Hans Morten Haugen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Morten Haugen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans Morten |
| FAMILY NAME | Haugen |
| SIGNATURE | HAUGEN H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | VID Specialized University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3027-3547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human Right Principles
Acknowledging the rapid biotechnological developments taking place during the last decade and the serious challenges identified in the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the article examines which role human rights principles and substantive human rights can have as tools for inclusive governance. Human rights treaties and related non-binding sources have not adequately been applied as governance tools, despite the clear recomme…
State Regulation of Diaconal Actors in the Realm of Health and Social Services
In Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, diaconal actors have been pioneers in social and health work. By applying complexity theory on managing unpredictability, the article reviews recent pioneering efforts: caring for undocumented migrants—whose legal permissions have expired. Pioneering efforts apply to services for substance abusers. With Norwegian examples, unpredictability is demonstrated for institutional and drop-in services. The second part of t…
The Worldview-Open Society, the Worldview-Controlling State and Non-Profit Welfare Actors
Diaconal actors, constituting the main share of health and caring institutions within the non-profit sector in Norway, face challenges as well as opportunities. The article analyzes the political framework that diaconal actors do operate under. The authorities do also emphasize diversity as positive. The article demonstrates different understandings of requirements for being termed non-profit. Not only the actor itself must specify in its article…
Pro-immigration Norwegian Church élite
Unlike political and business élites, few studies address attitudes among members of the church élite. Faced with politicians who refer to Christian heritage and values to justify restriction on immigration, we want to understand the attitudes of church leaders. This article draws on data from the Norwegian Leadership Surveys, conducted in 2000 and 2015, to identify attitudes to immigration and to the Norwegian welfare system among the Norwegian …
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups
For nearly 20 years, nongovernmental organizations backing the Palestinian cause have promoted both “differentiation” and the better‐known strategy of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS). Differentiation is the practice of distinguishing between Israel and the occupied territories, terminating contracts with actors—irrespective of nationality—that contribute to and benefit from occupation‐related activities, and seeking to promote Palestinia…
A Human Right to Science
This article demonstrates how participation in science and protection from risks of harm resulting from science fall within the scope of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Article 15(1)(b), despite not being explicitly included in its wording. General Comment 25 on science and economic, social and cultural rights, adopted in 2020, has clarified this right to enjoy scientific progress and its applications a…
A decade of revitalizing UN work concerning freedom of religion or belief (2010–2020)
The first decade of the 21st century had annual United Nations (UN) resolutions on the defamation of religion, followed by a shorter period with resolutions on promoting human rights and fundamental freedom through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind. However, in 2011, the strongest promoter of the defamation of religion resolutions, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), chose to shift the focus in the UN on individ…
Anti Human Trafficking
This article explores The Salvation Army’s (TSA) faith-based modern slavery and human trafficking work by reviewing TSA’s foundational and strategic documents, with a particular investigation of the TSA’s “theology of holy life”. This article explores how TSA conducts its work and how theology and social actions, in this case anti human trafficking work, are interconnected. Using document analysis on theological documents, practice guiding docume…
Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Local Communities’ Mobilisation to Regain Control
The article reviews trends in international non-binding standards: 1) the equalisation of indigenous peoples and local communities as rights-holders; 2) the strength and weakness of the safeguards approach in the context of redd +; 3) the wide definition of who constitutes stakeholders; and 4) the scope of a due diligence requirement. The article identifies and discusses two approaches: 1) mobilisation, understood as political or legal pressure e…
Any Role for Human Rights in the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Addressing Forced Assimilation
Norway’s policies regarding Sámi and most national minorities in an historic perspective can be characterized as forced assimilation; except for Jews and Roma, where the historic policy can be termed exclusion. The Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( trc ) is intended to be a broad-based process, resulting in a report to the Norwegian Parliament in 2022. After identifying various explanations for the relatively strong standing of the …
The crucial and contested global public good
Management of the internet by the principle of the multistakeholder governance model has survived attempts of replacing it with inter-government management. What additional principles are useful to guide global internet governance and enhance ICANN’s legitimacy, seen in light of recent challenges? Are the disagreements over global internet governance also about diverging understandings of the goals in internet governance
