Associate Prof. Vidar Vambheim

Associate Prof. Vidar Vambheim
Keynote Speaker
Vidar Vambheim, PhD, Associate Professor in Education at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromso.

Vambheim was an “architect”, teacher and the first director of the Centre for Peace Studies and its Masters Degree Program in Peace and Conflict Studies in 2002, where he has been a teacher and supervisor for 18 years. Vambheim gives a course in Peace Education for international students. Vambheim has published and been teaching on the topic of mindfulness in the context of education, and the effects of mindfulness projects young people. Vambheim has supervised several MA candidates and theses on mindfulness,  and its effects on children as well as adults.