Annual ReportAnnual 2006 PRIO Annual Report 2006 101 Staff List 2006 (Staff who left in 2006 are listed in grey italics) Director Sabrina Ramet Doreen Kuse Information Stein Tønnesson Gregory Reichberg Bethany Lacina Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten Jan Ketil Rød Eric Neumayer Agnete Schjønsby Research Staff Øystein H. Rolandsen Magnus Öberg Martin Austvoll Kaushik Roy Marcelo Ochoa Editorial Staff Pavel Baev Sven Gunnar Simonsen Taylor Owen John Carville Morten Bergsmo Inger Skjelsbæk Roger Petersen Glenn Martin Helga Malmin Binningsbø Endre Stiansen James Pugel Marit Moe Kaja Borchgrevink Håvard Strand Rebecca Roberts Naima Mouhleb Marit Brochmann Trude Strand Bruce Russett Halvard Buhaug Kaare Strøm Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel Library J. Peter Burgess Henrik Syse Astrid Suhrke Olga Baeva Jørgen Carling Pinar Tank Jennifer Ziemke Odvar Leine Jeffrey Checkel Anne Thurin Indra de Soysa Torunn Tryggestad Administration Kendra Dupuy Ola Tunander Visiting Scholars Lars Even Andersen Jon Elster Henrik Urdal Vera Achvarina Lene Kristin Borg Scott Gates (CSCW Director) Hilde Henriksen Waage Trond Bakkevig Kai Robert Braaten Camilla Gjerde Hanne Fjelde Eystein Emberland Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Advisers Stein Erik Horjen Andrew Feltham Nils Petter Gleditsch Joachim Carlsen Pablo Kalmanovitz Damian Laws Kristian Berg Harpviken Ingeborg Haavardsson Kristoffer Lidén Svein Normann Wenche Hauge Gina Lende Nihara Ranjan Nayak Lorna Quilario Sandberg Håvard Hegre Maria Victoria Perotti Martha Snodgrass Helga Hernes Research Assistants Paul Roe Matilde Perez Herranz Linda Bjørgan Uttam Kumar Sinha PRIO Cyprus Centre, Cindy Horst Stephan Hamberg Will Terry Local Staff & Consultants Are Hovdenak Camilla Houeland Yussuf Yassin Guido Bonino Helene Christiansen Ingierd Thomas Jackson Costas Constantinou Sonja Kittelsen Tove Grete Lie MA Students Olga Demetriou Kjell Erling Kjellman Jennifer Nadyne Rainey Terje Brevik Ayla Gürel Åshild Kolås Siri Camilla Aas Rustad Kendra Dupuy Mete Hatay Ola Listhaug Ole Magnus Theisen Åshild Falch Dilek Latif Päivi Lujala Tarjei Vaa Christian Gahre Natasa Loizou Nicholas Marsh Hilde Wallacher Joakim Hammerlin Kudret Özersay Halvor Mehlum Lars Wilhelmsen Kathrine Holden Yiannis Papadakis Patrick Meier Phillip Killicoat Sanem ahin Karl Ove Moene External Consultants Stephanie Lee Ari Sitas Frida Nome Aldo Benini Elisabeth Lothe Ragnhild Nordås Johan Brosché Miriam Latif Sandbæk Christin Mørup Ormhaug Royce Carroll Ole Magnus Theisen Gudrun Østby Diego Gambetta Hilde Wallacher Clionadh Raleigh Helena Kusch Stefan Wiemann Editor: Agnete Schjønsby Cover: Women at a microcredit meeting in the village of Tarna in Language Editor: John Carville Niger. In the foreground are Rabi Yacouba, Halima Hamza and Photo Editor: Agnete Schjønsby Fati Bagna, participants in CARE Niger’s project ‘Leadership and Staff Photos: Knut S. Åbjørsbråten Empowerment’. Photo: Stein Tønnesson, PRIO. Design: Hilde Sørby, Bardus design Director’s Introduction Photo: Are Hovdenak, PRIO Two thousand and six was the fourth year of • Small Arms and Development was a key women, microcredit and local business in existence for PRIO’s Centre for the Study of agenda point for PRIO’s Conflict Resolution peacebuilding. As a member of the Board of Civil War (CSCW). Together with other and Peacebuilding programme. While the CARE Norway, I had a chance to familiarize Norwegian Centres of Excellence (CoE), the link between small-arms control and myself with the role of microcredit at the Centre underwent a mid-term evaluation development has been widely acknowl- local level during a study tour to Niger. The during the year – with highly satisfactory edged, there is a need to foster cooperation photo on the front page of this report results. The Research Council of Norway thus in investigating the impact of small-arms features staff from CARE Niger at a decided to reconfirm CoE funding for a violence on sustainable development and to microcredit group meeting in the village of second five-year period, 2008–12. This was a design appropriate development strategies. Tarna. In the new four-year strategy adopted great achievement both for the Centre and for In close collaboration with the Norwegian by the PRIO Board in April 2006, PRIO aims PRIO as a whole. Under the leadership of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the to expand its research on gender, security Scott Gates, the CSCW has become an Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms and peace, and to build competence in two essential part of PRIO’s research environment, Transfers (NISAT) coalition, PRIO new fields: energy and migration. inspiring academic research at the whole coordinated an international dialogue institute and contributing to an impressive process around two