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Åshild Kolås
Research Professor
Email: Ashild@prio.no
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Topics I am currently working on include identity politics and representation, gender, peacebuilding and conflict management, insurgencies and ethnic movements, governance and sovereignty contestations.   

Languages spoken:
English, Norwegian, some German, Chinese and Tibetan

Work experience:
Fieldwork in Inner Mongolia (2 months/year, 2008-11)
Coordination of institutional cooperation with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) New Delhi (2005-present) 
Member of Working Group on Ethnic Minority Rights, Human Rights dialogue between Norway and China (Beijing 2006, Oslo 2007, Oslo 2009)
Member of Working Group on Ethnic Minority Rights, Human Rights dialogue between Norway and Vietnam (Hanoi 2005, Oslo 2007)
Visiting scholar, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) (3 months, 2004)
Board member, Network for University Cooperation Tibet-Norway (2003-present)
Consultancy work in Vietnam for NORAD, Norwegian Church Aid and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003-05) 
Doctoral fieldwork in Diqing Prefecture, Yunnan, China (2002-03)
Fieldwork in China (Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan) (4 months, 1998-99)
Fieldwork in Tibet and Nepal (3 months, 1996)
Fieldwork for Cand. Polit. degree in India (12 months), Tibet and Nepal (3 months) (1991-92)

Education:
Dr. Polit. (PhD) in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 2005
Cand. Polit. (MA) in Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 1994
Cand. mag. (BA) Interfacultary, University of Oslo
Additional accredited courses at University of Oslo: 
Chinese Language; Chinese Society and Geography, 2001
Environment and Development; Nature and Humanity, 1994
Supporting subjects, Cand mag. (BA):
Public policy and administration, University of Trondheim, 1991
Media and journalism, Volda University College, 1989
Mass communication, University of Oslo, 1987

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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Kolås, Åshild (2011) Naga Militancy and Violent Politics in the Shadow of Ceasefire , Journal of Peace Research 48(6): 781–792.
Kolås, Åshild (2011) Reclaiming the Forest: Ewenki Reindeer Herding as Exception , Human Organization 70(4): 397–404.
Miklian, Jason;Lidén, Kristoffer; & Kolås, Åshild (2011) The Perils of ‘Going Local’: Liberal Peace-building Agendas in Nepal , Conflict, Security & Development 11(3): 285–308.
Xie, Yuanyuan; & Kolås, Åshild (2010) Jin sanshi nian lai nuowei sami ren shenfen diwei de bianhua [Changes in the status of Norwegian Sami identity in the past thirty years] , Shijie Minzu [World Ethno-National Studies] 2010(3): 81–90.
Kolås, Åshild (2010) GAVI and Hepatitis B Immunisation in India , Global Public Health 5(5): 1–13.
Kolås, Åshild (2010) The 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks: (Re-)Constructing Indian (Counter-)Terrorism , Critical Studies on Terrorism 3(1): 83–98.
Kolås, Åshild; & Miklian, Jason (2009) Managing Intractable Conflict: Indian Strategies , Journal of Conflict Management and Development 3(3): 1–20.
Kolås, Åshild (2007) Burma in the Balance: The Geopolitics of Gas , Strategic Analysis 31(4): 625–643.
Kolås, Åshild (2004) Tourism and the Making of Place in Shangri-La , Tourism Geographies 6(3): 262–279.
Kolås, Åshild (2003) "Class" in Tibet: Creating Social Order Before and During the Mao Era , Identities: Global Studies In Culture and Power 10(2): 181–200.
Kolås, Åshild (2003) Modernising Tibet: Contemporary Discourses and Practices of “Modernity , Inner Asia 517–37.
Kolås, Åshild (1996) Tibetan Nationalism: The Politics of Religion , Journal of Peace Research 33(1): 51–66.

Monograph

Kolås, Åshild (2008) Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. A Place Called Shangrila. : Routledge. .
Kolås, Åshild; & Thowsen, Monika P. (2005) On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. : University of Washington Press. .

