Ethics, Norms and Identities
Ethics, Norms and Identities
Led by Jørgen Carling

The Ethics, Norms, and Identities programme at PRIO was created with an emphasis on normative dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding, including questions related to the resort to armed force, norms for behaviour in conflict situations, and issues of moral responsibility. Research within the programme has also considered how different identities influence, and are influenced by, the dynamics of conflict and peace.
The programme is currently made up of three research teams:
Gender, security and peacebuilding addresses the different effects of armed conflict on men and women, men’s and women’s different security needs, and their different capacities for peacebuilding. The team studies the gendered character of perceptions, values and experiences, and the ways in which these shape understandings of conflict. A large part of current research is related to the UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. The gender team maintains a separate section of the web site. Team members: Helga Hernes, Inger Skjelsbæk, Torunn Tryggestad.
Migration and transnationalism addresses central theoretical aspects of international migration and transnationalism, and the ways in which these phenomena are connected with peace and conflict. Migration researchers at PRIO seek to be at the forefront of developing research methodology, drawing upon a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. The team is currently engaged is several large European research projects on migration and transnationalism. The migration team maintains a separate section of the web site. Team members: Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan Ezzati, María Hernández Carretero, Cindy Horst, Erlend Paasche and Tove Heggli Sagmo.
Ethical, legal and religious dimensions of armed conflict comprises a broad range of research that addresses normative aspects of war and peace. These includes the ethical and legal accountability of actors in war, religious foundations for engagement in conflict, and the peace-building potential of inter-religious dialogue. The legal scholars in the team co-ordinate the Forum on International Criminal and Humanitarian Law which maintains a separate web site. Team members: Morten Bergsmo, Nobuo Hayashi , Gregory Reichberg, and Henrik Syse.
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(past projects can be found in the project archive)Members
(past members can be found in the people section)
Publications
Burgess, J. Peter, 2003.
'
Security Identity',
interim report for the project Theory of European Security Identity. Rome: (45 pages).
Burgess, J. Peter, 2004. '
The Ethics of Security'
in Alessandro Gobbicchi, ed.,
Globalization, Armed Conflicts, and Security.
Rome: (209–226).
Carling, Jørgen & Luís Batalha, 2008. '
Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora'
in Luís Batalha & Jørgen Carling, eds,
Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora.
Amsterdam: .
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. '
Cape Verdeans in the Netherlands'
in Luís Batalha & Jørgen Carling, eds,
Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora..
Amsterdam: .
Erdal, Marta Bivand; Cindy Horst, Jørgen Carling & Rojan Ezzati, 2010.
'
Bidrar 'her' og 'der'' [Contribute 'here' and 'there'],
Aftenposten, 8 November.
Erdal, Marta Bivand; Mohamed Husein Gaas & Cindy Horst, 2008.
'
Tvunget til lovbrudd' [Forced to Break the Law],
Dagbladet, 2 April.
Kolås, Åshild, 2003.
'
Vill Vest i Kina' [China's Wild West],
Verdensmagasinet X 12(5): 24–25, October 2003.
Reichberg, Gregory M.; Nicholas Turner & Vesselin Popovski, 2009. '
Norms of War in Cross-Religious Perspective'
in Vesselin Popovski, Gregory M. Reichberg & Nicholas Turner, eds,
World Religions and Norms of War.
Tokyo: (303–315).
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Kristian Berg Harpviken, 2011.
'
Gledelig Fredspris',
[A Peace Prize to Celebrate]
Dagbladet, 7 October.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2008. '
Demokrati og Likestilling'
[Democracy and Gender Equality]
in Knut Midgaard & Bjørn Erik Rasch, eds,
Demokrati: Vilkår og Virkninger.
Bergen: (349–365).
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2009.
'
Bare Beskyttelse?' [Only Protection?],
Dagbladet, 6 October.
Syse, Henrik; Lene Bomann-Larsen & Kristian Alm, 2001.
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Verdikommisjonens sluttrapport' [The Final Report of the Norwegian Commission for Human Values]. Oslo: .