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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 07 Feb 2012, 18:00-21:30 - Vika kino, Oslo

​Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy has inspired numerous non-violent uprisings against dictatorships around the world. Now a film has been made about his incredibly topical work. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A session.

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Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012, 12:00-13:30 -
Please be invited to a brownbag on Tuesday 14th of February from 12:00-13:30, in the War Room. Laia Balcells will present the paper “Violence and Displacement in Conventional Civil Wars”. Laia Balcells is a researcher at the Institute of Economic Analysis at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Monday, 20 Feb 2012, 12:00-13:30 -
Please be invited to a brownbag on Monday 20th of February from 12:00-13:30, in the War Room. Nils Weidmann will present research on 'Information Technology and Political Violence'.
Wednesday, 14 Mar 2012, 15:00-16:30 - Sophus Lie's Auditorium, Blindern, Oslo
​Daily news reports about war, crime, and terrorism, leave the impression that this is the most violent age ever seen. The Harvard University psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that the opposite is true in his recent book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. Violence has been diminishing, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in the existence of the human kind. Pinker shows most forms of violence have dwindled and are condemned by most.
Mon, 07 - Thu, 10 May 2012 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 7, Oslo

​This course is about the application of qualitative methods to the study of civil war. It begins with an overview of the cutting edge in qualitative methods, intentionally casting its epistemological net broadly. We thus assess methods inspired by positivism (case studies, process tracing, counterfactual analysis) and those more interpretative in nature (discourse, ethnography, textual analysis) - the goal being to provide students with a robust set of tools for explaining and understanding the dynamics of civil war. The course also reviews the promise (and pitfalls) of methodological pluralism or so-called mixed methods. Key readings for this first part include work by Andrew Bennett, John Gerring, Ted Hopf, Evan Lieberman, James Mahoney, Jennifer Milliken and Sid Tarrow.

Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 - PRIO, Hausmanns gate 7
​The historian Azar Gat will give this year's Peace Address at PRIO.

This is a preliminary announcement: More information will follow.

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