Research Interests
Hilde Henriksen Waage's current main project is The Missing Peace:
Few adversaries have been enmeshed in a more vicious spiral of hostility than Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours. Except for the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt (1978) and the peace agreement with Jordan (1994) have countless efforts by individuals, organisations, large and small states to open up direct channels of dialogue ended in failure. The United States has for years been trying to stop the fighting over the land that Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab neighbours claim to be theirs. So has the United Nations. Why have all mediation attempts between these parties so far proved unsuccessful? What are the conditions that need to be met in order to have a solution that could be tolerated by them? Why isn't there any ongoing peace process? To what extent is third party intervention necessary or desirable? Have the many failed interventions lacked the necessary skill, the political will, the clout – or all three? Does perhaps the power asymmetry between a strong Israel, on the one hand, and the weak Arab states and Palestinians, on the other, explain the lack of any peaceful outcome?
Background
Experience:
2005-present: Professor of History, University of Oslo
2005-present: Researcher at PRIO in a part-time capacity
1996-2005: Deputy Director at PRIO
1995-2005: Senior Researcher at PRIO
2001-2003: Programme Leader, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Programme, PRIO
1992-1993: Acting Director at PRIO
Education:
2013-: Bachelor student in Modern Hebrew
1997: Dr. philos., University of Oslo (History)
1987: Cand.philol., University of Oslo (History)
1982: Cand. mag., University of Oslo
Publications
Recent Publications:
2016: “Cementing a State of Belligerency: The 1949 Armistice Negotiations between Israel and Syria”, Middle East Journal, 70(1): 69-89, with Petter Stenberg.
2015: “Mission Impossible: UN Special Representative Gunnar Jarring and His Quest for Peace in the Middle East, International History Review, 24 pp, with Hulda Kjeang Mørk.
2015: “Weak Third Parties and Ripening: Revisiting Norwegian Interventions in Guatemala and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, International Negotiations, 20(3): 389–413, with Ada Nissen.
2014: “The Palestine Option: Nixon, the National Security Council, and the search for a new policy, 1970”, Diplomatic History, 38(1): 182-209, with Simen Zernichow.
2013. “‘Finishing the Enterprise’: Israel's Admission to the United Nations”, International History Review, 35(3): 465-485, with Marte Heian-Engdal and Jørgen Jensehaugen.
2013. Konflikt og stormaktspolitikk i Midtøsten [Conflict and Great Power Politics in the Middle East]. Kristiansand: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 512 pp.
All Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Article
Non-refereed Journal Article