Mikkel Frøsig Pedersen
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Mikkel Frøsig Pedersen is Acting Head of Administration. He is responsible for financial and business management, the operation of NUPI's premises and the institute's project portfolio. Work areas include purchasing and procurement, ICT and security, HR and personnel management, and organisational development.
He has participated in developing and managing several of NUPI's research and capacity-building projects on peacekeeping, peacebuilding, mediation in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and more recently, climate change and energy transition. Before NUPI, he worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Education
2005 - MA Political Science, University of Oslo
2001 - 2005 BA Political Science/Communication Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1999 - 2001 International Baccalaureate Diploma, UWC Red Cross Nordic, Norge
Work experience
2024 - Acting Head of Administration, NUPI
2021 - 2024 Deputy Head of Administration, NUPI
2020 - 2021 Acting Head of Administration, NUPI
2013 - 2021 Senior Advisor, NUPI
2008 - 2012 Head of Programme, NUPI
2006 - 2008 Consultant, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Clear all filtersTraining in Vain? Bottlenecks in Deploying Civilians for UN Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping missions suffer from cumbersome recruitment processes, high vacancy rates and a shortage of civilian staff. This article explores the bottlenecks hampering the recruitment and deployment of trained personnel, especially civilians. Paradoxically, an increased number of trained personnel has not translated into higher deployment rates. Individual factors and structural bottlenecks together accounted for half of the nondeployments. Of the latter, the informal nature of the UN’s recruitment system and the central role played by personal contacts stands out. The article makes the case for an improved link between the recruitment architecture of the UN and its training programmes, and a significant overhaul of the UN recruitment architecture per se. Unless the UN and international training programmes address this paradox, the risk of training in vain will remain.
Bottlenecks to Deployment? The challenges of Deploying Civilian Personnel to Peace Operations