Stig Jarle Hansen

Stig Jarle Hansen (born 1971 in Horten) is a Norwegian political scientist and historian. He is a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.^[1] Hansen is a specialist in jihadist and Islamist groups in Africa, and provided commentary on the topic for BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN and the Dutch state channel Kanal 4 (CCTV4). He has spoken on the Yemeni civil war and Yemen in general on Dutch broadcasting. Hansen published Al Shabaab in Somalia (Oxford University Press, New York) in 2013.^[2][3]

Stig Jarle Hansen
Born	1971 (age 52–53) Horten
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation(s)	Political scientist and historian

Hansen received the cand.polit. degree in political science at the University of Oslo in 1999. In 2004, he completed a major in history at the University of Oslo. Hansen graduated in 2006 with a PhD degree at University of Wales Aberystwyth. He has previously lectured on political science at the University of Addis Ababa, at the University of Wales, and at the University of Bath. From 2009 to 2016, he was head international relations at the Department of International Environmental and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Hansen was a fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University.^[4]

Hansen specializes in security policy relating to the Horn of Africa. He wrote for the Janes Defense group in the period 2006 to 2011. In 2016, he contributed articles to Newsweek. He has served as a witness in Norwegian, British and German trials with regard to jihadist extremists. Hansen is a member of the international expert council of Norwegian Risk Consulting International.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. "Stig Jarle Hansen".
2. Samreen, Sana (January 2018). "Book Review: Stig Jarle Hansen (Ed.), Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group". Insight on Africa. 10 (1): 121–124. doi:10.1177/0975087817707646. ISSN 0975-0878. S2CID 165236709.
3. Hansen, Stig Jarle (2013-01-15). Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199327874.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-932787-4.
4. Hansen, Stig Jarle; Lid, Stian, eds. (2020-02-18). Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement. doi:10.4324/9781315387420. ISBN 9781315387420. S2CID 213857030.

External links

• Stig Jarle Hansen's CRIStin profile
• List of publications by Stig Jarle Hansen in BIBSYS (Norway)
• Stig Jarle Hansen's profile at the Belfer center Archived 2016-11-04 at the Wayback Machine