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Summary
Name: Stellan Vinthagen
Title: Professor of Sociology, Endowed Chair in The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil Resistance
Date of Birth: 1964, 13th October.
Qualifications: Professor of Sociology (UMass, Amherst) 2014. PhD in Peace and Development Research (University of Gothenburg) 2005, BA in Sociology and International Relations (University of Gothenburg) 1997.
Tenured Positions:
1. Professor of Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-)
2. Professor of Sociology at Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg (2018-)
Other Current Positions:
3. Inaugural Endowed Chair in The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil Resistance at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-)
4. Director of the Resistance Studies Initiative, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2015-)
5. Chief Editor of Journal of Resistance Studies (2015-)
6. Co-Convener of University of Gothenburg research group CSM-RESIST (2011-)
7. Academic Advisor for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Washington, (2009-),
8. Steering group member of the international Resistance Studies Network (RSN, 2007-):
9. Council member of War Resisters’ International (WRI, 2006-):
10. Co-Editor of the book series on Resistance Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, London.
11. Co-convener of the Nonviolence and Peace Movement Commission
Previous Main Appointments: Professor and Associate professor of Sociology, University West, Högskolan Väst, Sweden (2009-2016); Assistant professor at School of Global Political Studies, Malmö (2008-2009); Assistant professor at Department of Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (2006-2007, 2011-2015). Visiting Lecturer at several institutions, e.g. College for International Citizenship (CIC), Birmingham, UK, (2005-2009) (); Globalverkstan: International Project Management for Social Movements & NGOs; Göteborg (2004-2006), and Kulturverkstan (2001-2004). Director of Globalverkstan, Göteborg (2004).
Areas of Expertise: Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory.
PhD: Ickevåldsaktion – En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion [Nonviolent Action – A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction] (University of Gothenburg, 2005).
Selected examples of relevant professional work and “esteem indicators” etc.:
• Author or co-author of nine books and editor of two books, along with 23 peer-reviewed articles and 15 book chapters, besides numerous other texts.
• Administrative and leadership positions from several different areas: (1) development of university courses at different levels, (2) board member, (3) director of educational units, (4) leader of a research program, (5) conference organizer, (6) network founder, (7) editor of a journal, and (8) tutor at different levels.
• Fieldwork research totally more than three years in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
• Grant receiver (as main applicant) for a research program on resistance studies (2011-2015) by Swedish Research Council (VR) with 10 million SEK (equal to 1,5 million USD), and as co-applicant for more than the double of that in other projects.
• Awards/Nominations: PJSA Peace Scholar Award 2018; Nominated for a 2015-2016 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) at UMass Amherst. Nominated for the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award 2007 by Ms. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Ambassador of India to Sweden, Stockholm.
• Lecturing: Regular tutoring of Masters/PhD-students, with over 15,000 hours of teaching at university level, as well as international teaching. (Totally in 14 countries on four continents with over 100 lecture subjects given to mainly universities, high schools, state/municipal institutions or voluntary organizations.)
• Distinguished Speaker on Nonviolent Action and Civil Resistance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2013, and Key-note speaker, e.g. at international conference on Rethinking Pacifism, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2017.
• Peer-reviewer for, e.g. Acta Sociologica; Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Cooperation and Conflict; Organization Studies.
• The Exhibition “Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World” (2008-2009) at Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, was partly built on one of my articles (the “Political Underground”) and my work as consultant (varldskulturmuseet.se/).
• Esteem Positions; Associate of TFF (Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research); and Council-member of WRI (War Resisters’ International).
• Movement experience for 30 years with education and organizing, e.g. action and strategy trainings in peace, justice and environmental movements.
Full CV
Stellan Vinthagen, Professor, PhD.
Email: Stellan.vinthagen@
Home address (Dec-Aug): Sparsnäs 920, SE 668 911 Ed, Sweden Cell phone: (+46) 070-4763 789.
Home address (Sep-Nov): 120 Pulpit Hill Road, Unit 16, 01002 Amherst, MA, USA. Cell phone: (+1) 413.801.9555. The Pioneer Valley Cohousing;
Department of Sociology
The Resistance Studies Initiative
200 Hicks Way, Thompson Hall,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9277
USA Phone: (+1) 413.545.0577
Fax: (+1) 413.545.3204
Personal website:
Department of Sociology and Work Science
Civil Society, Social Movement and Resistance Research: CSM-RESIST
University of Gothenburg Phone (+46) 031-786 4026 (or -1000).
Box 700, Fax (+46) 031-786 49 10
SE 405 30 Göteborg
Sweden
Personal website:
Tenured Positions:
1. Professor of Sociology at Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-)
2. Professor of Sociology at Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg (2018-)
Other Current Positions:
3. Inaugural Endowed Chair in The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil Resistance at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-)
4. Director of the Resistance Studies Initiative, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2015-)
5. Chief Editor of Journal of Resistance Studies (2015-)
6. Co-Convener of University of Gothenburg research group CSM-RESIST (2011-)
7. Academic Advisor for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Washington, (2009-),
8. Steering group member of the international Resistance Studies Network (RSN, 2007-):
9. Council member of War Resisters’ International (WRI, 2006-):
10. Co-Editor of the book series on Resistance Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, London.
11. Co-convener of the Nonviolence and Peace Movement Commission
Current Research Projects:
1. A Study of Civic Resistance and its Impact on Democracy (2018-2022), funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
2. Transnational Social Movements & Resistance Strategies (2001-2004, 2007, 2009-) (Unfunded project).
Current Book Projects (work in progress):
I. Baaz, Mikael; Mona Lilja; Michael Schulz and Stellan Vinthagen Civic Resistance in Asia: A comparative qualitative case study. Book contract with Routledge. Submission of manuscript in the spring of 2019.
