Steffen kongstad biography books
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Lives in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories [1 ed.] 9789811647161, 9789811647178
Table of contents : • Helga Hernes coined the term ‘state feminism’ in the mid-1980s. At the time, suggesting that the state could be women friendly and an ally in the struggle for women’s rights was controversial. A decade and a half later, however, the term had become widely used. ‘State feminist’ is indeed the best description one can find for Helga Hernes. She has used her academic as well as her political positions as platforms for advancing gender equality and women’s rights at a national level. In 2006, she arrived at PRIO, bringing her scholarly, activist and political experience to inform research associated with UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.1 Helga Hernes was born in Western Prussia (now part of Poland) in 1938. She experienced war and its consequences as a child, grappling with her country’s history as she grew up, and becoming deeply disappointed with how slowly German society came to a recognition of respon • On 10 and 11 May 2016 I attended the Inter-African Committee conference on FGM at the United Nations in Geneva, where I gave a paper. It was a great honour to be invited to present both my books at the IAC conference reception, hosted by HE Steffen Kongstad of the Norwegian Embassy; and I was thrilled that Ambassador Kongstad also very generously arranged to give copies of these books to the guests who joined us. Here’s my short speech given at this, for me unforgettable, event. Some photographs of the full event follow below, after this text of my talk about the books. Book launch, 10 May 2016, at the IAC reception, hosted at the United Nations in Geneva by the Norwegian Embassy. Thank you, Ambassador Kongstad, for so very kindly hosting this reception and book-launch. I am truly delighted and honoured to be here. Let me tell you a little about how I came to write my books. It was my mother, a Quaker and member of Amnesty UK, who in the 1980s first told me that what
About the Authors and Interviewees
The PRIO Peace Files
Contents
List of Photographs
1 Inspiration from a Father: Johan Galtung
2 Uniting Nations for Peace: Ingrid Eide
3 Organizing for Peace: Mari Holmboe Ruge
The Pioneer Years
Non-Violent Resistance
The Second World War and Early Peace Research
Peace Activism
Non-Violence as Pragmatism
Pensioner and Activism
4 pionjär and Patron of Social Science and Peace Research: Erik Rinde (1919–1994)
A Family with Traditions
No. 31 Munthes gate
Erik Rinde and Social Sciences
Rinde’s Attitude to Research-related Dilemmas
Peace Research
Financial Stratagems under Erik Rinde’s Chairpersonship
Sources
5 A Social Democratic Peace: Nils Petter Gleditsch
6 Peace with a Human Rights Perspective: Asbjørn Eide
Pre-PRIO Career
Attitudes to the Cold War
The New International Economic beställning (NIEO)
Specializing in Human Rights
Huma PRIO’s State Feminist: Helga Hernes