Book Chapter

Kolås, Åshild; & Buzzi, Camilla(2010) Northeast India and Myanmar: Looking East towards a Dead-End? Beyond Borders. Look East Policy & Northeast India. : (148–165).
Kolås, Åshild; & Thowsen, Monika P.(2003) Dilemmas of Education in Tibetan Areas Outside the TAR China at the Turn of the 21St Century. : (131–148).

Non-refereed_Journal_Article

Kolås, Åshild (2012) What's up with the territorial council? , Seminar New Delhi): a Monthly Symposium (640): 2–7.
Kolås, Åshild; & Buzzi, Camilla (2010) India-Burma Relations Hitting a Dead End? , The Irrawaddy 18(3): .
Kolås, Åshild (2010) Theories of Conflict Resolution: Lessons for Northeast India? , Politeia: Annual Journal of North-East India Political Science Association 2009(1): 32–53.
Kolås, Åshild (2007) China in African Oil: Guilty as Charged? , EPS Quarterly 20(2): 6–8.
Kolås, Åshild (2005) Militant islamisme og 'legitim' vold [Militant Islamism and 'Legitimate' Violence] , Babylon. Tidsskrift Om Midtøsten Og Nord-Afrika 3(2): 24–31.
Kolås, Åshild (2003) Vill Vest i Kina [China's Wild West] , Verdensmagasinet X 12(5): 24–25.
Kolås, Åshild (2003) Teaching Tibetan in Tibet: Bilingual Education is Survival , Cultural Survival Quarterly 27(3): 67–71.
Kolås, Åshild (1998) Chinese Media Discources on Tibet: The Language of Inequality , Tibet Journal 23(3): 70–77.

Popular Article

Kolås, Åshild; & Buzzi, Camilla (2009) Suverenitetens grenser [The Limits of Sovereignty], Ny Tid, 17–23 April 2009.
Kolås, Åshild (2009) Veien etter Indias 9/11 [In the Aftermath of India's 9/11 ], Ny Tid, 6–12 March.

PRIO Report

Kolås, Åshild (2006) Energy Security in Asia: China, India, Oil and Peace: PRIO.

Phd Thesis

Kolås, Åshild (2004) Ethnic tourism in Shangrila. Representations of place and Tibetan identity. PhD thesis, Supervisors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, UiO; Stein Tønnesson, PRIO (completed August 2004), .

Conference Paper

Kolås, Åshild 2011 Constructing the Non-State Army: Making Sense of Armed Conflict in Northeast India, presented at The Local in Global Understandings of War and Peacemaking: Anthropological and Inter-disciplinary Perspectives, , 1–2 September.
Kolås, Åshild 2009 Lost in a State of Exceptions: Ewenki Reindeer Herders in China, presented at Annual conference of the Norwegian Association for Development Research, , 24 November.
Kolås, Åshild; & Buzzi, Camilla 2008 Northeast India and Myanmar: Looking East towards a Dead-End?, presented at Borders and Beyond: The Northeast in India’s Security and Foreign Policy, , 21 February.
Kolås, Åshild 2008 Hill-valley Dynamics in Northeast India: A Research Agenda, presented at Asian Borderlands Research Network International Conference on Northeast India and its Transnational Neighbourhood, , 18 January.
Kolås, Åshild 2005 Different Cultures, Different Rights: Approaches to Culture in a Minority Rights Framework, presented at Cultural and Minority Rights, EU Research Training Network on Applied Global Justice, , 3–5 June.
Kolås, Åshild 2003 ”Welcome to Shangri-La”: The making of place in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, presented at Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS X), , 6–12 September.
Kolås, Åshild 2003 Ethnic Tourism in China: Renegotiating the Meanings of "Minzu", presented at the Nordic Conference on China Studies, , 19 June.

Report Other

Kolås, Åshild (2012) Gender, Empowerment and Conflict: Experiences from Northeast India: PRIO.
Tønnesson, Stein; & Kolås, Åshild (2006) Burma and Its Neighbours: The Geopolitics of Gas, Austral Policy Forum, : .

Book Review

Kolås, Åshild(2008) Review of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China 537–539.