Areas of research work: Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION Completed
Högskolepedagogik 3 (University pedagogics, level 3) 2019
Högskolepedagogik 2 (University pedagogics, level 2) 2018
Two years part-time research writing course, lead by Prof. Brian Martin, 2012
University of Wollongong
English for Academic Purposes, 7,5 hp (EN2001) (5 weeks, full time) 2011
Docentur (Associate Professorship), Sociology, University West, Sweden 2010
(New degree, based on external peer-reviews of research production)
Högskolepedagogik 1: Baskurs, 5 hp (HPE101) 2009
(Basic course in pedagogics for university education, 3 weeks full time)
Handledning i forskarutbildning, 5 hp (HPE201), Uni. of Gothenburg 2009
(Course on Supervision for PhD students, 3 weeks full time)
Ph.D. Department of Peace and Development Research (PADRIGU),
School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Nov 24, 2005
Research program courses (1997-2005):
Conflict Resolution, Social Psychology, The Doctrine History of Peace Research and Development Research, Research Methodology, Power Theory, Movement Theory,
World System, Globalization, Social System Theory.
B.A. in Sociology and International Relations, University of Gothenburg 1997
With additional courses in Conflict Resolution, State Politics, Practical Philosophy,
History of Economics and People’s Pedagogics (Folkbildning).
History and Philosophy of Nonviolent Movements, 1989
One-year study at a “people high school”,
Grebbestad Folkhögskola, Sweden.
College (Gymnasium). 3 years program on Physical Science 1981
(Theme focus: Environmental protection)
RESEARCH:
RESEARCH GRANTS
“A Study of Civic Resistance and its Impact on Democracy” 2018-2022
(8 million SEK, about 1 million USD). Grant receiver as co-applicant. Main
applicant is Mona Lilja. Funded by the Swedish Research Council
(Vetenskapsrådet, #2017-00881).
“Understanding the Rationales of Donors-Funded Civil Society in Developing 2014-2016
Countries: A Game Theory Approach”, 3 years (3,4 million SEK, about 0,5
million USD). Grant receiver as co-applicant. Main applicant is Lina Suleiman,
KTH. Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, #2013-6331).
“Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil 2011-2015
Society in the South”, 5 years (10 million SEK, about 1,5 million USD),
main applicant and program leader (with three senior researchers, which involves
other collaborating researchers and PhD-students). Funded by the Swedish
Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, #2010-2298).
“Resisting Western Cultural Hegemony”, 3 months grant, Uni. of Gothenburg 2010
“Everyday Resistance”, 3 months grants, University West 2010-2011
“Legal Change and Social Movements”, 3 years, (about 2,5 million SEK) 2009-2011
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, #2008-1639), together with
the main applicant Associate Prof. Håkan Gustafsson, Dep. of Law,
University of Gothenburg.
“Padrigu - Madras University collaborative education project to develop 2004
‘Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies’ in India”. (70 000 SEK)
From SASNET, Lund University.
“Political Underground”, 3 months grant, Museion, 2004
University of Gothenburg.
And a number of smaller grants (e.g. from University West, Wallenbergsstiftelsen,
Göteborgs Universitets Donationsstipendium)
APPOINTMENTS AS EXPERT (EXAMINATIONS or REVIEWS)
Tenure evaluation for Lee Smithy, Swarthmore College 2018
PhD assessment for student at University at Otago, New Zeeland 2018
Faculty opponent of PhD thesis by Markus Lundström; The Making of
Resistance – Brazil’s Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment,
Department of Economic History, University of Stockholm 2017
Review of Fellowship Proposal for Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study 2017
Review committee member for the PhD-thesis by Erica von Essen,
Department of Urban and Rural Development,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 2016
Faculty opponent at final seminar of PhD thesis by Erica von Essen: In the Gap between Legality and Legitimacy – Illegal Hunting in Sweden as a Crime of Dissent,
Department of Urban and Rural Development,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 2016
Faculty opponent at half-time seminar of PhD thesis by Christina Hansen,
Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University. 2015
Written assessment of competence as full professor by Isak Svensson,
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University. 2015
Faculty opponent of the PhD thesis by Adrián Groglopo;
Appropriation by Coloniality: TNCs, Land, Hegemony and Resistance,
Department of Sociology, Umeå University 2012
Written examination of the PhD thesis by Mr John Bosco; Radical Movements in
Tamil Nadu since 1970, University of Madras (3 pages) 2012
Written assessment of 11 applicants for a position as senior lecturer in
peace and conflict studies, at Malmö University (15 pages) 2011
Reviews of manuscripts done for the following journals (starting from):
1. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Elsevier Sciences/JAI Press, Oxford. (Nov. 2006-)
2. Cooperation and Conflict, Nordic ISA. (Oct 2007-).
3. Acta Sociologica, Sociology Association of Scandinavia. (July 2009-)
4. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, Taylor & Francis. (Feb. 2011-)
5. Journal of Palestinian Studies. (Dec 2014-)
6. Organization Studies. (Feb 2015-)
7. Journal of Resistance Studies (2015-)
RESEARCH POSITIONS Completed
Research consultant, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, one month, 2007
preparing the Exhibition “Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World”
Research assistant, University of Gothenburg (3 months, full-time) 2006
PhD Candidate position, (Doktorandtjänst), University of Gothenburg
(2002-01-01 to 2003-03-31) 2003
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE ABROAD
I have field research experience abroad totally more than three years
I have used ethnographic methods (observation, participation, action research, interviews, etc.) during shorter and longer fieldwork periods:
• Algeria one week (2018)
• Brazil, one month totally (2002, 2003, 2017).
