Background
Cand.polit. degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo (1998). Has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia. Headed the Indonesia Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights from 2002. Has worked on a range of human rights topics. A particular area of concern for NCHR has been human rights education at Indonesian universities, and in the judiciary. Has been in charge of the work addressing security sector reform and trainings for military (TNI) personnel in human rights and the law of armed conflict from 2006 to 2015. From 2012 trainings in investigative interviewing for police has been a central pursuit.
Responsibilities
Heads the international department's work on rule of law. This effort addresses the police in a range of states in order to encourage the discontinuation of coercive interrogation techniques, and promote and build competence in investigative interviewing.
Special fields
Prevention of torture, cruel, Inhuman or degrading treatment. Non-coercive interviewing: investiagative interviewing. Non-Western legal cultures.
Also, Indonesian culture, society and politics, with special emphasis on: violent conflicts and their solutions; security sector reform; human rights and the law of armed conflict; perceptions of human rights in Indonesia; law, the judiciary and human rights; the relationship between traditional belief systems and world religions (particularly Islam); and indigenous traditions of knowledge.