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Curriculum vitae Stellan Vinthagen Updated July 23, 2015

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Summary Name: Stellan Vinthagen Title: Professor of Sociology, Endowed Chair In The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil Resistance Date of Birth: 1964, 13th October. Qualifications: Professor of Sociology (UMass, Amherst) July 2014. PhD in Peace and Development Research (University of Gothenburg) Oct 2005, BA Sociology and International Relations (University of Gothenburg) June 1997. Current Positions:

1. Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (tenured, 2014-) http://www.umass.edu/sociol/index.html

2. Inaugural Endowed Chair In The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil Resistance at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-)

3. Professor of Sociology at University West, Trollhättan, (2014-), http://www.hv.se 4. Senior lecturer of Peace and Development Studies, (Högskolelektor) (2009-) and Co-

Leader of the Resistance Studies Group at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, (2011-), http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/

5. Academic Advisor for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), (2009-), http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/

Previous Appointments: Senior Lecturer at School of Global Political Studies, Malmö (2008-2009); Department of Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg (2006-2007). Visiting Lecturer at several institutions, e.g. College for International Citizenship (CIC), Birmingham, UK, (2005-2009) (http://www.cfic.org.uk); Globalverkstan: International Project Management for Social Movements & NGOs; Göteborg (2004-2006), and Kulturverkstan (2001-2004). Director of Globalverkstan, Göteborg (2004). Areas of Expertise: Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory. PhD: Ickevåldsaktion – En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion [Nonviolent Action – A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction] (University of Gothenburg, 2005).

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Current Book Project (with completed manuscript): Co-author of Interrogating Resistance: A Critical Study of the Fighting with and against Power. Recent publications: Books: Author of A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works (2015 by Zed Books, London). Co-author of Law, Resistance and Transformation, Lund University, (2013); Main editor of Tackling Trident, Irene Pub. (2012). Co-author of Motståndets väg [Path of Resistance], Karneval (2011); Co-editor of Motstånd [Resistance], Liber (2009). Peer-reviewed articles; Author or co-author of e.g. “Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: The Case of Palestinian Sumūd” (2015), “Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower: Resisting What Power With What Resistance?” (2014); “Law on the Move”, Retfærd (2013); “Exploring ‘Irrational Resistance’”, Journal of Political Power (2013); “‘Everyday Resistance’: Exploration of a Concept & its Theories”, Resistance Studies Magazine (2013); “Ten Theses on Why We Need a Social Science Panel on Climate Change”, ACME (2013); “Legal Mobilization and Resistance Movements as Social Constituents of International Law”, Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2013). Selected examples of relevant professional work and “esteem indicators” etc.:

• Author or co-author of eight books and editor of two books, along with twenty peer-reviewed articles and sixteen book chapters, besides numerous other texts.

• Administrative and leadership positions from several different areas: (1) development of university courses at different levels, (2) board member, (3) director of educational units, (4) leader of a research program, (5) conference organizer, (6) network founder, (7) editor of a journal, and (8) tutor at different levels.

• Fieldwork research totally of three years in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. • Grant receiver (as main applicant) for a research program on resistance studies (2011-

2015) by Swedish Research Council (VR) with 10 million SEK (equal to 1,5 million USD).

• Lecturing: Regular tutoring of Masters/PhD-students (with two completed PhDs), with over 10,000 hours of teaching at university level, as well as international teaching. (Totally in 14 countries on four continents with over 100 lecture subjects given to mainly universities, high schools, state/municipal institutions or voluntary organizations.)

• Distinguished Speaker on Nonviolent Action and Civil Resistance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2013, and Key-note speaker, e.g. at a seminar on War on Terror, Minden, Germany, 2011.

• Peer-reviewer for, e.g. Acta Sociologica; Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; Cooperation and Conflict; Organization Studies.

• The Exhibition “Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World” (2008-2009) at Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, was partly built on one of my articles (the “Political Underground”) and my work as consultant (www.varldskulturmuseet.se/).

• Nominated for the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award 2007 by Ms. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Ambassador of India to Sweden, Stockholm.

• Esteem Positions; Associate of TFF (Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research); and Council-member of WRI (War Resisters’ International).

• Movement experience for 30 years with education and organizing, e.g. action and strategy trainings in peace, justice and environmental movements.

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Full CV Stellan Vinthagen, Professor, PhD. Email: Stellan.vinthagen@resistancestudies.org Mobile: (+46) 070-4763 789 Department of Sociology http://www.umass.edu/sociol/index.html 200 Hicks Way, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9277 USA Phone: (+1) 413.545.0577 Fax: (+1) 413.545.3204 Sociology Unit http://www.hv.se/en/about-university-west/organization/social-and-behavioural-studies Department of Social and Behavioural Studies University West Phone: (+46) 0520-22 37 71 SE 461 86 Trollhättan Sweden School of Global Studies http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/ Resistance Studies Group http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/english/research/research-groups/resistance-studies/ University of Gothenburg Phone (+46) 031-786 4026 (or -1000). Box 700, Fax (+46) 031-786 49 10 SE 405 30 Göteborg Sweden Resistance Studies Network (RSN): www.resistancestudies.org War Resisters’ International (WRI): https://wri-irg.org Home address (Dec-Aug): Krossekärr 706, SE 473 94 Henån, Sweden (+46) 0304-374 43 The Eco-Village Krossekärr: http://www.utsikten-ekoby.se/ Home address (Sep-Nov): 120 Pulpit Hill Road, Unit 16, 01002 Amherst, MA, USA. (+1) 413.801.9555. The Pioneer Valley Cohousing; http://www.cohousing.com Current Positions:

1. Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (tenured, 2014-) 2. Inaugural Endowed Chair In The Study Of Nonviolent Direct Action And Civil

Resistance at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014-) 3. Professor of Sociology at University West, Trollhättan, (2009-), http://www.hv.se 4. Senior lecturer of Peace and Development Studies, (Högskolelektor) (2009-) and Co-

Leader of the Resistance Studies Group at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, (2011-), http://www.globalstudies.gu.se/

5. Academic Advisor for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), (2009-), http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/ Temporary work.

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Current Research Projects:

1. Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil Society in the South (2011-2015), funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

2. Everyday Resistance (2010-), partly funded by University West. 3. Transnational Social Movements & Resistance Strategies (2001-2004, 2007, 2009-)

(Unfunded project). Funding applied for a continuation of the project. Current Book Projects (work in progress): I. Baaz, Mikael, Mona Lilja and Stellan Vinthagen Interrogating Resistance: A Critical

Study of the Fighting with and against Power. Book proposal submitted Feb 2015. Most chapters exist.

II. Johansson, Anna and Stellan Vinthagen Everyday Resistance. Book proposal submitted June 2015. Most chapters exist.

III. Baaz, Mikael, Mona Lilja and Stellan Vinthagen (2016) Fighting With and Against Power: the character and emergence of various forms of resistance.

Areas of research work: Resistance Studies, Nonviolent Action Strategies (Civil Resistance), Social Movements & Change, Power Theory. ACADEMIC EDUCATION Completed Two years part-time research writing course, lead by Prof. Brian Martin, 2012 University of Wollongong English for Academic Purposes, 7,5 hp (EN2001) (5 weeks, full time) 2011 Docentur (Associate Professorship), Sociology, University West, Sweden 2010 (New degree, based on external peer-reviews of research production) Högskolepedagogik 1: Baskurs, 5 hp (HPE101) 2009 (Basic course in pedagogics for university education, 3 weeks full time) Handledning i forskarutbildning, 5 hp (HPE201), Uni. of Gothenburg 2009 (Course on Supervision for PhD students, 3 weeks full time) Ph.D. PADRIGU, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2005 Nov 24 Research program courses (1997-2005): Conflict Resolution, Social Psychology, The Doctrine History of Peace Research and Development Research, Research Methodology, Power Theory, Movement Theory, World System, Globalisation, Social System Theory. B.A. in Sociology and International Relations, University of Gothenburg 1997 With additional courses in Conflict Resolution, State Politics, Practical Philosophy, History of Economics and Peoples Pedagogic. History and Philosophy of Nonviolent Movements, 1989 One year study at a “people high school”, Grebbestad Folkhögskola, Sweden.

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College (Gymnasium). 3 years program on Physical Science 1981 (Theme focus: Environmental protection) RESEARCH: RESEARCH GRANTS “Understanding the Rationales of Donors-Funded Civil Society in Developing 2014-2016 Countries: A Game Theory Approach”, 3 years (3,4 million SEK, about 0,5 million USD). Grant receiver as co-applicant. Main applicant is Lina Suleiman, KTH. Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). “Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil 2011-2015 Society in the South”, 5 years (10 million SEK, about 1,5 million USD), main applicant and program leader (with three senior researchers, which involves other collaborating researchers and PhD-students). Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). “Resisting Western Cultural Hegemony”, 3 months grant, Uni. of Gothenburg 2010 “Everyday Resistance”, 3 months grants, University West 2010-2011 “Legal Change and Social Movements”, 3 years, (about 2,5 million SEK) 2009-2011 Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), together with the main applicant Associate Prof. Håkan Gustafsson, Dep. of Law, University of Gothenburg. “Padrigu - Madras University collaborative education project to develop 2004 ‘Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies’ in India”. (70 000 SEK) From SASNET, Lund University. “Political Underground”, 3 months grant, Museion, 2004 University of Gothenburg. And a number of smaller grants (e.g. from University West, Wallenbergsstiftelsen, Göteborgs Universitets Donationsstipendium) APPOINTMENTS AS EXPERT Faculty opponent at half-time seminar of PhD thesis by Christina Hansen, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University. 2015 Written assessment of competence as full professor by Isak Svensson, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University. 2015 Faculty opponent of the PhD thesis by Adrián Groglopo; Appropriation by Coloniality: TNCs, Land, Hegemony and Resistance, Department of sociology, Umeå University 2012 Written examination of the PhD thesis by Mr John Bosco; Radical Movements in

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Tamil Nadu since 1970, University of Madras (3 pages) 2012 Written assessment of 11 applicants for a position as senior lecturer in peace and conflict studies, at Malmö University (15 pages) 2011 Reviews of manuscripts done for the following journals (starting from):

1. Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Elsevier Sciences/JAI Press, Oxford. (Nov. 2006-)

2. Cooperation and Conflict, Nordic ISA. (Oct 2007-). 3. Acta Sociologica, Sociology Association of Scandinavia. (July 2009-) 4. Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, Taylor &

Francis. (Feb. 2011-) 5. Journal of Palestinian Studies. (Dec 2014-) 6. Organization Studies. (Feb 2015-)

RESEARCH POSITIONS Completed Research consultant, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, one month, 2007 preparing the Exhibition “Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World” Research assistant, University of Gothenburg (3 months, full-time) 2006 PhD Candidate position, (Doktorandtjänst), University of Gothenburg (2002-01-01 to 2003-03-31) 2003 FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE ABROAD I have field research experience abroad totally about three years. Involving ethnographic methods as well as interviews during shorter and longer field work periods: • Brazil, one month totally (2002 and 2003). • Burma, one week (2013). • Cambodia, three weeks (2013). • Egypt, one week (2012). • Europe, multiple research periods, circa two years totally (1986-1999). • Greece, five weeks 2011. • India, seven months totally (2001, 2004, 2010, 2012, 2012, 2014). • Israel and Palestine, two weeks, 2008 and 2012. • Kenya, one week (2007) • Senegal, one week (2011). • South Africa, two months (1994), and two weeks (2009). • Turkey, one week (2015) • Western Sahara, one week (2015). I have also done several shorter visits with observations and interviews in Colombia and USA e.g. one month (2005). PUBLICATIONS

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National Library of Sweden (summary): http://swepub.kb.se/hitlist?d=swepub&q=WFRF%3a%28Vinthagen+Stellan+1964+%29&f=&g=&t=v&spell=true MONOGRAPHS 2015 A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works, ZED Books: London.

(250 pages). Also published 2015 in Swedish by Irene Publishing, Ed (Motstånd och ickevåld - En sociologisk analys).

2015 Inburad – Svenska fredsaktivister skriver från fängelse [Jailed – Swedish Peace Activists Writes From Prison], with Martin Smedjeback, Annika Spalde, Anna Sternfeldt, Pelle Strindlund (ed.), Irene Publishing: Ed. (pp. 37-77, out of 184 pages.)

2013 Law, Resistance and Transformation: Social Movements and Legal Strategies in the Indian Narmada Struggle, with Håkan Gustafsson and Patrik Oskarsson. Department of Sociology of Law: Lund University. (196 pages.)

2011 Motståndets väg [Path of Resistance], with Pelle Strindlund. Karneval: Stockholm (344 pages).

2005 Ickevåldsaktion – En social praktik av motstånd och konstruktion [Nonviolent Action – A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction], (2005) PhD Dissertation, Department of Peace and Development Research (Padrigu), University of Gothenburg, Sweden (ISBN 918738065X). Online at (Swedish text and English Abstract) http://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/16635 (486 pages). 1999 Fängelsebrev [Prison Letters] with Ann-Britt Sternfeldt and Annika Spalde, published

online: http://www.plowshares.se/bnb/diary/ (106 pages). 1998 Förberedelse för Motstånd – En kritik av plogbillsrörelsens förberedelsemetoder och

inre konflikthantering, [Preparation for Resistance – A Critique of the Preparation Methods and Internal Conflict Management of the Plowshares Movement], published by Omega Förlag and Stiftelsen för Fredsarbete, Göteborg (107 pages). http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenPBProcess.doc

1992 Handbok: Avrustningslägret i Linköping [Handbook: The Disarmament Camp in Linköping], with Per Herngren, Omega Förlag, Göteborg (111 pages). http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVPHHandbok.pdf

EDITED BOOKS 2012 Tackling Trident: Academics in Action through Academic Conference Blockades. Main

editor (co-editors: Justin Kenrick and Kelvin Mason). Irene Publishing: Ed (360 pages).

2009 Motstånd [Resistance], with co-editor Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm (347 pages).

ARTICLES (Peer-reviewed journals) (Under review) “How resistance feeds resistance: Theorising the nexus between power,

everyday resistance and organised resistance”, with Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz, Michael Schulz. Theory and Society.

(2015, forthcoming) “Fighting with and against the Time: The Japanese Environmental Movement’s Queering of Time as Resistance”, with Mona Lilja and Mikael Baaz, Journal of Civil Society, (16 pages).

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(2015, forthcoming) “Decolonizing Civil Resistance”, with Sean Chabot, Mobilization, (36 pages).

2015 “Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: The Case of Palestinian Sumūd”, with Anna Johansson, Journal of Political Power, published online on Feb 20. DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2015.1010803.

2014 “Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: An Analytical Framework”, with Anna Johansson, Critical Sociology, published online on May 12. DOI: 10.1177/0896920514524604.

2014 “Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower: Resisting What Power With What Resistance?”, with M. Lilja, 34 pages, Journal of Political Power, 7:1, pp. 107-126.

2013 “‘Everyday Resistance’: Exploration of a Concept & its Theories”, with Anna Johansson, Resistance Studies Magazine, Issue 1: 2013, pp. 1-46.

2013 “Law on the Move - Reflections on Legal Change and Social Movements”, with Håkan Gustafsson. Retfærd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidskrift nr. 2/141, 2013/2, vol. 36, pp. 23-59.

