NorSec 2022

YATA Norway is pleased to announce our 17th annual Nordic Security Conference!

The conference will be held from April 2^nd-3^rd 2022.

This is our 17^th annual NorSec, and the main focus of this year’s conference is the various aspects of hybrid threats and operations. Thoughts and experiences on how civil society has been affected, as well as how hybrid operations affect Norway and other Nordic countries will be of particular relevance. During the conference, participants will have the opportunity to learn and interact with leading experts in the field of security policy. It will also be a great occasion to build networks with like-minded people with different backgrounds and nationalities.

For many years, NorSec has been a platform for learning, discussion and new experiences between students, cadets and young professionals. We strongly encourage everyone with a genuine interest in security and foreign policy issues to attend. The conference will be held physically in Oslo, with a livestream available on our website and social media.

For further questions, please contact norsec@yata.no. For updates, visit our website or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/yatanorway

Full program for Nordic Security Conference 2022 Last ned

About the speakers

Kate Hansen Bundt

Kate Hansen Bundt is Secretary General of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee. She is a political scientist and foreign policy analyst with particular interest in German, European and transatlantic security and strategy. Hansen Bundt is a board member of NOREF (Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution) and the deputy chairman of the council at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo. Read more…

Eivind Vad Petersson

Eivind Vad Petersson is the State Secretary to Anniken Huitfeldt, the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has previously been a foreign and defense political advisor with the Labour Party’s Storting group, as well as a diplomat at Norwegian embassies in South-Sudan, South-Africa and Germany. Read more…

Tormod Heier

Tormod Heier is Lieutenant Colonel in the Norwegian Army, Director Research and Development at the Command and Staff College/Norwegian Defence University College, Professor-II at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and Assistant Professor at Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. Read more..

Bernhard Christoffer Caspari

Bernhard Christoffer Caspari is a security advisor at Statsbygg, the Norwegian government’s buildings commissioner, property manager and developer. He has a master’s degree in societal safety and security from the University of Stavanger, where he wrote his thesis on Norway’s understanding of hybrid threats. Read more…

Camilla Guldahl Cooper

Camilla G. Cooper is an associate professor of operational law at the Norwegian Defence University College. She has a PhD on NATO Rules of engagement, self-defence and the law of armed conflict from the University of Oslo (2018), and a LLM in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham. Read more…

Njord Wegge

Njord Wegge is a professor at NDUC/Norwegian Military Academy. He finished his PhD, focusing on international Relations in the Arctic, in 2013 at the University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway. Wegge was a visiting scholar to U.C. Berkeley, USA, spring 2009, and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Tromsø 2016–2018. Read more…

Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen

Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen has both a civilian and military background that includes 18 years of experience with strategic communications from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Armed Forces, tech and the communications industry. Read more…

Agata Kleczkowska

Agata Kleczkowska, PhD – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, the threat and use of force, hybrid threats, statehood, recognition and retorsions. Read more…

Kristin Ven Bruusgaard

Dr. Kristin Ven Bruusgaard is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistant Professor) of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where she is part of the Oslo Nuclear Project. Her research focuses on Russian nuclear and conventional military strategy, read more..

Henrik Stålhane Hiim

Henrik Stålhane Hiim is an associate professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies at the Norwegian Defence University College. His main research interest is nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, as well as Chinese foreign and security policy. Read more…