Personal page of Otto Adang, behavioural scientist

2004 - present Chair in Public order Management, Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn

Visiting Professor, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK (2004 - 2009)

Visiting Professor, Swedish National Police Academy, Solna (2006 - 2008)

1998 - 2004 Research Manager LSOP Police Education and Knowledge Centre, Apeldoorn

heading research programme "Managing Dangerous Conflict Situations"

teaching national and international (CEPOL and AEPC) courses in public order management

consultant expert to police forces in Netherlands, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Portugal, South

Africa, and to Interior Ministry in the Netherlands, the Council of Europe and the EU.

member of the editorial board of "Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law

and Society"

organiser of the First European Conference on Hostage Negotiations, November 1998

1991 - 1998 Senior researcher/ consultant Police Institute Public order and Safety, Hoogerheide

coordinating research on police use of force, public order policing, bomb threat analysis, etc.

teaching courses in public order management

organiser of the conferences "Quality in Safety", March 1998 and "Public order and

responsibility", November 1993

1990 - 1991 Researcher Police Study Centre, Warnsveld

research on the role of mayors after the police transformation

1985 - 1991 Information science and biology teacher in Apeldoorn, Silvolde and Deventer

1986 - 1990 Researcher (post-doc) Utrecht University

observational research on the initiation and escalation of violence during riot-situations

1981 - 1985 Researcher Utrecht University and Arnhem Zoo

coordination of behavioural research in the Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony

adviser to film-maker Bert Haanstra (The Family of Chimps, 1984)

PhD thesis on the development of quasi-aggressive behaviour in chimpanzees (January 1986)

1974 - 1981 Biology study, Utrecht University

1968 - 1974 Gymnasium B, Hertog Jan-college, Valkenswaard

1962 - 1968 Lucasschool, Valkenswaard

Invited presentations given for:

Instituto Superior de Ciênciais Policiais e Segurança Interna (Lisboa, Portugal), Direction de la Formation de la Police Nationale, (Lognes, France), Studium Generale Universiteit van Tilburg, Department of Psychology University of Liverpool (UK), Nationaal Natuurhistorisch museum Naturalis, Vereniging Belangenbehartiging voor Geestelijk Gezondheidkundigen, Studium Generale Universiteit Maastricht, Centrum voor Filosofie en Kunst, Studium Generale Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Criminology University of Groningen, Department of Social and organisational psychology University of Groningen, Faculty of Law University of Tilburg, Nederlands Instituut voor Biologen/ NOVON, Stichting Nationaal Psychologen congres, Stichting Psychoanalyse en Psychiatrie, Politie Netwerk voor Innovatie en Kwaliteit, Landelijke Vereniging van Artsen in Dienstverband, Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurite Interieure (Paris, France), Stichting voor Interdisciplinair Gedragswetenschappelijk Onderzoek

About me

Dr. Otto M.J. Adang

Chair, Public order management

Police Academy of the Netherlands

I am a behavioural scientist interested in aggression, reconciliation and collective behaviour, specifically in the way in which individuals regulate conflicts and social tension. I have published in the following field: social psychology, investigative psychology, criminal justice, criminology, police studies, ethology, primatology.

Writing, reading, walking, cycling, running and taking photographs are my favorite pastimes.