2013 “Exploring Irrational Resistance”, with Mona Lilja and Mikael Baaz, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 201-217.

2013 “Ten Theses on Why We Need a Social Science Panel on Climate Change”, ACME 12(1), pp. 155-176.

2013 “Legal Mobilization and Resistance Movements as Social Constituents of International Law”, Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 21 (2010), pp. 287-327.

2012 “Nonviolent Resistance and Culture”, with Majken Jul Sørensen, Peace & Change, Vol. 37, No. 3, July. pp. 444-470.

2011 “Framväxten av sociala rörelsers globala politik” [The Emergence of Social Movements’ Global Politics], Sociologisk Forskning, Nr. 1: 2011, pp. 25-50.

2010 “Rättens rörelser och rörelsernas rätt” [The Movement of Law and The Law of Movements], with Håkan Gustafsson, Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, vol. 123, 4 & 5/2010, pp. 637–693. ISSN 0040-7143.

2008 “Strategic Changes and Cultural Adaptations: Explaining Differential Outcomes in the International Plowshares Movement”, with Sharon Erickson Nepstad, University of Southern Maine, International Journal of Peace Studies, IPRA, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring/summer, pp. 15-42. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/Nepstad&VinthagenPlowshares.doc

2008 “Is the World Social Forum a Democratic Global Civil Society?”, Societies without Borders, (v.3, #1), Brill; and in Blau, Judith and Marina Karides, The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary, Brill, Chapter 8, pp. 131-148. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenWSFasaGCS2008.pdf

2008 “Political Undergrounds: Raging Riots and Everyday Theft as Politics of Normality?”, online publication with referee process, Museion, University of Gothenburg and Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, (26

pages). http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenUnderground.pdf

2008 “Bortom civilisationens kontroll” [Beyond the Control of Civilization], Glänta, 4:07, Gothenburg, p.72-78.

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenUnderjord.doc

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2007 “Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement”, with Sean Chabot, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Elsevier Sciences/JAI Press, Oxford, Vol. 27, pp. 91-122. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/Chabot&Vinthagen.doc

2006 “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, Asian Journal of Social Science, 34:1, pp. 1-21.

BOOK CHAPTERS (research and/or educational publications) (forthcoming) “The Emergence of ‘Everyday resistance’: Revisiting the classics and

proposing a research agenda”, SAGE Handbook on resistance. 2015 “Four Dimensions of Nonviolent Action: A Sociological Perspective”, pp. 258-288 in

Kurt Schock (ed.) Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, Series on Social Movements, Protest & Contention.

2014 “Bortom myten – Gandhis idéer och praktik” [Beyond the Myth – Gandhi’s Ideas and Practice] in Gandhi, Mohandas K. Om ickevåld: Tal, artiklar och brev 1906-1948, M. K. Gandhi, Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur: Umeå, pp. 581-633.

2014 “Aktivismen för global rättvisa och mot marknadsdiktatur” [The Activism For Global Justice and Against Market Dictatorship], in Mats Friberg (ed.) Det hållbara samhället, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 258-287. 2010 “En ny sorts dilemma-aktion” [A New Form of Dilemma Action], in Mikael Löfgren (ed.) Ship to Gaza: Bakgrunden. Resan. Framtiden. Leopard Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 183-194. 2009 “Global Movements Facilitating Local Campaigns”, in Unarmed

Resistance – The Transnational Factor, Clark, Howard & Rigby, Andrew (eds.), Pluto Press: London, pp. 184-190.

2009 “Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power”, in Giri, Ananta Kumar (ed) The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom, SAGE India, pp. 161-183.

2009 “Introduktion” in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 11-23.

2009 “Makt, motstånd och förändring” [Power, Resistance and Change] in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 25-93.

2009 “Avslutande reflektioner” [Concluding Reflections] in Motstånd [Resistance], with Mona Lilja, Liber Förlag: Stockholm, pp. 333-338.http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/Kenrick&VinthagenAcademicBlockades.doc

2007 “Kommunikation i ett maktperspektiv” [Communication From a Power Perspective], in Fossum, Björn (ed.) Kommunikation: Samtal och bemötande i vården, Studentlitteratur: Lund, pp. 61-97. (2nd edition 2011).

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenKommunikation.doc 2006 “Ickevåldsrörelsens samhällsgestaltning” [The Society Enactment of the Nonviolent

Movement], in Wettergren, Åsa & Jamison, Andrew (eds) Sociala rörelser – Politik och Kultur, Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 321-352.

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVIckevaldsrorelsen.pdf

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2003 “Ickevåldsrörelsens idéhistoria” [The History of Ideas of the Nonviolent Movement], in Fronesis Nr. 11-12; “Våld”, LO-Tryckeriet, Stockholm, pp. 186-206.

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVIVhistoria.pdf 2003 “Motståndet mot den nya världsordningen” [The Resistance Against the New World

Order], in Janne Flyghed & Magnus Hörnqvist (eds) Laglöst land, Ordfront, Stockholm, pp. 232-264.

