Once again I am teaching students at the bachelor level at the Department of Politicial Science, Umeå University. The students are studying at the Program for International Crisis- and Conflict Management. It is an honour to be a teacher, employed as a guest lecturer, for students doing their first course at the program and for many, their first course at an university. The students will be exposed to basic concepts and models as well as opportunities to discuss different types
Since me and my company is involved in many partnerships with partners in Kenya and neighbouring countries in East Africa and Southern Africa, there was a need to have meetings with partners and potential partners together with CASDA - Cooperation Arena for Sustainable Development in Africa, who is a key-partner to ADEP as well as to Another Development Foundation. Togehter with CASDA, we had a number of meetings in Nairobi with development organisations and governmental agencies. We also participated at
As a guest lecturer/teacher in Peace- and Conflict Studies, assigned by the Department of Political Science, Umeå University, I have just finalized teaching at the course Violence and Nonviolence. The course discuss different forms of violence and nonviolence, arguments on violence and nonviolence as political strategies, and research on effectivness and consequences. The course also discuss relations between pacifism as ideology and nonviolence as a practial activity, how violence and nonviolence relates to gender, as well as relations between violence,
Once more, me and Peter Söderström, Founder of Gender Equality Vision were assigned by the Government of Åland to facilitate a dialogue on how organisations working with children and youth could work for gender equality and against sexualized violence. This assignment is framed within a program with several activities that have been pursued during 2019. At this occassion, we were also able to meet a group of men with their roots from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Bosnia for talk
Once again I am teaching students at the bachelor level at the Department of Politicial Science, Umeå University. The students are studying at the Program for International Crisis- and Conflict Management. It is an honour to be a teacher, employed as a guest lecturer, for students doing their first course at the program and for many, their first course at an university. The students was exposed to basic concepts and models as well as opportunities to discuss crisis and crisis
The partnership between the County Government of Homa Bay, Kenya and Center for Rural Medicine, Region Västerbotten continues. During a program September 15th-20th 2019 the representatives from the County Government of Homa Bay was introduced to the swedish health care system through a tour from Hemavan to Tärnby, Storuman, Lycksele and Umeå with many study-visits and workshops for the partners to assess challenges and discuss improvements. The partners also discussed new oportunities with representatives for Lycksele Municipality as well as