Johanne Rokke Elvebakken left PRIO in 2021. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
About
Johanne Rokke Elvebakken was the coordinator of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security from March 2019 to December 2021. She was also the PRIO point of contact for the NWM-network and coordinates the operational engagement of NWM-Norway. Elvebakken has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Durham University. She wrote her MA thesis on the main contestations of the Women, Peace and Security agenda within the Norwegian expert community. In January 2022 Elvebakken is starting a PhD in Political Science at the University of Oslo on the EuroWARCHILD-project. The project aims to explore the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war (CBOW) in Europe. Elvebakken has previously worked as a teacher of migrant and refugee children in Oslo and been a trainee at the Norwegian Embassy in Prishtina.
Education
2015- 2017: Master of Science in International Relations from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
2011-2014: Bachelor of Arts In International Relations from the University of Durham.
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On January 20th, the members of the EuroWARCHILD project team met for the first time for a full-day workshop to kick off the project.
The PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (GPS Update) is an electronic newsletter launched by the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security in response to growing interest among the public for information about Gender, Peace and security Issues.
On December 9th, the PRIO GPS Centre and Gender Research Group held their third workshop for the Strategic Initiative on Men and Masculinities Research at PRIO. The workshop focused on masculinities and militarism, and kicked off with a public digital seminar and had PRIO Global Fellow Erik Melander, PRIO Senior Researcher Louise Olsson, and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Baas Bottenvik-Hartmann as panelists, with Henrik Syse as moderator.
The annual meeting of the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) takes place in Reykjavik from 17 – 19 November 2021. Members from all five Nordic networks come together for a three-day meeting to discuss approaches to including and strengthening women in mediation and peacebuilding efforts. The discussions draw on lessons from the recent events in Afghanistan and from new working methods applied during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – September 2021 issue here.
This fall the PRIO GPS Centre and Gender Research Group are collaborating on a strategic initiative to build more research focusing on men and masculinities at PRIO.
In recent years, there has been a growth of research which focuses on how gender shapes men's lives, including in peace and conflict research. Through different thematic workshops this fall, PRIO researchers and other collaborators will be meeting to identify where masculinities can fit into PRIO's research, and to develop innovative and new project proposals.
The project kicked off with a seminar by PRIO Global Fellow Jacqui True in August, and three workshops will be taking place throughout the fall at PRIO, covering topics such as men’s engagement for Women, Peace, and Security, violent extremism and masculinity, and masculinities and militarism.
The PRIO GPS Centre contributes to a new course on Gender, Peace and Conflic at the Centre for Gender Research (STK) at the University of Oslo, taking place for the first time this autumn. Professor Inger Skjelsbæk (PRIO and UiO) is the course leader. This autumn Wenche Hauge, Senior Researcher at PRIO, has given the students a lecture on peacebuilding and Torunn L. Tryggestad, Director of the PRIO GPS Centre, has given a lecture on UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – June 2021 issue here.
The PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (GPS Update) is an electronic newsletter launched by the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security in response to growing interest among the public for information about gender, peace and security issues.
Sign up to the GPS Update here. For other queries, contact the editors at johelv@prio.org.
The March 2021 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – March 2021 issue here.