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenLaglostland.doc 2002 “Motståndets globalisering” [The Globalisation of Resistance], in Mikael Löfgren &

Masoud Vatankhah (eds) Vad hände med Sverige i Göteborg?, Ordfront Förlag, Stockholm, pp. 240-263. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVMotstandetsglobalisering.pdf

2001 “Makt och motstånd – Ickevåldsrörelsers hantering av makt i konflikter”, [Power and Resistance – Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power in Conflicts], in Leif Eriksson & Björn Hettne (eds) Makt och internationella relationer, [Power and International Relations] Studentlitteratur, Lund, pp. 179-235. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVMaktMotstand.pdf

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Encyclopedia entries, reviews, etc.) 2015 (forthcoming) Review of “Milligan, Tony (2013) Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification, and the Law”, Peace Review. 2015 “Review of Dudouet, Véronique (ed.) (2015) Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle”, in Journal of Resistance Studies, No. 1 (10 p.). 2015 “An Invitation to Develop ‘Resistance Studies”, Editorial introduction in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies, No. 1 (7 p.). 2015 Review of “Freedom Sailors: The Maiden Voyage of the Free Gaza

Movement and How We Succeeded in Spite of Ourselves”, Journal of Palestinian Studies, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, Winter (2 p.).

2013 “Review of the PhD-thesis Appropriation by Coloniality, by Adrián Groglopo, Department of Sociology, Umeå University”, Sociologisk Forskning. (2 p.) 2011 “Terrorismus gewaltfrei entgegnen?” [Resisting Terrorism with Nonviolence?], FriedensForum, 6/2011, Hrsg. Bund für Soziale Verteidigung, pp. 28-30. 2011 “Inte väpnad kamp som kommer skapa demokrati i Syrien” [Not Armed Struggle That Will Create Democracy in Syria], SVT Debatt (http://svtdebatt.se/), 1 May (l p.). 2010 “People Power and the New Global Ferment”, Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), 15 Nov 2010 (8 p.). http://www.opendemocracy.net/stellan-vinthagen/people-power-and-new-global-ferment 2007 “Clamshell Alliance”, in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyklopedia of

Activism and Social Justice, SAGE, pp. 350-351. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenClamshell.doc 2007 “Direct Action” in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyklopedia of Activism

and Social Justice, SAGE, pp. 461-463. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenDirectAction.doc 2007 “Gandhi, Mahatma”, in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.) Encyklopedia of

Activism and Social Justice, SAGE, pp. 598-600. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Stellan/VinthagenGandhi.doc 2007 “Resistance” (with Mona Lilja), in Anderson, Gary L. & Herr, Kathryn (eds.)

Encyklopedia of Activism and Social Justice, SAGE, pp. 1215-1217. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/VinthagenLiljaResistance.doc

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2006 “A Research Network on Resistance, Power & Social Change”, with Mona Lilja, the “Missionstatement” for the network RSN with overview of “resistance studies”, published online (19 pages), http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/Missionstatement.doc

2000 “Nonviolent Movements and Management of Power”, in Gandhi Marg, Vol. 22, No. 2, July-September, New Delhi, India, pp. 133-153.

1999 “Obedience is the Enemy”, in Peace News, No. 2435, May-August, London. http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVObedienceSystems.pdf 1997 “Symboler i rörelse - Om sociala rörelser som tilltal”, [Symbols in Movement – About

Social Movements as Communication], unpublished BA-thesis in International relations, Peace and Development Research Institute, University of Gothenburg (65 pages). http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVSymbolrorelser.pdf

1997 “Direktdemokratins svårigheter: En studie av den tyska Graswurzelrörelsen och dess organisation Graswurzelrevolution, Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)” [The Difficulties of Direct Democracy: A Study of the German Graswurzel Movement and its Organisation Graswurzelrevolution Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA) ], unpublished BA-thesis in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg (60 pages).

http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVDirektdemokrati.pdf I have also published a number of articles in newspapers or non-academic journals, as well as drafts of academic papers, out of which some exists online at http://resistancestudies.org/?page_id=24 or http://www.plowshares.se/texter/stellan/ CONSULTANCY, EVALUATIONS and REPORTS: 2013 A study of prospects for cooperation on Nonviolence and Dialog Projects with

SweFOR and partners in Egypt. Co-authored together with Jørgen Johansen, Henrik Frykberg, Mohamed Elmeadawy, and Majken Jul Sørensen. A report by Nordic Nonviolence Study Group (NORNONS) June 2013, produced for Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR). (86 pages).

2007 Research papers for the Exhibition Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World, the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg: (1) Strategies of Change; (2) Action and Confrontation; (3) Civil Courage; (4) The Political Rationality of the Autonomy Movement; (5) The Zapatistas; (6) Humour Against Power; (7) Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience; (8) Challenging Ownership; (9) Rebellion and Riots; (10) Anti-Apartheid (all were written in Swedish, here given with English title translations) (each entry ca 3 pages). About the exhibition:

http://www.smvk.se/smvk/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=984&a=11358 2007 “WSF-Kenya: Another WSF is Possible”, (War Resisters’

International) published online (ca 7 pages), http://wri-irg.org/news/2007/wsf-vinthagen-en.htm (2007-09-06)

2006 “WRI Theme Group Report: Strategising the Globalisation of Nonviolence” Stellan Vinthagen (ed.) (War Resisters’ International) published online (ca 10 pages)

http://www.wri-irg.org/tri2006/en/tg-glob-en.htm (2006-08-28) 1997 “En direktdemokratisk organisations historia: En undersökningsrapport utifrån en studie

av tyska Graswurzelrörelsen och dess organisation Graswurzelrevolution,

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Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)” [The History of a Direct Democratic Organisation: A Research Report from a Study of the German Graswurzel Movement and its Organisation Graswurzelrevolution Föderation Gewaltfreier Aktionsgruppen (FöGA)], unpublished empirical report, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg (ca 50 pages).

