Karin Dyrstad – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Karin Dyrstad

Karin Dyrstad

Associate Researcher

Email: karin.dyrstad@ntnu.no

Karin holds MA and PhD degrees in political science from NTNU. She did her PhD research at PRIO 2008–2012 on a project titled "Prospects for democracy in South-East Europe. Democratic values and political participation in Balkan.”

For more info, see the above person page on ntnu.no or her personal web page.

Projects

Jan 2025 – Dec 2027
Micro-Foundations of Peace: Bureaucrats, Civilians, and Peacebuilding in Colombia (MicroPeace)

Aug 2021 – Jul 2025
From Curse to Demographic Dividends: Sub-Saharan Africa's Youth Bulges (DIVIDENDS)

Jan 2021 –
Forced Migration and Social Unrest

Jul 2020 – Dec 2024
TRUST: Attitudinal Impacts of Refugees on Host Communities in the Global South

Mar 2015 – Nov 2018
Attitudes for Peace

Apr 2008 – May 2012
Civil War and the Transformation of Values

Latest publications

All publications

Karin Dyrstad, Helga Malmin Binningsbø & Kristin M. Bakke (2022)
Wartime Experiences and Popular Support for Peace Agreements: Comparative Evidence from Three Cases

Journal article in Journal of Conflict Resolution

Amélie Godefroidt, Karin Dyrstad & Kristin M. Bakke (2022)
The past, Brexit, and the future in Northern Ireland: a quasi-experiment

Journal article in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Emily Grace Simmonds et al. (2022)
Insights into the quantification and reporting of model-related uncertainty across different disciplines

Journal article in iScience

Karin Dyrstad, Kristin M. Bakke & Helga Malmin Binningsbø (2021)
Perceptions of Peace Agreements and Political Trust in Post-War Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Journal article in International Peacekeeping

Karin Dyrstad & Solveig Hillesund (2020)
Explaining Support for Political Violence: Grievance and Perceived Opportunity

Journal article in Journal of Conflict Resolution

Karin Dyrstad & Helga Malmin Binningsbø (2019)
Between Punishment and Impunity: Public Support for Reactions against Perpetrators in Guatemala, Nepal and Northern Ireland

Journal article in International Journal of Transitional Justice

Karin Dyrstad et al. (2018)
Transitional Justice: What Do the People Want? Views from the ground in Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Conflict Trends

Karin Dyrstad & Ola Listhaug (2017)
Institutional Trust in the Yugoslav Successor States: A Comparative Approach

Book chapter in Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States, Accomplishments, Setbacks, Challenges since 1990

Karen Brounéus et al. (2017)
The Gendered Links between War-Related Trauma and Attitudes to Peace: Exploring Survey Data from Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Conference paper

Karin Dyrstad & Helga Malmin Binningsbø (2017)
Perceptions of transitional justice mechanisms in Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland

Conference paper

Latest news

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Successful Doctoral Defense by Karin Dyrstad

Karin Dyrstad, a PhD candidate at NTNU and a research associate of CSCW/PRIO successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Trondheim on 8 May.

Monday, 23 Apr 2012
PRIO and NTNU ranked top institutions in IR

The two institutions, which have a long-standing institutional relationship, are placed amongst the world’s most influential institutions in a recently released paper which takes takes its cue from the citations and recitations of scholarly articles within International Relations (IR).

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