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Anita Schjølset
Senior Researcher
Email: anita@prio.no
Work phone: 4722547704
Mobile phone: 466 89 872
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Current Research

I am currently working on the project 'NATO and the Women: Exploring the Gender Gap in the Armed Forces.' The focus of this project is to explore the variation in representation of women in armed forces across NATO countries. The research focuses on:

  • Summary and analysis of existing research findings and literature on recruitment of female personnel across NATO countries.   
  • Discussion of strategies and techniques for recruiting women in NATO countries and assessment of the relevance for Norway.

The preliminary findings will be presented in a seminar about ‘Women in Uniform & Peacekeeping Operations’ at PRIO, tentatively in February, 2010.

Languages spoken:

Norwegian, English, and (German)

Education:

2008, Ph.D. Degree from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. The title of the Ph.D. dissertation is ‘Institutional Variance of the Democratic Peace, 1816-2002: Electoral, Executive, and Federal Systems in Time and Space.’

1996, Cand. Polit. Degree from the University of Trondheim (NTNU) with a Master’s degree in Political Science. The title of the Master’s thesis was ‘Are Some Democracies More Peaceful Than Others? A Suggestion for Extending the Democratic Peace Perspective.’

1994, Cand. Mag. Degree from the University of Trondheim (NTNU) and the University of Bergen (UIB) with the following subjects: German language and literature, comparative politics, political science, and statistics.

Events

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Books and reports
Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Jennifer L. Bailey, Monica Jacobsen, Ragnhild Hustad Miller & Anita Schjølset, 1998. Det nye sikkerhetsbildet. Mot en demokratisk og fredelig verden?. Trondheim: Tapir.
Articles
Schjølset, Anita, 2009. 'Alarmerende Holdninger' [Problematic Attitudes], Klassekampen, 19 October.
Schjølset, Anita, 1998. 'Er noen demokratier fredeligere enn andre?', Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift 14(1): 67–90.
Other
Schjølset, Anita, 2009. 'Electoral, Executive, and Federal Institutions, 1816-2002: A New Dataset, with Examples from the Monadic Peace', presented at International Studies Association, New York, NY, 16 February.
Schjølset, Anita, 2008. 'Institutional Variance of the Democratic Peace, 1816-2002: Electoral, Executive, and Federal Systems in Time and Space', International Relations, University of Southern California. Defended 13 May.
Schjølset, Anita, 2001. 'The Decision to Go To War: Developing the Democratic Peace Argument through a Foreign Policy Framework', Paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) meeting in Chicago. A revised version of the paper was presented at the Center for International Studies, USC, March., December.