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- Mats Friberg
Mats Friberg
Peace and Development Research
PhD, Senior lecturer
About
Recently finished the international DRACON-project which investigates how methods of conflict resolution can be taught through pedagogical drama to teenage pupils in three cultures: the Swedish, the Malaysian and the Australian. Just now editing an anthology about crises, movements and alternatives to be published in 2010 (in Swedish).
Areas of interest
General social theory, the power political school in International Relations, new social and spiritual movements, crises of civilisation and the greening of the world, conflict handling in different cultures.
Current research
Teaching and tutoring
Some unpublished papers
- How to solve deep-rooted conflicts. Fundamentals of a socio-therapeutic cum spiritual model. 2006
- The fate of social theory after postmodernism. 2005
- Deconstructing the notion of development. On culture, status competition and the exchange of gifts. Paper GU 2001
Publications
2007
- D Bagshaw; B Burton; Mats Friberg; A Grünbaum; Margret Lepp; John O´Toole; J Pillai (2007).
Bridging the fields of drama and conflict management , GUP 83686
- D Bagshaw; Mats Friberg; M Lepp; H Löfgren; G Malm; K Rigby (2007).
Macro and micro approaches to conflict and drama , GUP 83687
- Dale Bagshaw; Mats Friberg; Margret Lepp; Horst Löfgren; Birgitte Malm; John O´Toole (2007).
General Introduction , GUP 84892
- Mats Friberg; A Grünbaum; M Lepp; Horst Löfgren; G Malm (2007).
Teenagers as third-party mediators , GUP 83689
1979
- Mats Friberg (1979).
Industrisamhällets sociala sårbarhet. Några systemprinciper och deras tillämpningar. , GUP 43957