Øystein H. Rolandsen

Research Professor

Research Interests

A historian and area specialist with experience from research, strategy development, information analysis, planning and administration of projects. Substantial professional experience from the non-government sector within the fields of policy advice, humanitarian aid and long-term development co-operation.

Øystein H. Rolandsen
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News

Thursday, 14 Nov 2024

Culture Conflict Course, October 2024. Photo: PRIO

PhD level course on Culture, Conflict and Politics

As part of the Norhed project, Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO held the PhD level course Culture, Conflict and Politics: Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology, 29-31 October.

Event

Monday, 12 Feb 2024 13:00–14:30 UTC+01

Exhibition: "The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal, 1982"

PRIO’s CCC and Fotogalleriet invite you to visit a exhibition by filmmaker, photographer and media artist Ayman Alazraq. It showcases the material and related documents, sheds light on the significance of individual efforts in preserving historical narratives.

News

Friday, 4 Dec 2020

PRIO's Youth & Peacebuilding Research

Read up before the PRIO Annual Peace Address 2020

News

Wednesday, 30 Sep 2020

Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict Seeks Students in UiO-PRIO Student Programme

The PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict (CCC) calls for master's students at the University of Oslo to apply for a place at PRIO as part of the UiO - PRIO Student Programme.

News

Thursday, 1 Nov 2018

Nicky Kindersley and Øystein H. Rolandsen.

Seminar on Cultural Production among Southern Sudanese Displaced People in Khartoum

On 1 November, PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict organized the lunch seminar Cieng, Kafka, and Malcolm X: how southern Sudanese displaced people in Khartoum worked out what liberation might mean.

Event

27–29 Aug 2018

Goya: Scene form the Spanish war of independence. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) / Wikimedia Commons

Culture and Violent Conflict

Academic Workshop

Event

Sunday, 11 Mar 2018 19:00–20:00 UTC+01

Documentary as a Tool for Peacebuilding?

Panel debate introducing the screening of '500 Years'

News

Thursday, 24 Aug 2017

PRIO Launches the PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict

PRIO has launched a new Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict.

Event

Thursday, 29 Aug 2024 16:00–18:00 UTC+02

Antikkens drama speiler nåtidens asylproblematikk, demokratiutvikling og konflikt

Hvordan kan en nyoversettelse av et av antikkens store drama speile nåtidens asylsøkerproblematikk, demokratiutvikling og internasjonale konflikter?

News

Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021

Ratchathewi, Bangkok, Thailand 2014. Photo: drburtoni via Flickr CC BY

POPAGANDA – Funding in Place for Project

How do political opposition groups in Myanmar and Thailand use popular culture and art to generate legitimacy for their political causes and propagate their messages?

Event

Thursday, 5 Nov 2020 17:30–20:00 UTC+01

POSTPONED How can comics tell truth to power and give voice to the oppressed

Book Launch and Panel Discussion

Recorded event

Thursday, 1 Nov 2018 12:00–14:00 UTC+01

Local residents and self-published authors selling their pamphlet histories and story-books on the street in the displaced settlement of Jabarona, Khartoum. Nicki Kindersley

01:10:59

Cieng, Kafka, and Malcolm X: how southern Sudanese displaced people in Khartoum worked out what liberation might mean

Lunch Seminar

News

Wednesday, 12 Sep 2018

Successful Academic Workshop marks the Formal Launch of the PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict

On 27-29 August, PRIO hosted an academic workshop marking the formal launch of the PRIO Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict led by Øystein H.

Recorded event

Friday, 25 May 2018 11:30–13:30 UTC+02

Operator from Norwegian Naval Special Operations Comand (MJK). Torbjørn Kjosvold / Forsvaret

01:07:00

What is the Norwegian Warrior Culture?

A Centre on Culture and Violent Conflict Seminar at PRIO with Tone Danielsen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), and comments from Hanna Syse, Ministry of Defense and Cindy Horst, PRIO.

Event

Thursday, 8 Mar 2018 19:00–20:00 UTC+01

Narrativer om konflikt

“All lidelse er et resultat av gale tolkninger”– Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat HanhDokumentarfilmer kan skape sterke narrativer om årsaker til og dynamikk i konflikter.

Current projects

Project

Apr 2021 – Dec 2025

Pop Culture, Art, and Indigenous Ideas of Legitimacy in Struggles over Democratization and Peace (POPAGANDA)

Led by Marte Nilsen.

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