Inger Skjelsbæk

Director - Centre for Gender Research

Professor - Centre for Gender Research

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Scholarly interests:

Gender, Peace and Security (GPS)
Conflict Relates Sexual Violence (CRSV)
Political psychology
Bosnia and the Balkans
Transitional justice
Norm Theories
Gender Equality Branding
Qualitative Research

Background:

I hold a PhD in political psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and was a researcher, research director and deputy director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) until 2015. I still hold a part time position as research professor at PRIO linked to the PRIO Center on Gender, Peace and Security. I was associate professor at the Department of Psychology at University of Oslo in the period 2013 - 2019. I have been a guest researcher at the Human Rights Center (HRC) and a Fulbright scholar the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) both at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a visiting fellow at the Center for Women, Peace and Security at London School of Economics (LSE). I am also head of Research group on gender and extremism at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) in addition to my position as professor at the Center for Gender Research at the University of Oslo.

SELECTED ACADEMIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Editorial memberships:

2018 Member of the Editorial Board of Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT)
2014 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP)
2011 Member of the Editorial Board of the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP)
2012 Member of the Editorial Board of Internasjonal Politikk (IP)

Journal referee:

Cooperation and Conflict; Disasters Journal; Feminism & Psychology; Internasjonal Politikk; International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Journal, International Journal of Transitional Justice; Journal of Peace Research; Nations and Nationalism; Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology; Political Psychology; Security Dialouge.

Membership of scientific societies:

I am a member of the International Studies Association (ISA). I have attended and presented work at these conferences since 1998. I am also a member of the Gender, Peace and Security, (GPS) Network which is a Norwegian network of scholars who focus on the GPS agenda.

Collaborations:

2016 - 2020 Responsible for the Gender Equality Pillar in the UiO:Norden Project entitled Nordic Branding (https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/nordic/research/research-groups/nordic-branding/)
2016 Center for Research on Extremism (CREX) - University of Oslo. Head of Research group on gender and extremism (https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/topics/gender-and-extremism/)
2015 - 2019 Project Leader for project Equal Peace? Women's Empowerment and Multicultural Challenges in War-to-Peace Transitions funded by FRIPRO, Norwegian Research Council
2015 Research Professor II (https://www.prio.org/People/Person/?x=3467) at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) at the Center on Gender, Peace and Security funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Teaching:

I have taught at the Department of Psychology, the Department of Political Science and at KULKOM at UiO. But, at the center for Gender Research I teach:

KFL 1020 Kjønn og vitenskap

Tags: Gender Peace and Security, Bosnia, Sexual violence, Conflict, Political psychology

