Sunniva Unn Hustad

Sunniva Unn Hustad left PRIO in 2021. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Research Assistant

Research Interests

Nonviolent and violent protest, conflict trends, security implications of renewable energy sector development in Africa and quantitative methods and spatial data.

Master thesis written on EU's development policy with a focus on their strategy towards reaching the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 30 Jun 2021

Do Cease-Fires in Syria Work? We Checked the Data.

Our research looks at 10 years of truces in Syria. A missile attack last weekend in northern Syria left a hospital in ruins and further casualties in a residential area. But these types of attacks have become less common in Syria. Although this civil war remains among the most devastating ...

News

Tuesday, 3 Nov 2020

New Blog Post: Women’s Well-Being and the US Election

What does Gender have to do with it? On US election day, with major gender issues on the ballot, and the American gender gap being larger than ever, PRIO researchers Marianne Dahl and Sunniva Unn Hustad examine how Women Peace and Security scores coincide with projections for the 2020 election.

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 2 Nov 2020

Women’s Well-Being and the US Election

The PRIO – GWPS Women Peace and Security Index is now available as a US edition, with scores for each of the 50 individual states and the District of Colombia.[1] With the US election today, highlighting ongoing struggles and gender-related conflicts, we ask; what does gender have to do with ...

Working experience:

2020 - 2021 : Research Assistant (PRIO)

2019 -2020 : Results and Evaluation Trainee (EEA & Norway Grants)

2019: Research Assistant (PRIO)

Education:

2017-2019: MA, Political Science, University of Oslo, Sciences Po Paris and ARENA - Centre for European Studies

2014-2017: BA, International Studies, University of Oslo and Sciences Po Paris

Languages spoken:

Norwegian, English, French