Events
"Can Violent Conflict be Prevented through Development Assistance?"
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Peter Wallensteen
Peter Wallensteen, Ph.D., is the Dag Hammarskjold Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. A well-known scholar in peace research, Wallensteen served from 1972-1999 as Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, developing it into a major center of teaching and research in the field. His research has included causes of war, economic sanctions, military conversion, and development-conflict connections. Wallensteen directs the Uppsala Conflict Data Project, which presents annual data on conflicts around the globe. In recent years, he has focused on conflict resolution, publishing a book in Swedish and finalizing one this year in English on the peace agreements of the 1990s. In his lecture, Wallensteen will report on a recent study made for the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Wallensteen is a Visiting Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame during spring term 2001 through an award from the American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF), which named him the first ASF Visiting Lecturer from Sweden.
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