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| − | The '''Peace Research Institute Oslo''' ('''PRIO''') is based in [[Oslo]], Norway. | + | The '''Peace Research Institute Oslo''' ('''PRIO''') is based in [[Oslo]], Norway. Founded by the renowned [[Johan Galtung]] in [[1959]], it has changed drastically over the years, from a think tank developing remarkably innovative peace solutions, to an institute occupied with "just wars" and “democratic peace” that legitimizes any war of aggression. |
==Official narrative== | ==Official narrative== | ||
From the Institute website: <ref>[http://www.prio.no/ PRIO website]</ref> | From the Institute website: <ref>[http://www.prio.no/ PRIO website]</ref> | ||
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|The institute is a non-profit peace research institute (established in 1959) whose overarching purpose is to conduct research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. The institute is independent, international and interdisciplinary, and explores issues related to all facets of peace and conflict. To remain at the cutting edge of peace research, PRIO is both proactively involved in identifying new trends in global conflict, and oriented toward formulating and documenting new understandings and responses | |The institute is a non-profit peace research institute (established in 1959) whose overarching purpose is to conduct research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. The institute is independent, international and interdisciplinary, and explores issues related to all facets of peace and conflict. To remain at the cutting edge of peace research, PRIO is both proactively involved in identifying new trends in global conflict, and oriented toward formulating and documenting new understandings and responses | ||
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==Staff== | ==Staff== | ||
| − | Staff | + | Staff included professor [[Ola Tunander]], who worked there for almost 30 years. In 2013, PRIO asked him in an e-mail to accept “quality assurance measures [that] relate to all printed publications, including shorter texts such as up-eds [sic]”, uniquely among staff being assigned a person to check his work. Tunander stated "This commitment to control everything I wrote, was so strong that it can only be explained by the pressure from the Americans. A candidate for the position as National Security Adviser to President [[Ronald Reagan]], in no uncertain terms, let me know that what I had written “would have consequences” for me.<ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/silently-disciplining-research/</ref> |
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| + | "In the spring of 2015, PRIO’s management had decided that I should retire. I said that this was not up to them and that I had to talk to my union, NTL. My immediate superior then replied that it did not matter what the union said. The decision about my retirement had already been made. Every day, for a full month, he came into my office to discuss my retirement." Thanks to union support, he got an agreement, where he would retire in May 2016 in exchange for continuing as Research Professor Emeritus at PRIO. | ||
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| + | |subjects=Peace research, academic freedom,academia,conformity,academic,Norway | ||
| + | |text=Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. | ||
| + | |authors=Ola Tunander | ||
| + | |date=6 March 2021 | ||
| + | |source_URL=https://worldbeyondwar.org/silently-disciplining-research/ | ||
| + | }} | ||
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{{SMWDocs}} | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
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| Abbreviation | PRIO |
| Formation | 1959 |
| Founder |  Johan Galtung |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
| Type | Research institute |
| Staff | 75 |
| Interests | peace |
| Sponsored by | Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is based in Oslo, Norway. Founded by the renowned Johan Galtung in 1959, it has changed drastically over the years, from a think tank developing remarkably innovative peace solutions, to an institute occupied with "just wars" and “democratic peace” that legitimizes any war of aggression.
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Official narrative
From the Institute website: [1] |The institute is a non-profit peace research institute (established in 1959) whose overarching purpose is to conduct research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. The institute is independent, international and interdisciplinary, and explores issues related to all facets of peace and conflict. To remain at the cutting edge of peace research, PRIO is both proactively involved in identifying new trends in global conflict, and oriented toward formulating and documenting new understandings and responses }}
Staff
Staff included professor Ola Tunander, who worked there for almost 30 years. In 2013, PRIO asked him in an e-mail to accept “quality assurance measures [that] relate to all printed publications, including shorter texts such as up-eds [sic]”, uniquely among staff being assigned a person to check his work. Tunander stated "This commitment to control everything I wrote, was so strong that it can only be explained by the pressure from the Americans. A candidate for the position as National Security Adviser to President Ronald Reagan, in no uncertain terms, let me know that what I had written “would have consequences” for me.[2]
"In the spring of 2015, PRIO’s management had decided that I should retire. I said that this was not up to them and that I had to talk to my union, NTL. My immediate superior then replied that it did not matter what the union said. The decision about my retirement had already been made. Every day, for a full month, he came into my office to discuss my retirement." Thanks to union support, he got an agreement, where he would retire in May 2016 in exchange for continuing as Research Professor Emeritus at PRIO.
“Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions.”
Ola Tunander (6 March 2021) [3]
Sponsor
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs | A significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:PRIO Annual report 2009.pdf | report | 2009 | The 2009 annual report. |
Documents sourced from PRIO
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Democratic State v Deep State | essay | Deep politics Deep state "Democracy" | 1 January 2008 | Ola Tunander | An excellent introduction to deep politics. By clarifying the real role of the Secret Intelligence Services and the policy agenda they under firm control in most Western 'Democracies' (especially the UKUSA nations), it demonstrates the irrelevance of the party-political masquerade. |
| Document:The use of terrorism to construct world order | paper | Deep politics Operation Gladio Strategy of tension War on Terror/Purposes | 10 September 2004 | Ola Tunander | |
| File:Isenberg Private Military Contractors.pdf | paper | Private military company Blackwater | January 2009 | David Isenberg | |
| File:PRIO Annual report 2009.pdf | report | PRIO | 2009 | The 2009 annual report. | |
| File:The Use of Terrorism to Construct World Order.pdf | paper | Deep politics War on Terror/Purposes | 9 September 2004 | Ola Tunander | A Paper presented at the Fifth Pan-European International Relations Conference (Panel 28 Geopolitics) Netherlands Congress Centre, The Hague. |
