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            Marte Nilsen

            Marte Nilsen

            Senior Researcher

            Email: marnil@prio.org

            Mobile phone: (+47) 988 79 323

            Twitter: @MarteNilsen

            Research Interests

            • Political and violent conflicts in Myanmar and Thailand
            • Civil society movements and societal transformation in peacebuilding and democratization
            • Religious and spiritual practices in politics and nation building
            • Popular culture and art in resistance movements
            • The politics of humanitarian aid and development schemes in violent conflicts
            • The Rohingya crisis and community strategies in forced displacement settings

            Marte Nilsen
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            PRIO Blogs

            Thursday, 31 Aug 2023

            Six Years as Refugees and Still No Refuge

            “What is happening with the Rohingya refugees? We heard so much about all the horrible things, but how are they now?” These are questions I often get when I talk to people about my research. What is the situation for the Rohingya? The situation is terrible. I have visited the ...

            Journal article

            2023

            Community-Led Education among Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Refugee Education in Bangladesh

            Journal article in Journal of Refugee Studies

            Multimedia

            Thursday, 19 Jan 2023

            04:40

            Education Barriers for Rohingya Children

            Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.

            Multimedia

            Tuesday, 17 Jan 2023

            07:59

            Our Dreams and Aspirations

            Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.

            Policy brief

            2022

            What Can We Learn from Refugee-Led Education in Kenya?

            PRIO Policy Brief

            Popular article

            2022

            Rohingya-krisen fem år etter massakren

            Popular article in Bistandsaktuelt

            Report – other

            2022

            'Something Is Better than Nothing': Online Learning Pursuits of Rohingya Youth and Teachers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

            Internal report

            News

            Thursday, 10 Feb 2022

            Photo: Palgrave MacMillan

            New Book Chapter: “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future

            ​The new book chapter "We Are Alive, but Have No Life": Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future written by Senior Researcher Marte Nilsen, explores some of the everyday strategies of survival that stateless, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh make use of to navigate under the precarious conditions of being denied rights and recognition.

            Popular article

            2023

            Skal UDI ha vetorett over norsk utviklingspolitikk

            Popular article in Aftenposten

            Multimedia

            Thursday, 26 Jan 2023

            08:34

            Education is Our Only Hope for the Future

            Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.

            Multimedia

            Wednesday, 18 Jan 2023

            05:55

            Rohingya Girl's Education

            Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.

            Event

            Wednesday, 14 Dec 2022 13:00–15:00 UTC+01

            Marte Nilsen, Haakon Gjerløw, Sine Dyrby Christensen, Kristin Thomassen Wæringsaasen and Gudrun Østby. Photo: PRIO

            Education for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Community Initiatives, Humanitarian Aid and the Impact of COVID-19

            ​Five years have passed since more than 700,000 Rohingya fled from the brutal military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

            Popular article

            2022

            Rohingya refugees still desperate, five years after a genocide

            Popular article in Southeast Asia Globe

            Popular article

            2022

            Rohingya, fem år etter

            Popular article in Klassekampen

            Recorded event

            Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00–11:30 UTC+02

            Syrian refugee children in a Lebanese school classroom. Photo: Russell Watkins / Department for International Development / CC BY-SA 2.0
            01:37:24

            Refugee Education Reimagined: A Pedagogy of Hope

            Join us for a morning of research findings, animations and debate on how education can enable refugees and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be.

            Book chapter

            2021

            “We Are Alive, but Have No Life”: Rohingya Refugees, Deprived of the Prospects for a Future

            Book chapter in Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh

            Current projects

            Project

            Apr 2021 – Mar 2025

            Rohingya settlement in Bangladesh. Mohammad Salehin

            Stateless in the Bengali borderlands : New technologies and challenges for identity and identification

            Led by Mohammad Salehin. Funder: Research Council of Norway.

            Project

            Jan 2020 – Dec 2025

            Picture: Kasia Grabska.

            Inspirational Creative Practice: The Work of Artists after War and Violent Conflict (INSPIRE)

            Led by Katarzyna Grabska.

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