Seminar: Peace and the environment

Occasionally, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for extraordinary efforts to promote environmental research or policies. By doing so, the Norwegian Nobel Committee seems to have acknowledged that a relationship exists between peace and the environment. This thematic day addresses aspects of this possible relationship – which remains disputed – through two keynote lectures, four brief talks, and a panel debate. The committee has consisted of Jon Hovi, Brynjar Lia og Nikolai Kristoffersen Winge.

Time and place: Dec. 7, 2018 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Gamle festsal, Karl Johansgt. 47 – open to all

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09.00: Posters and Coffee

10.00: Welcome and introduction

Welcome by UiO's Vice-Rector Åse Gornitzka
Introduction by Helene Løken

10.15 Key note lectures

(in Norwegian):

Drømmer om fred og verdens realiteter: Nobels fredspris 1901-2018

Geir Lundestad, professor emeritus and former Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee between 1990 and 2014

Makt, konflikt og interesser: Geopolitikk i det 21. århundre

Asle Toje, former Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and current member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Moderator: Helene Løken

Portrait: Åse Gornitzka, Photo UiO — Åse Gornitzka

Portrait: Geir Lundestad — Geir Lundestad

12.00 Lunch

13.00 - 15.00 Panel – on Peace and the Environment

Displacement, violence and cooperation: Security in a warmer world

François Gemenne, FNRS Senior Research Associate and Director at The Hugo Observatory at University of Liège and co-director of the Observatory on Defence and Climate of the French Ministry of Defence