Inger Skjelsbæk

Research Professor

Email: inger@prio.org

Mobile phone: (+47) 938 02 492

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Research Professor at the PRIO Center on Gender, Peace and Security. Leader of the EuroWARCHILD project.

Inger Skjelsbæk
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News

Friday, 8 Mar 2024

Event banner, UiO. Photo: Mahmoud Sulaiman/Unsplash

Rethinking Women's Roles in War and Peace: Insights from International Women's Day Panel

On International Women’s Day this year, the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Research at the University of Oslo hosted a thought-provoking conversation, examining the intersection of women and war.

News

Monday, 18 Dec 2023

Oslo Peace Days Children of the Enemy. Photo: Cinemic Film

PRIO GPS at Oslo Peace Days 2023

For a week in December each year, Oslo city invites the public to learn about and discuss important issues related to peace, democracy and human rights. The series of events are called Oslo Peace Days.

Event

1–3 Nov 2023

Missing Peace Symposium. Illustration: USIP

The Missing Peace Global Symposium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

This symposium will bring together leading researchers, survivors of different conflicts, practitioners, and policymakers to advance a multi-pronged approach to ending the atrocity of conflict-related sexual violence.

News

Wednesday, 7 Jun 2023

PRIO seminar on Ending Cycles of Sexual Violence in Conflict on June 7th

How does one turn commitments into action? In this seminar keynote speaker Pramila Patton, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, focused on the many challenges we face in implementing UN Security Council resolutions addressing prevention and response measures.

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 23 Feb 2023

Don’t Forget the Children Born of War in Ukraine

Over nine months have passed since Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Several of the first Ukrainian women who became pregnant as a result of wartime sexual violence have now given birth to children who were conceived as a result of this violence. More will be born in the coming months. And ...

News

Sunday, 19 Feb 2023

Ikke glem barna født av krigsvolden i Ukraina (Don’t Forget the Children Born of War in Ukraine)

PRIO GPS Centre Research Professor Inger Skjelsbæk and UiO Research Fellow Johanne Rokke Elvebakken have published an op.

News

Thursday, 2 Jun 2022

Panelists and EuroWARCHILD project team members. Photo: PRIO / Laura Cortés

PRIO and STK Host the Launch of the EuroWARCHILD Project

On 1 June, the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, and the University of Oslo's Centre for Gender Research (STK) hosted the launch of the EuroWARCHILD project.

News

Friday, 27 May 2022

PhD Course on Gender, Peace and Conflict

Doctoral candidates from all over the world attended PRIO's PhD-level course on Gender, Peace and Conflict.

News

Thursday, 15 Feb 2024

Call for PhD-Level Course: Gender, Peace and Conflict

PRIO invites applications for this course on Gender, Peace and Conflict which will be taught in person in Oslo in May 2024. The application deadline is 15 March.

Event

Wednesday, 6 Dec 2023 18:00–20:00 UTC+01

Children of the Enemy. Photo: Cinemic Film

Children of the Enemy – Film Seminar

Oslo Peace Days event 2023

News

Wednesday, 1 Nov 2023

Missing Peace Global Symposium 2023. Photo: USIP

Missing Peace Global Symposium on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 2023

On 1 to 3 November, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington University in St. Louis, and Women in International Security (WIIS) hosted the 10th anniversary Missing Peace Global Symposium.

Event

Wednesday, 7 Jun 2023 09:00–10:00 UTC+02

Security Council meeting Women and peace and security. Sexual violence in conflict. Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Turning Resolutions Into Results: Ending Cycles of Sexual Violence in Conflict

We invite you to join us for a breakfast seminar with Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

News

Wednesday, 22 Feb 2023

Photo: Ingrid Kvammen Ekker / Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norwegian Foreign Minister Reviewed by PRIO Researchers

Ine Eriksen Søreide’s tenure as Norway’s Foreign Minister between 2017 and 2021 was reviewed by PRIO researchers Torunn L.

News

Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022

Inger Skjelsbæk. Photo: Indigo Trigg-Hauger/PRIO

Ingrid Aune's Memorial Prize Awarded to Inger Skjelsbæk

Inger Skjelsbæk will receive the Ingrid Aune memorial prize 2022 for her research on conflict-related sexual violence.

Recorded event

Wednesday, 1 Jun 2022 09:30–12:30 UTC+02

Photo: Illustration photo: Julie Ricard on Unsplash

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What Does It Mean to Be a Child Born of War?

Launch of the EuroWARCHILD Project

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 1 Apr 2022

Ukrainian female sergeant being awarded an order. President of Ukraine's office

Women’s War

Soldiers, refugees, victims, mothers: we must listen to stories about the women’s war in Ukraine. Five weeks have passed since the start of the war in Ukraine. Shocking images dominate television news broadcasts. Europe is experiencing its largest refugee crisis since World War II. Men aged between 18 and 60 ...