Janne Haaland Matlary

Janne Haaland Matlary (2009)

Janne Haaland Matlary (born April 27, 1957 ) is a Norwegian political scientist , Roman Catholic church activist and conservative politician .

Life and activities

Scientific and political career

Matlary received her PhD in Political Science in 1994 and is Professor of International Politics at the University of Oslo . Her academic focus is on energy policy , security policy and international human rights policy . From 1997 to 2000 she was State Secretary in the Norwegian Foreign Ministry under the Christian Democratic Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk .

She has been a member of the bourgeois-conservative party Høyre since 2012 ; Before that she belonged to the Christian People's Party (KrF) until autumn 2011 . She cited the willingness of the Christian Democrats to enter into a coalition with the socialist Norwegian Workers' Party as the reason for leaving the party : “ Christian Democracy is clearly a non-socialist ideology, but the KrF decided in its strategic process that one should go both to the left and to the right can ”, wrote Matlary in a letter to the General Secretary of the KrF, in which she announced her departure.

Church activities

In agnostischem grew environment converted her as a young student to Catholicism and is now a profiled Catholic. She was accepted as a lady in the Sovereign Order of Malta in 2001 and is a cooperator of Opus Dei . She was an advisor to Pope John Paul II and a member of the Pontifical Councils for Justice and Peace and for the Family until its dissolution in 2016 . She represented the Vatican in 1995 at the fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing . In the fall of 2009, Matlary was founded by Pope Benedict XVI. Appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, of which she has been an academic member ever since.

Opus Dei

Janne Matlary is very closely connected to the church lay association Opus Dei , whose network she got to know in 1995 in Rome , according to her own account . Along with the former Norwegian NOK President Gerhard Heiberg , who joined Opus Dei through his collaboration with Juan Antonio Samaranch , she is the only known exponent of this organization in Norway. For many years she worked as a champion for the dissemination of the work in her country, where the association had tried to gain a foothold since the mid-1980s, but encountered resistance within the church hierarchy and among Catholic associations. The founder of Opus Dei, the Spanish clergyman Josemaría Escrivá , canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002 , compared Matlary with the Norwegian revival preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge († 1824).

Within the work, she is seen as a representative of a so-called “new feminism” that wants to put the meaning and social concerns of motherhood as a practical-political challenge at the center of the women's question.

In 2013, she told Norwegian television that she was now at a distance from the organization and was not aware of Opus Dei's current plans for Norway.

family

Janne Haaland Matlary is married and has four children.

Fonts (selection)

• Political factors in western European gas trade (NUPI rapport). Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo 1985
• Norway's new interdependence with the European Community: The political and economic implications of gas trade (NUPI rapport). Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo 1990
• Energy Policy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 978-0312172954
• Heyday. Feminism in transition. Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 978-3929246742 (Engl .: A Time to Blossom. A New Feminism. Balassi, Budapest 2002)
• Intervention for Human Rights in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISBN 978-0333794241
• Love story. That's how I became a Catholic. Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 978-3929246896
• Misappropriated human rights. Is there a threat of a dictatorship of relativism? Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 978-3936484823
• Values ​​and Weapons: From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change? Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 978-1403987167
• Faith through reason . Gracewing Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-0852440049

Web links

• Literature by and about Janne Haaland Matlary in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of publications - University of Oslo

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Tulsa Professor Named to Social Sciences Academy. In: Zenit , October 2, 2009, accessed November 4, 2017.
2. ↑ Matlary reporter seg ut av KrF i protest. In: Verdens Gang , October 13, 2011, accessed November 4, 2017 (Norwegian).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Janne Haaland Matlary: Work, Path to Holiness. Lecture from January 10, 2002 at an Opus Dei congress in Rome, published on the company's own platform josemariaescriva.info , accessed on November 4, 2017 (English).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} John L. Allen : Opus Dei. An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church. Doubleday, New York et al. a. 2007, p. 193 f.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Nicholas H. Møllerhaug: Haaland Matlary above the hemme put rørsla . In: Dag og Tid No. 38, September 20, 2003, accessed on November 4, 2017 (background report with parts of the interview, Norwegian).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Kjetil Iden: “Da Vinci code” -organisasjon opplever medlemsboom. In: tv2 , March 11, 2013, accessed November 4, 2017 (background report , Norwegian).