Email: julhan@prio.org
Twitter: @JulieMHansen
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.
Advisor to the Director (temporary) at PRIO, April-Oct 2022
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 - April 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, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016
MA (Hons) in Social Policy and Scandinavian Studies, College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh, 2011
English (native), Norwegian (fluent),
Swedish (fluent in written language),
Danish (fluent in written language), French (basic)
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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 workshop was part of the PRIO project 'On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation' (FAIR) and included both PRIO researchers and researchers from across the world.
The March 2021 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – March 2021 issue here.
Julie Marie Hansen, Doctoral Researcher at PRIO, presented a paper at
the international conference ‘Social Media in Armed Conflict’ on 25-26 November
2020.
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 conference will focus on the broad theme of social media and digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) in armed conflict and peace processes, with a particular focus on Myanmar. The deadline for submitting an abstract is now 28 August, 2020 (extended, see submission details below).
The December 2019 issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update is out now.
Read the Gender, Peace and Security Update – December 2019 issue here.
On 2 August, Julie Marie Hansen gave a talk about sexual violence in armed conflict at KSAS, Humanity Institute in Myitkyina, Myanmar. Hansen introduced current theories on the causes and consequences of conflict-related sexual violence, and an overview of efforts to prevent and mitigate the impact of this type of violence.