Stockholm Institute for Peace Research

In 1964, Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden's 150 years of unbroken peace. A Swedish Royal Commission chaired by Ambassador Alva Myrdal proposed in its 1966 report to establish this institute, later named the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI. The Institute's research should seek to contribute to "the understanding of the preconditions for a stable peace and for peaceful solutions of international conflicts" and the Commission recommended that research be concentrated on armaments, their limitation and reduction, and arms control. The Commission also recommended that SIPRI work be of "an applied research character directed toward practical-political questions [which] should be carried on in a constant interchange with research of a more theoretical kind."

1998

Title: SIPRI Yearbook 1998: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
Authors: Agnès Courades Allebeck, Ian Anthony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranovsky, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Gunilla Flodèn, John Hart, Shannon Kile, Peter Jones, Eva Maria Loose-Weintraub, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Elisabeth Sköns, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Reinhilde Weidacher, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman, Jean Pascal Zanders
Date of Paper:May 1998

1997

Title: SIPRI Yearbook, 1997
Authors: Agnès Courades Allebeck, Ian Anthony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranovsky, Julian Cooper, Susanna Eckstein, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Paul George, John Hart, Shannon Kile, Peter Jones, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Elisabeth Sköns, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Eva Maria Loose-Weintraub, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman, Jean Pascal Zanders
Date of Paper:June 1997