Skjelsbæk, Inger & Bæk, Sindre (2022). The Women, Peace and Security norms as seen by Norwegian male officers . Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. ISSN 2245-0157.
Larsen, Eirinn; Moss, Sigrun Marie & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Introduction . In Larsen, Eirinn; Moss, Sigrun Marie & Skjelsbæk, Inger (Ed.), Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region . Routledge. ISSN 9780367861353. p. 1–12. doi: 10.4324/9781003017134. Full text in Research Archive
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Conceptualizing the Interpreter in Field Interviews in Post-Conflict Settings: Reflections From Psychological Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Researching Peace, Conflict, and Power in the Field. . Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-44113-5. p. 49–61. doi: %20https%3A/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44113-5_4.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Chapter 16. "Gender and war: Bosnian psychologists dealing with conflict related sexual violence during and after war". In Hagenaars, Polli; Plavšić, Marlena; Sveaas, Nora; Wagner, Ulrich & Wainwright, Tony (Ed.), Human Rights Education for Psychologists. Routledge. ISSN 9780429274312. p. 221–232.
Skjelsbæk, Inger; Hansen, Julie Marie & Lorentzen, Jenny Kathrine (2020). Hopes and misguided expectations: How policy documents frame gender in efforts at preventing terrorism and violent extremism. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689. 21(4), p. 469–486. doi: 10.1080/21567689.2020.1851873.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2020). Pro-gender norms in Norwegian peace engagement: Balancing experiences, values, and interests. Foreign Policy Analysis. ISSN 1743-8586. 16(2), p. 181–198. doi: 10.1093/fpa/orz028.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2019). Gender Equality and Norwegian Peace Engagement – A Balancing Act. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 43(4), p. 306–320. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2019-04-05. Full text in Research Archive
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Disarming conflict related sexual violence. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 36(1), p. 53–63. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2019-01-06. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Tildelingen av Nobels fredspris 2018 til Nadia Murad og Denis Mukwege for deres arbeid med å bekjempe seksuelle overgrep i krig representerer en enorm endring i forståelsen av hva denne formen for vold er, og hvordan den virker under og etter en krig. I dag anses seksuelle overgrep i krig som et krigsvåpen som kan og bør bekjempes både med forebygging og straffeforfølgelse. I denne artikkelen beskriver jeg kort hvordan denne nye forståelsen av seksuelle overgrep i krig har vokst frem, hvilken kunnskap vi har om fenomenet, og hvordan det jobbes for å hindre at slike kriminelle handlinger begås.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2019). Chapter 40: Donor States Delivering on WPS: The Case of Norway, The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190638276. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190638276.013.39.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Silence breakers in war and peace: Research on gender and violence with an ethics of engagement. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. ISSN 1072-4745. 25(4), p. 496–520. doi: 10.1093/sp/jxy031.
SkjelsbÃ¦k, Inger (2018). Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. In Williams, Timothy & Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (Ed.), Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics. Routledge. ISSN 978-0815386179. doi: 10.4324/9781351175869-9.
Houge, Anette Bringedal & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Securitising Sexual Violence: Transitions from War to Peace. In Fitz-Gibbon, Kate; Walklate, Sandra; McCulloch, J & Maher, JaneMaree (Ed.), Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security. Securing Women’s Lives in a Global World. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-13-870035-2.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Doeland, Elin Martine (2018). Narratives of Support and Resistance: A Political Psychological Analysis of the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Political Psychology. ISSN 0162-895X. 39(5), p. 995–1011. doi: 10.1111/pops.12466.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2016). Interpreting the interpreter: Navigating translation, interpretation, and mediation. Culture & Psychology. ISSN 1354-067X. 22(4), p. 502–519. doi: 10.1177/1354067X16650830. Show summary
As a psychologist who has conducted research interviews in a foreign language setting, I have found that the methodological literature does not provide needed insights on how to tackle the issue of interpreters and the following article is an attempt to untangle some of the methodological and theoretical concerns this situation entails. The starting point of analysis is the qualitative research interview and discusses what the methodological challenges and theoretical opportunities data gathering through interviews with the help of interpreters might entail.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2015). Women, War, Violence and Peacemaking - International Developments. p. 217–236.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2015). The Military Perpetrator: A Narrative Analysis of Sentencing Judgments on Sexual Violence Offenders at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The Journal of Social and Political Psychology. ISSN 2195-3325. 3(1), p. 46–70. doi: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.273.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). Seksualisert vold i krig. Speilvendt. ISSN 1893-4560. p. 4–7.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). Soldaten som overgriper. Forsvarets forum. ISSN 0809-845X. 5, p. 58–59.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2012). Responsibility to Protect or Prevent? Victims and Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Crimes in Armed Conflicts. Global Responsibility to Protect. ISSN 1875-9858. 4(2), p. 154–171. doi: 10.1163/187598412x639683.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2011). Sexual Violence in the Post-Yugoslav Wars. In Kuehnast, Kathleen; Oudraat, Chantal de Jonge & Hernes, Helga (Ed.), Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century. United States Institute of Peace Press. ISSN 978-1-60127-064-1. p. 65–84.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2011). Kvinner i det norske forsvaret: Likestilling eller operasjonelt imperativ? Sosiologi i dag. ISSN 0332-6330. 41(1), p. 53–75.
Harpviken, Kristian Berg & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2010). Tilslørt fredspolitikk. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 27(4), p. 379–388.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2009). Traditions and Transitions - Perceptions of "Good Womanhood" among twnety Bosnian Focus Group Participants. International Feminist Journal of Politics. ISSN 1461-6742. 11(3), p. 392–411. doi: 10.1080/14616740903017737.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2009). Kjønnsbasert vold i krig: Hvordan få god kunnskap og på hvilken måte? Sosiologi i dag. ISSN 0332-6330. 39(2), p. 72–90.

