Steinar bryn biography of christopher

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          Steinar Bryn is Senior Adviser at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue.

        1. Steinar Bryn is Senior Adviser at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue.
        2. Steinar Bryn, who is the director of the Human Rights, Democracy and Peaceful Conflict Program at Nansenskolen in Lillehammer, spent the spring
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        4. Steinar Bryn is a professor at the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer,.
        5. It is a pleasure to be in Wales, on the sea front at Venue Cymru in Llandudno for this 25th.

          6. By Steinar Bryn

          After the breakup of Yugoslavia the International Community was optimistic in terms of a possible „europeanization“ of the Western Balkans. It was launched as the best strategy to integrate the new Republics in Europe and thereby securing stability and peace to start the process of building functional states.

          The EU, OSCE, UN all shared this strategy, and an enormous amount of human resources and finances were invested particularly in Kosovo and Bosnia Herzegovina.

          In a recent book called „The Balkanization of Europe“ Sylo Taraku argues that while this process is very slow in the new Republics, there are signs of Balkanization in the rest of Europe.

          Stronger ethno politics, fake news, polarization, and the new waves of immigration revitalize the old concept of „brain drain“. Norway have benefited from medical personnel, engineers, construction workers being educated in the Western Balkans, and applying their skills elsewhere.

          The Balkan countries and territori