Lund University
Didier Bigo, Sciences-Po, Paris
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University
Simon Chesterman, National University
of Singapore
Carol Cohn, Tufts University
William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins
University
Ronald Deibert, University of Toronto
James Der Derian, University of Sydney
Michael Dillon, Lancaster University
Jenny Edkins, University of Aberystwyth
Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex
Sarah Pettersen –
Managing Editor
(Oct 2013-Aug 2014)
Marit Moe-Pryce –
Managing Editor
(from Aug 2014)
Cynthia Enloe, Clark university
Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney
Hugh Gusterson, Georgetown University
Lene Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Jef Huysmans, Open University
Vivienne Jabri, King's College London
Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki
Jennifer Klot, Social Science Research
Council
Rex Li, Liverpool John Moores University
Luis Lobo Guerrero, University of Groningen
David Lyon, Queens University
Andrew Neal, University of Edinburgh
Taylor Owen, Columbia University
Patricia Owens, University of Sussex
Paul Rogers, University of Bradford
Kristin B. Sandvik, PRIO
Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii
Peter van Ham Clingendael, The Hague
Rob Walker, University of Victoria
Cynthia Weber, University of Sussex
Annick T. R. Wibben, University of San Francisco
Michael C. Williams, University of Ottawa
Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen
PRIO ANNUAL Report 2 014
Claudia Aradau –
Editor
Journals
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Volume 13, 2014
4 issues, 384 pages. Published by Taylor
& Francis, in cooperation with PRIO, the
Norwegian Defense University College,
and the United States Naval War College.
Editorial Office Norway
Co-Editor: Henrik Syse, PRIO
Managing Editor: Nicole M. Hartwell, PRIO
and Oxford University
Editorial Office USA
Co-Editor: Martin L. Cook,
United States Naval War College
Managing Editor:
Timothy J. Demy,
United States Naval War College
Associate Editors 2014
Alex Bellamy, Griffith Asia Institute
Shannon French, Case Western Reserve
Henrik Syse
Editor
Nicole M. Hartwell
Managing Editor
University
Nils Terje Lunde, Norwegian Defence University College
Gregory M. Reichberg, PRIO
James Cook, United States Air Force Academy
George R. Lucas, Jr., United States Naval
Academy
Associate Editors
Sang-Hwan Lee, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
Jangho KIm, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, Republic of Korea
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, PRIO
HUFS President
Kim In-Chul, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, Korea
IASR Chairman of Management
Kyung-Won Chung, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Volume 17, 2014
4 issues, 433 pages.
Published by SAGE (London) for PRIO and
the Centre for International Area Studies,
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Special Issues
The Dynamics of Political Demography. 17(2)
Editor-in-Chief
Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo,
Norway and NTNU, Norway
IASR Vice-chairmen of Management
Jun-Young Kang, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Jeong Hwan Shin, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Editorial Committee 2014
Pavel Baev, PRIO and
Brookings Institution, USA
Christopher Butler, University of
New Mexico, USA
Yunjae Cheong, Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies, Korea
Yo Sop Choi, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Indra de Soysa, NTNU, Norway
Scott Gates, PRIO and NTNU, Norway
Nils Petter Gleditsch, PRIO
Jaeho Hwang, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, Korea
Scott Gates
Editor-in-Chief
Håvard Mokleiv
Nygård
Associate Editor
Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University, USA
Seonju Kang, Institute of Foreign Affairs and
National Security, Korea
HeMin Kim, Florida State University,
USA and Seoul National University,
Republic of Korea
Woosang Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Mansoob Murshed, University of
Birmingham and Institute for Social Studies,
The Netherlands
Won K. Paik, Central Michigan University,
USA
Jin Woo Park, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies, Korea
Jan Ketil Rød, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway
Kaushik Roy, PRIO and Jadavpur University,
India
Kaare Strøm, University of California
San Diego, USA
Atsushi Tago, Kobe University, Japan
Monica Toft, University of Oxford, UK
Editorial Boards
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American Political Science
Review
Christian Davenport (Ed. Board)
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Ed. Board)
Babylon
Hilde Henriksen Waage (Editorial Advisory Board)
International Area Studies
Review
Scott Gates (Editor in Chief)
Håvard Nygård (Associate Editor)
Pavel K. Baev (Ed. Board)
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Ed. Board)
Journal of Military Ethics
Henrik Syse (Editor)
Gregory Reichberg (Associate
Editor)
Nicole Monique Hartwell (Managing editor)
Political Geography
Halvard Buhaug (Ed. Board)
International Feminist
Journal of Politics
Inger Skjelsbæk (Associate
Editor)
Journal of Narrative Politics
J. Peter Burgess (Ed. Board)
Politics and Governance
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Civil Wars
Scott Gates (Ed. Board)
International Interactions
Christian Davenport (Ed. Board)
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Ed. Board)
Cahiers de la sécurité
J. Peter Burgess (International
Scientific Committee)
International Migration
Review
Jørgen Carling (Ed. Board)
Comparative Social
Research
Kristian Berg Harpviken (Associate editor)
International Organization
Lars Erik Cederman (Ed. Board)
Jeffrey Checkel (Ed. Board)
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Ed.
Board)
Cooperation and Conflict
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Editorial Committee)
Torunn Tryggestad (Editorial
Advisory Board)
Educate
Lynn P. Nygaard (Ed. Board)
European Journal of International
Relations
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Editorial
Committee)
Foreign Policy Analysis
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Ed. Board)
Global Asia
Stein Tønnesson (Ed. Board)
Globalizations
Stein Tønnesson (Ed. Board)
Internasjonal Politikk
Inger Skjelsbæk (Editorial Committee)
International Political
Sociology
J. Peter Burgess (Ed. Board)
Journal of Peace Research
Henrik Urdal (Editor)
Halvard Buhaug (Deputy Editor)
Ragnhild Nordås (Deputy Editor)
Helge Holtermann (Managing
Editor)
Idunn Kristiansen (Managing
Editor)
Bertrand Lescher-Nuland (Managing Editor)
Scott Gates (Associate Editor)
Håvard Hegre (Associate Editor)
Ragnhild Nordås (Associate
Editor)
Stein Tønnesson (Associate
Editor)
Gudrun Østby (Associate Editor)
Håvard Strand (Editorial Committee)
Political Science Research
and Methods
Håvard Hegre (Ed. Board)
Radical Philosophy
Claudia Aradau (Co-Editor)
Research and Politics
Håvard Hegre (Ed. Board)
Scott Gates (Advisory Board)
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Associate Editor)
Resilience: International
Policies, Practices and
Discourses
Claudia Aradau (Ed. Board)
Kristoffer Lidén (Ed. Board)
Scandinavian Political
Studies
Håvard M. Nygård (Ed. Board)
International Studies
Review
Håvard Hegre (Ed. Board)
Migration Letters
Jørgen Carling (Editorial Advisory
Board)
Security Dialogue
Claudia Aradau (Editor)
Marit Moe-Pryce (Managing
Editor)
Sarah Pettersen (Managing
Editor)
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (Ed.
