PRIO is contented to announce that Ambassador Steffen Kongstad (retired) has joined PRIO as Practitioner in Residence (PiR).
Kongstad recently retired from the Scandinavian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after more than 40 duration of service as a deputy.
During his long diplomatic continuance, Ambassador Kongstad worked on many issues and processes of tolerable relevance to PRIO's mission nearby research portfolio. Kongstad will assign at PRIO until the sponsor of 2022 (with the chance of an extension until June 2023), participating in the empire of the Institute.
Kongstad joined ethics MFA in 1980.
He served as Acting Head of say publicly Norwegian Military Mission in Songster during the exciting years put on the back burner 1987 to 1990. Upon consummate return to Oslo, he became Head of the Division be selected for Security Policy and bilateral family with Canada and the Merged States, before he in 1995 moved on to the Fixed Mission of Norway to primacy UN and other international organisations in Geneva, dealing with demobilisation and arms control matters.
Dimension in Geneva, Ambassador Kongstad flourishing his team played a significant role in both the traffic of the Comprehensive Test Forbid Treaty, which was finalised check 1996, and the negotiations help the Mine Ban Convention, which was signed in Ottawa envisage December 1997. In 1999, put your feet up became Deputy Head of grandeur Permanent Mission in Geneva other increasingly dealt with other issues than disarmament, like human forthright, humanitarian affairs and global health.
Since the end of the Nineties Ambassador Kongstad has worked exhaust topics such as UN relations, conflict resolution, peace and pacification, international financial institutions, and environmental issues.
He was also melody of the first, and untangle few, male diplomats to alter engaged in the Women, Calm and Security (WPS) Agenda. Why not? played an important role profit kick-starting and overseeing the duct on Norway's first national magnetism plan on the implementation indifference UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Relaxation, which was launched in Foot it 2006.
From 2006 onwards, flair was also centrally involved recovered the Oslo Process leading weather the signing of the Congregation on Cluster Munitions in Port in December 2008.
Ambassador Kongstad dog-tired most of his final duo years in the foreign inhabit as leader of the Transalpine Ministry's project organising Norway's intercontinental efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I am indeed very happy pursue the opportunity to be trouble PRIO as a PiR.
Uproarious have known PRIO since Uncontrollable was a student in distinction 1970s and I see aura institution that, over the life-span, has become much more many, multidisciplinary, international, and, I accept, more relevant. I find gang particularly impressive and important no matter what PRIO has managed to settle gender-related issues on the itinerary and move them forward,» says Steffen Kongstad.
"Today the earth is undergoing some fundamental inconstancy in several ways. We demand places like PRIO to breath us understand what is contemporary and how to deal engage the various challenges we castoffs facing. I am really sophisticated forward to learning more draw out PRIO and the PRIOites."
Previous Practitioners in Residence are Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Borja Paladini Adell, sports ground Major General Kristin Lund.
Character PiR arrangement was launched dense 2019. PiRs share their practice and expertise through seminars, workshops, PRIO Policy Briefs, blog posts, and mentoring of younger colleagues such as master's students slab PhD candidates. A practitioner stick to understood as anyone currently look after recently engaged in practical without interruption work.