Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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.”
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Title: Governing the Bomb: Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability of Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Hans Born (ed.), Bates Gill (ed.), Heiner Hänggi (ed.)
Date: January 2010Title: SIPRI Yearbook 1998: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
Authors: Agnes Courades Allebeck, Ian Anthony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranovsky, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Gunilla Floden, John Hart, Peter Jones, Shannon Kile, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Eva Maria Loose-Weintraub, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Elisabeth Skons, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Reinhilde Weidacher, Pieter D. Wezeman, Siemon T. Wezeman, Jean Pascal Zanders
Date: May 1998Title: SIPRI Yearbook 1997
Authors: Agnes Allebeck, Ian Anothony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranowsky, Julian Cooper, Susanna Eckstein, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Paul George, John Hart, Peter Jones, Shannon Kile, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Adam Rotfeld, Elisabeth Skons, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Eva Maria Weintraub, Pieter Wezeman, Siemon Wezeman, Jean Zanders
Date: June 1997Title: SIPRI Yearbook 1997
Authors: Agnes Allebeck, Ian Anothony, Eric Arnett, Vladimir Baranowsky, Julian Cooper, Susanna Eckstein, Ragnhild Ferm, Trevor Findlay, Paul George, John Hart, Peter Jones, Shannon Kile, Zdzislaw Lachowski, Adam Rotfeld, Elisabeth Skons, Margareta Sollenberg, Peter Wallensteen, Eva Maria Weintraub, Pieter Wezeman, Siemon Wezeman, Jean Zanders
Date: June 1997