Board)
Rocco Bellanova (Book Review
Editor)
Mareile Kaufmann (Book Review
Editor)
ISA Compendium
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Editorial
Advisory Board)
Pacific Focus
Stein Tønnesson
Security Index
Pavel K. Baev (Advisory Board)
Peacebuilding
J. Peter Burgess (Ed. Board)
Strategic Analysis
J. Peter Burgess (Editorial Advisory Committee)
International Studies
Perspectives
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Editorial
Advisory Board)
International Studies
Quarterly
Christian Davenport (Ed. Board)
Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies
Jørgen Carling (Editorial Advisory
Board)
Journal of Human Security
J. Peter Burgess (Ed. Board)
Journal of Politics
Håvard Hegre
Journal of Social and
Political Psychology
Inger Skjelsbæk (Ed. Board)
Peace Review
Nils Petter Gleditsch (Board of Editorial Advisors)
Political Analysis
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Ed.
Board)
World politics
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Ed.
Board)
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participation in 2014
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Doctoral
Dissertations
Bellanova, Rocco. The Politics of
Data Protection: What Does Data
Protection Do? A Study of the
Interactions between Data Protection and Passenger Name Records
Dispositifs. Political and Social
Sciences, Université Saint-Louis,
Bruxelles & Faculty of Law and
Criminology, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. Supervisors: Denis
Duez, Université Saint-Louis;
Paul De Hert, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (defended 5 May).
Hoelscher, Kristian. How Can
Levels of Social Violence Shape
Political Institutions at the
National, City and Regional
Levels? Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.
Supervisors: Henrik Urdal,
PRIO; Anne Julie Semb, UiO
(defended 24 October).
Lidén, Kristoffer. Liberal Peacebuilding and the Philosophy of
Global Politics: Groundwork on the
Ethics of Peacebuilding. Department of Philosophy, Classics,
History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. Supervisors: J. Peter
Burgess, PRIO; Thomas Pogge,
UiO (defended 5 December).
Miklian, Jason. “Green Mining”,
Displacement and the Maoist
Conflict in India. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Supervisors: Stig Jarle Hansen
& Darley Jose Kjosavik, NMBU;
Åshild Kolås, PRIO; Priyankar
Upadhyaya, Beneras Hindi University, India (defended 27 June).
Ormhaug, Christin Mørup.
Effects of Civil War on Maternal
and Child Health Care in SubSaharan Africa. Faculty of Social
Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Supervisors: Espen Sjaastad &
Ingrid Nyborg, NMBU; Håvard
Hegre & Henrik Urdal, PRIO
(defended 10 October).
Tryggestad, Torunn, 2014.
International Norms and Political
Change: ‘Women, Peace and Security’ and the UN Security Agenda.
Department of Political Science,
University of Oslo. Supervisors:
Jennifer Bailey, NTNU; Helga
Hernes, PRIO (defended 12
December).
Ugelvik, Synnøve, 2014. Inside
on the Outside – Norway and
Police Cooperation in the EU,
Faculty of Law. University of
Oslo. Supervisors: Ragnhild
Helene Hennum, UiO; Saskia
Maria Hufnagel, Queen Mary,
University of London (defended
4 December).
Monographs
Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher. Inside the Politics of SelfDetermination. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Davenport, Christian. How
Social Movements Die: Repression
and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gates, Scott & Kaushik Roy.
Unconventional Warfare in South
Asia, Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency. Farnham: Ashgate.
Roy, Kaushik. Military Transition
in Early Modern Asia, 1400 –
1750: Cavalry, Guns, Governments
and Ships. London: Bloomsbury.
Edited Volumes
Carling, Jørgen; Jennifer Lee &
Pia Orrenius, eds. Special Anniversary Issue: International Migration in the 21st Century: Advancing
the Frontier of Scholarship and
Knowledge. Malden, MA: Wiley
Blackwell.
Gates, Scott & Kaushik Roy,
eds. War and State-Building
in Afghanistan: Historical and
Modern Perspectives. London:
Bloomsbury Academic.
Pérouse de Montclos, MarcAntoine, ed. Boko Haram:
Islamism, politics, security and the
state in Nigeria. Leiden: African
Studies Centre.
Reichberg, Gregory M. & Henrik
Syse, eds. Religion, War, and
Ethics. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Journal Articles
Baev, Pavel K. ‘Russia and
Turkey Find a Common Course
in Confronting the Specter of
Revolution’, Turkish Policy Quarterly 12(4): 45–53.
Basedau, Matthias. ‘Bad
Religion? Religion, Collective Action, and the Onset
of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries’, Journal
of Conflict Resolution. DOI:
10.1177/00220027145418531–30.
Bellanova, Rocco. ‘Data Protection, with Love’, International
Political Sociology 8(1): 112–115.
Bergersen, Stine. ‘Overvåkning
og personvern: Om innsynsrett
i teori og praksis’ [Surveillance
and Privacy: About the Right of
Access in Theory and Practice],
Materialisten. Tidsskrift For Forskning, Fagkritikk Og Teoretisk
Debatt 14(3): 47–65.
Böhmelt, Tobias; Thomas
Bernauer; Halvard Buhaug;
Nils Petter Gleditsch; Theresa
Tribaldos & Gerdis Wischnath.
‘Demand, Supply, and Restraint:
Determinants of Domestic
Water Conflict and Cooperation’,
Global Environmental Change 29:
337–348.
Breidlid, Ingrid Marie & Michael
J. Arensen. ‘Demystifying the
White Army: Nuer Armed Civilians’ Involvement in the South
Sudanese Crisis’, Conflict Trends
2014/3: 32–39.
Brown, Richard; Jørgen Carling;
Sonja Fransen & Melissa Siegel.
‘Measuring Remittances through
Surveys: Methodological and
Conceptual Issues for Survey
Designers and Data Analysts’,
Demographic Research 31: 1243–
1274.
Bryant, Rebecca. ‘Living with
Liminality: De Facto States on
the Threshold of the Global’,
Brown Journal of World Affairs
20(2): 125–143.
Buhaug, Halvard. ‘Concealing
Agreements over ClimateConflict Results’, Proceedings
of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of
America 111(6). DOI: 10.1073/
pnas.1323773111.
Buhaug, Halvard; Jonas Nordkvelle; Thomas Bernauer; Tobias
Böhmelt; Michael Brzoska;
Joshua W. Busby; Antonio
Ciccone; Hanne Fjelde; Erik
Gartzke; Nils Petter Gleditsch;
Jack A. Goldstone; Håvard
Hegre; Helge Holtermann; Vally
Koubi; Jasmin S. A. Link; Peter
Michael Link; Päivi Lujala; John
O’Loughlin; Clionadh Raleigh;
Jürgen Scheffran; Janpeter
Schilling; Todd G. Smith; Ole
Magnus Theisen; Richard S. J.
Tol; Henrik Urdal & Nina von
Uexkull. ‘One Effect to Rule
Them All? A Comment on
Climate and Conflict’, Climatic
Change 127(3): 391–397.
Buhaug, Halvard; Lars-Erik
Cederman & Kristian Skrede
Gleditsch. ‘Square Pegs in
Round Holes: Inequalities,
Grievances, and Civil War’, International Studies Quarterly 58(2):
418–431.
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Carling, Jørgen & Silje Vatne Pettersen. ‘Return Migration Intentions in the Integration–Transnationalism Matrix’, International
Migration 52(6): 13–30.
Carling, Jørgen. ‘Scripting
Remittances: Making Sense
of Money Transfers in Transnational Relationships’, International Migration Review 48:
218–262.
