Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies

Research Interests

I am a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a law professor at UiO. I co-founded and directed the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. I teach ethics, sociology of law, legal tech, and AI and robot regulations. I lead the RCN-funded LAW22JULY: RIPPLES (SAMRISK) and Do No Harm: Ethical humanitarian Innovation (NORGLOBAL), and I am part of RegulAir and Co-duties. My book on Humanitarian Extractivism (MUP 23) is out. My next book is on humanitarian regulation.

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
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PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 5 Jan 2021

COVID-19 and the Law: Framing Healthcare Worker Risks as Women’s Rights Violations

Today, public health is ‘delivered by women and led by men’, with a glaring absence of women and nurses at the decision making table.[1] Globally, though women only make up 25% of those in healthcare leadership they make up the majority of healthcare workers (70%) and nurses (90%).[2] This exclusion skews the ...

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 17 Aug 2018

Photo: Flickr/FreedomHouse. Flickr/FreedomHouse

Dead Male Bodies: A Challenge for Feminist Legal Thought

The scholarship on law, conflict and suffering has for the past two decades been dominated by a moral and analytical concern with “women and children” and sexual violence. However, when we look up and do the body count out in the physical and political world – in the city and ...

News

Tuesday, 10 Oct 2017

PRIO Global Fellow Appointed to Colombian Peace Tribunal

Julieta Lemaitre is one of the 51 magistrates who will sit on the various courts of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia.

News

Wednesday, 19 Apr 2017

Results and policy recommendations from research on population, gender, peace and security to be presented in late April. Silje Vevatne/Norad

PRIO Research to Feature at Conference on Gender Perspectives on Demography and Conflicts

Presenting research results and policy recommendations on population, poverty, women, peace and security

An academic New Year’s resolution for Colombia: understanding continued gendered violence as a threat to positive peace

What's wrong with the idea that 'robots don't rape'?

Safeguarding women after disasters: some progress, but not enough

Hundreds of Mozambicans were killed and thousands made homeless recently by Cyclones Idai and Kenneth. Almost immediately, there were reports of a sadly familiar story: women being forced to trade sex for food by local community leaders distributing aid. Globally, international organisations appear to be grappling with the issue more seriously than before. Yet reports about ...

Journal article

2018

Gendering violent pluralism: women’s political organising in Latin America

Journal article in Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

News

Friday, 30 Jun 2017

New issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update

Empowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in DR Congo

Event

Friday, 30 Sep 2016 08:15–09:30 UTC+02

Folkeavstemning om fredsavtalen i Colombia – Mer politikk enn fred?

On 30 September, UiO, HiOA, NMBU and PRIO/NCHS will host a breakfast seminar about Colombia at Litteraturhuset.

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 2 Dec 2015

Photo: Flickr/Teymur Madjderey. Photo: Flickr/Teymur Madjderey

What’s Wrong with the Idea that ‘Robots don’t Rape’?

The politics of rape denunciation is fast becoming the politics of lobbyists, vendors and military manufacturers seeking access to new customers and markets. The recognition of wartime rape as a fundamental violation of international law has been a hard-fought victory. Ending rape and other forms of sexual violence in war ...

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 28 Sep 2018

The mass killing of women activists in Latin America: making political violence visible

In 2017, Latin America was described by the UN as the world’s most violent continent for women. The assassinations of women activists and community leaders have continued across the region in 2018. While the killing of Marielle Franco, a favela community leader, and the unraveling of government-private enterprise collusion in ...

Journal article

2018

Technology, Dead Male Bodies, and Feminist Recognition: Gendering ICT Harm Theory

Journal article in Australian Feminist Law Journal

Journal article

2017

Finding the Roads to Justice? Examining Trajectories of Transition for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia

Journal article in Stability: International Journal of Security and Development

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 16 Dec 2015

Photo: [Neil Palmer (CIAT)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/5867722798). Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

An Academic New Year’s Resolution for Colombia: Understanding Continued Gendered Violence as a Threat to Positive Peace

Over the last decade, Colombia has been host to the world’s largest population of internally displaced people (IDP). In 2016, it is expected that the Colombian government and FARC will reach a peace agreement, marking the formal end of more than 50 years of civil war. It is widely recognized ...