Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute      | |
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| Abbreviation | SIPRI |
| Formation | 6 May 1966 |
| Founder | Alva Myrdal |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Interests | peace, arms trade |
| Sponsored by | Norway/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish Postcode Foundation |
| Membership | •  Jan Eliasson• Vladimir Baranovsky •  Jean-Marie Guéhenno• Dan Smith • Patricia Lewis • .jpg){kind=small} Espen Barth Eide• Radha Kumar •  Jessica Tuchman Mathews• Ramtane Lamamra • Michael Sahlin |
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) provides data about the global arms trade.
“There are lots of ways of securing and making peace in the world, but we're not supposed to discuss them. The military-industrial-media-academic-complex prevents us from doing that. You can't do that as a state financed institute. You could look at SIPRI, they don't do peace research anymore if they ever did, they do security studies, peace has been dropped. Most of the peace research institutes in Scandinavia don't do peace research, defined as reducing violence.”
Jan Øberg (November 2024) [1]
Contents
Official narrative
SIPRI's stated organizational purpose is to conduct scientific research in issues on conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the goal of contributing to an understanding for the conditions for a peaceful solution of international conflicts and sustainable peace.[2]
In 1964, Prime Minister of Sweden Tage Erlander put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden's 150 years of unbroken peace.
A Swedish Royal Commission chaired by Ambassador Alva Myrdal proposed in its 1966 report to establish an institute, later named the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The institute's research should seek to contribute to "the understanding of the preconditions for a stable peace and for peaceful solutions of international conflicts" and the Commission recommended that research be concentrated on armaments, their limitation and reduction, and arms control.[3]
The Swedish Riksdag decided that the Institute be established on 1 July 1966 with the legal status of an independent foundation. All SIPRI research is based exclusively on open sources.
People
The staff of about 70 employees is mainly international, with 25 different nationalities reported in 2019[4]. The researchers are recruited for specific project periods and represent various academic disciplines. SIPRI also hosts guest researchers who work on issues related to research programmes as well as interns in relevant fields whose programmes of study can contribute to and benefit from SIPRI's research.
The members listed above are the board as of 2020[5]. They are not war hawks, but the board composition has a tendency towards being apparatchiks (like Espen Barth Eide). Some older members.[6]
Former Governing Board Chairpersons:
- Alva Myrdal (1966–67)
- Gunnar Myrdal (1967–73)
- Rolf Edberg (1974–78)
- Hans Blix (1978)
- Karin Söder (1978–79)
- Rolf Björnerstedt (1979–85)
- Ernst Michanek (1985–87)
- Inga Thorsson (1987–91)
- Daniel Tarschys (1992–2000)
- Rolf Ekeus (2000–10)
- Göran Lennmarker (2010–14)
- Sven-Olof Petersson (2014–2017)
Madeleine Albright
In 2021, former US Secretary of State and war criminal Madeleine "the price was worth it" Albright was invited by Jan Eliasson, Chairman of SIPRI, as keynote speaker at a seminar on "Democracy in a post-Covid world". SIPRI stated in its presentation that she is known for her commitment to "peace, human rights and democracy" - a remarkable inversion of reality.[7]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Jan Øberg | “There are lots of ways of securing and making peace in the world, but we're not supposed to discuss them. The military-industrial-media-academic-complex prevents us from doing that. You can't do that as a state financed institute. You could look at SIPRI, they don't do peace research anymore if they ever did, they do security studies, peace has been dropped. Most of the peace research institutes in Scandinavia don't do peace research, defined as reducing violence.” | Jan Øberg | November 2024 |
Known members
5 of the 10 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Espen Barth Eide | Attended the 2013 Bilderberg as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Jan Eliasson | Swedish diplomat |
| Jean-Marie Guéhenno | French globalist diplomat with many ties to the making of defense and security policies. |
| Jessica Mathews | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President, Far heavier Bilderberg habit than her husband (a US general), former(?) Steering Committee member |
| Michael Sahlin | Swedish diplomat on the Swedish Submarine Protection Commission |
Sponsors
| 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. |
| Swedish Postcode Foundation |
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8HrXfnyxg At minutes 14 and 19
- ↑ https://www.sipri.org/about/organization/statutes
- ↑ https://www.sipri.org/about/history
- ↑ https://www.sipri.org/news/2020/sipri-releases-annual-review-2019
- ↑ https://www.sipri.org/about/organization/board
- ↑ https://www.sipri.org/about/bios/ambassador-michael-sahlin
- ↑ https://www.globalpolitics.se/det-ar-skamligt-att-hedra-krigshetsaren-madeleine-albright-i-stockholm-24-maj-2021/