Norwegian Christian Leaders
Church leaders and politicians in several countries make frequent references to Christian values as part of a rhetoric of dividing between wanted and unwanted view and practices. Hence, even more than a source for division between adherents of different faiths, religion divides adherents of the same faith when identifying the core of religion. The article presents findings from a survey and focus group interviews with five groups of Norwegian Chr…
What Is Gained and What Is Lost by the Faith-based Organization (FBO) Term
The growing interest in the role of faith-based organizations ( FBO s) in promoting social development is welcome, but the article nevertheless questions the value of the broad term FBO s. The categorizations of FBO s do not bring adequate clarity. Four justifications for keeping the FBO term are analyzed: (i) highlighting the importance of religion and the size of FBO s; (ii) identifying characteristics of FBO s, specifically extensive networks …
It is time for a general comment on children’s spiritual development
Reviewing the general comments by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the state reports to the CRC reveal a mixed picture. How could a general comment by CRC on the right to spiritual development assist states in their policies and programmes? First, current understandings of spiritual well-being – one’s relationship to oneself, others, nature and the transcendent – encompass all relevant dimensions of meaning-making, enhanced awar…
Social Struggle – For Inclusive Development and Avoiding Violent Conflict
Drawing upon the central postulate of the author’s book Kampen om utviklingen (The Struggle over Development; 2016), saying that development is a result of social struggles, this article seeks to test the robustness of this postulate. More specifically, the article identifies whether a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to development is able to challenge power asymmetries and exclusions, influencing conflicts in a constructive manner. Two main t…
Faith among Youths in Church of Norway Means Greater Interreligious Acceptance
Defining Christian Palestinianism
The Right to Veto or Emphasising Adequate Decision-Making Processes
Sweden Democrats’ Appeal To Christianity
The Sweden Democrats (SD) promote religious identity politics. This is done despite the fact that few of SD’s voters identify themselves as religious and the fact that Christianity does not have a large influence over Swedish politics. Hence, it is reasonable to understand these efforts as both reflecting Islamophobia and a culture preservation strategy. The article traces the debate over SD’s public appeal to Christianity, through the Church of …
Coherence or Forum Shopping in Biofuels Sustainability Schemes
While biofuel is one of the ways through which dependency on fossil fuels can be reduced, it is controversial, not least because it may entail a conflict between food production and the rights of local communities on the one hand, and subsidised access to renewable, non-fossil fuel on the other. As a means to reduce these tensions, a large number of voluntary sustainability schemes have emerged, particularly after the EU Renewable Energy Directiv…
En kritikk av valgforskningsprogrammets mål på religiøs aktivitet - A critique of the Norwegian Election Study Program’s measure of religious participation
UN Development Framework and Human Rights
The essential role of human rights in the United Nations’ (UN) development work is increasingly acknowledged. An important decision for ensuring human rights in UN-wide programming activities is the human rights-based approach to development cooperation: Towards a Common Understanding among UN agencies (Common Understanding). By analysing the Common Understanding and subsequent guidelines and tools by the UN Development Group, the article identif…
International Obligations and the Right to Food
Despite an enhanced emphasis on the human right to adequate food in the last decade, this has not had a measurable effect on the number of undernourished persons around the world. Rather, the number of hungry persons has increased from 800 million in 1996 (the year of the World Food Summit) to more than 925 million today. Acknowledging that enough food is produced globally to enable everyone to have an adequate food intake, the article analyzes t…
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Multicultural Challenges
Christianity and Danishness are mutually reinforcing phenomena in Denmark. Three factors applying specifically to Denmark explain this: first, the lack of national representative bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark; second, the journal Tidehverv (“New Era”) has nurtured a conservative and nationalistic Christian ethics among parts of the Danish clergy; and third, Danish politicians' abuse of the links between Christianity and Dan…
Den norske kirke og de flerkulturelle utfordringer
On the face of it, Church of Norway takes a clear position with regard\nboth to a liberal asylum and immigration policy and the efforts to promote\nunderstanding and integration across national, cultural and religious\nboundaries. Church of Norway seeks at the same time to uphold the influence\nof Christianity in the Norwegian society, but this is hardly ever done\nin an exclusivist manner, saying that Christianity is threatened by and\nmust be ‘…
What Is Gained and What Is Lost by the Faith-based Organization (FBO) Term
The growing interest in the role of faith-based organizations ( FBO s) in promoting social development is welcome, but the article nevertheless questions the value of the broad term FBO s. The categorizations of FBO s do not bring adequate clarity. Four justifications for keeping the FBO term are analyzed: (i) highlighting the importance of religion and the size of FBO s; (ii) identifying characteristics of FBO s, specifically extensive networks …
