Career
He has been the Director of Nansen Academy in Norway, the Norwegian Humanistic Academy (2006 - 2012), and of other folk high schools, chair of the Namibia Association of Norway, Rehabilitation Coordinator for United Nations Emergency Office during the famine in Ethiopia (1985–1988), researcher on preparedness systems for famine, General secretary of Friends of the Earth Norway (1990–1995), Coordinator of the five-year National Disaster Preparedness Plan in Ethiopia (1996–1998), and chair of Nordic Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management (2002–2006). He knighted in the Olav by the King of Norway in 2015 for extraordinary engagement in social work, being an inventor in the civil society.