major conferences. increase in PRIO’s academic publications. • The Changing Landscape of Liberty and Three Other Highlights from PRIO’s Security in Europe became a key aspect of Research in 2006: research within PRIO’s Security pro- gramme, with a number of collaborative • The Ethics of War and Peace: Classic and projects at the European level. The Contemporary Readings, a 731-page highlight of this effort was a conference on annotated volume of texts from leading ‘9/11 Five Years After’, held in Oslo on 11– philosophers, theologians and jurists during 12 September. This focused on the two thousand years of moral reflection, questions of European identity and security, was published by Blackwell. The volume religion and security, changing notions of was co-edited by PRIO researchers war, and managing insecurities in terms of Gregory Reichberg, Henrik Syse and Endre risk. The gender dimensions of insecurity Begby, and results from many years of received particular attention. work within the institute’s Ethics, Norms and Identities programme. In view of its Two thousand and six was a year of 1 comprehensiveness – with many texts significant progress in PRIO’s research on translated into English for the first time – gender, conflict and security. The award of the the publication constitutes a veritable Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammed Yunus and canon of essential readings. the Grameen Bank was a source of inspiration for our work on the role of PRIO Annual ReportAnnual PRIO 2006 www.prio.no PRIO’s Mission PRIO’s mission is: • to conduct high-quality academic research on questions relevant to the promotion of a more peaceful world; • to contribute to theoretical and methodological development, both within specific academic disciplines and through cross-fertilization between disciplines; • to engage in the promotion of peace through conflict resolution, dialogue and reconciliation, public information and policymaking activities; • to disseminate research through academic publications, through reports related to our engagement activities and via the general media. An essential part of PRIO’s mission is to research agenda has always been interna- PRIO will continue to fulfil its basic mission, maintain impeccable academic standards and tional, and the working language of the stimulate and provide room for intellectual to subject institute publications to the regular institute is English. The institute places curiosity, and increase its ability to respond to mechanisms of quality control employed in considerable emphasis on maintaining its the strategic challenges in terms of identifying the appropriate academic disciplines. This scholarly and institutional independence and rising trends of relevance to peace research approach also forms the basis for our two its capacity to conduct critical research. and filling gaps in our expertise and research scholarly journals, Security Dialogue and Journal portfolio. In the four-year period 2006–09, of Peace Research. PRIO remains Norway’s only peace research PRIO aims particularly to achieve the institute. As such, it maintains links with all following goals: Relevance is at the core of the peace Norwegian universities and is connected with research tradition. PRIO engages in research a number of independent research institutes • Academic Publications: Increase the on the conditions for peaceful coexistence abroad. In addition, PRIO is involved in a number of peer-reviewed publications and between nations, between groups and strategic partnership on peacebuilding with ensure that every PRIO researcher between individuals. This implies that PRIO the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen. publishes the equivalent of one peer- researchers seek means of nonviolent conflict reviewed article per year. management and resolution, as well as ways To an increasing extent, institutions that do • Engagement: : Promote peace by to nurture and build long-term sustainable not identify themselves with ‘peace research’ supporting peace processes, contributing to peace. As a research institute that focuses on have begun to engage with research topics policymaking, assisting local capacity-building, the dynamics of war and peace – including that are situated at the core of the PRIO facilitating dialogue and reconciliation, and the emergence, prevention and resolution of agenda. We view this ‘mainstreaming’ of peace serving as a credible broker of information. armed conflict – PRIO is actively engaged in research as a positive development, one that • Level of Activity: Undertake a moderate training, policy research and information creates an opportunity for researchers at expansion, with a personnel increase from brokerage as means of preventing armed PRIO to engage more with the wider world the current level of 50 work-years to some conflict