Kjetil Selvik (1973-2024) has been a NUPI based part of PRIO projects and was employed at PRIO as a Senior Researcher in the autumn of 2019. Read his profile at NUPI.
Kjetil Selvik left PRIO in 2019. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Kjetil Selvik (1973-2024) has been a NUPI based part of PRIO projects and was employed at PRIO as a Senior Researcher in the autumn of 2019. Read his profile at NUPI.
Journal article in Mediterranean Politics
Book chapter in Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and stability
Master thesis
In societies at war or facing severe repression, what motivates individuals to take action for social justice when doing so involves great risk and uncertainty? How do such small but often heroic everyday acts of common people inspire larger transformations? And what is the impact of storytelling about everyday acts that challenge inequalities and injustices in places like Myanmar, Somaliland and Syria?The TRANSFORM research team has grappled with these questions for four years, and you will ...
What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? PRIO is proud to share the second of a series of three animations and comics from Myanmar, Syria and Somaliland, made for the TRANSFORM project in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.
This academic workshop focuses on political agency and moral action before, during and after violent conflict and war.
The TRANSFORM project had its kick-off workshop 1-2 June 2017.
The project will focus on how individual deeds, in times of radical uncertainty and flux, inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction a society takes.
TRANSFORM examines how personal actions during times of significant uncertainty and change can motivate collective efforts or create new institutional practices that shape the path a society follows.
Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain: The Uffo Struggle for Justice tells the story of a group of heroic professionals in Somaliland during the war in the 1980s.
Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain: The Uffo Struggle for Justice tells the story of a group of heroic professionals in Somaliland during the war in the 1980s.
A Future for Syria follows the experiences of one Syrian woman who dedicated her life to education.
A Future for Syria follows the experiences of one Syrian woman who dedicated her life to education.
Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace tells the story of a Kachin land rights activist from Northern Myanmar, who has faced displacement, arrest and persecution by the Myanmar government for her commitment to fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities.
Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace tells the story of a Kachin land rights activist from Northern Myanmar, who has faced displacement, arrest and persecution by the Myanmar government for her commitment to fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities.