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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 responsibility. In her late teens, inspired by her American grandmother, and by encounters with a benign American occupying force in Germany, she left for the United States. There, she pursued her education at top-ranking institutions, while engaging in both the anti-Vietnam war protests and the struggle
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 Pioneer 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 Order (NIEO)
Specializing in Human Rights
Human Rights in International Affairs
Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
The Accidental PRIOite
Was PRIO Entirely Novel?
7 The Lifelong Peace Advocate: Marek Thee (1918–99)
From Childhood in Small-Town Poland to Youth Activist in Gdańsk [Danzig] (1918–1938)
A Refugee’s Journey across the Mediterrane PRIO’s State Feminist: Helga Hernes