• Burma, one week (2013).
• Cambodia, three weeks (2013).
• Colombia, one month (2005, 2006).
• Egypt, one week (2012).
• Europe, multiple countries (but mainly UK and Germany) and research periods, circa two years totally (1986-2017).
• Greece, five weeks 2011.
• India, eight months totally (2001, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019).
• Israel and Palestine, two weeks, 2008 and 2012.
• Kenya, two weeks (2002, 2007)
• Lebanon, two weeks (2017).
• Senegal, one week (2011).
• South Africa, three months (1994, 2009, 2014).
• Turkey, two weeks (2015, 2016)
• USA, multiple research periods of several months (2001-).
• Western Sahara, one week (2015).
PUBLICATIONS
National Library of Sweden (summary):
MONOGRAPHS
1. (forthcoming, 2019) Conceptualizing ‘Everyday Resistance’: A Transdisciplinary Approach, Johansson, Anna & Stellan Vinthagen, Routledge (ca 250 pages).
2. 2017 Researching Resistance and Social Change: A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice, with Baaz, Mikael, and Mona Lilja Rowman & Littlefield, London. (214 pages).
3. 2015 A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works, ZED Books: London. (410 pages). Also published 2016 in Swedish by Irene Publishing, Ed (Motstånd och ickevåld - En sociologisk analys). And self-published 2017 as digital version in German (Eine Theorie der gewaltfreien Aktion: Wie ziviler Widerstand funktioniert), see
4. 2015 Inburad – Svenska fredsaktivister skriver från fängelse [Jailed – Swedish Peace Activists Writes From Prison], with Martin Smedjeback, Annika Spalde, Anna Sternfeldt, Pelle Strindlund (eds.), Irene Publishing: Ed. (I wrote pp. 37-77, out of 184 pages.)
5. 2013 Law, Resistance and Transformation: Social Movements and Legal Strategies in the Indian Narmada Struggle, with Håkan Gustafsson and Patrik Oskarsson. Department of Sociology of Law: Lund University. (196 pages.)
6. 2011 Motståndets väg [Path of Resistance], with Pelle Strindlund. Karneval: Stockholm (344 pages).
7. 2005 Ickevåldsaktion – En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion [Nonviolent Action – A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction], (2005) PhD Dissertation, Department of Peace and Development Research (Padrigu), University of Gothenburg, Sweden (ISBN 918738065X). Online at (Swedish text and English Abstract) (486 pages).
8. 1999 Fängelsebrev [Prison Letters] with Ann-Britt Sternfeldt and Annika Spalde, published online: (106 pages).
9. 1998 Förberedelse för Motstånd – En kritik av plogbillsrörelsens förberedelsemetoder och inre konflikthantering, [Preparation for Resistance – A Critique of the Preparation Methods and Internal Conflict Management of the Plowshares Movement], published by Omega Förlag and Stiftelsen för Fredsarbete, Göteborg (107 pages).
10. 1992 Handbok: Avrustningslägret i Linköping [Handbook: The Disarmament Camp in Linköping], with Per Herngren, Omega Förlag, Göteborg (111 pages).
EDITED BOOKS
1. 2012 Tackling Trident: Academics in Action through Academic Conference Blockades. Main editor (co-editors: Justin Kenrick and Kelvin Mason). Irene Publishing: Ed (360 pages).
2. 2009 Motstånd [Resistance], with co-editor Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm (347 pages).
ARTICLES (Peer-reviewed journals)
1. 2018 “Dispersed resistance: unpacking the spectrum and properties of glaring and everyday resistance”, with M. Lilja, Journal of Political Power, pp. 211-229.
2. 2017 “Resisting resettlement in Rwanda: rethinking dichotomies of “survival”/“resistance” and “dominance”/“subordination””, with J. Gumira Hahirwa and C. Orjuela, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11:4, 734-750, DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2017.1388569
3. 2017 “How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, ‘Organised Resistance’ and ‘Everyday Resistance’”, with M. Lilja, M. Baaz, M.Schulz. Journal of Political Power, 10:1, pp. 40-54.
4. 2017 “Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit”, with M. Lilja and M. Baaz, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 10-28.
5. 2016 “Defining and Analyzing “Resistance”, with M. Baaz, M. Lilja, and M. Schulz, Alternatives, Vol. 41, Issue 3, pp. 137-153.
6. 2015 “Fighting with and against the Time: The Japanese Environmental Movement’s Queering of Time as Resistance”, with M. Lilja and M. Baaz, Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 408-423. DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2015.1112102
7. 2015 “Decolonizing Civil Resistance”, with S. Chabot, Mobilization: An International Quarterly: December 2015, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 517-532. DOI:
8. 2015 “Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: The Case of Palestinian Sumūd”, with Anna Johansson, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 109-139, published online on Feb 20. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2015.1010803.
9. 2014 “Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: An Analytical Framework”, with Anna Johansson, Critical Sociology, Vol. 42, Issue 3, pp. 417-435, published online on May 12. DOI: 10.1177/0896920514524604.
10. 2014 “Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower: Resisting What Power With What Resistance?”, with M. Lilja, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 107-126.
