Jenny Lorentzen

Summary

Jenny Lorentzen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Research Group for Peace, Conflict and Development, where she is involved in several projects, including Training for Peace, Peace Operations, and Climate, Peace and Security. 

Her main areas of expertise are the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, norm diffusion and Mali. She conducts research on a range of issues related to the WPS agenda, such as women’s inclusion in peace negotiations and -processes, UN peacekeeping, security sector reform, mediation, and women’s roles in preventing and countering violent extremism. 

Lorentzen holds a PhD in Political Science from Lund University, and a MSc in International Relations from NMBU/NUPI. During her PhD, Lorentzen was based at the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security. Her PhD research on ‘Normative Encounters between the “Global” and the “Local”: Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda’ (2020), explored the processes that take place when global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security agenda are promoted in societies transitioning from war to peace. 

Before joining NUPI, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the “Gendered Militaries” project at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. There, she conducted research on how international and Malian actors promote and/or contest different ideas of gender in reform of the Military/Security Sector, and on women’s participation in the peace process in Mali. 

Lorentzen’s research has been published in international peer-reviewed academic journals such as International Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Swiss Political Science Review, and Third World Thematics. Lorentzen is a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) International Research Working Groups for the period 2023–2027.