Charalambous, Giorgos. ‘Taking
Party Ideology Development
Seriously’, Rivista Italiana di
Scienza Politica 44 (2): 193–203.
Charalambous, Giorgos &
Iasonas Lamprianou. ‘Societal
Responses to the Post-2008
Economic Crisis among South
European and Irish Radical
Left Parties: Continuity or
Change and Why?’, Government
and Opposition. DOI: 10.1017/
gov.2014.35.
Deka, Arunima. ‘Of Pills and
Politics: Contraceptives and
Women in Assam’, Social Change
and Development 11(1): 118–130.
Demetriou, Olga & Maria Hadjipavlou. ‘A Feminist Position on
Sharing Governmental Power
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Østby, Gudrun & Hanne Fjelde.
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Carling, Jørgen & Marta Bivand
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Boy, Nina. ‘The Backstory of
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Checkel, Jeffrey T. ‘Identity,
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Checkel, Jeffrey T. ‘Mechanisms,
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Demetriou, Olga. ‘Situating Loss
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Demetriou, Olga. ‘Ως ‘óν
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Θράκη’’ [Being Political: The
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συλλογικής ταυτότητας στην
Ελλάδα. Athens: Alexandria
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Duez, Denis & Rocco Bellanova.
‘Humains et non-humains
dans la fabrique des frontières
de l’Europe: une approche in
medias res de l’européanisation’
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Erdal, Marta Bivand. ‘The Social
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Ezzati, Rojan & Cindy Horst.
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Friberg, Jon Horgen & Cindy
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of Migrant Populations’ in Guri
Tyldum & Lisa Johnston, eds, Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to
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Gleditsch, Nils Petter. ‘Overvåking under kontroll’ [Surveillance
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URO/KORO (7–16).
Gleditsch, Nils Petter. ‘Will
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Tønnesson, Stein. ‘China’s
National Interests and the Law of
the Sea: Are they Reconcilable?’
in Shicun Wu & Hong Nong, eds,
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Tønnesson, Stein. ‘Could China
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in Gender i Forsvaret. Fra teori
til praksis. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag
(95–124).
Gürel, Ayla & Harry Tzimitras.
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ed., Resolving Cyprus: New
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Hatay, Mete & Ali Dayioglu.
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Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić
& Egdūnas Račius, eds, Yearbook
of Muslims In Europe, Vol. 6.
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Hatay, Mete. ‘Three Ways of
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Hudson, Heidi. ‘The ANC in Perspective: Agents, Structures and
the Politics of Change’ in Treading
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Jacobsen, Elida K. U. & Samrat
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University Press India.
Kolås, Åshild. ‘Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: Ideas,
Approaches and Debates’ in
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Montealegre, Jane; Antje Röder
& Rojan Ezzati. ‘Formative
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Reichberg, Gregory M. ‘Catholic
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and Ethics: a Sourcebook of Textual
Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Roy, Kaushik. ‘Hinduism’ in
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a Sourcebook of Textual Traditions.
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Roy, Kaushik. ‘Learning through
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Roy, Kaushik. ‘The Concept of
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Tunander, Ola. ‘Diskurs,
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statsfôrbund’ [Discourse, Identity and Territoriality: Kjellen’s
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Østby, Gudrun & Henrik Urdal.
‘Demographic Factors and Civil
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1 Mullen, Fiona; Alexander Apostolides & Mustafa Besim. ‘The
Cyprus Peace Dividend Revisited: A Productivity and Sectoral
Approach’, PRIO Cyprus Centre
Report 1. Nicosia: PRIO Cyprus
Centre.
2 Charalambous, Giorgos.
‘Political Culture and Behaviour
in the Republic of Cyprus during
the Crisis’, PRIO Cyprus Centre
Report 2. Nicosia: PRIO Cyprus
Centre.
3 Gürel, Ayla; Hubert Faustmann
& Harry Tzimitras, eds. ‘East
Mediterranean Hydrocarbons’,
PRIO Cyprus Centre Report 3.
Nicosia: PRIO Cyprus Centre.
4 Gürel, Ayla & Fiona Mullen.
‘Can Eastern Mediterranean
Gas Discoveries Have a Positive
Impact on Turkey-EU Relations’,
in Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Daniela
Huber, Meltem Müftüler-Baç, E.
Fuat Keyman, Jan Tasci & Nathalie Tocci, eds, Global Turkey in
Europe II, Rome: Nuova Cultura
(49-68).
PRIO Cyprus Centre
Policy Briefs
1 Demetriou, Olga. ‘Towards
a Gendered Peace - Interventions in the Negotiation Process
Inspired by UNSCR 1325’, PCC/
GAT Policy Brief 1-2014.
PRIO Gender Peace and
Security Updates
PRIO Policy Briefs
PRIO Papers
1 Tryggestad, Torunn L. & Jenny
Kathrine Lorentzen. ‘The Role
and Relevance of Gender in
Peace Mediation’, PRIO Gender,
Peace and Security Update 1.
Oslo: PRIO.
1 Nilsen, Marte & Stein Tønnesson. ‘Myanmar’s National
Census – Helping or Disrupting Peace?’, PRIO Policy Brief 1.
Oslo: PRIO. [Also available in
Burmese.]
Breidlid, Ingrid Marie & Michael
J. Arensen. ‘“Anyone Who Can
Carry A Gun Can Go”: The
Role of the White Army in
the Current Conflict in South
Sudan’, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
2 Lorentzen, Jenny Kathrine &
Torunn L. Tryggestad. ‘Global
Summit to End Sexual Violence
in Conflict’, PRIO Gender, Peace
and Security Update 2. Oslo:
PRIO.
2 Marsh, Nicholas. ‘Defining
the Scope of Autonomy’, PRIO
Policy Brief 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Buhaug, Halvard & Jonas Nord­
kvelle. ‘Climate and Conflict:
A Comment on Hsiang et al.’s
Reply to Buhaug et al.’, PRIO
Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
3 Lorentzen, Jenny Kathrine
& Torunn L. Tryggestad. ‘First
Woman Appointed as UN Force
Commander’, PRIO Gender,
Peace and Security Update 3.
Oslo: PRIO.
4 Lorentzen, Jenny Kathrine &
Torunn L. Tryggestad. ‘Symposium on Women’s Rights and
Empowerment in Afghanistan’,
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security
Update 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Conflict Trends Policy Briefs
1 Hegre, Håvard & Håvard
Mokleiv Nygård. ‘Peace on
Earth? The Future of Internal
Armed Conflict’, Conflict Trends
1. Oslo: PRIO.
2 Dahl, Marianne; Scott Gates;
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård &
Håvard Strand. ‘Ukraine and
the Role of the Security Forces
in Popular Uprisings’, Conflict
Trends 2. Oslo: PRIO.
3 Gates, Scott; Håvard Hegre;
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård &
Håvard Strand. ‘Development
Consequences of Internal
Armed Conflict’, Conflict Trends
3. Oslo: PRIO.
3 Talleraas, Cathrine. ‘The
Unintended Effects of Norway’s
Readmission Agreement with
Ethiopia’, PRIO Policy Brief 3.
Oslo: PRIO.
4 Paasche, Erlend. ‘Iraqi Kurdistan: Partner Under Pressure’,
PRIO Policy Brief 4. Oslo: PRIO.
5 Ormhaug, Christin Marsh.
‘National Action Plans on
Women, Peace and Security in
the OSCE Area’, PRIO Policy
Brief 5. Oslo: PRIO.