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Skjelsbæk, Inger; Larsen, Eirinn & Moss, Sigrun Marie (2021). Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISBN 9780367861353. 232 p.
Larsen, Eirinn; Moss, Sigrun Marie & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region . Routledge. ISBN 9780367861353. 233 p. Full text in Research Archive
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Helga Hernes: The State Feminist. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). ISBN 978-82-7288-846-5. 80 p. Show summary
What is the essential ingredient for bringing about lasting social change? An unbeatable idea? An outsider’s perspective? Power, alliances, sanctions, idols, exhaustion, encouragement, endurance, new beginnings departures or idealism? Or perhaps luck, or coincidence? Or individual people and role models? This article is about individual people , feminist political ambitions and hopes for specific changes. In particular, it is about one of the main strategists for gender equality in Norway, Helga Hernes. If there is a single issue in women’s politics that has preoccupied her , it has been women’s representation and participation in politics and society. This issue pervades everything she writes, everything she does. For Helga Hernes, the idea that women should have the power to influence the conditions that affect their lives, is about more than gender equality, it is about democracy as a whole.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). Statsfeministen, Statsfeminismen og Verden Utenfor. Aschehough. ISBN 978-82-03-35421-2. 91 p.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2011). The Political Psychology of War Rape: Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-67117-0. 172 p.
Skjelsbæk, Inger; Tryggestad, Torunn Lise & Skjeie, Hege (2008). Kjønn, Krig og Konflikt. Pax Forlag. ISBN 9788253030982. 250 p.

