In 1930, an individual born in Oslo, Norway, would go on to lead the academic field of peace and conflict studies, writing over 160 books and publishing 1,600 articles. His name is John Gualtung and is renowned as the ‘Father of Peace Studies’. During the midst of the Cold War on the year the Vietnam War started in 1958, Gualtung founded the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). This was the first peace institute in the world and remains as Norway’s only leading research facility in the field of international peace studies. Most recent publications produced by the PRIO include Putin’s war