6 Nilsen, Marte & Stein Tønnesson. ‘High Risk of Electoral
Violence in Myanmar’, PRIO
Policy Brief 6. Oslo: PRIO. [Also
available in Burmese.]
7 Hernes, Helga. ‘Global Aspects
of Women’s Participation’, PRIO
Policy Brief 7. Oslo: PRIO.
8 Paasche, Erlend. ‘Why Assisted
Return Programmes Must Be
Evaluated’, PRIO Policy Brief 8.
Oslo: PRIO.
Doucet, Rachelle. ‘Modelos
locales de Prevención y Gestión
de Conflictos en Haití’ [Local
Models of Conflict Prevention in
Haiti], PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Eide, Kai. ‘Afghanistan and the
US: Between Partnership and
Occupation’, PRIO Paper. Oslo:
PRIO.
Hedayat, Lida Nadery & Kristian
Berg Harpviken. ‘Where Do
Afghan Women Stand on Education and Economic Empowerment?’, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Marsh, Nicholas & Gugu Dube.
‘Preventing Diversion: The
Importance of Stockpile Management’, PRIO Paper. Oslo:
PRIO.
Sharan, Timor & Torunn
Wimpelmann. ‘Women’s Rights
and Political Representation:
Past Achievements and Future
Challenges’, PRIO Paper. Oslo:
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Research School Activities 2014
6 – 7 January: Symposium, with Lynn
Nygaard and Jacob Høigilt
8 – 10 January: PhD Course: Gender, Peace
and Security, with Inger Skjelsbæk and
Torunn Tryggestad
Gregory M. Reichberg
Head
Kristoffer Lidén
Academic
Coordinator
Maral Mirshahi
Administrative
Coordinator
Lynn P. Nygaard
Leader of symposiums
and skills training
The Research School on Peace and Conflict
offers advanced research training for the next
generation of peace and conflict scholars
by building on networks and expertise at
the UiO, NTNU and PRIO. The collaboration is characterized by multidisciplinary
approaches to peace and conflict issues,
international profile and outlook, and
research excellence.
The Research School on Peace and Conflict
is a National Research School, funded by the
Research Council of Norway.
Head
Gregory M. Reichberg, Professor II, University of Oslo and Research Professor, PRIO
Steering Group
Øyvind Østerud, Professor, UiO
Kristen Ringdal, Professor, NTNU
Inger Skjelsbæk, Deputy Director and Senior
Researcher, PRIO
Elida Kristine Undrum Jacobsen, Student
Representative
Kjersti Lohne, Student Representative
(deputy)
Gregory M. Reichberg, Professor II, University of Oslo and Research Professor, PRIO
Kristoffer Lidén, Secretary of Steering Group,
Researcher, PRIO
3 – 6 March: The Political Economy of
Genocide: The Case of Rwanda, with Philip
Verwimp
10 – 11 April: Open Source GIS: Quantum
and PostGIS. With Andreas Forø Tollefsen
and Nils B. Weidmann
5 – 7 May: Course on Writing and Presentation, with Lynn P. Nygaard
8 – 9 May: Symposium, with Lynn P.
Nygaard
8 May: Introduction to the Research School
on Peace and Conflict
12 – 15 May: The Dynamics of Civil War, with
Jeffrey T. Checkel and Scott Gates
11 – 15 August:Advanced Social Statistics,
with Arild Blekesaune
29 September – 2 October: The Arab Spring:
a Challenge to Comparative and International Politics, with Inga Brandell
6 – 10 October: Cyprus Course on Peace and
Conflict, with the PRIO Cyprus Centre
28 – 30 October: Humanitarian Action and
the Protection of Civilians
13 – 14 November: Symposium
8 – 12 December: Methods in Critical Security Studies, with J. Peter Burgess and Mark
B. Salter
Peace Research
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Summer School students 2014
Photo: Julie Lunde Lillesæter, PRIO
Since 1969, PRIO has organized the Peace
Research Course of the University of Oslo’s
International Summer School.
The course has been coordinated by Kendra
Dupuy and Stephan Hamberg since 2006, and
the 2014 course was their last Summer School.
Kendra Dupuy
Coordinator
Stephan Hamberg
Coordinator
Main topics:
The causes of conflict
The dynamics of conflict
Resolving conflict and building peace
Ethics and legal issues in war
There were 21 students in the 2014 course
from the following countries: Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, Pakistan, the USA, Denmark,
Ethiopia, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Turkey,
Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, South Africa, the
Netherlands, and Zambia.
Most of the 2014 students had academic backgrounds, in the sense that they were either
working on a degree or had recently finished
one. However, we had two professors, two
student who had worked with the UN, one
NGO worker, and three students who had
been police officers (two of which are currently
working on academic degrees).
Leadership
and Support
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Director´s Office
Kristian Berg
Harpviken
Director
Inger Skjelsbæk
Deputy Director
Communication
Halvor Berggrav Adviser
to the Director (On
leave from November)
Hilde Christine
Hjertenes
Adviser to the Director
Lynn P. Nygaard
Adviser on Project
Development and
Publications
Ingeborg Haavardsson
Special Adviser on
External Relations
Agnete Schjønsby
Communication
Director
Martin Tegnander
Portal Manager
Administration
Lene K. Borg
Administrative
Director
Lars Even Andersen
Deputy Administrative
Director
Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Communication
Assistant
Library
Cathrine Bye
Institute Adviser
Pål Torjus Halsne
Finance Controller
Fanny Nicolaisen
Administrative Assistant
Lorna Quilario
Sandberg
Chief Accountant
Svein Normann
IT Manager
Damian Laws
Management Adviser
Odvar Leine
Head Librarian
Olga Baeva
Librarian
Report
from the Board 2014
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The research at PRIO is organized into
research groups, projects and departments,
of which the research groups serve as a
driving force in innovation and project
development. The research groups are structured thematically, reflecting the Institute’s
research agenda. At end of 2014, PRIO has 15
research groups:
Migration
Gender
Conflict Trends
Environment
Humanitarianism
Peacebuilding
Religion
Security
Law and Ethics
Civilians in Conflict
Governance
Non-state Conflict Actors
Cities and Populations
Regions and Powers
Media
The value generated by the research projects
constitutes the basis for the Institute’s operations, and both the research staff and the
projects are anchored in the three research
departments:
■Social
Dynamics
of Violence and Peace
■Dimensions of Security
■Conditions
PRIO owns the two world-class journals –
the Journal of Peace Research and Security
Dialogue, both published by SAGE. Furthermore, PRIO keeps key roles in the editorial
teams of the journals International Area
Studies Review and the Journal of Military
Ethics.
We consider 2014 to have been a good year
for PRIO, with a high level of activity. The
following research output is emphasized:
■4 scientific monographs
(the corresponding figure for 2013 was 5)
■68 peer-reviewed journal articles in
international journals
(the figure for 2013 was 70)
■28 book chapters
(the figure for 2013 was 43)
■7 completed doctoral dissertations
(the figure for 2013 was 2)
The Institute’s total operating income
amounted to NOK 115.8 million, an increase
of 24.4% on the corresponding figure for
2013. The 2014 accounts show a surplus after
tax of NOK 12.8 million, against a surplus of
3.8 million in 2013.
