Research Interests
Intersectional and feminist research methods
Armed actors
United Nations Security Council
Feminist security studies
Background
Anna Marie is interested in feminist security studies, conceptions of security, armed actors, and gender.
Anna Marie works on several projects, including:
* Global Women, Peace and Security Index
* Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: A Decade in Review
* Rule 39: Expert Briefers to the UN Security Council
* Conflict Trends
* Inclusion of Women in Ceasefire Proccesses
* TRUST: Attitudinal Impacts of Refugees on Host Communities in the Global South
She has previously worked on projects including:
* Reducing Barriers for Women in the Norwegian Armed Forces' Peacekeeping Contributions
* Mobilizing for and against Democracy
* Securing the Victory
* Tracking and analyzing WPS in the Security Council in real time
* Conflict Cartographer: Conflict expert prediction in Africa
Alongside her work at PRIO, Anna Marie sits on the organizing team of the Junior IO Scholars Workshop.
Prior to joining PRIO, Anna Marie worked with International IDEA, the Institute for Integrated Transitions, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, and served as a short-term election observer. Her masters research, through a large-N quantitative study, focused on the influence of private military and security companies on men and women's security.
Education:
Master of Social Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Political Science and Rhetoric, Quest University Canada
Publications:
Obermeier, Anna Marie and Louise Olsson (2022). The UN Security Council and Women's Full, Equal and Meaningful Participation: Data on Invited Briefers to Council Deliberations, 2015-2021. GPS Policy Brief, 1. Oslo: PRIO. Available at: https://www.prio.org/publications/12971
Olsson, Louise, Megan Shannon, Anna Marie Obermeier, Birthe Einen, Ida Rødningen, Nora Stai, and Andreas Forø Tollefsen (2022). The Norwegian Armed Forces' deployments to UN Operations: Results of the Measuring Opportunities for Women in Peace Operations (MOWIP) Assessment. Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance & PRIO.
Chang, Patty, Louise Olsson, and Anna Marie Obermeier (2022). Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council peacekeeping mandates for South Sudan, Mali, and the DRC: Lessons on the integration and relevance 2015-2021. Project Report, Tracking and Analyzing Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in the Security Council project. PRIO.
Palik, Júlia, Anna Marie Obermeier, and Siri Aas Rustad (2022). Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946-2021. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. https://www.prio.org/publications/13178
Palik, Júlia, Anna Marie Obermeier, and Siri Aas Rustad (2022). Conflict Trends in the Africa, 1946-2021. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. https://www.prio.org/publications/13215
Palik, Júlia, Anna Marie Obermeier, and Siri Aas Rustad (2022). Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1946-2021. PRIO Paper, Oslo: PRIO. https://www.prio.org/publications/13298
Palik, Júlia, Anna Marie Obermeier, Siri Aas Rustad (2022). Conflict Trends in Asia, 1946-2021. PRIO Paper, Oslo: PRIO
Chang, Patty, Louise Olsson, and Anna Marie Obermeier (2021). Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council: Tracking language in four criteria of implementability, May-August 2021. Project Report, Tracking and Analyzing Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in the Security Council project. PRIO.
Blogs:
Obermeier, Anna Marie (2022). Sexual Violence by Military Leaders: The Canadian Leadership Crisis. PRIO Blogs. Oslo: PRIO. https://blogs.prio.org/2022/10/sexual-violence-by-military-leaders-the-canadian-leadership-crisis/
Olsson, Louise and Anna Marie Obermeier (2022). By Invitation Only: Including Women Briefers at the UN Security Council. IPI Global Observatory, 1 April 2022. Available at: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2022/04/by-invitation-only-including-women-briefers-at-the-un-security-council/
Olsson, Louise and Anna Marie Obermeier (2022). Representation is not enough: women briefing the UN Security Council. The Loop, ECPR. Available at: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/representation-is-not-enough-women-briefing-the-un-security-council/
Working Papers:
Stai, Nora Kristine, Anna Marie Obermeier, Kaja Sparre Bakke, and Torunn L. Tryggestad. Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: A Decade in Review. Presented to the Gender and Diplomacy Workshop, 16-18 June 2022, Gothenburg.
Olsson, Louise and Anna Marie Obermeier. By invitation only. Briefing the UN Security Council at a time of rising international tensions.