Julie Marie Hansen Presents Paper on the Use of Social Media and the Prevention of SGBV

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27 November 2020

Julie Marie Hansen Presents Paper on the Use of Social Media and the Prevention of SGBV

​Julie Marie Hansen, Doctoral Researcher at PRIO, presented a paper at the international conference ‘Social Media in Armed Conflict’ on 25-26 November 2020.

​Her paper focuses on the use of social media in preventing sexual and gender-based violence, with a focus on Myanmar. The conference included paper presentations from both scholars and practitioners inquiring about how social media and other digital communication and information technologies affect violence and peacebuilding. Hansen’s paper  will be published at a later date as part of her PhD thesis.