Additional positions:
Deputy Editor for Journal of Peace Research
My major research interests includes: Non-Violence, Civil War Theory, Post-Conflict Stability, Political Economy and Statistical Modeling.
My PhD project; 'Desisting from Violence: The selection of Non-Violent vs. Violent Strategies', is on the strategic choices made by opposition groups, and what causes a non-violent, violent or mixed strategy.
Working Experience
2017 - : Senior Researcher
2017 - : Deputy Editor, Journal of Peace Research
Languages spoken
Norwegian, English and Spanish
Education
2017: PhD at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences - NTNU
2007-2009: M. Phil, Political Science, University of Oslo
2006-2007: Courses in Sociology and Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley
2003-2006: BA, Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
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For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights. The series of events are called Oslo Peace Days.
PRIO will contribute to this year's Oslo Peace Days with four events, including the prestigious PRIO Annual Peace Address.
Yesterday, a video featuring the Global Women, Peace and Security Index went viral on TikTok, garnering over 700,000 likes so far.
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. We welcome issues on topics that significantly advance the research frontier of the field, with a focus on causes and consequences of violence, conflict prevention and resolution, and nonviolent action.
The most relevant PRIO researchers to comment on aspects relevant to the Russia-Ukraine War are listed here.
Friday, we got to know that a large project has been funded by the Research Council of Norway's INFRASTRUKTUR initiative, that aims to build up relevant, up-to-date infrastructure that is accessible to the research community, to various private and public sector user groups, and to the general public.
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.
New research note co-authored by the PRIO Centre for Gender, Peace and Security and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security investigates the relationship between women’s wellbeing and risk factors associated with an overwhelming COVID-19 outbreak. Are nations that perpetuate injustice, exclusion, and insecurity for women less prepared to handle an epidemic outbreak, like COVID-19?
Security Dialogue (SD) and the Journal of Peace Research (JPR) remain in the top quartile of journal rankings.
Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (previously Web of Science/Thomson Reuter's) show the journals' two-year Impact Factor (IF). This is the most commonly used metric of journal influence measuring the average number of citations to articles published in the last two volumes.
JPR publishes annual special issues on topics of high relevance to the
field of peace research, and is now soliciting proposals for the 2022 special
issue. We welcome issues on topics that significantly advance the research
frontier of the field, with a focus on causes and consequences of violence,
conflict prevention and resolution, and nonviolent action.
PRIO has long been at the forefront of research on protest movements.
As of 2020 PRIO houses three major projects that simultaneously are investigating mass mobilizations and protests. As a result, we will have a large team of leading experts in the field. This is something that no other research institution can boast of, either nationally or internationally.
Read more about this in Tora Sagård's summing up of these projects and the links between them.