Experience

Hanoi School of Business (HSB) Vietnam National University

• Vietnam
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • 2012 - Present

  Teaching courses at the MA program of Human Rights at the National University of Vietnam, 1-2 times a year. Research collaboration with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Teaching courses at the MA program of Human Rights at the National University of Vietnam, 1-2 times a year. Research collaboration with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences



University of Oslo (UiO)

• Norway
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor

  • 2010 - Present

  Summary I am a political scientist working doing research in the fields of development and human rights, broadly understood. I am interested in political development, regime change (and transition) and in social development and economic change. Distribution of power in society is an important part of this field, and how produced and reproduced among social, ethnic, gender and other social groups, and how this may impact the fulfillment/lack of fulfillment of of a different types of human rights. Poverty and human rights is therefore central to my interest and the notions of human rights based development as a set of approaches and methods for advancing human rights in different social contexts.I have done empirical research in various African (particularly Kenya) and Asian countries (Vietnam, Pakistan). More recently I am doing research in the human rights responsibilities of transnational businesses (TNCs). I also study practices, effects and dilemmas of development assistance by private and public organizations/institutions, including legal aid, NGO performances and human rights approaches of development agencies. Earlier, transitional justice and human rights has been a field of interest and publishing. In 2009-2010 I was Professor (90%) at the University College of Buskerud, Norway, and assisted in setting up a MA Program in Human Rights and Multiculturalism. I started my career in 1985 as a research assistant at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in 1985, and took part in establishing the Program for Human Rights Studies at the CMI. For several years I headed for several years the international documentation project Human Rights in Developing Countries, a book series which published altogether around 12 volumes (annually/biannually), with participation of a number of international human rights centers. From 1989, I joined the Norwegian Center (then Institute) of human rights and headed from 1990 its research group on Human Rights and Development. Show less