- Armed conflict and maternal- and child health
- Education and conflict
- Education and crime
- Sexual and gender-based violence
- Children in conflict
- Horizontal inequalities and conflict
- Socioeconomics of Islamist Radicalization
Gudrun Østby is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Deputy Editor of the Journal of Peace Research. In 2019-2020 she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Center for International Development & Conflict Management, University of Maryland. Much of her research focuses on the socioeconomic consequences of political violence (in particular health and education), conflict-related sexual- and gender-based violence, horizontal inequalities and conflict, Islamist radicalization, and the effectiveness of development aid. Her work has appeared in journals such as Demography, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Population and Development Review, Review of Educational Research, Social Science & Medicine, and World Development. She has done consultancy work for i.a. Save the Children, UNESCO, USAID, and the World Bank. She is the recipient of the 2022 Fulbright Best Article of the Year award and is alumna member of the Young Academy of Norway.
Gudrun's complete list of publications is accessible here through Google Scholar.
Conflict Trends
Journal article in World Development
Journal article in Development Policy Review
Conflict Trends
Journal article in Journal on Education in Emergencies
Journal article in Population and Development Review
Journal article in International Review of Education
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO has received funding for an innovative new project titled Conflict-related attacks on education and children’s lost life opportunities. The multi-year ‘EdAttack’ project is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Gudrun Østby and Sebastian Schutte are replacing Scott Gates as Editors-in-Chief of the journal, while Juliane Stötter replaces Bertrand Lescher-Nuland as Managing Editor.
The Research Council of Norway announced funding for 21 new projects this week. PRIO was delighted at the funding of two of its projects.
New report shows 27,638 grave violations against children in conflict took place in 2022.
This week Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: The Forgotten Ones.
The Fulbright Alumni Association Norway (FAAN) has by scholarly committee awarded Gudrun the Fulbright Article Prize for 2022.
Every year, JPR publishes special issues on topics of high relevance to the field of peace research, and we are now soliciting proposals for the 2024 special issue.
Today, Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment.
Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.
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.
PRIO Researcher Gudrun Østby was mentioned in relation to PRIO’s data in the latest Save the Children report, ‘Stop the War on Children: Let Children Live in Peace,’ by the Italian outlet, Italy24. PRIO’s data was also mentioned in the same context by Korean outlets Civil Reporter and Acrofan.
PRIO’s data was used in the Save the Children report, titled ‘Stop the War on Children: Let Children Live in Peace,’ with Gudrun Østby quoted in the press release that was published alongside it. PRIO and Gudrun were mentioned in much of the global media coverage around the report, including by Euronews, the Norwegian newswire NTB, Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen, Radio Haugaland, ePressi, Italy’s Napoli Magazine, Vatican News and Tus Ultimas Noticias. Gudrun was also interviewed by Channel Africa Radio on the report.
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