LDYA Board members

Peace studies professor. PhD in sociology, peace and future researcher. Associate professor (Docent) at Lund University, thereafter visiting or guest professor at various universities.


Oberg has taught peace courses for more than 10 years at the European Peace University (EPU) in Schlaining, Austria and taught MA courses twice a year at the World Peace Academy (WPA) in Basel, Switzerland until it was closed down.

With his wife, Dr. Christina Spännar, he is the co-founder of TFF. Chairman of the board 1997-2003 and interim chairman 2007-2008, director of the TFF and head of its Conflict-Mitigation teams to ex-Yugoslavia, Georgia, Burundi, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

ERNI FRIHOLT was born in Lilienfeld, Austria, on November 27, 1936. As a child, she was exposed to war and post-war conditions. One elder brother died during the campaign in the Soviet Union, and her father was killed on the home front just before the war ended. Since then she has been a devoted peace worker and activist and a solidarity worker in India and Bangladesh.
From 1950 onwards, in Sweden, she studied as a student of German, English and pedagogy. After this, she worked for a few years as a primary school teacher, which in turn she left for full-time peace and development work from 1970 onwards. She was particularly involved in supporting the birth of Bangladesh in connection with its liberation war. She also went there to study a development project in 1973, in Thanapara village. In 1974, she met her "compar":

OLA FRIHOLT was born in Morlanda on the Swedish west coast on April 26, 1937. He experienced the social change of his home town from a rather self-supporting and self-governing fishing village into mainly a summer resort with its income generated in the world market, after the exodus of a whole generation.

After that he gradually became a devoted development worker and peace activist and a solidarity worker in India and Bangladesh. After his academic exam he studied teachers training and general linguistics. His subjects are Latin, French and English. After three years as a college teacher, he left for a fishing project in Madras, India, in 1970. From 1973, he worked with information for the public in a volunteer NGO, making exhibitions, editing magazines and lecturing.