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Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Likestilling som konkurranse.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Paneldiscussion: Nordic models and brands in circulation .
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Panel discussion: Ethical challenges in research on war and peace.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Paneldebatt: Fredsnasjonen, eller Likestillingslandet? Konkurransen om Norge som merkevare.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Missing Peace online conference about Sexual violence in armed conflict.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Foredrag: Kjønnsbasert vold i krig .
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Om kjønnsforskning i Norge.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2021). Protecting the Brand? The Hesitant Incorporation of Gender Equality in the Peace Nation. In Skjelsbæk, Inger; Larsen, Eirinn & Moss, Sigrun Marie (Ed.), Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780367861353. p. 113–134.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Kjønnsbasert vold i krig. In Sørensen, Øystein; Hagtvet, Bernt & Brandal, Nikolai (Ed.), Politisk vold: Former og årsaker . Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282655231. p. 99–118.
Skjelsbæk, Inger; Towns, Ann; Petersen, Klaus; Rom-Jensen, Byron & Leira, Halvard (2021). Nordic models and brands in circulation.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2021). Kjønnsforståelse som forutsetning for rettferdighet etter terrorangrep?
Klitgård, Mathias; Skumsnes, Reinert Vikjord; Stubberud, Elisabeth; Averin, Ro; Skjelsbæk, Inger & Losleben, Katrin [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2021). Hvordan fremme et nasjonalt fagfelt? I. Show summary
I liket med andre fagfelt opplever også kjønnsforskningen økende utfordringer: Internasjonalisering, økende konkurranse, kriteriestyrt måling av kvalitet, fragmentering av fagfelt, finansiering, manglende dugnadsånd. Forening for kjønnsforskning (FOK) har invitert representanter fra de sentrale institusjoner i det norske kjønnsforskningsfeltet, tilgrensende fagfelt nasjonalt, og i naboland og spør: Hvilke utfordringer har vi? Hvordan håndteres disse i dag? Hvilke grep kan/bør kjønnsforskningen ta i møte med disse i fremtiden? Innledere og ordstyrere: Reinert Skumsnes (UiO) Forening for kjønnsforskning i Norge og Mathias Klitgård (UiS) Forening for kjønnsforskning i Norge Paneldeltakere: Siri Øyslebø Sørensen (NTNU) KjønnsforskningNå!, Ingvil Hellstrand (UiS) Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, Katrin Losleben (UiT) Den nasjonale forskerskolen, Sofia Strid (UniÖrebro) Nordic Association of Feminist and Gender Research, Inger Skjelsbæk (UiO) PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Center, Ro Averin, Black Feminist Fridays: Nordic and Beyond, UNLRN PRJCT, Elisabeth Stubberud (NTNU) Garmeres, avd. Norge
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). "Gender and PVE", panel discussion at the seminar entitled "Preserving Spaces for Dialogue in the Middle East " on the occasion of the Norwegian Royal visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in March 2020. Show summary
The discourse on violent extremism is evolving rapidly. In recent years, new insights and policy prescriptions have been particularly visible when it comes to the gendered aspects of the issue. Although violent extremism remains an area of contestation, we have seen a general maturing of the international debate, with both Jordan and Norway at the forefront in advocating broader understandings and more comprehensive policies. Together, the two countries launched the Group of Friends of Preventing Violent Extremism – #Friends4PVE – in New York on 28 September 2017.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Bosnia and Herzegovina – a Failed State 25 Years After the Peace Accords . PRIO Blogs. Show summary
The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are governed by three presidents, 14 prime ministers, 180 ministers, and 700 members of parliament (who sit in 14 different parliaments).
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Bosnia-Hercegovina - en mislykket stat 25 år etter fredsavtalen. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Emerging Issues. New Voices: An Intergenerational and intersectional approach to Women, Peace and Security. Show summary
Building on 20 Years of Women, Peace and Security: The Norwegian National Commemoration of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 - National Commemoration
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the time of COVID-19: A hidden pandemic?
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Hopes and misguided expectations: How policy documents frame gender in efforts at preventing terrorism and violent extremism.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Seksuelle overgrep i krig.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Kvinner i Krig: Hvordan skal vi forstå seksuelle overgrep i krig.
Fangen, Katrine & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Editorial to special issue on gender and the far right. Politics, Religion & Ideology. ISSN 2156-7689. 21(4), p. 411–415. doi: 10.1080/21567689.2020.1851866. Show summary
Debates about, as well as changes in, gender norms and gender policies have great potential for political mobilization: they encircle social and political developments as movements towards societal stabilization—or its opposite, destabilization. Contested issues include abortion, family policy, whether women are by nature more suited for childcare than men, sex education in schools, teaching of gender studies at universities, views on sexual minorities (including homosexuals’ right to marry and to adopt children). Positions on these issues follow political dividing lines, with the far right at one end of the spectrum. At the same time as the global governance system is pushing for increased gender equality, there are powerful forces opposed to such a goal. Anti-feminist and anti-gender-equality sentiments mark new nationalist policies and rhetoric, as well as populist and extremist mobilization. Several scholars have argued that we are witnessing the rise of a new form of patriarchy and masculine norms and grievances, as well as the fear of a low of traditional values. Male resentment and victimhood among certain groups is heralded as one of many explanatory factors for much of the nationalist mobilization and political change observed in recent years: from the coming to power of Donald J. Trump in the USA, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Brexit and illiberal democratic developments in Europe.
