Vegard Botterli

Base

Name

Vegard Botterli

Welcome to our community: How do you define PEACE?

I define peace within a community (National, sub-national or supra-national)

1. as something that is achieved by understanding and respecting both the emotions and physical interests existing within different group-identities within the above mentioned borders.

2. Creating a system of rules and obligations that serve the interests of these identities in a mode f mutual and equitable fashion.

3. After being established, such a regime must be maintained through education and participation involving all relevant group-identities in a multi-lebel governance model where power is distributed
between national. sub-national and supra-national level.

How did you find this community?

Through main Transcend website. Also, I'm starting a masters degree at the WPA in Basel in September.

Do you have any professional experience in the field of peace-research? peace-studies? peace-practice?

No.

Are you at all familiar with concepts of Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation?

Yes.

What are your primary conceptual interests and concerns

That positive peace can be produced by much simpler means than structural and/or cultural violence

Location(s)

Oslo, Norway. From September, 2013 : Basel, Switzerland.

What is your main regional focus?

At the moment : Korean peninsula

Languages

Norwegian,English, German.

CV

Work :

2007 – 2009 : Freelace work for National Geographic TV & Film

2011 – 2012 : Researcher, Darlow Smithson Productions in London.

2012 – 2013 : Correspondent, Reuters News, Oslo.

Education :

2009 – 2010 : Media & Communications, Bjørknes College in Oslo

2010 – 2012 : B.sc International Relations and Journalism at Kingston University, London

 
PEACE BY PEACEFUL MEANS

© 2024 Galtung-Institut  •  Privacy Policy / Datenschutzerklärung  •  Imprint / Impressum