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Inger Skjelsbæk
Senior Researcher, Deputy Director
Email: Inger@prio.no
Work phone: 4722 54 77 51
Mobile phone: 4793 80 24 92
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Current Research

Research Project titled: Why Rape? Perpetrator, Punishment and Social Narratives

  • Research project funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs entitled Women in Armed Conflict and Peace building: Implementing Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
  • Research entitled SHUR-Human Rights in Conflicts: The Role of Civil Society, a STREP Project funded by the FP6 of the European Commission

 

Languages spoken:

English, French and German


Working experience:


2009- : Deputy Director at PRIO
2008-2009: Programme Leader of the Ethics, Norms and Identities programme at PRIO
1996 - : Researcher at PRIO

2002/2003: Guest Researcher and Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies (ISEEES) at the University of California, Berkeley, USA


Education:

2007 Dr. Polit. Degree at the Institute for Psychology, University of Trondheim (NTNU). The title of the Ph.D. dissertation is "Sexual Violence In Time of War: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity in the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina".

1996, Cand. Polit. Degree from the University of Trondheim (NTNU) with a Master’s degree in psychology. The title of the Master’s dissertation was "Women and War: A Qualitative Study of the Construction of Femininity in the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia, El Salvador and Vietnam".
1993, Cand. Mag. Degree from the University of Oslo with the following subjects: English language and literature, French language and literature, Psychology and Social science statistics.

Books and reports
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2010. 'The Elephant in the Room: An Overview of How Sexual Violence came to be Seen as a Weapon of War', report to Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo: PRIO.
Skjeie, Hege; Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, 2008. Kjønn, Krig og Konflikt. PRIO, Oslo, Norway: Pax forlag.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2007. 'Gender Aspects of International Military Interventions: National and International Perspectives', PRIO Paper.
Tryggestad, Torunn L. & Inger Skjelsbæk, 2007. 'Kvinner i Forsvaret og implementering av FNs Sikkerhetsrådsresolusjon 1325 om kvinner, fred og sikkerhet: Potensial, status og anbefalte tiltak' [Women in the Norwegian Armed Forces and Implementation of UN SC Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security: Potential, status and recommendations ], Report commissioned by the Defence Study 2007. Oslo: PRIO, May.
Barth, Elise Fredrikke; Karen Hostens & Inger Skjelsbæk, 2004. 'Gender Aspects of Conflict Interventions: Intended and Unintended Consequences', report to Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo: PRIO.
Hostens, Karen; Inger Skjelsbæk & Elise Fredrikke Barth, 2003. 'Gender Aspects of Conflict Interventions: Policy Implications of Studies of the TIPH, UNMEE and SFOR'. preliminary report to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Dan Smith, eds, 2001. Gender, Peace and Conflict. London: SAGE.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 1999. Sexual Violence in Times of War. An Annotated Bibliography. Oslo: PRIO.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 1997. 'Gendered Battlefields. A Gender Analysis of Peace and Conflict', PRIO Report . Oslo: PRIO.
Articles
Chun, Suk & Inger Skjelsbæk, 2010. 'Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts', PRIO Policy Brief 1, Oslo: PRIO.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Torunn L. Tryggestad, 2009. 'Women in the Norwegian Armed Forces. Gender Equality or Operational Imperative?', Minerva Journal of Women and War 3(2): 34–51.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2009. 'Bare Beskyttelse?' [Only Protection?], Dagbladet, 6 October.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2009. 'Traditions and Transitions: Perceptions of 'Good Womanhood' Among Twenty Bosnian Focus Group Participants', International Feminist Journal of Politics 11(3): 392–411.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2009. 'Kjønnsbasert vold i krig: Hvordan få god kunnskap og på hvilken måte?' [Gender Based Violence in War: How to get good knowlede and in which ways?], Sociologi i dag 39(2): 72–90.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2008. 'Demokrati og Likestilling' [Democracy and Gender Equality] in Knut Midgaard & Bjørn Erik Rasch, eds, Demokrati: Vilkår og Virkninger. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget (349–365).
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2008. 'Statskvinne med barrierebrytergen. Om forskeren , feministen og politikeren Helga Hernes' [Helga Hernes: Researcher, Feminist and Politician], PROSA 4.
Hernes, Helga, 2008. 'De nye krigene i et kjønnsperspektiv' in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2008. 'Kjønn og vold i krigssonen' in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax.
Bergsmo, Morten & Morten Bergsmo, 2008. 'Tematisk etterforskning og straffeforfølging av seksualisert vold i konflikt: er det en uproblematisk praksis?' in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax (pp. 79 – 91).
Tønnesson, Stein, 2008. 'Hva er nytt i krig?' in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax.
Tryggestad, Torunn L., 2008. 'Kvinner, fred og sikkerhet - en ny dagsorden i FN' [Women, Peace and Security - A New UN Agenda] in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax.
Syse, Henrik, 2008. 'Krigens etikk - bare for menn?' [Ethics of War - for Men Only?] in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig, konflikt - jubileumsbok til Helga Hernes. Oslo: Pax (92–102).
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2007. 'Kvinner i Kamp' [Women in Battle], Morgenbladet, 24 August.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2006. 'Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina', Feminism and Psychology 16(4): 373–403.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2006. 'En Fredsforskers syn på dyd', Minerva 82(1): 29–31.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2006. 'Therapeutic Work With Victims of Sexual Violence in War and Postwar: A Discourse Analysis of Bosnian Experiences', Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 12(2): 93–118.
Tryggestad, Torunn L. & Inger Skjelsbæk, 2005. 'Det kvinnelige sikkerhetsbegrep' [The Female Concept of Security], Morgenbladet, 2 December.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2003. 'Seksualisert vold i krig – antakelser og utfordringer' [Sexual Violence in War – assumptions and challenges], Sociologisk Forskning 4.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2003. 'The Role of Gender in South Asian Conflict Zones', Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 9(4): 387–389.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2003. 'Flere kvinner i forsvaret' [More women in the military], Dagbladet, 22 December.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2001. 'Sexual Violence and War: Mapping out a Complex Relationship', European Journal of International Relations 7(2): 211–237.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2001. 'Sexual Violence and War: Mapping Out a Complex Relationship', European Journal of International Relations 7(2): 211–237.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2001. 'Is Femininity Inherently Peaceful? The Construction of Femininity in War' in Gender, Peace and Conflict. London: Sage.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 1999. 'The Use of Sexual Violence in Times of War: A Review of the Scholarly Literature' in Women and Armed Conflicts. Oslo: NUPI (37–70).
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 1998. 'Kjønnsidentitet: Er feminitet iboende fredelig?', Internasjonal Politikk 56(1): 55–74.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 1997. 'Seksualisert vold som våpen i krig' in Kvinner, krise og krig (Women, Crisis and War), NUPI Rapport 225. Oslo: NUPI (47–55).
Other
Krampe, Florian, 2009. 'Changing Identity - Belligerents Transformation towards Reconciliation. An explorative study on Zimbabwe and South Africa', Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Supervisors: Inger Skjelsbæk & Peter Wallensteen. Defended 20 May.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2007. Review of Charli R. Carpenter, ed., 'Innocent Women and Children: Gender Norms and the Protection of Civilians' in Gender and Development 15(2): 345–347.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2007. 'Voicing Silence: A Political-psychological Analysis of the Aftermath of the Bosnian War-rapes', Department of Psychology, NTNU. Supervisors: Hjørdis Kaul, Berit Schei & Gregory Reichberg. Defended 5 February.
Skjelsbæk, Inger, 2005. 'Sexual Violence In Time of War: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity in the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina', Institute of Psychology, . .