Bonnichsen receives another idealist prize

Posted on | March 13, 2009 | No Comments

Former head of Danish law enforcement intelligence agency PET, Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, has received another idealist prize – this time given by the Livia Foundation, a proliferation of Center For Konfliktløsning (Danish for the Conflict Resolution Center). Read the piece in Danish newspaper Politiken.

For those unfamiliar with Bonnichsen, he is known to be an advocate of humane and dialogue-based approaches towards conflict resolution in national security – something that he also practised while being head of the Danish intelligence agency, which has since his retirement turned 180 degrees and is now known to be absolutely ruthless and is even practising breaches on the Geneva Convention Of Human Rights (by advocating the so-called Tuneserloven (“Tunese Law”) that allows containment of non-sentenced individuals – much like the US’s ‘illegal combatant’-status given to detainees of Guantanamo).

Bonnichsen is seen by many as a diplomat of the type the West really needs in order to resolve the problem of terrorism – contrary to the current fight-fire-with-fire type hawks dominant especially in the enforcement agencies in the rogue countries who are part of the coalition of the willing (Denmark included, unfortunatey). Too bad he is retired (Read more about Bonnichsen at Danish Wikipedia).

Bonnichsen also reasently received Danish major newspaper Politikens Idealist Of The Year prize.

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