11. 2013 “‘Everyday Resistance’: Exploration of a Concept & its Theories”, with Anna Johansson, Resistance Studies Magazine, Issue 1: 2013, pp. 1-46.
12. 2013 “Law on the Move - Reflections on Legal Change and Social Movements”, with Håkan Gustafsson. Retfærd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidskrift, nr. 2/141, 2013/2, Vol. 36, pp. 23-59.
13. 2013 “Exploring Irrational Resistance”, with Mona Lilja and Mikael Baaz, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-217.
14. 2013 “Ten Theses on Why We Need a Social Science Panel on Climate Change”, ACME 12(1), pp. 155-176.
15. 2013 “Legal Mobilization and Resistance Movements as Social Constituents of International Law”, Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 21 (2010), pp. 287-327.
16. 2012 “Nonviolent Resistance and Culture”, with Majken Jul Sørensen, Peace & Change, Vol. 37, No. 3, July. pp. 444-470.
17. 2011 “Framväxten av sociala rörelsers globala politik” [The Emergence of Social Movements’ Global Politics], Sociologisk Forskning, No. 1: 2011, pp. 25-50.
18. 2010 “Rättens rörelser och rörelsernas rätt” [The Movement of Law and The Law of Movements], with Håkan Gustafsson, Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, vol. 123, 4 & 5/2010, pp. 637–693. ISSN 0040-7143.
19. 2008 “Strategic Changes and Cultural Adaptations: Explaining Differential Outcomes in the International Plowshares Movement”, with Sharon Erickson Nepstad, University of Southern Maine, International Journal of Peace Studies, IPRA, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/summer, pp. 15-42.
20. 2008 “Is the World Social Forum a Democratic Global Civil Society?”, Societies without Borders, (Vol. 3, No. 1), Brill; and in Blau, Judith and Marina Karides, The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary, Brill, Chapter 8, pp. 131-148.
21. 2008 “Political Undergrounds: Raging Riots and Everyday Theft as Politics of Normality?”, online publication, Museion, University of Gothenburg and Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, (26 pages).
22. 2008 “Bortom civilisationens kontroll” [Beyond the Control of Civilization], Glänta, 4:07, Gothenburg, pp.72-78.
23. 2007 “Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement”, with Sean Chabot, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Elsevier Sciences/JAI Press, Oxford, Vol. 27, pp. 91-122.
24. 2006 “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, Asian Journal of Social Science, 34:1, pp. 1-21.
BOOK CHAPTERS (research and/or educational publications)
1. 2015 “Four Dimensions of Nonviolent Action: A Sociological Perspective”, pp. 258-288 in Kurt Schock (ed.) Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, Series on Social Movements, Protest & Contention.
2. 2014 “Bortom myten – Gandhis idéer och praktik” [Beyond the Myth – Gandhi’s Ideas and Practice] in Gandhi, Mohandas K. Om ickevåld: Tal, artiklar och brev 1906-1948, M. K. Gandhi, Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur: Umeå, pp. 581-633.
3. 2014 “Aktivismen för global rättvisa och mot marknadsdiktatur” [The Activism For Global Justice and Against Market Dictatorship], in Mats Friberg (ed.) Det hållbara samhället, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 258-287.
4. 2010 “En ny sorts dilemma-aktion” [A New Form of Dilemma Action], in Mikael Löfgren (ed.) Ship to Gaza: Bakgrunden. Resan. Framtiden. Leopard Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 183-194.
5. 2009 “Global Movements Facilitating Local Campaigns”, in Unarmed Resistance – The Transnational Factor, Clark, Howard & Rigby, Andrew (eds.), Pluto Press: London, pp. 184-190.
6. 2009 “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, in Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed) The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom, SAGE India, pp. 161-183.
7. 2009 “Introduktion” in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 11-23.
8. 2009 “Makt, motstånd och förändring” [Power, Resistance and Change] in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 25-93.
9. 2009 “Avslutande reflektioner” [Concluding Reflections] in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 333-338.
10. 2007 “Kommunikation i ett maktperspektiv” [Communication From a Power Perspective], in Fossum, Björn (ed.) Kommunikation: Samtal och bemötande i vården, Studentlitteratur: Lund, pp. 61-97. (2nd edition 2011, 3ed edition 2018).
11. 2006 “Ickevåldsrörelsens samhällsgestaltning” [The Society Enactment of the Nonviolent Movement], in Wettergren, Åsa & Jamison, Andrew (eds) Sociala rörelser – Politik och Kultur, Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 321-352.
12. 2003 “Ickevåldsrörelsens idéhistoria” [The History of Ideas of the Nonviolent Movement], in Fronesis Nr. 11-12; “Våld”, LO-Tryckeriet, Stockholm, pp. 186-206.
13. 2003 “Motståndet mot den nya världsordningen” [The Resistance Against the New World Order], in Janne Flyghed & Magnus Hörnqvist (eds) Laglöst land, Ordfront, Stockholm, pp. 232-264.
14. 2002 “Motståndets globalisering” [The Globalisation of Resistance], in Mikael Löfgren & Masoud Vatankhah (eds) Vad hände med Sverige i Göteborg?, Ordfront Förlag, Stockholm, pp. 240-263.
15. 2001 “Makt och motstånd – Ickevåldsrörelsers hantering av makt i konflikter”, [Power and Resistance – Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power in Conflicts], in Leif Eriksson & Björn Hettne (eds) Makt och internationella relationer, [Power and International Relations] Studentlitteratur, Lund, pp. 179-235.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Encyclopedia entries, reviews, etc.)