1994 An investigation of nonviolent action training and resistance to apartheid in South Africa, report written in Swedish for Omega Forum, Göteborg (two months field study) (6 pages). http://www.plowshares.se/texter/stellan/rsaforsk.htm

1991 Educational material on National Non-military Defence (Civilmotstånd), written report together with Per Herngren (in Swedish) for the Swedish organisation for conscious objectors to conscription: VTP-AG, Karlstad (ca 100 pages).

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS (a strictly limited selection) 2015 “Resistance Research and Ethics”, presented at the British International Studies

Association (BISA), London, 16-18 June 2015. 2014 “Structural Opportunities for Global Change: The Role of Resistance, The Global

Justice Movement and Transnational Elites”, International Peace Research Association Conference, Istanbul, Aug, 2014.

2014 “Defining and Categorizing ‘Resistance’”, With Baaz, Mikael, Mona Lilja and Michael Schulz. International Studies Association, Toronto, 26-29 March, 2014.

2013 “Decolonizing Resistance: Gandhi, Fanon, and Subaltern Struggles for Autonomy”, with Sean Chabot, at the Conference Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy, within the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, August 9, 2013, New York.

2013 “Legal Action Design: Social Movements’ Strategies to Shape Law”, with Mikael Baaz, at the Conference Power and Justice in the Contemporary World-Economy, within the American Sociological Association Annual Conference, August 9, 2013, New York.

2013 “Dilemmas of Power/Resistance Dynamics: Assessing the Strategy of the ‘Freedom Flotilla to Gaza’, an International Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Resisting the Israeli Blockade of Gaza”, with Jörgen Johansen. Presented for International Studies Association (ISA), at the 2013 Conference, San Francisco, Apr 3-6.

2010 “Legal Strategy for Activists”, presented for War Resisters’ International (WRI), at the conference on “Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism: Links & Strategies”, Ahmedabad, India, Jan 22-25.

2009 “Labeling ‘Low-level Terrorism’: The Out-definition of Social Movements”, presented for International Studies Association (ISA), at the 2009 Conference, New York City, Feb 15-18.

2007 “Understanding ‘Resistance’: Exploring Definitions, Perspectives, Forms and Implications”, presented for Critical Approaches to Security in Europe III. Emancipation, Resistance and Violence (COST), at University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 29 Nov to 1 Dec.

2007 “The State of Resistance Research”, paper for European Sociologist Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 3-6 Sept 2007, research thread “Resisting Neoliberalism”, the Panel on Resistance Studies.

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2006 “Transnational Movement Strategies – Some Reflections”, seminar on Unarmed Resistance – The Transnational Factor, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, July 2006.

2006 “New Global Wars a Challenge for Nonviolence”, Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict & Development Research, Padrigu, University of Gothenburg, Sept.

2005 “A Call for a Nonviolent Strategy of the Global Peace & Justice Movement”, for the War Resisters’ International (WRI) Conference on “Globalising Nonviolence”, Paderborn, Germany, July 2006, published at WRI-webpage

http://wri-irg.org/tri2006/en/news/msg00001.html (and at http://www.resistancestudies.org/files/SVGlobalisingNV.pdf )

October and in The Brooken Rifle, WRI, London, November. 2004 “From Techniques to Repertoires: Studying Nonviolent Action and Social

Movements”, Paper presented (together with Ass. Prof. Sean Chabot) for the International Peace Research Association Conference (IPRA), Sapron, Hungary, July 2004.

2003 “A Movement Culture of Nonviolent Action”, Paper presented for the Swedish conference on development research (”Fattiga & Rika”), Lund University, January 2003.

2002:a & b “New Challenges of Nonviolent Action Research”; (together with Sean Chabot) “The Relational and Constructionist Dynamics of Nonviolent Action”, papers presented for the international research workshop on nonviolence research, Tromsö University, Norway, November 2002.

2001 “Globalisation from Below: Social Movements Trying to Influence Corporate Globalisation from Above”, presented for War Resisters’ International (WRI), at the “World Conference on Social Empowerment”, India, February 2001 and for the Nordic Research Workshop “Rethinking Development Theory” by NORFA and Padrigu, Göteborg, Sweden, February 2001.

1998 “Maktbrytande och dialogunderlättande konflikthantering” [Power Breaking and Dialogue Facilitating Conflict Management], presented for Sociologiförbundets årsmöte [The Annual Meeting of Sociologists] Göteborg Sweden, January 1998.

