Home  About FNI  Research  Publications  Staff  News & events  Contact		FNI STAFF Pål W. Skedsmo Position at FNI: Research Fellow Academic background Master in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 2005 (social anthropology, history of ideas, Russian and East European studies). Main research interests   Norwegian-Russian relations and cooperation.   Civil society, environmental NGOs and trade unions in (North Western) Russia.   Environmental rights and transparency in Armenia.   Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani-Armenian relations.   Civil society and democratisation processes in the Post-Soviet states. Major publications Skedsmo, Pål Wilter, Evaluering av samarbeidet mellom LO og FNPR 2001-2010 ('Evaluation of Co-operation Between LO and FNPR 2001-2010'). FNI Report 05/2011. Lysaker, FNI, 2011, 33 p. In Norwegian. Skedsmo, Pål Wilter, Russisk sivilsamfunn og norske hjelpere ('Russian Civil Society and its Norwegian Benefactors'). Trondheim, Tapir Academic Press, 2010, 100 p. In Norwegian. Jensen, Leif Christian and Pål Wilter Skedsmo. 'Approaching the North: Norwegian and Russian Foreign Policy Discourses on the European Arctic'. Polar Research, Vol 29, 2010, pp. 439-450. Skedsmo, Pål Wilter, Evaluering av støtteordningen 'Demokratimidlene' ('Evaluation of the 'Democracy Funds''). FNI Report 8/2008. Lysaker, FNI, 2008, 51 p. In Norwegian. Skedsmo, Pål, 'Demokratisering og miljøkamp på Kolahalvøya' ('Democratisation and Environmentalism on the Kola Peninsula'). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, Vol 18, No 3-4, 2007, pp. 241-252. In Norwegian Skedsmo, Pål, 'Doing Good' in Murmansk? Civil Society, Ideology and Everyday Practices in a Russian Environmental NGO. FNI report 14/2005. Lysaker, FNI, 2005. 82 p. Recent commentary articles Skedsmo, Pål Wilter, 'Arbeidere i nord – foren eder' (Workers of the North - Unite!', Nordlys, 19.09.2011. In Norwegian. Skedsmo, Pål Wilter, 'Elendige Russland' ('Miserable Russia'), Nordlys, 16.02.2010. In Norwegian. Skedsmo, Pål og Leif Christian Jensen, 'Stein på stein i nord' ('New building blocks in the North?'), Nordlys, 26 March 2009. In Norwegian. Skedsmo, Pål, 'Dissens i Russland – en risikosport' ('Dissenting in Russia – A Risky Business'), Minerva, 20 June 2007. In Norwegian. Rowe, Lars and Pål Skedsmo, 'Russisk diktatur i støpeskjeen' ('A Russian Dictatorship Being Shaped'). Bergens Tidende, 7 November 2006. In Norwegian. Top		Contact details   (+47) 67111913   psk (+@fni.no) Related focal points of research   Polar and Russian politics Important ongoing projects Environmental Rights in Armenia. Russian and Caspian Energy Developments and Their Implications for Norway and Norwegian Actors (RUSSCASP) Important past projects Transparency in Armenian Environmental Governance (2009-2010) International Collaboration in the Arctic (2003-2009) Evaluation of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council's Democracy Funds (2008) Environmental Management and Civil Society in Armenia (2005-2008) Recent relevant FNI News Norwegian-Russian Trade Union Co-operation Evaluated (22.09.2011) Russisk svalbardpolitikk og russisk sivilsamfunn ('Russian Svalbard Policies and Russian Civil Society'). In Norwegian. (14.12.2010) Nordområdebiblioteket lansert ('High North Library Bookseries Launched'). In Norwegian. (30.11.2010) Recent media coverage 'Demokratimidlene evaluert' ('The Democracy Funds Evaluated'), LNU News, 10.10.2008. In Norwegian. 'April 15th Predicted to Bring Death and Taxes to Russian NGOs', Bellona Web, 11 April 2008. 'Demokratimidlene skal evalueres' ('FNI to Evaluate the Use of Democracy Funds in Eastern Europe'), LNU News, 27.02.2008. In Norwegian.
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