1. 2017 Review of “Scott, James C. (2013) Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 224-227.
2. 2017 Review of “Butler, Judith, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay (eds.) (2016) Vulnerability in Resistance”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 228-233.
3. 2017 Review of “Knapp, Michael, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga (2016) Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 233-238.
4. 2017 Review of “Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 239-244.
5. 2017 Review of “Clover, Joshua (2016) Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 221-223.
6. 2017 “A Next Step for the Climate Justice Movement”, with Li Vinthagen, Nonviolence Magazine June 13 (online publication), California, Metta Center, 2 pages.
7. 2016 Review of “Sharon Erickson Nepstad (2015) Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics”, Mobilization: An International Quarterly: June 2016, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 247-8.
8. 2016 Review of “Jason MacLeod (2015) Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, Journal of Resistance Studies”, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 154-161.
9. 2016 “We continue to develop resistance studies”, Editorial, Journal of Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 5-11.
10. 2015 “Some notes on the Journal of Resistance Studies and its exploration of “resistance”, Editorial, Journal of Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 5-11.
11. 2015 Review of “Lee, Terence; Defect or defend: military responses to popular protests in authoritarian Asia”, Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 198-200.
12. 2015 Review of “Milligan, Tony (2013) Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification, and the Law”, Peace Review, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 528-531.
13. 2015 “Review of Dudouet, Véronique (ed.) (2015) Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle”, in Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 171-179.
14. 2015 “An Invitation to Develop ‘Resistance Studies”, Editorial introduction in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5-17.
15. 2015 Review of “Freedom Sailors: The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza Movement and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves”, Journal of Palestinian Studies, Vol. XLIV, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter, pp. 72-73.
16. 2013 “Adrián Groglopo (2012) Approriation [sic!] by Coloniality. Umeå universitet.” [Review of a PhD thesis], Sociologisk Forskning, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 174-177.
17. 2011 “Terrorismus gewaltfrei entgegnen?” [Resisting Terrorism with Nonviolence?], FriedensForum, 6/2011, Hrsg. Bund für Soziale Verteidigung, pp. 28-30.
18. 2011 “Inte väpnad kamp som kommer skapa demokrati i Syrien” [Not Armed Struggle That Will Create Democracy in Syria], SVT Debatt (), 1st May, (l p.).
19. 2010 “People Power and the New Global Ferment”, Open Democracy (), published online 15 Nov 2010 (8 p.).
20. 2007 “Clamshell Alliance”, in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 350-351.
21. 2007 “Direct Action” in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 461-463.
22. 2007 “Gandhi, Mahatma”, in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 598-600.
23. 2007 “Resistance” (with Mona Lilja), in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 1215-1217.
24. 2006 “A Research Network on Resistance, Power & Social Change”, with Mona Lilja, the “Missionstatement” for the network RSN with overview of “resistance studies”, published online (19 pages)
25. 2000 “Nonviolent Movements and Management of Power”, in Gandhi Marg, Vol. 22, No. 2, July-September, New Delhi, India, pp. 133-153.
26. 1999 “Obedience is the Enemy”, in Peace News, No. 2435, May-August, London (2 pages).
27. 1997 “Symboler i rörelse - Om sociala rörelser som tilltal”, [Symbols in Movement – About Social Movements as Communication], unpublished BA-thesis in International relations, Peace and Development Research Institute, University of Gothenburg (65 pages).
28. 1997 “Direktdemokratins svårigheter: En studie av den tyska Graswurzelrörelsen och dess organisation Graswurzelrevolution, Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)” [The Difficulties of Direct Democracy: A Study of the German Graswurzel Movement and its Organisation Graswurzelrevolution Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA) ], unpublished BA-thesis in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg (60 pages).
I have also published a number of articles in newspapers or non-academic journals, as well as drafts of academic papers, out of which some exists online at
CONSULTANCY, EVALUATIONS and REPORTS:
1. 2013 A study of prospects for cooperation on Nonviolence and Dialog Projects with SweFOR and partners in Egypt. Co-authored together with Jørgen Johansen, Henrik Frykberg, Mohamed Elmeadawy, and Majken Jul Sørensen. A report by Nordic Nonviolence Study Group (NORNONS) June 2013, produced for Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR). (86 pages).
2. 2007 Research papers for the Exhibition Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World, the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg: (1) Strategies of Change; (2) Action and Confrontation; (3) Civil Courage; (4) The Political Rationality of the Autonomy Movement; (5) The Zapatistas; (6) Humour Against Power; (7) Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience; (8) Challenging Ownership; (9) Rebellion and Riots; (10) Anti-Apartheid (all were written in Swedish, here given with English title translations) (each entry circa 3 pages). About the exhibition:
3. 2007 “WSF-Kenya: Another WSF is Possible”, (War Resisters’ International) published online (circa 7 pages), (2007-09-06)
4. 2006 “WRI Theme Group Report: Strategising the Globalisation of Nonviolence” Stellan Vinthagen (ed.) (War Resisters’ International) published online (circa 10 pages) (2006-08-28)
5. 1997 “En direktdemokratisk organisations historia: En undersökningsrapport utifrån en studie av tyska Graswurzelrörelsen och dess organisation Graswurzelrevolution, Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)” [The History of a Direct Democratic Organisation: A Research Report from a Study of the German Graswurzel Movement and its Organisation Graswurzelrevolution Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)], unpublished empirical report, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg (circa 50 pages).
