Dame

Dames of Malta

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 Janne Haaland Matláry (born 27 April 1957) is a Norwegian political scientist, writer, and Christian Democrat politician.

Life

Matláry grew up in Mandal, in the south of Norway, and studied at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

, attaining her doctorate in political science in 1994.

She is a professor of international politics at Oslo University, specializing in energy policy, security policy, and international human rights. In the Bondevik

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Kjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician . He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II...

 government of 1997-2000 she served as state secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs (deputy foreign minister).

Matláry, who came from an agnostic background, converted to Catholicism when a student. She is a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is a part of the Roman Curia dedicated to "action-oriented studies" for the international promotion of justice, peace, and human rights from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church...

 and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was established in January 1994 by Pope John Paul II. It is headquartered in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatican. Professor Edmond Malinvaud was its first president...

 and a consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Family

Pontifical Council for the Family

The Pontifical Council for the Family is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by Pope John Paul II on 9 May 1981 with his motu proprio Familia a Deo Instituta, replacing the Committee for the Family that Pope Paul VI had established in 1973...

. In 2001 she was made a Dame in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Writings

• Political Factors in Western European Gas Trade (NUPI rapport). Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo 1985. ISBN B0006EOPL0
• Norway's New Interdependence with the European Community: The Political and Economic Implications of Gas Trade. (NUPI rapport). Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo 1990. ISBN B0006EVW8E
• Energy Policy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. ISBN 978-0312172954
• Intervention for Human Rights in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 978-0333794241
• Values and Weapons: From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change? Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 978-1403987167
• Faith through Reason. Gracewing Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0852440049 Preface by Joseph Ratzinger.
• When Might Becomes Human Right. Gracewing, 2007. ISBN 978-0852440315
• European Union Security Dynamics: In the New National Interest. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0230521889

External links

• Staff page at Oslo University.
• Author page at Macmillan.
• Matlary's page at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
• "Norwegian Saga: The Conversion of Janne Haaland Matlary. New Book by a Former Foreign-Affairs Official", Zenit, 3 May 2004.
• "Nurturing a New Feminism", Zenit, 22 May 2001.
• "More Women Leaders Needed at the Vatican" by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service, 15 Dec. 2008.