I work as a researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. At ARENA, my main responsibilities are with the project ‘Rule of Law in NAV: Principled Justification’ (RETTS). I also do research in the field of normative political theory, and my research interests lie mainly in global issues of distributive and remedial justice, with a particular focus on military and non-military interventions to protect human rights.
Before taking up my current post, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of political science (UiO), funded by the Research Council of Norway. During 2020-21 I was also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester. My postdoctoral project focused on how states should respond to rights violations in other states, with a special emphasis on non-military interventions in response to rights violations that fall short of mass atrocities. You can read more about it here: ‘Rights-protecting interventionism beyond the use of military force’.
In May 2017 I received my PhD for the dissertation Who Should Intervene? Distributing the duties of humanitarian intervention from the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My dissertation answers questions such as: What are the most central concerns whe allocating the duties of intervention? Who should commit their military forces to carry out the intervention? How should the economic and material costs of intervention be distributed? Which reforms should be implemented to ensure that the duty to intervene can be effectively discharged and the burdens shared fairly?
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Email: f.d.hjorthen@arena.uio.no
Photo credits: Tron Trondal (UiO)
Fredrik D. Hjorthen 