6. 1994 An investigation of nonviolent action training and resistance to apartheid in South Africa, report written in Swedish for Omega Forum, Göteborg (two months field study) (6 pages).
7. 1991 Educational material on National Non-military Defence (Civilmotstånd), written report together with Per Herngren (in Swedish) for the Swedish organisation for conscious objectors to conscription: VTP-AG, Karlstad (circa 100 pages).
CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS (a strictly limited selection of papers not published yet)
2017 “Research Interventions: Can Resistance be a form of Research?”, presented at the International Studies Association (ISA), Baltimore, 22-25 Feb, 2017.
2016 “Resistance as a learning process: The chosen community of equals and the involuntary community of unequals”, presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA), Edinburgh, 15-17 June 2016.
2015 “Resistance Research and Ethics”, presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA), London, 16-18 June 2015.
2014 “Defining and Categorizing ‘Resistance’”, With Baaz, Mikael, Mona Lilja and Michael Schulz. International Studies Association, Toronto, 26-29 March, 2014.
2013 “Legal Action Design: Social Movements’ Strategies to Shape Law”, with Mikael Baaz, at the Conference Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy, within the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, August 9, 2013, New York.
2013 “Dilemmas of Power/Resistance Dynamics: Assessing the Strategy of the ‘Freedom Flotilla to Gaza’, an International Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Resisting the Israeli Blockade of Gaza”, with Jörgen Johansen. Presented for International Studies Association (ISA), at the 2013 Conference, San Francisco, Apr 3-6.
2010 “Legal Strategy for Activists”, presented for War Resisters’ International (WRI), at the conference on “Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism: Links & Strategies”, Ahmedabad, India, Jan 22-25.
2009 “Labeling ‘Low-level Terrorism’: The Out-definition of Social Movements”, presented for International Studies Association (ISA), at the 2009 Conference, New York City, Feb 15-18.
2007 “Understanding ‘Resistance’: Exploring Definitions, Perspectives, Forms and Implications”, presented for Critical Approaches to Security in Europe III. Emancipation, Resistance and Violence (COST), at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 29 Nov to 1 Dec.
2007 “The State of Resistance Research”, paper for European Sociologist Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 3-6 Sept 2007, research thread “Resisting Neoliberalism”, the Panel on Resistance Studies.
2006 “Transnational Movement Strategies – Some Reflections”, seminar on Unarmed Resistance – The Transnational Factor, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, July 2006.
2006 “New Global Wars a Challenge for Nonviolence”, Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict & Development Research, Padrigu, University of Gothenburg, Sept.
2005 “A Call for a Nonviolent Strategy of the Global Peace & Justice Movement”, for the War Resisters’ International (WRI) Conference on “Globalising Nonviolence”, Paderborn, Germany, July 2006, published at WRI-webpage
(and at )
October and in The Brooken Rifle, WRI, London, November.
2004 “From Techniques to Repertoires: Studying Nonviolent Action and Social Movements”, Paper presented (together with Ass. Prof. Sean Chabot) for the International Peace Research Association Conference (IPRA), Sapron, Hungary, July 2004.
2003 “A Movement Culture of Nonviolent Action”, Paper presented for the Swedish conference on development research (”Fattiga & Rika”), Lund University, January 2003.
2002:a & b “New Challenges of Nonviolent Action Research”; (together with Sean Chabot) “The Relational and Constructionist Dynamics of Nonviolent Action”, papers presented for the international research workshop on nonviolence research, Tromsö University, Norway, November 2002.
2001 “Globalisation from Below: Social Movements Trying to Influence Corporate Globalisation from Above”, presented for War Resisters’ International (WRI), at the “World Conference on Social Empowerment”, India, February 2001 and for the Nordic Research Workshop “Rethinking Development Theory” by NORFA and Padrigu, Göteborg, Sweden, February 2001.
1998 “Maktbrytande och dialogunderlättande konflikthantering” [Power Breaking and Dialogue Facilitating Conflict Management], presented for Sociologiförbundets årsmöte [The Annual Meeting of Sociologists] Göteborg Sweden, January 1998.
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Ongoing supervision as part of dissertation committees:
1. Carol Daniel Kasbari, 2017-, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University (PhD-project on Palestinian everyday resistance). I am one of four members of the committee.
Students that have successfully completed their PhD:
1. Charline Mulindahabi, 2015 (PhD-project on Rwandan genocide and discourses of obedience, University of Gothenburg). I was the main supervisor.
2. Joseph Hahirwa, 2014 (PhD-project on peasants’ everyday resistance to agricultural reform in Rwanda, University of Gothenburg). I was the co-supervisor.
3. Jan Jämte, Nov. 2013 (PhD-project on history of the Swedish antiracist social movement and framing theory, Umeå University). I was one of three supervisors.
I have also assisted in supervision for Rune Ellefsen (Criminology, Oslo University); Majken Jul Sörensen (School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong); Minoo Koefoed (Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg); and Susanna Lundberg (Sociology, Örebro University) during periods of their PhD-studies.
LECTURING and CONSULTING WORK:
I have lectured at graduate level (Masters and PhD) on numerous topics within several disciplines: International Relations; Peace & Conflict Studies; Media, Journalism and Global Studies; Human Rights; Global Studies; Development Studies; International Conflict Resolution, and within Resistance Studies.
I have with colleagues done course development of PhD-courses on Resistance Studies for University of Gothenburg; UMass Amherst and UKIM (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University) in Skopje, Macedonia (in a Tempus program).
I have worked as a lecturer on undergraduate and graduate levels over 15 000 hours (about 1 500 hours / year for full time).