LECTURING and CONSULTING WORK: I am currently supervising one PhD student: Charline Mulindahabi, planned completition 2015 (PhD-project on Rwandan genocide and discourses of obedience, University of Gothenburg). Two students have completed their PhD: Joseph Hahirwa, 2014 (PhD-project on peasants’ everyday resistance to agricultural reform in Rwanda, University of Gothenburg); Jan Jämte, Nov. 2013 (PhD-project on history of the Swedish antiracist social movement and framing theory, Umeå University). I have lectured at graduate level (Masters and PhD) on numerous topics within several disciplines: International Relations; Peace & Conflict Studies; Media, Journalism and Global Studies; Human Rights; Global Studies; Development Studies; International Conflict Resolution, and within Resistance Studies. I have with colleagues done course development of a PhD-course on Resistance Studies for University of Gothenburg and a university in Macedonia. During several years I have been co-coordinator of the Resistance Research Seminar at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

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I have since year 2000 worked as a lecturer on undergraduate and graduate levels over 10 000 hours (about 1 500 hours / year for full time). Details of my long-term course topics and periods are given below: ACADEMIC LECTURING (long term course responsibility) Courses are full-time, normally given 1-2 times per year and undergraduate, if not stated otherwise. My position as lecturer is also indicated when possible. At University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Nonviolent Resistance Studies (only the fall semester, Sep-Dec)

• Civil resistance and the everyday, graduate course 2014- • Civil resistance and social change, undergraduate course

At University of Gothenburg: Tutor - of B.A. & Masters thesis work in Peace and Development Studies, and Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. 2000- Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Peace and Development Studies, at SGS. Course responsibility:

• Internat. Conflict Resolution: Methodological Perspectives 2013 (10 weeks, Masters level)

• Internat. Conflict Resolution (4 weeks) 2008-2010 • Power, Resistance and Change (20 weeks) 2007-2013 • Peace Work Course, Distance learning of through Internet/ICT 2002-2009

(40 weeks, half-time). (As co-responsible lecturer and organiser) Responsibility for all courses below: 2006-2008

• International Relations – The World Economic System (5 weeks) • Internat. Relations – War, Peace and Security (5 weeks) • Internat. Relations – Problem Areas in International Politics (5 weeks, BA level) • Internat. Conflict Resolution (4 weeks) • Development Studies – Development in North and South (5 weeks) • Dev. Studies – Development; Concepts, Theory and the Growth of a World System (5

weeks) • Dev. Studies – Thematic Studies in Social and Economic Development (10 weeks,

advanced level) • Dev. Studies – Dev. And Social Change: Actors and Strategies (5 weeks, BA level) • Dev. Studies – Issues of Power and Global Development (5 weeks) • Dimensions of Globalisation (20 weeks) • Social and Legal Movements (20 weeks, half-time)

Junior Lecturer (Adjunkt) in Peace and Development Studies, 2003-04-

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University of Gothenburg 2003-12 • Internat. Relations – Research Methodology (5 weeks) • Dev. Studies – Development; Concepts, Theory and the Growth of a World System (5

weeks) • Internat. Relations – War, Peace and Security (5 weeks)

Course responsible lecturer for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA (Organized by Padrigu, University of Gothenburg) 2000-2002

• Masters thesis’ course in Development Studies At University West: Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Sociology at University West Course responsibility:

• Poverty and Marginalization (5 weeks) • Sociology C (BA-level) Theory (5 weeks) 2009- • Sociological Analysis (5 weeks, Masters level) 2004

At Malmö University: Senior Lecturer (Högskolelektor) in Peace and Conflict Studies, Malmö University. Course responsibility: 2008-01-2009-06

• Conflict Scenarios and Analysis (5 weeks) • Global Conflict Scenarios and Analysis (10 weeks, Masters level) • Cosmopolitanism (5 weeks) • Conflict Theory (10 weeks) • International Political Economy (5 weeks)

At Halmstad University: Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at Halmstad University 2005 &

2007 • Democracy and Globalisation (5 weeks)

At other educational institutions: Visiting Lecturer at CIC (College for International Citizenship), Birmingham 2005-2009

• Peace, Violence and Conflict (1 week, two times a year) Visiting Lecturer in NGO Project Management at Globalverkstan, 2004-2006 Göteborg, (Lectures about Globalisation, Conflict Resolution and Project Work) Visiting lecturer in Culture Project Management at Kulturverkstan, Göteborg 2001-2006

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• Group Dynamics, Conflicts & Democracy (methodology, and thesis) OTHER GUEST LECTURING AND CONSULTING (Scandinavia): 1986- I have since 1986 done visiting lecturing, training or consultation for various organisations in Scandinavia on e.g. Nonviolent Conflict Resolution, Nonviolent Resistance or Global Social Movements. So far it has been more than (complete list is available if requested): 17 universities or high schools, 22 folk high schools, 10 educational associations, 4 municipal schools, 6 political parties or trade unions, 11 media companies, 13 state/municipal institutions, 7 private companies, 55 NGOs or other voluntary organisations. INTERNATIONAL LECTURING AND CONSULTING (a selection): Shorter lectures or consultations for NGOs as well as universities abroad. Lectured at College of Social Work, Mumbai, India 2014 Distinguished Speaker on Nonviolent Action and Civil Resistance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. 2013 Keynote speaker, seminar on War on Terror, Minden, Germany 2011 Lectured at Rutgers University, NJ, USA 2009 Research seminar at University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 2009 Workshop speaker at War Resisters’ International Conference, Israel 2007 Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya 2007 Keynote speaker, seminar on Peace & Conflict Research, Hamburg, Germany 2006 Keynote speaker, international conference on “Globalising Nonviolence”, 2006 Paderborn, Germany Keynote speaker, “Cultura de Paz y Reconciliación Juvenil”, Medellín, 2006 Colombia Lectured one week for PhD-students at Department of Politics and 2004

