Dag Hareide is presently the director of Nansen Academy

Nansen Academy

The Nansen Academy the Norwegian Humanistic Academy, is a folk high school in Lillehammer, Norway.It was named after Fritjof Nansen, and established in 1938 by Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. and Anders Platou Wyller...

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, the Norwegian Humanistic Academy. He has been director of other folk high school

Folk high school

Folk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...

s, chair of the Namibia Association of Norway, rehabilitation coordinator for United Nations Emergency Office during the famine

Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, overpopulation, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every continent in the world has...

 in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 (1985–1988), researcher on preparedness systems for famine, general secretary of Friends of the Earth Norway (1980–1985), coordinator of the 5 year National Disaster Preparedness Plan in Ethiopia (1986–1987), and chair of Nordic Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management (2002–2006). He is author of several books and have served as vice chair of the National Value Commission (Verdikommisjonen), and member of the Commission that formulated the objectives for the Norwegian School system (Bostadutvalget).

Partial bibliography

• Chile- the Third Road to Socialism
  Socialism
  Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
  
  , in Norwegian (Pax Forlag 1973)
• Vulnerability to Famine (Alternative Future 1991)
• Good Norway? A road to a human future? in Norwegian (Gyldendal Forlag 1991)
• By Nature. A handbook in everyday environmental work. in Norwegian (Gyldendal Forlag 1996)
• Conflict Mediation. A Nordic Perspective (Scandinavian Academic Press 2006)
• What is humanism (Universitetsforlaget 2011)