PRIO is happy to welcome Professor Stephen P. Cohen of the Brookings Institution (USA) for a seminar on 13 February at 10:00 in Philosopher’s Hall. Dr. Cohen will give a presentation on his new book Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum. Chair for the event is Jo Inge Bekkevold, Head of Centre, Center for Asian Security Studies at IFS.

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America) have convened a group of scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and military and civil society actors to examine the issue of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, identify gaps in knowledge and reporting, and explore how to increase the effectiveness of current responses to such violence.

• How are humanitarian agencies preparing for a future that is bound to be of great uncertainty?
• Reflecting on meaning of the Afghanistan crisis from a humanitarian perspective, what does it tell us about the state of the humanitarian enterprise and the evolving debates on the relationship between humanitarian action and international political/military endeavours?

Who wants to go to Europe?

For every person who immigrates to Europe, there are many others who aspire to do the same – even if it often remains a vague dream rather than a concrete plan. What images of Europe lie behind the wish to migrate? And who are the people who prefer to remain in their own country? Such questions are central to European research project Imagining Europe from the Outside (EUMAGINE) which is now coming to an end. The project team has conducted a survey with 8000 respondents in Senegal Morocco, Turkey and Ukraine, and carried out 320 in-depth interviews in the same countries. PRIO is a core partner in the project. At this seminar researchers Jørgen Carling and María Hernández Carretero will present findings from the four-country survey and insights from the Senegalese case study.

An academic course on strategic nonviolent resistance, organized by International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) in collaboration with PRIO.

Time: 12 – 14 May, 2013.
Venue: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Hausmanns gate 7, 0186 Oslo.

Deadline of applications: 01 March 2013.