University employments (full-time if not indicated otherwise)
2000- Occasional teaching as graduate student at University of Gothenburg
2003 Employed as Assistant lecturer (Adjunkt) at University of Gothenburg
2006-7 Assistant professor at University of Gothenburg
2008-9 Assistant professor at Malmö University
2009-2016 Associate professor and later Professor at University West
2011- Associate professor at University of Gothenburg (part-time)
2014- Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
I was nominated for a 2015-2016 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) at UMass Amherst, the only student-driven recognition of teaching on campus.
Details of my long-term courses and periods are given below:
ACADEMIC LECTURING (long term course responsibility)
Courses are full-time, normally given 1-2 times per year and undergraduate, if not stated
otherwise. My position as lecturer is also indicated when possible.
At University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
Nonviolent Resistance Studies (only the fall semester, Sept-Dec)
• Civil resistance and the everyday, graduate course 2014-2015
• Civil resistance and social change, undergraduate course 2014-
• Postcolonial and Indigenous resistance, graduate course 2017-
• Land struggles and nonviolent resistance, undergraduate course 2018-
At University of Gothenburg:
Tutor - of B.A. & Masters thesis work in Peace and Development Studies,
and Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. 2000-2014
Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Peace and Development Studies,
at SGS.
• Internat. Conflict Resolution: Methodological Perspectives 2013
(10 weeks, Masters level)
• Internat. Conflict Resolution (4 weeks) 2008-2010
• Power, Resistance and Change (20 weeks) 2007-2013
• Peace Work Course, Distance learning of through Internet/ICT 2002-2009
(40 weeks, half-time). (As co-responsible lecturer and organiser)
All courses below: 2006-2008
• International Relations – The World Economic System (5 weeks)
• Internat. Relations – War, Peace and Security (5 weeks)
• Internat. Relations – Problem Areas in International Politics (5 weeks, BA level)
• Internat. Conflict Resolution (4 weeks)
• Development Studies – Development in North and South (5 weeks)
• Dev. Studies – Development; Concepts, Theory and the Growth of a World System (5 weeks)
• Dev. Studies – Thematic Studies in Social and Economic Development (10 weeks, advanced level)
• Dev. Studies – Dev. And Social Change: Actors and Strategies (5 weeks, BA level)
• Dev. Studies – Issues of Power and Global Development (5 weeks)
• Dimensions of Globalisation (20 weeks)
• Social and Legal Movements (20 weeks, half-time)
Junior Lecturer (Adjunkt) in Peace and Development Studies, 2003-04-
University of Gothenburg 2003-12
• Internat. Relations – Research Methodology (5 weeks)
• Dev. Studies – Development; Concepts, Theory and the Growth of a World System (5 weeks)
• Internat. Relations – War, Peace and Security (5 weeks)
Course responsible lecturer for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency,
SIDA (Organized by Padrigu, University of Gothenburg) 2000-2002
• Masters thesis’ course in Development Studies
At University West:
Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Sociology at University West
• Poverty and Marginalization (5 weeks, Masters level) 2010-2012
• Sociological Theory (5 weeks, BA-level) 2009-2013
• Sociological Analysis (5 weeks, Masters level) 2004
At Malmö University:
Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Peace and Conflict Studies,
Malmö University. 2008-01-2009-06
• Conflict Scenarios and Analysis (5 weeks)
• Global Conflict Scenarios and Analysis (10 weeks, Masters level)
• Cosmopolitanism (5 weeks)
• Conflict Theory (10 weeks)
• International Political Economy (5 weeks)
At Halmstad University:
Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at Halmstad University 2005, 2007
• Democracy and Globalisation (5 weeks)
At other educational institutions:
Visiting Lecturer at CIC (College for International Citizenship), Birmingham 2005-2009
• Peace, Violence and Conflict (1 week, two times a year)
Visiting Lecturer in NGO Project Management at Globalverkstan, 2004-2006
Göteborg, (Lectures about Globalisation, Conflict Resolution and Project Work)
Visiting lecturer in Culture Project Management at Kulturverkstan,
Göteborg 2001-2006
• Group Dynamics, Conflicts & Democracy (methodology, and thesis)
OTHER GUEST LECTURING AND CONSULTING (Scandinavia): 1986-
I have since 1986 done visiting lecturing, training or consultation for
various organizations in Scandinavia on e.g. Nonviolent Conflict Resolution,
Nonviolent Resistance or Global Social Movements.
So far it has been more than 100 different organizations:
17 universities or high schools,
22 folk high schools,
10 educational associations,
4 municipal schools,
6 political parties or trade unions,
11 media companies,
13 state/municipal institutions,
7 private companies,
55 NGOs or other voluntary organisations.
INTERNATIONAL LECTURING AND CONSULTING (a selection):
Shorter lectures or consultations for NGOs as well as universities abroad.
