Maria Taranko left PRIO in 2025. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Maria Taranko

Maria Taranko

Interests and experience

Public International Law

International Criminal Law

Human Rights

Gender Studies

Women Peace and Security

Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice Activism

Postcolonial Feminist Studies

Maria is a MA student at the University of Oslo (UiO) in Public International Law with a specialization in Gender, Peace, Development and Environment. She holds a law degree from Humboldt University (Berlin) where she specialized in German and International Criminal Law. She is currently writing her MA thesis at PRIO about multinational private social media corporations and their potential obligation to prevent breaches of peace under International Law with a special focus on Feminist Legal Theory (FLT) and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).

Work positions
2025
Master's StudentPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2023–2024
Assistant CoordinatorGerman Federal Ministry of Justice - Division for International Law
Education
2024–2025
Master in Public International Law (LL.M.) University of OsloSpecialization: Gender, Peace, Development and Environment
2025
PRIO Summer School Peace Research University of Oslo
2015–2022
First State Examination in Law Humboldt University (Berlin)Specialization: German and International Criminal Law; Exchange: Aarhus University (Public International Law and European Law)
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