Inger Skjelsbæk (born 26 September 1969 in

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) is a Norwegian

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scholar, who is professor of gender studies at the

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in Oslo. She was an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo between 2015 and 2019. Skjelsbæk is also a

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at the

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and served as the institute's deputy director from 2009 to 2015.

Academic background

Skjelsbæk studied English, French, psychology and statistics, and earned a

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degree at the

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in 1993 and a

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degree in social psychology at the then-

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in 1996; her degree does not entitle her to the protected title "psychologist" under Norwegian law. Her cand.polit. thesis was titled ''Women and War: A Qualitative Study of the Construction of Femininity in the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia, El Salvador and Vietnam''. In 2007 she earned her dr.polit. (corresponding to

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) at the same university, then renamed the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her dissertation was titled ''Sexual Violence In Time of War: Sexuality, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity in the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina''. She is a visiting senior fellow at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the

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Research

Skjelsbæk has been a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo since 1996. Her fieldwork has mainly been in

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. Skjelsbæk has published articles in several

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s, and is a member of the editorial board of ''

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''. She has edited two books and contributed book chapters to several edited volumes. In addition, Skjelsbæk is the author of numerous research and policy oriented reports and has been an active lecturer and commentator. In 2011 and 2012 she is a guest researcher at the Human Rights Center at the

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Other activities

In 2017 she became a second deputy member of the

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Selected bibliography

*''The Political Psychology of War Rape: Studies from Bosnia-Herzegovina''. London:

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(2011) *''Kjønn, Krig, Konflikt'' Skjeie, Hege; Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn Tryggestad, (Red.) Oslo: Pax Forlag (2008) *''Gender, Peace and Conflict''. Skjelsbæk, Inger & Dan Smith (2001) London:

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References

External links

*
Report
on the website of PeaceWomen
''Gender, peace and conflict''
at

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Interview
in ''Gender Peace and Security Update'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Skjelsbaek, Inger 1969 births Living people Norwegian psychologists Norwegian women psychologists Gender studies academics Peace and conflict scholars