PRIO, which some of us created at the end of the 1950s, is today by and large a traditional Institute of Security Research. Today the peace movement has gone far beyond that stage. Today we do not limit our work to theory construction and data collection and prognosis. Our aim is to contribute to less war, violence and suffering. We make diagnosis and prognosis in order to come up with a good therapeutic proposal, and also in order to help activate sustainable peace processes before, during and after violence.
Peace is a frame for conflict management.
Incompatible goals and aims occur all the time. Since this is a fact we have to live with, I guess it is sensible to arrange matters so that we can manage them creatively and non-violently. The challenge was enormous, and the setbacks were many. But they have been able to solve some problems in the course of some hundred years. Well, peace researchers have now been carrying on for about 40 years.