PRIO has a long-term strategic aim of building up its net assets, and the result contributes positively towards this aim. The 2014
surplus will be added to the net assets, which
now amount to NOK 60.9 million, equivalent to 52% of the total assets. The cash-flow
analysis shows a net increase of NOK 7.1
million in the Institute’s cash equivalents
from 31 December 2013 to 31 December 2014.
PRIO’s liquidity situation is considered
good. Current assets are equivalent to 2.2
times current liabilities at December 31,
2014. The Board is of the opinion that the
annual accounts give a true and fair view of
PRIO’s financial situation as of 31 December
2014. In 2014, the core grant represented
14% of the Institute’s operating revenues.
Another 39% of the income came from the
Research Council of Norway through ordinary project grants. The Norwegian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is one of the most
important contributors to PRIO’s activities.
Project grants from the MFA provided 24%
of PRIO’s operating revenues in 2014. Additional income was generated through various
other funders, including the European
Commission and the Norwegian Ministry of
Defence. It is a strategic goal to diversify the
funding base in order to reduce vulnerability.
Focused efforts are also directed towards
increasing the share of international funding,
which in 2014 constituted 18%.
For 2015, PRIO has budgeted with a turnover
of NOK 120.8 million, including a core grant
of NOK 16,681,000. At the start of the year,
77% of the budgeted income was considered
secure. The Institute has budgeted with a
surplus for 2015 as well, and the Board is of
the opinion that the conditions for continued
operation are present.
PRIO enjoys a good internal working environment. Routines for health, environmental
awareness and security have been established. PRIO employees participate in decision-making at the Institute through membership of, or representation on, the Institute
Council and the PRIO Board. Reported sick
leave in 2014 was 2.2% (2.5% in 2013). No
accidents with physical injury were reported
in 2014. The Institute does not pollute the
external environment.
On average, 93 people were employed at
PRIO during 2014, working an equivalent
of 72 person-years. Compared with 2013, the
average number of people employed and the
number of person-years performed increased
by four. A total of 107 persons were engaged
by PRIO during 2014. 20 doctoral candidates
and four master’s degree students benefited
from scholarships and/or workspace at
PRIO.
PRIO promotes gender equality for its
employees. In 2014, work carried out by
research staff at the Institute amounted to
53.6 person-years. Among junior researchers and doctoral candidates, women
were responsible for 66%, while women
accounted for 58% of the senior researchers
holding doctoral degrees. 21% of the research
professors were women. The female proportion of the 18.1 person-years performed by
support staff was 62%. PRIO makes active
efforts to prevent discrimination on the basis
of functional ability, ethnicity, national origin,
skin colour, or religious or philosophical orientation. Activities performed in this regard
include recruitment, remuneration and
working conditions, promotional schemes,
staff development programmes and protection against harassment.
PRIO is engaged in the project Peace and
Reconciliation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In relation to this project, the Institute keeps
a branch office in Nicosia, Cyprus. Apart
from the work of the PRIO Cyprus Centre, all
of the Institute’s activities are carried out at
PRIO’s offices in Oslo.
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The purpose of the Peace Research Institute
Oslo (PRIO) is to engage in research concerning the conditions for peaceful relations
between nations, groups and individuals.
Since its foundation in 1959, PRIO has
played a central international role in developing peace research as an important academic
discipline. PRIO is led by Kristian Berg
Harp­viken, who is engaged in his second
term as Director of PRIO, ending June 30,
2017. Inger Skjelsbæk serves as Deputy
Director.
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The Board is of the clear opinion that PRIO’s
activities are well managed, and in compliance with the Institute’s Statutes, approved
strategies, and annual plans of action. PRIO
is internationally very well-recognised within
the field of peace and conflict. In the short
term, the demand and funding prospects
for PRIO’s research are expected to remain
robust. In the longer term, challenges may
arise from the Norwegian research policy.
Possible scenarios include a research policy
that aims at cultivating the institute sector
as an arena for applied research, at the same
time as universities and colleges are also
increasingly expected to obtain supplementary funding from external sources.
Expansive consultant companies and new
public think-tanks may narrow down the
space for the institute sector in general, and
for strong academic research milieus like
PRIO in particular. At the same time, PRIO
demonstrates that solid academic competence is the best base for research relevance.
We consider the research milieu at PRIO to
be unique in a Norwegian as well as international setting. We develop new and stronger
alliances with other research environments,
and we are therefore of the opinion that in
the long term, PRIO will prove itself as a
robust research institute with unique qualities and a strong international profile that is
well positioned for further growth.
Oslo, 20 April 2015
Bernt Aardal
Chair
Ragnhild Nordås
Board Member
Georg Sørensen
Board Member
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Director
Tora Skodvin
Board Member
Henrik Urdal
Board Member
Bernard Enjolras
Board Member
Ragnhild Sohlberg
Board Member
The Board members
Bernt Aardal (Chair)
University of Oslo
Tora Skodvin
University of Oslo
Bernard Enjolras
Institute for Social Research, Oslo
Ragnhild Sohlberg
Sohlberg Consulting, Oslo
Georg Sørensen
Aarhus University
Ragnhild Nordås, PRIO
Henrik Urdal, PRIO
Bernt Aardal
Chair
Tora Skodvin
Bernard Enjolras
Ragnhild Sohlberg
Georg Sørensen
Ragnhild Nordås
Henrik Urdal
Kristian Berg Harpviken (ex officio)
Inger Skjelsbæk (ex officio)
Lene K. Borg (ex officio)
Deputies:
Marianne Røed
Institute for Social Research, Oslo
Nora Sveaass, University of Oslo
Catharina Kinnvall, Lund University
Nazneen Khan-Østrem, Aschehoug
Sveinung Lunde, Bjørknes College
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, PRIO
Damian Laws, PRIO
Cash Flow Statement
20142013
Cash Flow From Operating Activities
Annual surplus
17 738
5 659
Taxes paid for the period
(1 898)
(3 108)
Depreciations620685
Change project advances from funders
(7 976)
20 522
Change debtors
761
(5 964)
Change other receivables
1 766
(1 051)
Change accounts payable and other liabilities
2 941
327
Effect of pension fund
(6 566)
547
Change in other periodized items
533
873
Net cash flow from operating activities
7 919
18 491
Cash Flow from Investment Activities
(831)
(439)
Payments for purchase of fixed assets
Net cash flow from investment activities
(831)
(439)
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
7 089
18 052
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January
88 440
70 389
Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December
95 529
88 440
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All figures in NOK thousands
Income Statement
20142013
Operating Revenues
Core grants
16 111
15 224
Project grants
90 072
69 793Note 4
Sales revenues
6 941
6 014
Other revenues
2 658
2 009
Total operating revenues
115 782
93 040
Note 3
Operating Expenses
Salaries and social costs
47 596
49 227Notes 8, 11
Professional fees
21 386
12 272
Other personnel costs
2 214
1 820
12 511
12 616 Note 6, 10
Office costs
Running costs for field office
3 988
3 003
Travel, representation and seminars
11 358
9 735
Depreciations
620
638Note 5
Total operating expenses
99 673
89 311
Operating surplus (deficit)
16 109
3 729
Financial Income/Expenses
Financial income
1 850
2 074
Financial expenses
221
144
Net financial items
1 629
1 930
Net Surplus
Net surplus before corporate tax
17 738
5 659
Corporate tax
4 942
1 832Note 12
Net surplus for the financial year
12 796
3 827
Disposal of Net Surplus
Transferred to other equity capital
12 796
3 827
Note 13
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Balance Sheet
20142013
Assets
Fixed assets
Deferred tax assets
1 196
2 988Note 12
Machines and furniture
808
597Note 5, 6
Total fixed assets
2 004
3 585
Current assets
Debtors
17 288
18 050Note 4
Other receivables
2 202
3 968
Bank and cash in hand
95 529
88 440Note 2
Total current assets
115 019
110 458
Total assets
117 023
114 043
Net Assets and Liabilities
Net assets
Basic capital
6 197
6 197
Other equity capital
54 710
41 914Note 13
Total net assets 31 December
60 907
48 111
Allocation for liabilities
Pension liabilities
3 368
9 934Note 7
Long term liabilities, employees
1 401
1 204Note 11
Total allocation for liabilities
4 769
11 137
Current liabilities
Withholding tax, social security, VAT
4 283
3 946
Project advances from funders
28 594
36 570Note 4
Accounts payable
2 699
3 068
Current income tax payable
3 151
1 899Note 12
Other liabilities
12 620
9 311
Total current liabilities
51 347
54 794
Total net assets and liabilities
117 023
114 043
Oslo, 20 April 2015
Bernt Aardal
Chair
Ragnhild Nordås
Board Member
Georg Sørensen
Board Member
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Director
Tora Skodvin
Board Member
Henrik Urdal
Board Member
Bernard Enjolras
Board Member
Ragnhild Sohlberg
Board Member
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Note 1: Accounting Principles
The annual accounts are produced in accordance with the Accounting Act of 1998 and
sound accounting practice.
