Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

Junior researcher

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Expertise

Peace operations Security policy Terrorism Development policy United Nations Conflict resolution

Education

2012 Master in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the University of Tromsø and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Master thesis: Women, War and Empowerment: A Case Study of Female Ex- Combatants in Colombia. 2007 Bachelor in Development Studies from the University of Agder. Bachelor paper: Female Genital Mutilation in Tanzania: Why is it still practiced?

Work Experience

2011-2012 Research Assistant working with Professor Tore Bjørgo at the Norwegian Police University College 2011 Researcher in a comparative research project on reintegration programmes in Somalia, Nepal and Afghanistan as a part of the International Research Group on Reintegration at the Centre for Peace Studies in Tromsø 2010-2011 Intern and researcher for UNDP Somalia in the Rule of Law programme working on a demilitarization project for youth in Somalia 2007-2008 Youth Delegate for the Red Cross in Colombia 2007 Project semester at the University of Oslo working at the Nordic Gender Institute in the pilot project Prostitution in Norway

Activity

2012 Consultant and team leader for an evaluation of the Norwegian Church Aid´s ”Alternative Livelihood to Piracy” project in Somalia. Presented research on Somali piracy at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2012 Participated at the conference: Mainstreaming Protection of Civilians Considerations into the Operations of AMISOM, in Nairobi. 2013-06 Represents NUPI at the Communication Package Workshop for the Training for Peace Programme (TfP) organized by The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) on the 18th and 19th of June in Durban. 2013-02 Organized the workshop "Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions in the Work of Multi-Dimensional UN Peacekeeping Operations" 26 to 28 February in Kampala, Uganda. http://www.nupi.no/Arrangementer/Kommende-arrangement/Understanding-and-Integrating-Local-Perceptions-in-the-Work-of-Multi-Dimensional-UN-Peacekeeping-Operations

Gjelsvik has specialized in the areas of disengagement, radicalization- deradicalization and reintegration of members of armed groups. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Somalia focusing how individuals engage with and disengage from al-Shabaab and piracy groups and looked at the process of reintegration of female guerrilla soldiers in Colombia.

Gjelsvik is a part of Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development, and works in the Training for Peace Programme at NUPI. She is also a member of the International Research Group on Reintegration (IRGR) and works closely with the Norwegian Police Univeristy College.

Gjelsvik will the coming years be working on community policing in Somalia as a part of a EU funded project.

Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

Protection of civilians in the absence of peace agreements: Darfur, Chad/CAR, and Côte d’Ivoire

Community-based policing and post-conflict police reform (ICT4COP)

Training for Peace (TfP)

United Nations Peace Operations: Aligning Principles and Practice

Connections and Disconnections: Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions in United Nations Peacekeeping

Female Bodies and Masculine Norms: Challenging Gender Discourses and the Implementation of Resolution 1325 in Peace Operations in Africa

Female Bodies and Masculine Norms: Challenging Gender Discourses and the Implementation of Resolution 1325 in Peace Operations in Afrika / Randi So...

Women, Peace and Security in Somalia: A Study of AMISOM

What people think does matter: Understanding and integrating local perceptions into UN peacekeeping

Ex-Pirates in Somalia : processes of engagement, disengagement and reintegration