Tryggestad, Torunn Lise & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Launch of the Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security. Show summary
5 June: Launch of Oxford Handbook on Women, Peace and Security at PRIO Chair of event (Torunn L. Tryggestad) Presentation (by Inger Skjelsbæk) of co-authored chapter: ‘Donor States Delivering on WPS: The Case of Norway’
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Donor States Delivering on WPS: The Case of Norway’.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Sexual violence in times of war - developments in international research and poliocy.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV): Research, knowledge and policy in transition.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Gender dimensions of the Bosnian conflict.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Sexual Violence in times of war.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Kjønnsbasert voldi krig - internasjonal utvikling og respons.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV): Research, knowledge and policy in transitional settings.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2019). Cathrine Holst, Hege Skjeie, Mari Teigen (red.): Europeisering av nordisk likestillingspolitikk. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 43(3), p. 250–252. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Gender, peace and conflict: international research and policy developments.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "How to do Project Development" Career Development presentation for Phd and Postdoc scholars at Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX).
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Nobels fredspris 2018: Voldtekt som våpen i krig". Publisert i NUPIs serie HVOR HENDER DET https://www.nupi.no/Skole/HHD-Artikler/2018/Nobels-fredspris-2018-Voldtekt-som-vaapen-i-krig. Hvor hender det?. ISSN 0801-9509.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Usedvanlig verdige fredsprismottagere. Kronikk Morgenbladet. 8. oktober 2018 https://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2018/10/usedvanlig-verdige-fredsprismottagere . Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Kjemper mot seksuell vold". Intervju I Klassekampen 6. oktober 2018. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Lege Denis Mukwege og Nadia Murad fikk fredsprisen 2018 - var på operasjonssalen". Intervju I VG 5. oktober 2018 https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/e1L9WM/lege-denis-mukwege-og-nadia-murad-fikk-fredsprisen-2018-var-paa-operasjonssalen . [Newspaper]. VG.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad". PRIO blog posted on 5 October 2018 https://blogs.prio.org/2018/10/nobel-peace-prize-to-denis-mukwege-and-nadia-murad/ . PRIO Blogs.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad" Blogpost at the London School of Economics (LSE) on 5 October 2018 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2018/10/05/nobel-peace-prize-to-denis-mukwege-and-nadia-murad/. LSE blog.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Et språk for overgrep". Intervju I Vårt Land 8.oktober 2018 https://www.vl.no/nyhet/et-sprak-for-overgrep-1.1214080. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Riktig, viktig og til rett tid" Intervju I Dagsavisen 6.10.2018 https://www.dagsavisen.no/verden/riktig-viktig-og-til-rett-tid-1.1213493. [Newspaper]. Dagsavisen.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Slik har seksuell vold blitt brukt gjennom tidene". NRK intervju 5. oktober. 2018 https://www.nrk.no/norge/slik-har-seksuell-vold-blitt-brukt-som-vapen-gjennom-tidene-1.14236394. [Internet]. NRK.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2018). Presentation at Nordic Branding workshop.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Organized this event: https://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/centres/global-health/news-and-events/events/2018/securing-health-care-of-hidden-populations---the-c.html.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Når mennene forsvinner" https://morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/2018/07/nar-mennene-forsvinner . [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Norwegian Peace Mediation and Gender Equality" Presentation at Nordic Branding Annual Conference, UiO:Norden 13 -14 August 2018.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). "Gender dimensions of Norwegian Peace Mediation" UiO:Norden Nordic Branding workshop on gender equality 20 - 21 June 2018 at Jeløya, Norway.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Gender and Extremism, C-REX workshop on Gender and Extremism 14 - 15 May, Oslo.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Workshop on "Women and Girls in Violent Extremism as Perpetrators, Survivors and Peacebuilders" organized with Center for Research on Extremism(C-REX), UiO, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and International Civil Society Action Netowrk (ICAN) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2018). "Norway’s Peace Engagement: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?" Presentation at International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, 7. April 2018 . Show summary
The national self-image of Norway is as a gender equal and peace promoting nation. Norwegian gender equality policies grew out of a strong social and political civil society engagement from below combined with equal rights laws as well as quota systems implemented from above. This dual pressure, or interaction, between the government and civil society proved to be very effective and has been labelled ‘state feminism’. Scholars researching the Nordic woman-friendly states have asked whether one of the premises for the emergence of this state model was based, in part, on the fact that the states were small and relatively homogenous, inevitably arguing that this way of making gender specific changes may not be possible to transfer to other contexts. Still, state feminist thinking, as well as mode of operating, is integral to Norway’s many peace engagements around the world. In this paper we explore how gender equality concerns and women’s empowerment became part of Norwegian peace mediation efforts historically, how such concerns are promoted by Norwegian peace facilitators in peace mediation practice, and to what extent the Norwegian identity of the peace facilitator has hindered or facilitated the inclusion of gender equality norms based on a state feminist model.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Kjønnsbasert vold i krig. Faglig foredrag på NKVTS 15.mars.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2018). "Gender and peacebuilding" Gjesteforelesning. PECOS 4110 - International Negoiations and Conflict Resolution.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). «Gender Based Violence in Peacebuilding and Mediation». Guest Lecture at the PDA Fellowship Program at the UNDP Oslo Governance Center (OGC).