Valuation and Classification of Assets and
Liabilities
Long-lived assets aimed at permanent utilization or ownership are classified as fixed assets.
Other assets are classified as current assets.
Items falling due within one year are classified
as current assets and liabilities. The classification
of current and non-current liabilities is based on
the same criteria.
Note 2: Separate Bank Account for
Withholding Taxes
Note 3: Operating Revenues
Fixed assets are stated at historical cost net of
accumulated depreciation or at estimated fair
value if less than book value and the decline
in book value is not perceived as temporary.
Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis
at rates calculated to amortize each asset over
its expected economic lifetime. Current assets
are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable
value. Assets and liabilities in foreign currency
are valued at year-end exchange rates.
Income
Revenue is recognized when it is earned.
Costs
Costs are accounted for in line with the
matching principle.
Pensions
The basis for recording pension liabilities is estimated salary level upon retirement and years of
service. Deviations from estimates and effects
of changes in assumptions are amortized over
expected remaining years of service if exceeding
10% of the greater of pension liabilities and
pension funds. Changes in the pension plan are
dispersed over the remaining years of service.
The figures include payroll tax. The pension
means are assessed at real value.
The balance in the separate bank account for withholding taxes at 31 December 2014 was 2,145,847.
The corresponding figure at 31 December 2013 was NOK 2,142,374.
Core grant
Project grants
Sales revenues
Other revenues
Total operating revenues
20142013
16 111 000
15 224 000
90 072 524
69 793 493
6 940 991
6 014 325
2 657 775
2 008 522
115 782 290
93 040 340
including the Research School on Peace and
Conflict in collaboration with the University of
Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, as well as the Peace Research
course at the International Summer School at
the University of Oslo.
PRIO receives an annual result-based core
grant through the Research Council of Norway.
The core grant is used to support long term
knowledge and competence building, in line with
the Guidelines for Governmental Funding of
Research Institutes.
Research at PRIO is organised in projects, and
project grants consist of revenues from funding
sources in Norway and abroad, including project
grants from the Norwegian Research Council,
ministries and the European Commission.
Sales revenues consist of royalty income generated through the publishing of Journal of Peace
Research and Security Dialogue by SAGE.
Other revenues consist of income generated
through PRIO’s engagement in education,
Note 4: Project Accounts
The method of accounting used for projects is the percentage-of-completion method (Norwegian
Accounting Standard 2, Construction Contracts). Project revenues are accounted for according to
progress and reflect earned income. Project expenses are accounted for according to the accrual principle of accounting. The project balance and any outstanding income are regarded as sufficient to cover
future expenses needed for the completion of the project. Earned non-invoiced revenues are included
in the sum for debtors in the balance. On account payments and project advances from funders are
presented as current liabilities on the balance sheet.
Projects at 31 December
Earned non-invoiced revenues on ongoing projects
Pre-invoiced production
2014
9 221 371
25 593 828
2013
8 893 069
36 570 063
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Note 5: Machines and Furniture
Cost price 1 January
New investments
Decline/sales during the year
Accumulated previous depreciations
This year’s depreciation
Net book value at 31 December
20142013
10 771 309
10 332 071
831 003
439 237
0
0
10 174 403
9 489 543
620 236
684 860
807 672
596 905
Depreciation of machines and furniture is calculated using the linear method over three years.
Note 6: Leasing
On 1 August 2005, PRIO entered into an agreement with the Norwegian Red Cross for rent of office
space in Hausmanns gate 7. The agreement was in 2014 extended until 31 July 2020 and the annual
rent is NOK 2.9 million. After expiry, PRIO has the right to extend the agreement for another five
years, at market-regulated rent. Each of the parties can claim an annual regulation of the rent equal to
100% of the change in Statistics Norway’s consumer price indices.
Note 7: Pension Expenses, Pension
Assets and Pension Liabilities
Present value of earned pensions this year
Interest expense on pension liabilities
Return on pension assets
Effect of estimate deviation Regulatory plan changes
Accrued payroll tax
Administration cost
Accounted for pension expense
PRIO’s employees are members of the
Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. The
pension plan is regulated by the Norwegian
Public Service Pension Fund Act. The pension
plan comprises retirement pensions, disability
pensions and contingent life pensions (contingent life pensions include joint life pensions and
children’s pensions). The plan also comprises
contractual pensions from 62 years. The
pension plan is coordinated with pensions from
the National Insurance Scheme. Membership is mandatory for all employees who
qualify according to current regulations. At 31
December 2014, 78 employees were included
in the fund, and the number of pensioners
was 3. Calculation of pension contributions
and pension liabilities are based on actuarial
principles. The pension scheme is not based on
funds; payment of pensions is guaranteed by the
Norwegian state (Retirement Pension Act §1).
The Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
simulates placing the pension assets in government bonds (fictitious funds).
20142013
4 517 165
3 963 615
2 340 724
1 864 571
(1 801 678)
(1 479 217)
1 110 825
(7 326 330)
(300 619)
630 918
138 070
125 627
(1 321 843)
5 105 514
31 December 2014 31 December 2013
Assets < liabilities
Assets < liabilities
Accrued pension liabilities
71 428 872
62 797 902
Pension plan assets (at market value)
42 418 369
38 852 260
Estimate deviations not recognized
(26 058 384)
(15 239 298)
Net pension liability, before payroll tax
(2 952 119)
(8 706 344)
Accrued payroll tax
(416 249)
(1 227 594)
Net pension liability, after payroll tax
(3 368 368)
(9 933 938)
Economic Assumptions
Discount interest
Expected salaries regulation Expected pension regulation
Expected G regulation
Expected return on funds
20142013
2.30%
4.00%
2.75%
3.75%
1.75%
2.75%
2.50%
3.50%
3.20%
4.40%
The regular presuppositions of the insurance industry are used as actuarial assumptions for
demographic factors and retirement.
