Our Team

Norunn Grande

Email: norunn@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 976 72 790

Norunn is currently the director of NCPD, and is on leave from her position as special advisor. She is responsible for the overall activities of the Nansen Center, including HR, funding and strategic professional development. Norunn is a political scientist focusing on international relations, peace and conflict, including pedagogical approaches. She develops training courses and materials, including handbooks and reports , facilitates dialogue, holds lectures and provides training in Norway and internationally. Norunn Grande has for many years provided trainings and professional support in dialogue and conflict transformation in Afghanistan. She has also worked with diaspora communities in Norway. Previously she worked as an adviser to the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO , as a lecturer and ass. Headmaster at Follo Folkehøgskole, and as Director at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue 2010-2012 and Norwegian Peace Center (2001-2010). Norunn holds a master's degree in political science.

Christiane Seehausen

Email: christiane@peace.no
Phone: +47) 977 06 359

Christiane is a senior adviser. Over many years she has developed and implemented dialogue processes and trainings in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. She previously worked for several years in Nicaragua, and thereafter was the director of the municipal integration center for refugees in Norway. Christiane is a trained nurse with a bachelor's degree in multicultural understanding. She has also studied organizational leadership, pedagogy, coaching and developmental analyses.

Siri Syverud Thorsen

Email: siri@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 930 29 150

Siri Syverud Thorsen focuses on administration and coordination of dialogues and other projects.. Previously, she organized and researched The Theater of the Oppressed as a method of dialogical integration in Italy and worked to strengthen local communities among refugees in Uganda. Siri has a bachelor's degree in religion and society from the University of Oslo and holds a master's degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations from the African-European Erasmus Mundus program EMMIR.

Henrik Jarholm

Email: henrik@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 476 06 535

Henrik is our communications advisor. His longest earlier tenure was with the communications agency PKOM. There he delivered content to the EU's cooperation program Interreg for the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization. He also has experience working with development projects, with agricultural issues in Brazil, as well as with regional development in the Faroe Islands through Nordic Atlantic Cooperation. Henrik holds a master's degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo, has conducted fieldwork on development assistance and forest conservation in Indonesia, and is a trained teacher in social studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Anita Rapp-Ødegaard (on leave)

Email: anita@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 906 70 761

Anita is the Dembra program adviser. In this position, she guides schools as they build democratic preparedness, a tool for preventing group hostility. She was previously a project manager for a NORAD-supported program strengthening vocational schools in Angola, and she has also been the general manager of the preventive program Healthy Sports. She has organized elite sports for the Olympic Committee and the Norwegian Soccer Association, and was a top soccer player. Anita holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Oakland University in the U.S, and a master's degree from the University of Oslo, conducting her fieldwork on development cooperation in Zambia.

Alfredo Zamudio

Email: alfredo@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 936 80 054

Alfredo Zamudio leads the work of NCPD in Chile and is currently on leave from his position as director. He previously worked as the director of the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Center in Geneva. He has also worked with the Norwegian Refugee Council as country director in East Timor and a camp coordinator in Darfur, Sudan. Alfredo holds a master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Trine Christensen (on leave)

Email: trine@peace.no
Phone: (+47) 457 74 323

Trine is currently on leave from her position as dialogue advisor. She has worked as a college lecturer at the Norwegian Defense College, where she taught cultural understanding and gender issues in military operations. Trine has worked at the Danish Embassy in Ghana and conducted fieldwork in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Trine holds a bachelor's degree in social anthropology and a master's degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of Oslo.