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Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Senior Researcher
Email: bergtora@prio.no
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Profile
Research
Events
Publications
Research Interest
 
Regulating Cyberwar: Understanding Challenges to Norwegian Security and International Law (MoD, 2011-2013)
 
The Significance of Political Organization and International Law for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia: A Socio-legal study of Liga De Mujeres (NORGLOBAL, the Research Council of Norway 2010-2013)
 
PRIO Strategic Initiative 2011 - New Security Agendas and Non-Violent Intervention: Humanitarianism for the 21st Century
Research Interests 
§  My research focuses on the interface between humanitarianism, violence and international law.
 
§  From a conceptual and critical vantage point, I am interested in what tomorrow’s wars and armed conflicts will look like, and how we can assess their humanitarian and legal implications. I explore this theme in my project on the regulation of cyberwar. I am also interested in other emergent military technologies, such as robots.
 
§  Adopting a bottom-up perspective, my current project on political organizing among internally displaced women in Colombia continues my previous work on international justice, narratives of suffering and forced migration. This work takes a socio-legal and ethnographic approach to the study of how human rights and humanitarian law shape the everyday life of marginalized groups.
 
Education
§  Doctor of Juridical Sciences, S.J.D Harvard Law School 2008
§  Dissertation title: “On the Everyday Life of International Law: Humanitarianism and Refugee-Resettlement in Kampala”
§  Visiting Fellowship, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford 2006
§  Visiting Researcher, Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda 2005
§  Master of Laws, LL.M. Harvard Law School 2003 (waived)
§  Candidata Juris,Masters  in Women's Law, University of Oslo 2002
 
Fellowships and Awards        
§  Fellow, the Norwegian Research Council (the  Development Paths in the South programme 2004-2007)
§  Juridisk Reisefond av 1973 (2005)
§  Harvard Law School Human Rights Program Summer Fellowship (2004)
§  Reginald F. Lewis International Summer Fellowship (2004)
§  Fulbright Fellow (2002-2003)
 
Current Positions

Board member, the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA)

Editorial Board, Security Dialogue

 
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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2012) THE POLITICS AND POSSIBILITIES OF VICTIM MAKING IN INTERNATIONAL LAW/ AS POLÍTICAS E POSSIBILIDADES DA "CONSTRUÇÃO DE VÍTIMAS" NO DIREITO INTERNACIONAL , Revista Da Faculdade De Direito Do Sul De Minas 27(2): .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2012) Negotiating the Humanitarian Past: History, Memory, and Unstable Cityscapes in Kampala, Uganda , Refugee Survey Quarterly 31(1): 108–122.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2011) Blurring Boundaries: Refugee Resettlement in Kampala—between the Formal, the Informal, and the Illegal , Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 34(1): 11–32.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2010) Unpacking World Refugee Day: Humanitarian Governance and Human Rights Practice? , Journal of Human Rights Practice 2(2): 287–298.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2010) Hva teller som transnasjonal kunnskap? Mistenksomhet, sladder og rykter i møter mellom urbane flyktninger og UNHCR-byråkrater [What Counts as Transnational Knowledge? Suspicion, Gossip and Rumor in Refugee Management] , Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 21(1): 19–31.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2010) A Legal History: the Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugee Management , International Journal of Refugee Law 22(1): 20–47.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2009) Flyktningkvinnen som rettslig aktør: Marginalisering og rettsbevisshet i Kampala, Uganda [Refugee Woman at Risk: Marginalization and Legal Consciousness in Kampala, Uganda] , Retfærd 32(3): 78–95.

Book Chapter

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2013) Chapter 11, The Multiple Tracks of Human Rights and Humanitarianism Worlds of Human Rights, the Ambiguities of Rights Claiming In Africa. : Brill. [Forthcoming]
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2013) Chapter 12 Rights-Based Humanitarianism as Emancipation or Stratification? Rumors and Procedures of Verification in Urban Refugee Management in Kampala, Uganda Worlds of Human Rights, the Ambiguities of Rights Claiming In Africa. : Brill. [Forthcoming]
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2010) Rapprochement and Misrecognition: Humanitarianism as Human Rights Practice The New International Law. : (139–157).
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2010) Framing Accountability in Refugee Resettlement Accountability For Human Rights Violations of International Organisations. : (287–310).
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2010) International Law and Security The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies. : (110–120).

Edited Volume

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (ed.) (2013) Worlds of Human Rights, The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa. : Brill. . [Forthcoming]

Popular Article

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2012) Droner truer demokratiet, Klassekampen, .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2011) Morgendagens Kriger [Tomorrow's Wars], Aftenposten, 20 June.

Conference Paper

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; & Lohne, Kjersti 2012 Technology Transfers from the Military to the Humanitarian Field: the Rise of the Humanitarian Drone, presented at Humanitarianism: Past, Present, Future, , .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2012 The Courts and the Women: Female IDP Organisations and Human Rights Litigation in Colombia, presented at ‘‘Engendering Governance Workshop’, CIPL Workshop’ 6-8 August, 2012: Connecting International Law with Public Law En/gendering governance: from the local to the global, , .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; & Lohne, Kjersti 2012 Robot Technology and the Drone Stare: Seeing or Unseeing Humanitarian Suffering?, presented at Political Theatres of Suffering: Humanitarian Politics and Representation of Distant Suffering, , .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2011 The Quest for Credible Resettlement Claims: Navigating Collective Identity and Personal Encounters in Kampala, Uganda, presented at La fabrique institutionnelle de l'asile et de la protection des réfugiés, , .
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora;Kaufmann, Mareile; & Lohne, Kjersti 2011 Terror Threats, Data Protection and Human Security: A Shifting Interface in Norwegian Law?, presented at ECPR Conference, , 27 August.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2011 Collaborative Feminist Methodologies - In the Emergency Zone?, presented at The Second World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, , 2–5 June.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2010 Negotiating the Humanitarian Past: Officializing UNHCR Practice in Uganda, presented at The Anthropology of International Institutions: How Ethnography Contributes to Understanding Mechanisms of Global Governance, , 11 June.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2009 The Politics and Possibilities of Victimhood, A Cosmopolitan Perspective, presented at Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents Interdisciplinary Conference, , 16 October.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora 2009 The Legitimacy of Humanitarian Governance: On the Relationship between Indicators, Law, and Rights, presented at 2009 Annual Meeting the Law and Society Association (LSA), , 30 May.

PRIO Policy Brief

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2012) Cyberwar as an Issue of International law 4. : PRIO.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2012) International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the Global Legal Order 1. : PRIO.

Book Review

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2009) Review of Global Justice Networks, Geographies of Transnational Solidarity 341–343.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora(2009) Review of Exploiting the Limits of Law 129 – 132.