Note 8: Specification of Salaries and
Social Costs
Total salaries and social costs consist of the following items:
Salaries
Payroll tax
Pension costs
Total
20142013
43 643 724
39 412 473
6 702 873
6 032 831
(2 751 212)
3 872 032
47 595 385
49 227 336
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The average number of employees at PRIO during 2014 was 93, performing a total of 72 personyears (the corresponding figures for 2013 were 89 and 68). Additionally, the institute had 4 graduate
students with scholarships and/or office space at PRIO during the year (the corresponding figure for
2013 was 5).
Note 10: Auditors’ Fee
Fees to Deloitte AS and cooperating firms have been divided as follows:
20142013
Statutory audit fee
210 000
200 000
Other audit services
112 500
129 500
Tax advice fees
23 400
23 400
Total excl. VAT
345 900
352 900
Note 11: Remuneration of the Leadership
For each year employed in the Institute Director
position, the Institute Director accrues 1.5
months of salary, payable upon completion of the
Institute Director term.
Director
Board
Note 12: Tax
In 2009, the Norwegian tax authorities decided
that PRIO is liable for corporate taxation, effective as of the 2008 income year. PRIO disagrees
and has appealed the decision. Pending the
appeal, PRIO has accounted for tax as if the
institute were liable for corporate taxation.
Specification of income tax expense:
2014 2013
Current income tax payable
3 151 276
1 898 554
Changes in deferred tax
1 791 268
(176 852)
Effect of change in taxation rules
0
110 656
4 942 544
1 832 358
Tax on profit/(loss)
Specification of current income tax payable:
2014
2013
This year’s payable income tax expense
3 151 276
1 898 554
Too little/much income tax allocation previous years
0
0
Current income tax payable in balance sheet
3 151 276
1 898 554
Reconciliation from nominal to real income tax rate:
2014
2013
Profit/(loss) before taxation 17 738 366
5 659 243
Estimated income tax according to nominal rate (27%)
4 789 359
1 584 588
Tax effect of the following items: 20142013
Other non-deductable expenses
155 005
137 114
Other non-taxable income
(1 820)
0
Effect of change in taxataion rules
0
110 656
4 942 544
1 832 358
Income tax expense
Effective income tax rate
27.9%
32.4 %
Specification of the tax effect of temporary differences and losses carried forward:
20142013
(286 979) (305 543)
Fixed assets
Pension liabilities
(909 460)
(2 682 163)
(1 196 439)
(2 987 707)
Total
Off-balance sheet deferred tax benefits
0
0
Net deferred benefit/liability in balance sheet
(1 196 439)
(2 987 707)
The deferred tax benefit is included in the balance sheet on the basis of future income.
Note 13: Net Assets
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Note 9: Number of Employees During
the Financial Year
SalaryPensionOther
1 037 688
99 586
5 612
207 500
Basic capital
Other equity capital, 1 January
Net surplus
Other equity capital, 31 December
Total net assets, 31 December
20142013
6 197 000
6 197 000
41 914 358
38 087 474
12 795 822
3 826 885
54 710 180
41 914 358
60 907 180
48 111 358
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(Staff who left in 2014 are listed in italics)
Deputy Director
Inger Skjelsbæk
Director’s Office
Halvor Olav Berggrav
Ingeborg Haavardsson
Hilde Christine Hjertenes
Lynn Parker Nygaard
Researchers
Pavel K. Baev
Rocco Bellanova
Covadonga Morales
Bertrand
Helga Malmin Binningsbø
Kaja Borchgrevink
Nina Kristin Jessica Boy
Ingrid Marie Breidlid
Halvard Buhaug
J. Peter Burgess
Jørgen Carling
Primus Che Chi
Erica Chenoweth
David Cunningham
Kathleen Gallagher
Cunningham
Marianne Dahl
Ida Dommersnes
Kendra Dupuy
Marta Bivand Erdal
Rojan Tordhol Ezzati
Scott Gates
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Stephan Hamberg
Wenche Iren Hauge
Rahmatullah Hashemi
Håvard Hegre
Maria Hernández Carretero
Helga Hernes
Rozemarijn van der Hilst
Kristian Hoelscher
Helge Holtermann
Cindy Horst
Jacob Høigilt
Bjørn Høyland
Elida Kristine Jacobsen
Noor Jdid
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert
Mareile Kaufmann
Carl-Henrik Knutsen
Åshild Kolås
Kristoffer Lidén
Nicholas Marsh
Jason Miklian
Shabana Mitra
Marte Nilsen
Jonas Nordkvelle
Ragnhild Nordås
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
Christin Marsh Ormhaug
Erlend Paasche
Andrew Peter Rebera
Greg Reichberg
Simon Reid-Henry
Øystein H. Rolandsen
Siri Camilla Aas Rustad
Espen Geelmuyden Rød
Tove Heggli Sagmo
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Håvard Strand
Mette Strømsø
Henrik Syse
Pinar Tank
Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Torunn Lise Tryggestad
Ola Tunander
Stein Tønnesson
Synnøve Ugelvik
Henrik Urdal
Hilde Henriksen Waage
Tore Wig
Gerdis Wischnath
Jennifer Wu
Gudrun Østby
Research Assistants
Ragnhild Belbo
Stine Bergersen
Helene Molteberg Glomnes
Belen Gonzalez
Jenny Kathrine Lorentzen
Maral Mirshahi
Marit Moe-Pryce
Linn Marie Reklev
Ida Rudolfsen
Cathrine Talleraas
Eirik Vold
MA Students
Ragnhild Belbo
Hanna Bugge
Lina Elter
Martin Smidt
Visiting Researchers
Trond Bakkevig
Matthias Basedau
Antje Bierwisch
Annik Cecilie Saxegaard
Falch
Christian Davenport
Kai Eide
Elisabeth Gilmore
Michelle Leiby
Cyanne Loyle
Ortrun Merkle
Elise Must
Kari Paasonen
Anja Sletteland
Ricardo de Sousa
Francis Steen
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
PRIO Global Fellows
Endre Begby
Lars-Erik Cederman
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Heidi Hudson
Luka Biong Deng Kuol
Julieta Lemaitre
Marc-Antoine Pérouse
de Montclos
Ceri Oeppen
Kaushik Roy
Ranabir Samaddar
Monica Duffy Toft
Ukoha O. Ukiwo
PRIO Cyprus Centre
Guido Bonino
Giorgos Charalambous
Olga Demetriou
Ayla Gürel
Mete Hatay
Harry G. Tzimitras
Library
Olga Baeva
Odvar Leine
Editorial staff
Claudia Aradau
Scott Gates
Nicole Monique Hartwell
Idunn Kristiansen
Bertrand Lescher-Nuland
Marit Moe-Pryce
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
Sarah Pettersen
Henrik Syse
Henrik Urdal
Communication
Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Agnete Schjønsby
Martin Tegnander
Administrative Functions
Vicky Ackx
Lars Even Andersen
Lene Kristin Borg
Cathrine Bye
Anne Duquenne
Bertrand Lescher-Nuland
Jenny Kathrine Lorentzen
Damian Laws
Fanny Nicolaisen
Svein Normann
Lorna Quilario Sandberg
Jennifer Wu
PRIO ANNUAL Report 2 014
Director
Kristian Berg Harpviken
Statutes
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PRIO ANNUAL Report 2 014
§1: Aim and Purpose
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO),
herein also referred to as “the Institute”, is an
independent international research institute.