The Right to Veto or Emphasising Adequate Decision-Making Processes
UN Development Framework and Human Rights
The essential role of human rights in the United Nations’ (UN) development work is increasingly acknowledged. An important decision for ensuring human rights in UN-wide programming activities is the human rights-based approach to development cooperation: Towards a Common Understanding among UN agencies (Common Understanding). By analysing the Common Understanding and subsequent guidelines and tools by the UN Development Group, the article identif…
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Multicultural Challenges
Christianity and Danishness are mutually reinforcing phenomena in Denmark. Three factors applying specifically to Denmark explain this: first, the lack of national representative bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark; second, the journal Tidehverv (“New Era”) has nurtured a conservative and nationalistic Christian ethics among parts of the Danish clergy; and third, Danish politicians' abuse of the links between Christianity and Dan…
Social Struggle – For Inclusive Development and Avoiding Violent Conflict
Drawing upon the central postulate of the author’s book Kampen om utviklingen (The Struggle over Development; 2016), saying that development is a result of social struggles, this article seeks to test the robustness of this postulate. More specifically, the article identifies whether a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to development is able to challenge power asymmetries and exclusions, influencing conflicts in a constructive manner. Two main t…
International Obligations and the Right to Food
Despite an enhanced emphasis on the human right to adequate food in the last decade, this has not had a measurable effect on the number of undernourished persons around the world. Rather, the number of hungry persons has increased from 800 million in 1996 (the year of the World Food Summit) to more than 925 million today. Acknowledging that enough food is produced globally to enable everyone to have an adequate food intake, the article analyzes t…
Human Rights and Technology—A Conflictual Relationship? Assessing Private Research and the Right to Adequate Food
Human rights provisions addressing technology have been much ignored. The connections between technology and human rights have, however, received renewed interest recently. Patent disputes, stagnation in publicly funded research, and the role of technology in meeting the Millennium Development Goals are three areas of substantial interest. After an analysis of the two main provisions on technology of the International Covenant on Economic, Social…
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Retten til helse, med vekt på HIV/Aids-problematikk og tilgang på medisiner
Development Research as Advocacy
The article seeks to demonstrate that an analysis of religiously-based development NGOs, while welcome, must start from a solid basis of actually understanding these NGOs. The rationale and purpose of such organisations are far more complex than just promoting their ‘particular missions’ by means of development assistance, or identifying ‘God's will’ as their rationale, purpose and value base. The article introduces the term ‘diaconia’. This term…
Retten til selvbestemmelse og naturressurser
Human Rights and Technology—A Conflictual Relationship? Assessing Private Research and the Right to Adequate Food
Human rights provisions addressing technology have been much ignored. The connections between technology and human rights have, however, received renewed interest recently. Patent disputes, stagnation in publicly funded research, and the role of technology in meeting the Millennium Development Goals are three areas of substantial interest. After an analysis of the two main provisions on technology of the International Covenant on Economic, Social…
Den norske kirke og de flerkulturelle utfordringer
On the face of it, Church of Norway takes a clear position with regard\nboth to a liberal asylum and immigration policy and the efforts to promote\nunderstanding and integration across national, cultural and religious\nboundaries. Church of Norway seeks at the same time to uphold the influence\nof Christianity in the Norwegian society, but this is hardly ever done\nin an exclusivist manner, saying that Christianity is threatened by and\nmust be ‘…
Human Rights Impact Assessment in the Context of Biofuels
The original mandate of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights said that he should „develop materials and methodologies for undertaking human rights impact assessments.‟ Since then, tools for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) have developed by different actors. This article reviews two such tools, both of which are up for revision in 2010. One is by the International Finance Corporation, International Business Leaders Foru…
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Multicultural Challenges
Christianity and Danishness are mutually reinforcing phenomena in Denmark. Three factors applying specifically to Denmark explain this: first, the lack of national representative bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark; second, the journal Tidehverv (“New Era”) has nurtured a conservative and nationalistic Christian ethics among parts of the Danish clergy; and third, Danish politicians' abuse of the links between Christianity and Dan…
International Obligations and the Right to Food
Despite an enhanced emphasis on the human right to adequate food in the last decade, this has not had a measurable effect on the number of undernourished persons around the world. Rather, the number of hungry persons has increased from 800 million in 1996 (the year of the World Food Summit) to more than 925 million today. Acknowledging that enough food is produced globally to enable everyone to have an adequate food intake, the article analyzes t…
UN Development Framework and Human Rights