Public Administration, University of Madras, Chennai, India Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Mumbai, India 2004 Key-note speaker, research seminar for the Arbeitsgruppe Gütekraft, 2003

IFGK Essen, Germany Keynote speaker, XIV Trobada de Barcelona on Peace Building & 2003

Social Movements, Barcelona, Spain Lectured one day each year at Nordic Centre for Journalists, Århus, Denmark 2002-2007 Consulting Election Peace Keeping, two days, youth NGOs, Nairobi, Kenya 2002 Consulting, three days on Nonviolent resistance for Tibetan supporters and 2002

activists, Oslo, Norway Workshop speaker at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2002/2003 Lectured one day at the University of Bogotá, Colombia 2001 Consulting, two weeks for social movements on Conflict Theory, Colombia 2001 Lectured one day at the Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2001 Lectured one day at HM Prison Preston, Britain 1999

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Lectured one day for townships youth in Cape Town, South Africa 1994 Consulting, one week for civil rights activists from Lithuania, a training for 1991

trainers in Nonviolent Resistance, Landskrona, Sweden Consulting, one week for environmental activists, Krakow, Poland 1989 LEADERSHIP POSITIONS; ADMINISTRATION, etc. I have experience of administrative and leadership work from different areas and positions: (1) development of new curriculum for university courses at different levels (sometimes with as much as seven different courses per semester), (2) board membership (at the departmental level and at a folk high school), (3) director of educational units (the educational organizations Omega Forum and Rabalder, the international NGO-school Globalverkstan, the department unit Museion at University of Gothenburg), (4) research leader of a large scale program involving senior researchers and PhD-students (on resistance at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg), (5) conference organizer (of several Swedish and international conferences, workshops and panels both inside and outside of the academia), and (6) network founder (co-founding and organizing research networks on activism and research, both in Sweden and internationally), (7) editor of several books and one journal (in a social movement), (8) tutor at different levels (BA, Master and PhD). ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE (selection) Co-Leader of Research Group on Resistance Studies, Uni. of Gothenburg 2011- Research program leader, ‘Globalising Resistance‘ 2011-2015 Subject Coordinator of Sociology unit, University West 2009-2012 Co-Convenor of Resistance Studies Panels at International Studies 2009-2010 Association (ISA): 2009 (NYC) and 2010 (New Orleans) Deputy Director of Museion, University of Gothenburg (3 years) 2007-2009 Co-Founder and Coordinator, research network on “Resistance Studies” 2007-2010 Organizing e.g. 40+ Resistance Seminars (4 years) Vice-Chair of the board of “people high school” FiA, Folkhögskolan i Angered 2005-2008 Director of the NGO school: Globalverkstan, Göteborg 2004-02- 2004-05 Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Swedish research network on 2003-2007

Social Movement Studies Board member of the “people high school” FiA, Folkhögskolan i Angered 2002-09- 2004-09 Board member of the Peace and Development Department, University of Gothenburg (during 2 years) 2001-2003 Chief Organiser of the one week international movement conference 2000

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Nyårsträffen Hopp & Motstånd Co-founder and Coordinator of the Swedish research network on 1996-1998

nonviolent resistance Co-Director of the conflict consultancy company Rabalder Utbildningar 1996 Co-Director of the movement education office Omega Forum (with five employees) 1992-1994 Administration officer, the German office of Grassroots Movements (Graswurzel Werkstatt, GWW Köln) (3 months) 1991 Chief Editor, Plogbillen – Hopp & Motstånd (a magazine on nonviolence) 1988-1994 Administration officer, the Swedish office of Peace Movements (Fredsrådet) 1986 Organiser in various environmental-, peace- and solidarity organisations

(e.g. The World Peace Conference 1986, Copenhagen and a number of international movement conferences in Germany and Sweden) 1980-

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS or ESTEEM POSITIONS • ASA American Sociological Association, Working group on CBSM Collective Behavior

and Social Movements, http://www.asanet.org/ • FORUM FOR CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH, University of

Gothenburg. http://www.sociology.gu.se/english/research/research_groups/csm/ • ICNC International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington, as an invited Academic

Advisor http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/ • IPRA International Peace Research Association, Working group on Nonviolence http://ipranonviolence.org/home • ISA International Studies Association http://www.isanet.org/ • PJSA Peace & Justice Studies Association http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/ • Swedish Association of Sociologists (Svenska sociologförbundet) http://www.sociologforbundet.se/ • TFF Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, as an invited scholar http://www.transnational.org/ • WRI War Resisters’ International, as elected Council member (2006-) http://wri-irg.org/ LANGUAGES SKILLS Swedish: Speaking, reading and writing excellent. English: Speaking, reading and writing excellent (completed the University of Gothenburg course on Academic writing, 2011). German: Speaking fair, reading good. Norwegian: Understanding good. Danish: Understanding good. French: Understanding poor.