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Lina Stotz

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Academic interests

  • Socio-legal methods
  • International criminal law
  • Victims rights
  • Conflict-related sexual violence
  • Children born of war (CBOW)

Lina Stotz completed her PhD with the Faculty of Law and the Centre for Gender Research, funded through the EuroWARCHILD project. Lina's PhD thesis is titled "Children Born of War and Narratives of (Non-)Recognition in International Criminal Law and Beyond".

Background

Lina is a board member of the Children Born of War Project, was section manager on domestic and sexual violence at Terre des Femmes, policy advisor at the Society for Threatened Peoples and trainee at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. In these capacities, she worked with victims of sexual violence and with children born of war from Northern Iraq, Uganda,  Myanmar/Bangladesh, Nigeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Besides her PhD degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo, Lina holds an LLM and an LLB in international law from universities in Switzerland and the Netherlands. For her LLB thesis on a gender-specific interpretation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, she received her university's annual award in 2017. 

Lina has lived, studied and worked in Myanmar, Laos, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Publications

  • Stotz, Lina Susanne (2026). Between mother and father: Gender in personal narratives of children born of war in the context of international criminal justice. Leiden Journal of International Law. ISSN 0922-1565. p. 1–25. doi: 10.1017/s0922156526100879. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2024). The Normative Framework Behind the (Non-) Recognition of Children Born of War in International Criminal Law. International Criminal Law Review. ISSN 1567-536X. 24(3), p. 319–354. doi: 10.1163/15718123-bja10192. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2023). The Evolution of Child Soldiers from ‘Villains to Victims’ in Law and Policy and its Significance for Children Born of War. In Borge, Baard Herman; Kleinau, Elke & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (Ed.), Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783111010649. doi: 10.1515/9783111010649-012. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Stotz, Lina & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2025). Post-conflict construction of identity and mobilization as a tool of empowerment of children born of WWII. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skjelsbæk, Inger; Tryggestad, Torunn Lise; Stotz, Lina; Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2025). Full day workshop EuroWARCHILD. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skjelsbæk, Inger; Græger, Nina; Tryggestad, Torunn Lise; Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze; Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke & Stotz, Lina (2025). Humanising IR and Politics of Care. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2025). Narrative shifts on Child Soldiers and the Significance for Children Born of War. Full text in Research Archive
  • Cocciarelli, Andrea; Fesenko, Olesia; Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Stotz, Lina & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2025). Children born of war in Ukraine: Policy considerations for a future peace. GPS Policy Brief. 2025(6), p. 1–4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skjelsbæk, Inger; Tryggestad, Torunn Lise; Stotz, Lina & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2024). Reflecting on the Lives of Children Born out of War. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2024). Children and transitional justice. Full text in Research Archive
  • Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Stotz, Lina & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2023). Don’t Forget the Children Born of War in Ukraine. PRIO Blogs. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2023). “One could not speak of victims in the case of a Tätervolk” : Perceptions of victimhood of children born of war in historical perspective. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2023). From ‘villains to victims’: The evolution of child soldiers in policy and law and its significance for children born of war. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2023). Children in armed conflict – processes of recognition in law and policy and the way forward. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2023). Das Drama vergewaltigter Frauen und ihrer „Kinder des Krieges“. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina & Mukasa, Norman (2023). Children Born of War: Bridging the Divide Between Research and Policy. PRIO Policy Brief. GPS Policy Brief(5). Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina; Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke; Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Tobiasen, Sunniva Árja & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2022). Kinder des Krieges. Für Vielfalt: Zeitschrift für Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte. 329(2). Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina (2022). Religious tradition, protection and human rights: Children Born of War in the Yazidi community. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina; Elvebakken, Johanne Rokke; Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze; Skjelsbæk, Inger; Tobiasen, Sunniva Árja & Tryggestad, Torunn Lise (2022). Children Born of War Should be More Than an Afterthought. PRIO Blogs. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stotz, Lina; Smith, Peter Scharff; Lohne, Kjersti & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2026). Children Born of War and Narratives of (Non-) Recognition in International Criminal Law and Beyond. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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