Annual ReportAnnual 2007 PRIO Annual Report 2007 101 Staff List 2007 (Staff who left in 2007 are listed in italics) Director Øystein H. Rolandsen Alain Gilles Information Stein Tønnesson Kaushik Roy Anke Hoeffler Knut Sindre Åbjørsbråten Siri Camilla Aas Rustad Alper Kaliber John Carville Research Staff Hanne Eggen Røislien Christina Masters Øyvind Ekelund Pavel Baev Anita Schjølset Alfonso Monroy Agnete Schjønsby Morten Bergsmo Sven Gunnar Simonsen James Morrow Helga Malmin Binningsbø Inger Skjelsbæk Oliver Richmond Editorial Staff Kaja Borchgrevink Endre Stiansen Akbar Sarwari John Carville Marit Brochmann Arne Strand Maria Stern Glenn Martin Halvard Buhaug Håvard Strand Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Marit Moe-Pryce J. Peter Burgess Trude Strand William Terry Naima Mouhleb Jørgen Carling Kaare Strøm Julian Wagstaff Friedrike Schwebler Jeffrey T. Checkel Henrik Syse Lars Christie Pinar Tank Visiting Scholars Library Indra de Soysa Ole Magnus Theisen Megan Lynn Becker Olga Baeva Kendra Dupuy Beate Thoresen Royce Carroll Odvar Leine Jon Elster Anne Thurin Krishna Chaitanya Marta Bivand Erdal Torunn Lise Tryggestad Christian Davenport Administration Hanne Fjelde Ola Tunander Namrata Goswami Lars Even Andersen Scott Gates Henrik Urdal David Lake Lene Kristin Borg Camilla Gjerde Hilde Henriksen Waage Marit Hovdal Moan Kai Robert Braaten Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Cecilia Wiindi Nedziwe Cathrine Bye Nils Petter Gleditsch Advisers Desiree Nilsson Joachim Carlsen Kristian Berg Harpviken Kazuhiro Obayashi Andrew John Feltham Wenche Hauge Research Assistants Clionadh Raleigh Ingeborg K. Haavardsson Håvard Hegre Linda Bjørgan Martin Sandbu Damian Laws Helga Hernes Nina Boy Uttam Sinha Thomas Winter Lieungh Cindy Horst Åshild Falch Atsushi Yasuotomi Svein Normann Are Hovdenak Mohamed Husein Gaas Lorna Quilario Sandberg Helene Christiansen Ingierd Helge Holtermann Interns Martha Snodgrass Thomas Jackson Patrick Meier Julian Detzel Pablo Kalmanovitz Jason Miklian Diana Mata-Codesal Peace and Reconcilia- Sonja Kittelsen Naima Mouhleb Maria Victoria Perotti tion in the Eastern Kjell E. Kjellman Tarjei Vaa Mediterranean Åshild Kolås Hilde Wallacher MA Students Local Staff & Consultants Gina Lende Sarah Zukerman Maria Hernandez Carretero Guido Bonino Kristoffer Lidén Ellen Fadnes Costas Constantinou Ola Listhaug Conscientious Christian Gahre Olga Demetriou Nicholas Marsh Objectors Ksenia Glebova Ayla Gürel Halvor Mehlum Stian Skaalbones Helge Holtermann Mete Hatay Karl Ove Moene Jonas Rusten Wang Elida Kristine Undrum Natasa Lousiou Frida Austvoll Nome Jacobsen Özlem Öguz Martin Austvoll Nome External Consultants Jørgen Jensehaugen Kudret Özersay Ragnhild Nordås Bilal Barakat Nina Langslet Yiannis Papadakis Christin Mørup Ormhaug Martin W. Daly Elisabeth Lothe Sanem ahin Gudrun Østby Sonal Desai Florian Roth Arne Strand Sabrina Ramet Rachelle Doucet Miriam Latif Sandbæk Gregory Reichberg Oscar Florencio Duarte Elisa Montiel Welti Jan Ketil Rød Helga Gibbons Editor: Agnete Schjønsby Design: Hilde Sørby, Bardus design Language Editor: John Carville, Carville Language Services Cover Illustration: Photo Editor: Agnete Schjønsby Soldiers’ graves in Armenia. Photo: Jørgen Carling, PRIO Director’s Introduction For PRIO, the most conspicuous event of 2007 peacebuilding; and the role of gender was the accession of Research Professor Nils in external interventions. In Petter Gleditsch to the presidency of the November, PRIO and the Norwe- International Studies Association (ISA). He was gian Ministry of Foreign Affairs elected by the ISA’s 4,700 members in 2006, co-hosted the conference Photo: Stian Skaalbones, PRIO served as president-elect during 2007, and ‘Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: How took over as president at the ISA’s 42nd To Reach the Women’, which Convention, which was held in San Francisco brought together practitioners, Remittances are of enormous economic on 26–29 March 2008. At that event, he also military personnel and government officials importance to the families and countries they delivered a widely praised keynote address from Afghanistan and the Nordic countries. concern, and form a central element in how under the title ‘The Liberal Moment 15 Years The role of religious actors within Afghan immigrants manage their local and transna- On’, summing up 15 years of research and civil society was a new research area in tional relations. debate on the ‘liberal peace’ (highlights of this 2007, examining the missed opportunities address are given on page 3 of this Annual