Research Interests
- Refugee education
- Global governance and legitimacy of institutions of global governance
- Food security and public policy
- Post-conflict peacebuilding
- Civil society and social movement
Background
Hassan Aden is a doctoral researcher on the project Refugee Education Building Durable Futures (REBuilD) and a PhD candidate at the University of Gothenburg. He holds a masters degree in Global Studies majoring in Political Science from Lund University and a Bachelor degree in International Relations from Malmö Univerity.
Research Abstract
Education in situations of conflict and crisis is central in efforts to protect children and youth in the near-term and fostering peaceful coexistence over the longer-term. But how can education enable individuals and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be? Recognizing the protracted nature of refugee situations, the latest UNHCR education strategy prioritizes the integration of refugees into the national education systems of host countries. While this strategy may increase refugee children and youth's access to 'inclusive and equitable quality education' (SDG4), it fails to recognize the limbo in which refugees find themselves: they are non-citizens who cannot access the durable futures that education promises them. My doctoral project aims to challenge existing paradigms of education for development, which are centered on nation-states, in three ways. First, it examines the roles of private and civil society actors as well as national governments. Second, it studies the transnational dimensions of education that is not provided by the host state, including the role of diasporas and social media. And third, it analyses the impact of models of education that focus on civic skills and identities both within and beyond the nation-state
Work Experience
Period Title Employer
2018-04-01 PhD student Gothenburg University
2018-04-01 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2014-02-2018-04 A teacher Bromölla Kommun
2016-04-2016-09 Integration assistant Kristianstad Kommun
2014-09-2015-09 Anti-discrimination ambassador Skåne Horn av Afrika Organisation
2009-04-2010-08 A teacher Windle Trust International and CARE International
Languages
Blog Posts
Democratisation in the territories of the former ‘Somali Republic’ is influenced by the experience with the 1960s elections. After independence, the Somali republic adopted a parliamentary democracy. However, this democracy was short lived as elections became fraught with malpractices such as rigging, fraud, intimidation, and manipulation. … many Somalis welcomed ... Read more »
Somalia has not held multiparty elections since late 1969 when the military seized power from a democratically elected government in a bloodless coup.[1] The military remained in control until 1991, followed by thirty years of civil war and political instability. After the collapse of the central government, major clans, notably ... Read more »
Half of the nation states who chose not to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly’s extraordinary session on March 2nd were member states of the African Union (AU). In the event, 25 of the AU’s 55 member states either abstained, did not vote, or voted ... Read more »