Education
MTh, (Cross-cultural communication), St.Stephen's College,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
MA (Theology), University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Country experience
Democratic Republic of Congo (2 years), Switzerland/Geneva (3
years), Canada (8 years), Rwanda, Guinea Conakry and Congo
Brazzaville (UN humanitarian assistanace, 3-6 months in each),
Central and South America (Project identification and monitoring
missions), North America (USA, Canada, studies, multicultural
projects).
Languages
Danish, English, French, German, some Spanish
(reading).
Key qualifications
Practical and theoretical background within the fields of
international development co-operation, relief and humanitarian
assistance, peace education and reconciliation, cross-cultural
communication, human rights monitoring, protection of and
assistance to refugees, and international agency networking.
National and international experience within a range of
professional fields such as community development, project design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation, organizational analysis
and development, capacity building, fact finding and research, and
conference organization.
From 1976 to 1985 served in senior management positions, from 1989
to 1994 in project co-ordination, from 1994 in international
humanitarian and development consultancy.
Has worked as a teacher and facilitator at university level and in
adult education and undertaken research, extensive fact finding and
conference planning as well as practical field work.
Selected Publications
"Reconciliation in Action". A report on reconciliation processes
and -projects in Africa. Commissioned by DanChurchAid, Copenhagen,
1996-1998. Published by DanChurchAid August 2000.
"Reconciliation in Practice". A contribution to the anthology
Conflict and Reconciliation. Published by the Danish Refugee
Council and Reizel, June 1999. Report on Atrocities
Committed Against the Sierra Leone Population. Co-Author. UNHCR
Branch Office Conakry, August, 1998.
"Reconciliation in Practice. The Role of Churches and
Church-Related Agencies in Areas of Conflict". Scandinavian
Seminar, Oslo, 19-11.02.1997. Published by NorwegianChurch Aid,
DanChurchAid and Church of Sweden Aid.
"The Stranger and the Church". Survey for the Church of Denmark
Council on Inter-Church Relations, July 1995.
Translation from English into Danish of A. Samuels, Bani Shorter
and Fred Plaut, "A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis".
Published by Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 1989.
"Canada and the International Refugee Problem". Published in
Resource News by the Legal Resource Centre, Faculty of Extension,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Vol.12, no.4. December
1987 / January 1988.
Handbook on Asylum in Europe, 1st - 4th editions (English &
French). Editor / member of the editorial committee. Published by
the European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE),
1975-1987.
"The Role of Lawyers and Voluntary Agencies in Assistance to
Refugees and Asylum Seekers". Published in Goeran Melander, ed.,
Nordisk Flyktingraett, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law, Vol.2, Lund, Sweden, 1985.
"The New Refugees in Europe". InternationalUniversity Exchange
Fund, Geneva, 1974.
Articles in Danish Refugee Council and other NGO educational
material, Danish and Canadian newspapers & professional
publications, professional presentations, public speaking, radio
and TV programmes on migration, refugee law and practice,
international development, women's issues, multiculturalism,
reconciliation, philosophy and ethics.