The essential role of human rights in the United Nations’ (UN) development work is increasingly acknowledged. An important decision for ensuring human rights in UN-wide programming activities is the human rights-based approach to development cooperation: Towards a Common Understanding among UN agencies (Common Understanding). By analysing the Common Understanding and subsequent guidelines and tools by the UN Development Group, the article identif…
Sweden Democrats’ Appeal To Christianity
The Sweden Democrats (SD) promote religious identity politics. This is done despite the fact that few of SD’s voters identify themselves as religious and the fact that Christianity does not have a large influence over Swedish politics. Hence, it is reasonable to understand these efforts as both reflecting Islamophobia and a culture preservation strategy. The article traces the debate over SD’s public appeal to Christianity, through the Church of …
Coherence or Forum Shopping in Biofuels Sustainability Schemes
While biofuel is one of the ways through which dependency on fossil fuels can be reduced, it is controversial, not least because it may entail a conflict between food production and the rights of local communities on the one hand, and subsidised access to renewable, non-fossil fuel on the other. As a means to reduce these tensions, a large number of voluntary sustainability schemes have emerged, particularly after the EU Renewable Energy Directiv…
En kritikk av valgforskningsprogrammets mål på religiøs aktivitet - A critique of the Norwegian Election Study Program’s measure of religious participation
The Right to Veto or Emphasising Adequate Decision-Making Processes
Faith among Youths in Church of Norway Means Greater Interreligious Acceptance
Defining Christian Palestinianism
It is time for a general comment on children’s spiritual development
Reviewing the general comments by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the state reports to the CRC reveal a mixed picture. How could a general comment by CRC on the right to spiritual development assist states in their policies and programmes? First, current understandings of spiritual well-being – one’s relationship to oneself, others, nature and the transcendent – encompass all relevant dimensions of meaning-making, enhanced awar…
Social Struggle – For Inclusive Development and Avoiding Violent Conflict
Drawing upon the central postulate of the author’s book Kampen om utviklingen (The Struggle over Development; 2016), saying that development is a result of social struggles, this article seeks to test the robustness of this postulate. More specifically, the article identifies whether a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to development is able to challenge power asymmetries and exclusions, influencing conflicts in a constructive manner. Two main t…
What Is Gained and What Is Lost by the Faith-based Organization (FBO) Term
The growing interest in the role of faith-based organizations ( FBO s) in promoting social development is welcome, but the article nevertheless questions the value of the broad term FBO s. The categorizations of FBO s do not bring adequate clarity. Four justifications for keeping the FBO term are analyzed: (i) highlighting the importance of religion and the size of FBO s; (ii) identifying characteristics of FBO s, specifically extensive networks …
The crucial and contested global public good
Management of the internet by the principle of the multistakeholder governance model has survived attempts of replacing it with inter-government management. What additional principles are useful to guide global internet governance and enhance ICANN’s legitimacy, seen in light of recent challenges? Are the disagreements over global internet governance also about diverging understandings of the goals in internet governance
Norwegian Christian Leaders
Church leaders and politicians in several countries make frequent references to Christian values as part of a rhetoric of dividing between wanted and unwanted view and practices. Hence, even more than a source for division between adherents of different faiths, religion divides adherents of the same faith when identifying the core of religion. The article presents findings from a survey and focus group interviews with five groups of Norwegian Chr…
Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Local Communities’ Mobilisation to Regain Control
The article reviews trends in international non-binding standards: 1) the equalisation of indigenous peoples and local communities as rights-holders; 2) the strength and weakness of the safeguards approach in the context of redd +; 3) the wide definition of who constitutes stakeholders; and 4) the scope of a due diligence requirement. The article identifies and discusses two approaches: 1) mobilisation, understood as political or legal pressure e…
Any Role for Human Rights in the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Addressing Forced Assimilation
Norway’s policies regarding Sámi and most national minorities in an historic perspective can be characterized as forced assimilation; except for Jews and Roma, where the historic policy can be termed exclusion. The Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( trc ) is intended to be a broad-based process, resulting in a report to the Norwegian Parliament in 2022. After identifying various explanations for the relatively strong standing of the …
Anti Human Trafficking
This article explores The Salvation Army’s (TSA) faith-based modern slavery and human trafficking work by reviewing TSA’s foundational and strategic documents, with a particular investigation of the TSA’s “theology of holy life”. This article explores how TSA conducts its work and how theology and social actions, in this case anti human trafficking work, are interconnected. Using document analysis on theological documents, practice guiding docume…
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