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    Inger Skjelsbæk

    Inger Skjelsbæk

    Research Professor

    Email: inger@prio.org

    Mobile phone: (+47) 938 02 492

    X: @IngerSkjelsbaek

    Interests and experience

    Research project titled Why Rape? Perpetrator, Punishment and Social Narratives, funded by the Research Council of Norway (personal post-doc)

    Research project titled Gender, Conflict and Peacebuilding, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    Research project titled Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC), pilot study funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    Book publication, 15 September, 2011: The Political Psychology of War Rape: Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina (London: Routledge) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415671170/

    An extensive interview with Inger Skjelsbæk by Cindy Horst was published as part of the 60th Anniversary series PRIO Stories in August 2019.

    Topic
    Children
    Topic
    Gender
    Topic
    Sexual Violence
    Topic
    Ukraine War

    Languages spoken:

    English, French and German

    Working experience:

    2009-2015 : Deputy Director at PRIO

    Aug 2013 - Feb 2014: Research Director, Dimensions of Security Department, PRIO

    2011/2012 (summers): Visiting scholar at the Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley

    2008-2009: Programme Leader of the Ethics, Norms and Identities programme at PRIO

    2002-2003: Guest Researcher and Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies (ISEEES) at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

    1996- : Researcher at PRIO

    Associate editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics since July 2011

    Education

    2007 Dr. Polit. Degree at the Institute for Psychology, University of Trondheim (NTNU). The title of the Ph.D. dissertation is "Sexual Violence In Time of War: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity in the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina". 1996, Cand. Polit. Degree from the University of Trondheim (NTNU) with a Master’s degree in psychology. The title of the Master’s dissertation was "Women and War: A Qualitative Study of the Construction of Femininity in the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia, El Salvador and Vietnam".1993, Cand. Mag. Degree from the University of Oslo with the following subjects: English language and literature, French language and literature, Psychology and Social science statistics.

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