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Magnus Haavelsrud is professor of education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim , Norway . His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociology and peace research.

He took part in the founding of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association and served as its Executive Secretary 1975-79. He was the program chairperson of the First World Conference on Peace Education of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction in 1974. He has served as the Carl von Ossietzky guest professor of the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research. He chaired an expert group in UNESCO to develop a Teacher's Handbook on Disarmament Education and organized (with Betty Reardon) the panel for launching the Global Campaign on Peace Education of the Hague Appeal for Peace (1999) and is a member of the Campaign's Advisory Board. He was a member of the Commission "Towards a More Humane World Society" of the Ecumenical Association of Academies and Laity Centres in Europe and participated in the preparation of the UN Study on Disarmament Education submitted and approved by the General Assembly (2002). He is a member of Transcend.

Publications include: Education in Developments (1996), Perspektiv I utdanningssosilogi (Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (1997, 2nd edition), Education Within the Archipelago of Peace Research 1945 - 1964, (co-authored with Mario Borrelli, 1993), Approaching Disarmament Education (editor, 1981) and Disarming: Discourse on Violence and Peace, (editor, 1993).

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