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This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their personal experiences with peace and conflict, tell what drove their peace engagement, and discuss the balance sought in the field between the cold dictates from academic rigor and the hot pursuit of peace, a desire for research to make a positive difference. Most of the chapters are interviews where one colleague interviews another. Some are self-reflective essays, while others are memorial essays written about a peace researcher who has passed away. Taken together, the book presents a lively picture of a thriving world-leading research environment and a wealth of conflicting or mutually reinforcing perspectives on war, violence, conflict, conflict management and resolution, negotiations and mediation, peacemaking, peace building, and the contested concept of peace. “The Oslo Stories is an indispensable source to the history of peace research.” Dr. Olav Njølstad, Director, Nobel Institute, Oslo

International relations --- International institutions --- Terrorism, armed struggle --- Peace research --- War and violence --- Peace building --- Conflict resolution --- PRIO --- PLO --- Oslo --- Life Stories --- Stein Tønnesson --- Stein Toennesson --- Stein Tonnesson

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Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace.

856.3 Conflictbemiddeling --- 241 Hedendaagse wereldproblemen --- Polemology --- Peace --- Paix --- International Law --- International Cooperation --- Law, Politics & GovernmentResearch --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- International affairs --- Peace science --- International relations --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Interdependence of nations --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Research --- #SBIB:011.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- International relations. --- Research. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Economic schools --- Sociology of culture --- 856.3 Conflictbemiddeling/Onderhandelingstechnieken --- Recherche --- Peace - Research