Research Interests
EU border security policies in the Mediterranean: competing narratives on migration, humanitarian needs and border control
Security and humanitarian surveillance technologies: legal framework, political and ethical challenges
Humanitarian crises and their internationalization: new tools of communication, changing forms of media coverage, agenda-setting, international mobilization and shaping of crisis narratives, and the emerging or challenging norms of international responsibilities in internal crises (R2P, Protection of civilians, etc.)
Rising powers' involvement in humanitarianism and peacekeeping: the case of Brazil
Conflict dynamics in Sudan and East Africa
Background
Currently:
Co-Director, Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) (Director from 2016-2020)
August 2016-present: Research Director, Dimensions of Security department, PRIO
Working experience:
Jan. 2011-present: Senior Researcher, PRIO
2016-2018: Member of PRIO Board (staff representative)
2006-2010: Doctoral researcher, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), SciencesPo, Paris
2009-2011: Lecturer, Master of Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Sciences Po, Lille
2007 and 2009: Guest researcher at Cedej, Khartoum
2005 and 2007: Guest researcher at NUPI, Oslo
2008: Visiting Scholar at SIPA, Columbia University, New York
University lecturing:
2009-2011, Sciences Po Lille: Courses on International Relations, Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding and Mediatization of Conflicts
2008-2011, SciencesPo Paris: Courses on World Politics, International Relations and International Management of Armed Conflicts
Other:
2004-2009: Correspondent for Morgenbladet (Norwegian weekly)
2004: Journalist, Al Ahram Weekly, International desk, Cairo
2005-2006: Assistant to the permanent delegate, Norwegian Delegation to UNESCO, Paris
Education:
- Ph.D., Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris/SciencesPo (2010). Dissertation title: “The internationalization of the Sudanese conflicts: from South-Sudan to Darfur. Agenda-setting, mobilization and qualifications”
- Research Master, Political science of international relations, Institut d’études politiques de Paris/SciencesPo (2006)
- Master, International Affairs, Major in Security and Conflict Resolution, Institut d’études politiques de Paris/SciencesPo (2005)
- Undergraduate degrees in Sociology (UiO, 2001), development studies (HiO, 2002), and International relations (SciencesPo, 2003)
Languages:
Fluent: Norwegian, French, English
Intermediate: Arabic, German