involved in the international community’s PRIO’s administration was strengthened in Report). The annual ISA convention has failure to engage religious actors in 2007 with the hiring of a new chief admin- become the main venue for presentation of peace building since the fall of the Taliban istrator for the Centre for the Study of Civil PRIO research, with a strong PRIO presence in regime. In Norway, PRIO contributes to War (CSCW) and a new institute secretary attendance. research-based debate on Afghanistan, in for the institute as a whole, along with the large part through our joint CMI–PRIO carefully prepared introduction of new For 2007, we have reported the following seminar series, as well as through our management software (Maconomy). These three PRIO highlights to our core funder, the Security programme, which examines the developments have been followed up in 2008 Research Council of Norway: unfolding of the liberal peacebuilding with the introduction of new web software, • Security Success in Brussels: PRIO made a agenda in Afghanistan. which through Sharepoint will be able to strong entry into the EU’s 7th Framework communicate with the management software. Programme (FP7), being part of no less • Remittance Week: PRIO has become a Hence, PRIO’s researchers and Information than four successful applications and winning centre for research on remittances from Department will be able to continuously one of the first project grants under the immigrants to their countries of origin. refresh the way we interact on the World Security theme: ‘Converging and Conflict- From 30 October to 3 November 2007, Wide Web. ing Ethical Values in the Internal/External we organized a doctoral-level course on Security Continuum in Europe’ (INEX) is ‘Remittances and Transnational Livelihoods’ In 2008, we are advertising the position of the first EU project coordinated by PRIO, in cooperation with the University of Oslo. PRIO Institute Director, with a view to and the only project in the FP7 Security Participants at the course came from eight appointing my successor well ahead of PRIO’s theme coordinated by a Norwegian institute. different countries and a range of scholarly 50th anniversary, which will be celebrated in With an overall budget of NOK 19 million, disciplines. In the same week, PRIO organized the week 5–13 June 2009. the project brings together an international a unique evening seminar on remittances to consortium of nine members. Together with Somalia, at which Somali immigrants, hawala the decision to expand the journal Security operators, and officials from the Norwe- Dialogue to six issues per year as of 2008, gian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the INEX contributes to sharpening PRIO’s Norwegian Agency for Development profile nationally and internationally as a Cooperation (Norad) came together to centre for New Security Studies. discuss various aspects of the remittance question. The conclusions from this seminar • Afghanistan’s Conflictual Peace Process was were disseminated at a one-day public a key concern for PRIO in 2007. We are conference at the end of the week. engaged in research on multiple dimen- ‘Remittance Week’ at PRIO showed how sions of the Afghan situation: regional research can provide a basis for education 1 security; migration and transnationalism; and exchange of opinions in relation to a mobilization and demobilization of armed subject that has a significant potential for groups; the role of religious actors and generating conflict. institutions; indigenous conceptions of PRIO Annual ReportAnnual PRIO 2007 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 disci- plines 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. Main Goals Research Organization strategic planning, for budgeting, for directing PRIO will continue to fulfil its basic mission, PRIO research is organized within three research and generating new projects, and as stimulate and provide room for intellectual thematic programmes: the Ethics, Norms and a guide for recruitment policies. In addition, curiosity, and increase its ability to respond to Identities programme, the Conflict Resolution they provide the organizational basis for strategic challenges in terms of identifying and Peacebuilding programme, and the Security frequent internal seminars in which PRIO rising trends of relevance to peace research programme. In addition, the Centre for the researchers present initial ideas and findings and filling gaps in our expertise and research Study of Civil War (CSCW) – which was to groups of colleagues. portfolio.