| Stein D. Tønnesson | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 1953 |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Fields | history |
| Institutions | Peace Research Institute Oslo (Research Professor) |
| Alma mater | University of Århus, University of Oslo |
Stein D. Tønnesson (born December 2, 1953) is a Norwegian historian. He was the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) from 2001 to 2009, when he was replaced by Kristian Berg Harpviken. Stein Tønnesson stays on at PRIO as a Research Professor, while at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow 2010-11.
Educated at the University of Aarhus and the University of Oslo, he received his dr. philos. in history from the University of Oslo in 1991. Tønnesson's foremost research efforts have been revolution and war in Vietnam, national identity in South-East Asia, the South China Sea conflict, and Norwegian sports history. Tønnesson has also worked as a journalist. His interests the past decade has been in particular global history, globalization and the decades of relative peace in south east Asia since 1979.
Stein Tønnesson has worked as Professor of Human Development Studies at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo, and has also been a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute for Asia Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen.
Tønnesson has also published several volumes related to his fields of study.
He is married to Norwegian historian Bodil Stenseth.