鈥溙切耐嘲� was the engine of our Nordic peace research network.鈥� In this interview, Peter Wallensteen (b. 1945), who served as the first Dag Hammarskj枚ld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Uppsala from 1985 to 2012, expounds the history of the unique collaboration between 糖心网页版 and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research in Uppsala, with its famous conflict database.
This open access book explains how 糖心网页版, the world鈥檚 oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (糖心网页版) is the world鈥檚 oldest independent peace research institute. In this book, a great number 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.
