Preconditions for Establishing a Platform for a Human Rights Dialogue with North Korea 
The project is carried out in collaboration with senior researcher Hatla Thelle, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and research assistant Ras Tind Nielsen, NIAS. Based on experiences from the human rights  dialogue between the EU and the People’s Republic of China this project question whether the existing meetings between North Korea and the countries and regions engaged in the so called six-party talks on de-nuclearization of North Korea have taken the right track towards a mutual acceptable agreement.

The Promise and Challenge of EurAsia
Globalization has enabled new forms of interaction but also brought new challenges. Universal meanings in business, politics, education and other spheres can no longer be assumed, even if expressed in a common language. This project proposes that the universal now urgently needs to be situated in the multiple and that reconsideration must be given to how we approach and deal with the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in cross-cultural settings. Our goal is to study the interactions now commonplace in Asian and European societies with the central aim of facilitating cross-cultural understanding and hence improving relations between key actors and institutions. A further aim is to bring greater awareness of the importance of recognizing, acknowledging and accepting the significance of difference, as well as of being able to respond constructively to this in behaviour and understanding. To further this aim, we engage in interdisciplinary comparative research via partnerships between social science scholars in Europe and Asia.