- Gender, peace and security
- Sexual and gender-based violence
- Digital technology
- Social media
- Myanmar
Email: julhan@prio.org
Julie Marie Hansen is completing her doctoral work at PRIO and the University of Oslo on the role of social media in countering sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict settings, with a focus on Myanmar.
Administrative Assistant at PRIO, Aug 2023 - present
Doctoral Researcher at PRIO and Department of Media and Communication at University of Oslo, doing research on social media in armed conflict from a gender perspective and with focus on Myanmar context, Feb 2018 - present
Advisor to the Director (cover) at PRIO, April-Oct 2022
Project Coordinator of 'On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation' project at PRIO, Sept 2020 - Dec 2021 (part-time)
Researcher & Centre Manager of PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, PRIO, Sept 2017 - Feb 2018
Research Assistant & Centre Coordinator of PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, PRIO, July 2015 - Sept 2017
Research Assistant on 'Gender, Conflict and Peacebuilding' project at PRIO, Feb - July 2015
Research Assistant at Swisspeace, working on data collection, data analysis and report writing for research on gendered impacts of armed conflict and peacebuilding in southeast Myanmar, July - Dec 2014
Political Section Intern at British Embassy Oslo, working on international development policy analysis and Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI), Feb - July 2014
Translator from Norwegian, Danish and Swedish to English, freelance and in-house, 2011–2014
MSc in International Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, 2016
MA (Hons) in Social Policy and Scandinavian Studies, University of Edinburgh, College of Humanities and Social Science, 2011
English (native), Norwegian (fluent), French (intermediate), Arabic (beginner)
Journal Article in International Studies Perspectives
Journal Article in Politics, Religion & Ideology
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GPS Policy Brief by Julie Marie Hansen
A new podcast series on ethics in peace negotiations is now available on Spotify.
The PRIO project “On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation” (FAIR) organized a workshop in Cyprus in partnership with the PRIO Cyprus Centre, PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, 19-21 October.
Doctoral candidates from all over the world attended PRIO's PhD-level course on Gender, Peace and Conflict.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – September 2021 issue here.
On 9-10 September 2021, around 20 researchers met for a hybrid online-offline workshop to share their research on specific cases of ethical issues in peace negotiations and mediation.
The March 2021 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.
The June 2020 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.
Julie Marie Hansen, Doctoral Researcher at PRIO, presented a paper atthe international conference ‘Social Media in Armed Conflict’ on 25-26 November2020.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) invite submissions of abstracts for papers to be presented at the Social Media in Armed Conflict conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2020.
The December 2019 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.