Occasional Paper #21:OP:4 

by Peter Wallensteen

How has the agenda of peace research changed over time? What issues should peace research focus on today? Peter Wallensteen, who has played a prominent role in the development of the field, examines how the peace research agenda emerged out of both the traumatic and the hopeful experiences of the 20th century. He then considers the evolution of methodological approaches in the field and delineates the diverse means by which peace research has an impact on society.

Peter Wallensteen was a Visiting Fellow at the Kroc Institute during spring semester 2001, through a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, which named him the first ASF Visiting Lecturer from Sweden. He is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

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