Keynote speaker at the international conference on Civil Resistance,
Western Sahara refugee camps, Algeria 2018
Keynote speaker opening the international conference on Rethinking Pacifism,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 2017
Keynote speaker, graduate conference., University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2017
Lectured at American University in Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon 2017
Keynote speaker at international conf. on resistance, Brussels, Belgium 2016
Lecture for Greenpeace Nordic, Stockholm, Sweden 2015
Keynote speaker at Karibu Partner Meeting, Tunis, Tunisia 2015
Lectured at College of Social Work, Mumbai, India 2014
Distinguished Speaker on Nonviolent Action and Civil Resistance,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. 2013
Lectured one week at Hacettepe University, Istanbul, Turkey 2013
Keynote speaker, seminar on War on Terror, Minden, Germany 2011
Lectured at Rutgers University, NJ, USA 2009
Research seminar at University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 2009
Workshop speaker at War Resisters’ International Conference, Israel 2007
Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya 2007
Keynote speaker, seminar on Peace & Conflict Research, Hamburg, Germany 2006
Keynote speaker, international conference on “Globalising Nonviolence”, 2006
Paderborn, Germany
Keynote speaker, “Cultura de Paz y Reconciliación Juvenil”, Medellín, 2006 Colombia
Lectured one week for PhD-students at Department of Politics and 2004
Public Administration, University of Madras, Chennai, India
Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Mumbai, India 2004
Key-note speaker, research seminar for the Arbeitsgruppe Gütekraft, 2003
IFGK Essen, Germany
Keynote speaker, XIV Trobada de Barcelona on Peace Building & 2003
Social Movements, Barcelona, Spain
Lectured one day each year at Nordic Centre for Journalists, Århus, Denmark 2002-2007
Consulting Election Peace Keeping, two days, youth NGOs, Nairobi, Kenya 2002
Consulting, three days on Nonviolent resistance for Tibetan supporters and 2002
activists, Oslo, Norway
Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2002-2003
Lectured one day at the University of Bogotá, Colombia 2001
Consulting, two weeks for social movements on Conflict Theory, Colombia 2001
Lectured one day at the Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2001
Lectured one day at HM Prison Preston, Britain 1999
Lectured one day for townships youth in Cape Town, South Africa 1994
Consulting, one week for civil rights activists from Lithuania, a training for 1991
trainers in Nonviolent Resistance, Landskrona, Sweden
Consulting, one week for environmental activists, Krakow, Poland 1989
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS; ADMINISTRATION, etc.
I have experience of administrative and leadership work from different areas and positions: (1) development of new curriculum for university courses at different levels, (2) board membership (at the departmental level and at a folk high school), (3) director of educational units (the Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass, the educational organizations Omega Forum and Rabalder, the international NGO-school Globalverkstan, the department unit Museion at University of Gothenburg), (4) research leader of a large scale program involving senior researchers and PhD-students (on resistance at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg), (5) conference organizer (of several Swedish and international conferences, workshops and panels both inside and outside of the academia), and (6) network founder (co-founding and organizing research networks on activism and research, both in Sweden and internationally), (7) editor of several books and one journal, (8) tutor at different levels (BA, Master and PhD).
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (selection)
Research program leader, ‘Globalising Resistance‘ (VR funded) 2011-2015
Subject Coordinator of Sociology unit, University West 2009-2012
Co-Convenor of Resistance Studies panels and workshops at 2009-
international academic conferences (e.g. BISA, ISA, ASA, etc.)
Co-Leader of Research Group on Resistance Studies (RESIST), 2007-
University of Gothenburg
Deputy Director of Museion, University of Gothenburg (3 years) 2007-2009
Co-Founder and Coordinator, Gothenburg research network on 2007-2010
“Resistance Studies”. Organizing e.g. 40+ Resistance Seminars (4 years),
Website, Blog, List-serve
Co-founder and co-coordinator of the Nordic Nonviolence Research 2006-
Seminar (NORNOS)
Vice-Chair of the board of “people high school” FiA, Folkhögskolan i Angered 2005-2008
Inaugural director of the NGO school: Globalverkstan, Göteborg (4 months) 2004
Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Swedish research network on 2003-2007
Social Movement Studies
Board member of the “people high school” FiA, Folkhögskolan i Angered 2002-2004
Board member of the Peace and Development Department,
University of Gothenburg (during 2 years) 2001-2003
Chief Organiser of the one week international movement conference 2000
Nyårsträffen Hopp & Motstånd
Co-founder and Coordinator of the Swedish research network on 1996-1998
nonviolent resistance
Co-Director of the conflict consultancy company Rabalder Utbildningar 1996
Co-Director of the movement education office Omega Forum
(with five employees) 1992-1994
Administration officer, the German office of Grassroots Movements 1991 (Graswurzel Werkstatt, GWW Köln) (3 months)
Chief Editor, Plogbillen – Hopp & Motstånd (a magazine on nonviolence) 1988-1994
Administration officer, the Swedish office of Peace Movements (Fredsrådet) 1986
Organiser in various environmental-, peace- and solidarity organisations
(e.g. The World Peace Conference 1986, Copenhagen and a
number of international movement conferences in UK,
Germany and Sweden) 1980-2000
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS or ESTEEM POSITIONS
• ASA American Sociological Association, Working group on CBSM Collective Behavior and Social Movements,
• FORUM FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH, University of Gothenburg.
• ICNC International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington, as an invited Academic Advisor
• IPRA International Peace Research Association, co-convener of the Nonviolence and Peace Movement Commission
• ISA International Studies Association
• PJSA Peace & Justice Studies Association
• Swedish Association of Sociologists (Svenska sociologförbundet)
• TFF Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, as an invited scholar
• WRI War Resisters’ International, as elected Council member (2006-)
LANGUAGES SKILLS
1. Swedish: Speaking, reading and writing excellent.
2. English: Speaking, reading and writing excellent (completed the University of Gothenburg course on Academic writing, 2011).
3. German: Speaking fair, reading good.
4. Norwegian: Understanding good.
5. Danish: Understanding good.
6. French: Understanding basic.
7. Spanish: Understanding basic.
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