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). De velter seg i luksus og har politisk innflytelse. Her er de forhatte diktatorkonene. [Newspaper]. VG.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2018). Kvinner, Fred og Sikkerhet, internasjonale perspektiver. Invitert taler til lunch seminar Gimle Rotary.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2017). Gender and Peacebuilding Research. Lunch seminar, Senter for Tverrfaglig Kjønn og Kvinneforskning, UiO.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). Prosjekt utvikling for forskere. Invitert innleder til forsknings seminar om prosjektutvikling ved Det Norske Menighetsfakultet.
Skjelsbæk, Inger; Sveaass, Nora; Evang, Karl; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Moss, Sigrun Marie (2017). Verden med Trump - et politisk psykologisk blikk. Show summary
Hva skjer når USAs mektigste mann spiller på frykt og følelse av avmakt?Hvordan blir det når mennesker utestenges og marginaliseres og det skapes avstand mellom «oss» og «dem»? Innlederne tar for seg politisk ledelse og strategier fra et psykologisk perspektiv og ser på menneskerettighetsbrudd og internasjonale forpliktelser i en verden med Trump.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). Olav den hellige var et svin. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). "Kjønn i Krig og konflikt" Podcast laget av Kilden i podcast serien "Kjønnsavdelingen". 20. september 2017 https://soundcloud.com/kjonnsavdelingen/kjonn-i-krig-og-konflikt . [Internet]. Kjønnsavdelingen, Kildens podcast.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). Missing Peace Symposium 2017 Preventing sexual violence in conflict: Is fighting impunity the only game in town? International Conference Organized by PRIO and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). Norsk unnfallenhet. Kronikk 30 juni 2017. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
Houge, Anette Bringedal & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2017). Sexual violence as rupture and continuum in societies transitioning from war to peace.
Andenæs, Agnes; Benum, Kirsten; Carlquist, Erik; Halvorsen, Margrethe S.; Hauge, Mona-Iren & Madsen, Ole Jacob [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2017). Sneversynt om psykologisk kunnskap. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. 198(5), p. 28–29.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2016). Skal beskytte sivile - begår seksuelle overgrep. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). Responsibility to Protect or Prevent? Victims and Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts. In Stamnes, Eli; Davies, Sara E.; Nwokora, Zim & Teitt, Sarah (Ed.), Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004257689. p. 81–101.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). "It's not small talk material - om krig, fred, vold og forskning. Nytt blikk : årsskrift fra Stiftelsen Arkivet. ISSN 1893-1960. p. 124–135.
Skjelsbæk, Inger (2013). "It's not small talk material" - om krig, fred, vold og forskning. Samtiden. Tidsskrift for politikk, litteratur og samfunnsspørsmål.
Lorentzen, Jenny Kathrine; Björkdahl, Annika & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2020). Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda. Lund University Open Access. ISSN 978-91-7895-670-8. Show summary
This thesis examines the multiple and often overlapping encounters between ‘global’ and ‘local’ norms, actors, practices, and discourses which take place when norms travel between different socio-political contexts. This is done through a study of how global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are promoted in two war to peace transitions: Mali and Rwanda. Since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, the WPS agenda has emerged as a powerful international normative framework and has become a key component of international peacebuilding efforts. Through four papers, the thesis demonstrates how global and local actors engage with WPS norms in multiple, overlapping and sometimes unexpected ways, producing a range of outcomes that shape both the meanings and trajectories of norms. The thesis advances the empirical study of norms by combining a number of analytical approaches and data sources, including unique and comprehensive data on the peace process in Mali generated through extensive fieldwork. It outlines a conceptual framework for studying normative encounters and related processes of contestation, friction, localization and appropriation. These processes are explored in the papers, where I develop existing theories and concepts from the literatures on the ‘agency of the governed’ and critical peacebuilding. Together, the papers provide important insights concerning the ability of agents to shape the meanings and trajectories of norms through meaning-making practices. These include practices of resistance and refinement at the Malian peace negotiations (Paper 1), frictional interactions in the Malian peace process (Paper 2), discursive practices of re-presentation by local elites in Mali (Paper 3) and policy production by the Government of Rwanda (Paper 4). Further, when agents are involved in these processes, they construct and produce new meanings and realities through their engagement with norms. The thesis shows how actors contribute to increased norm precision through the development of operating principles (Paper 1), how they construct positions and locations from which to claim authority and legitimacy (Papers 2, 3 and 4), as well as new identities (Papers 2 and 3) and subjects to be governed (Papers 3 and 4).
Mochmann, Ingvill C. & Skjelsbæk, Inger (2018). Children Born of War (CBOW): Between Stigmatization, Integration and Empowerment. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). ISSN 978-82-7288-937-0. 2018(3).
Skjelsbæk, Inger; Sveaas, Nora & Kvaale, Rikke Marie Gjerde (2015). Therapeutic Prosecutions? Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). ISSN 978-82-7288-604-1. 2015(4).