Here is a link to download my Master Thesis. It is unfortunately not in English but Norwegian. I still think the bibliography can be interesting to some englishspeakers. I also think its easy to translate with google and get the meaning out of the text if you copy and paste the text into that translator
November 29, 2006
Now I have landed on a sentence that will hopefully work as my research question. The title has also been modified, according to some comments that I have had on it. The title can be changed later, but the research question should now be fixed, and hopefully pull me through the research.
The title is:
Diakoni og kampen for holistisk bistand i Etiopia – eit studie av verdensbileter i kontrastforhold
and the researchquestion is:
Har omsynet til donorane sitt verdsbilete lagt grunnlag for ein ny teologi om diakoni i EECMY?
English:
Have the consern of the donor agents worldview made a foundation for a new theology of diakonia in the EECMY
The title is not changed in English, any comment is heartly welcome!
November 27, 2006
Well, it has been a while since I publiched something. Thats partly because I spent a little more than three weeks in Nepal. (It is amazing how many things that relates globaly. The development issues are suprisingly similar to what I have seen in Ethiopia) And partly because I have really been working on my MA. It has now passed around 12000 words so I am getting somwhere and it feels good to have passed the critical getting started phase. Another exiting thing is that co student Olav Dørdal and I have been invited to join in the resarch conference held at NLA 4. and 5. of Desember. We are very much looking forward to this experience.
October 3, 2006
After some hours playing with my keywords and trying to get som how a catchy title , I`ve come up with this title… don`t know if its good? Please coment this title, what is your first impression when you read it. And what is a good word for the Norwegian “bistand ” in English? “Stand by” is a suggestion, according to some results of development that might be the case 
, but is there any good word out there?
Here are my working titles:
“Diakonia and the struggle for holistic development – a study of contrasting worldviews in Ethiopia”
“Diakoni og kampen for holistisk bistand – eit studie av kontrasterende verdensbileter i Etiopia”
October 2, 2006
Last week I submitted some applications. One was to the International conference of Ethiopian studies (ICES) where I want to present a paper related to my research. This conference is held in Norway this year so I i might be lucky to participate. The other was to NAI Nordiska Afrika Institutet wich are offering different kinds of schoolarships for persons studying Africa. If you are in that category it might be worth some clicks to see. They have a informative webpage www.nai.uu.se
September 19, 2006
Today I finished the abstract of my MA. Ofcourse it cannot be completed at this stage. But I hope it will give you an iadea of what I am going to dive in to the comming months. I havent got any comments on it yet, not even from the counselors so you can be the first to give response
You can read it on a own page at the top to the right!
Enjoy
September 18, 2006
I guess the only thing this blogg has contributed to my MA so far is to tell me that my progress is not satisfying, well that is something but far from the original intension with this. Since I haven`t published much yet I can really understand why there havent been any discussions in here. But If you think my subjects are interesting and just want to encourage me, please dont hesitate to do that 
September 14, 2006
To day you can see what I`m reading on the page Bibliograpy! I`m starting to realize that this page will really tell me when I havent done anything, so I guess thats a good thing for my MA, but it might creat som posts that are not really bringing something new… This day is all about diakonia, and I will publish a few thoughts later about that… I hope, we will see if my mind can bring anything, anyway there will be coffee!!, not from Ethiopia but still…
September 13, 2006
This day will not be dedicated for my MA, but on the Page “Last progress” my research questions are aviable for reading and comments.
September 12, 2006
I`m up late and my wife went to sleep hours ago. I`m rewarded with a blogg up and running. The comming weeks will show if it was worth the hussle. I will keep this blogg in English, that means you who read this have to accept som spelling mistakes and be happy that you can understand. What I will publish from my thesis will only come in Norwegian, but we should try to keep the unformal and formal discussions on the different topics to English. If there will be no only english speaking commenters I will drop this.
