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Born 1964. Stellan Vinthagen is a peace worker who since 1980 has been engaged in various social movements; he took up peace research in 1997. In 1986 he began to do trainings in nonviolent direct action and conflict transformation; he was one of the founders of the European Plowshares movement. He has spent one year in prison in total for nonviolent civil disobedience against Swedish weapon trade and US and British nuclear weapons. Vinthagen completed his PhD 2005 in Peace and Development Research with the book Ickevåldsaktion - En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion [Nonviolent Action - A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction, (PADRIGU, Gothenburg University). Current Positions Areas of Expertise Selected examples of
relevant professional work Member of TRANSCEND (a global network of scholars-practitioners working for peace and development), IPRA (International Peace Research Association) Commission on Nonviolence and War Resisters International (WRI). Vice Chair of Folkhögskolan i Angered - The People's Folk High School in Angered, FIA. (2006-). Nine months of research field work experience in Europe, Africa and Asia. More than twenty years of movement experience with education and organising, e.g. action and strategy trainings in 12 countries on four continents. Six years as editor of a peace movement journal (Plogbillen). Main organiser of a number of international movement conferences in Germany and Sweden (1987-1999) and Swedish co-organiser of The World Peace Conference 1986, Copenhagen. Co-facilitator of the Resistance Studies Network. Vinthagen became TFF Associate in summer 2006.
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Articles by Stellan Vinthagen The most recent on top Resistance Studies, September 30, 2007 |
