Kjell Erling Kjellman left PRIO in 2010. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Kjell Erling Kjellman
Senior Researcher, Project Leader AMAC
Research Interests
The AMAC project is currently examining the role of mine action in broader peacebuilding initiatives, and is undertaking an analysis of national ownership of mine action programs.
Working experience:
2006 - Senior Researcher, Project Leader, Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities (AMAC), International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).
2001 - 2006, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo.
2000 - 2001, Researcher, Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities (AMAC), International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).
Education:
2007, Dr. polit, sociology, University of Oslo
2000, Cand. polit, sociology, University of Oslo.
1993, BA, Major in sociology, minor in political science, University of New Mexico.
Latest publications
All publications
Civil Society and the State
Book Chapter in Civil Society and Peacebuilding: a Critical Assessment
Integración de la perspectiva de género en actividades relativas a las minas en situaciones de conflicto
PRIO Policy Brief
Exploring Facilitative Conditions for Violent Transnational Mobilization
Conference Paper
Avtale om klasevåpen
Report - External Series
Gender Mainstreaming in Mine Action in Conflict Situations
PRIO Policy Brief
Global rörelse. Den globala rättvisrörelsen och modernitetens omvandlinger.
Book Review
Conceptualizing National Ownership: The Case of Mine Action
PRIO Paper
National Ownership and Donor Strategies in Mine Action: Challenges and Opportunities
PRIO Policy Brief
The Oslo Process to Ban Cluster Munitions: Which Way Forward?
Popular Article in Mainichi Daily News
Mobilization and Protest in a Consensus Democracy: Social Movements, the State, and Political Opportunities in Norway
PhD Thesis
Latest news
Successful Doctoral Defence by Kjell E. Kjellman
Kjell E. Kjellman successfully defended his doctoral dissertation ”Mobilization and Protest in a Consensus Democracy: Social Movements, the State, and Political Opportunities in Norway” at the University of Oslo. His dissertation is in sociology for the Dr. polit. degree, and the work has partly been carried out at PRIO.
National Ownership in Mine Action
PRIO has published the policy brief Meeting the Challenge: National Ownership in Mine Action. The launch of the policy brief happens today in Geneva at the Seventh Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention).
Kjell Kjellman new AMAC leader
As of 01 May 2006, Kjell Erling Kjellman will be the new project leader of Assistance to Mine-Affected Communities project (AMAC) at PRIO. Kristian Berg Harpviken, who has led the project since the start in 1999, will remain attached to the project.
Latest events
State Failure and Regional Insecurity
Transnationalism, Mechanisms and Civil War
Transnationalism and Civil War
Clearing the Path for a Better Future
10th Anniversary of the Mine Ban Convention
