Kjell Erling Kjellman left PRIO in 2010. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
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.
Book Chapter in Civil Society and Peacebuilding: a Critical Assessment
PRIO Policy Brief
Conference Paper
Report - External Series
PRIO Policy Brief
Book Review
PRIO Paper
PRIO Policy Brief
Popular Article in Mainichi Daily News
PhD Thesis
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.
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).
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.