Its purpose is to engage in research concerning
the conditions for peaceful relations between
nations, groups and individuals.
A quorum of the Board shall be constituted by
the presence of at least five members; or by the
presence of four, including the Chairperson.
The Chair has a double vote in the case of a tie.
In addition to this main purpose,
the Institute shall:
• stimulate research cooperation nationally and
internationally
• undertake training and teaching
• hold conferences and seminars
• disseminate information based on its own
research as well as that of other institutions.
The Board shall keep minutes of its meetings.
Minutes are to be available to the members of the
Institute staff.
• The Institute is free to choose
its research projects.
• The results of its research shall be
available to the public.
The name of the Institute is, in Norwegian,
“Institutt for fredsforskning” and, in English,
“Peace Research Institute Oslo”, with “PRIO” as
the official abbreviation in both languages.
§2: The Foundation
The Peace Research Institute Oslo, is an autonomous non-profit foundation, independent of
ideological, political or national interests.
The “basis capital” (grunnkapital) of the Institute
(as of 31 December 1996) stands at NOK 6.197
million.
§3: Governing Bodies
The Institute has the following governing bodies:
• the Board
• the Institute Director
• the Institute Council.
§4: The Board
The Board shall consist of seven members with
personal deputies. Board members are appointed
for a three-year period, in such a way that 4 and
3 members, respectively, are to be appointed at
a time.
Members are appointed by the following bodies:
• One member by the Institute for Social Research
• Two members by the Norwegian Research
Council (NFR)
• One member by the University of Oslo
• One member from the other Nordic countries,
appointed by the Nordic International Studies
Association
• Two members by the Institute Council (IC). These two members shall be chosen from among the PRIO staff. The Institute Director,
the Deputy Director and the Administrative
Director are not eligible.
The Institute Director, Deputy Director and the
Administrative Director take part in the meetings
of the Board, without voting rights.
Consideration shall be given to achieving reasonable representation of both sexes.
The Board elects its own Chairperson and
Deputy Chairperson.
If any Board member finds it necessary to leave
the Board during his/her period of appointment,
a new appointment should be made for the duration of the period.
The Board shall be convened when demanded by
the Chair or by two of its members.
§5 Board: Functions
The Board shall discuss and approve the work
plan of the Institute, approve the budget and
accounts, and evaluate the activities of the Institute in relation to the Institute’s aim and purpose
and its work plan.
The Board shall appoint the Institute Director
(cf § 6), the Administrative Director, researchers
employed in permanent positions and other
researchers when these are engaged for a period
of over one year. Notice of termination for these
same personnel categories is likewise to be
approved by the Board.
§6: Appointment of Institute Director and Deputy Director
The Institute Council and the Board jointly
prepare the appointment of a new Institute
Director. The Institute Council is to deliver an
annotated recommendation to the Board. Before
delivering its recommendation, the Council is to
obtain statements from outside experts.
The Institute Director shall be appointed by the
Board to serve for a period of four years, with the
possibility of an extension of up to four years.
If the Institute Council, within two weeks of
the Board’s first decision on the hiring of a new
Director, by at least a 3/4 majority, notifies the
Board in writing of its reasoned disagreement
with the decision, the Board must consider the
hiring anew.
The Board shall appoint the Deputy Director for
two years at a time, following nomination by the
Director and the recommendation of the IC. The
Deputy Director may be re-appointed.
§ 7: Institute Director: Functions
The Institute Director is in charge of leading the
activity of the Institute.
The Institute Director has overarching responsibility for the planning, running, co-ordinating
and financing of the scholarly activities of the
Institute, within the framework set by the work
plan and the budget adopted by the Board. The
Institute Director is to see to it that the staff
are provided with possibilities to develop their
competence.
The Institute Director has main responsibility
for information about the Institute externally.
He/She shall also determine what is to be
published in the name of the Institute.
The Deputy Director shall execute the daily
functions of the Institute Director when the latter
is prevented from performing them.
§8: The Institute Council
The Institute Council (IC) is composed of all
employees in permanent positions, as well as all
employees in non-permanent positions employed
for 50 % or more of standard working hours
for more than 6 months. All these have voting
rights in the IC. The conscientious objectors and
the students elect one representative each with
voting rights – with personal deputies.
These are to be chosen at separate, annual elections. Further rules concerning these elections
shall be determined by the IC.
A quorum of the Institute Council shall be
constituted by the presence of at least 3/5 of its
members with voting rights. Unless otherwise
determined, matters are to be decided by simple
majority vote. The Chair has a casting vote
in the case of a tie.
The Institute Council shall be convened when
requested by the Institute Director or three of its
members.
The Institute Director takes part in the meetings
of the IC, without the right to vote.
At the beginning of each meeting the IC is to
decide who shall chair that session.
The Administrative Director normally acts as
secretary to the IC. The IC shall keep minutes
of its meetings.
§ 9: Institute Council: Functions
The Institute Council is a consultative body
for the Board and the Director. All matters which,
according to § 5 above, are to be dealt with
by the Board (including work plan, budget and
accounts, appointment of the Administrative
Director, researchers in permanent positions and
other researchers when they are engaged for a
period of over one year) are to be presented first
to the IC for its recommendation.
Unless special circumstances are an impediment, the Institute Director and the staff
representatives to the Board shall also present to
the IC all other matters which they intend to put
before the Board.
Personnel matters are not to be dealt with by the
Institute Council. The Institute Council itself
determines whether a matter falls within its
mandate.
The Institute Council elects two members of the
PRIO staff to the Board. The IC can require these
to take up specific matters before the Board.
§ 10: Freedom of speech
All staff members have full freedom of expression, internally and externally.
§ 11: Statutes
These Statutes are available in both Norwegian
and English. In the case of any discrepancies, the
Norwegian text shall apply.
Amendment of the Statutes requires both a
2/3 majority of the Institute Council, and a 5/7
majority of the Board.
§ 12: Dissolution
Dissolution of the Institute requires a 2/3
majority of the Institute Council, and a 5/7
majority of the Board.
Should this take place, any funds shall go to the
Institute for Social Research or be used for a
research purpose designated by the latter Institute.
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Non-profit research institute founded in 1959
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Independent foundation with headquarters in Oslo
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International staff of about 100 people who represent different
academic backgrounds and expertise
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Financed on project basis with funding from national research councils,
government ministries, international organizations, foundations,
corporations and individuals
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Nurtures international partnerships, on project basis as well as with our
programme for PRIO Global Fellows, the Peace Research Endowment
(New York), and the PRIO Cyprus Centre (branch office in Nicosia)
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Publishes findings in major international journals and with the leading
publishing houses
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Engages actively in teaching and training, including the hosting of
the Research School on Peace and Conflict for PhD scholars
in collaboration with Norwegian partners
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Communicates and engages on various arenas, such as with international academic networks, multilateral organizations, governmental
agencies and civil society actors
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Collects and maintains statistical data on peace and conflict,
and serves as a data hub for researchers worldwide
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Owns and houses two internationally renowned academic journals:
Journal of Peace Research and Security Dialogue
www.prio.org