John Karlsrud

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Dr. John Karlsrud is Research Professor and Head of the Research group on peace, conflict and development.
Karlsrud earned his PhD at the University of Warwick. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Internasjonal Politikk and Contemporary Security Policy. Karlsrud has been a Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Peace Institute.
Topics of particular interests are norm change, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian issues. He previously served as Special Assistant to the United Nations Special Representative in Chad and as part of the UN Development Programme’s leadership programme LEAD.
His latest article is Towards UN counter-terrorism operations? (Third World Quarterly, 2017) and he will soon publish UN peace operations in the 21st century: The UN at war (Palgrave, 2017) and UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era (Routledge 2017, co-edited with Cedric de Coning and Chiyuki Aoi). He has recently published Norm Change in International Relations (Routledge, 2016) and The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram (Zed Books, 2016, co-edited with Cedric de Coning and Linnéa Gelot).
His article "The UN at War: Examining the Consequences of Peace Enforcement Mandates for the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali" from 2015 is the second most downloaded article in the journal Third World Quarterly.
He has worked in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Chad, Palestine (West Bank), Norway and USA, and conducted field research and shorter missions to Haiti, Liberia, Mozambique, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Ukraine.
Education
2014 Senior Executive Course 13, Norwegian Defence University College, Aug-Nov 2014
2010-2014 Ph.D., Politics and Internationals Studies, University of Warwick. Title: Linked Ecologies and Norm Change in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
2005 Master of Peace and Conflict Studies / International Affairs with Distinction Joint Master from Institute for Graduate Studies in International Affairs, Australian National University and the Peace Research Centre of Oslo
Work Experience
2020- Head of the Reserach group on peace, conflict and development
2015- External Associate, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick 2015 Fulbright Visiting Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
2015 Visiting Fellow, International Peace Institute
2012 Lecturer, IR Master
2010- Programme Manager and Senior Research Fellow at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
2010- Senior Research Fellow, NUPI
2008-2010 Special Assistant to the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG), United Nations Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT), Chad
2006-2008 Policy and Strategy Analyst, Strategic and Regional Initiatives Unit (SRIU), Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA), UNDP New York HQ
2005-2006 Researcher and Assistant to the Managing Director, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies (AIS)
2002-2003 Liaison and Operations Officer for NATO in Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH), seconded by the Norwegian Army
Publications All publications
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UN Peacekeeping Operations in a Multipolar Era
Publication : Academic article | 2023How is multipolarity impacting on UN peacekeeping operations? This article sets out to answer this question by examining the ongoing decline in UN pe1
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Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation
Publication : Academic article | 2023Ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) are an indispensable but scantly conceptualized part of global governance. In recent years, several typologies and classific1
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Ad Hoc Crisis Response and International Organisations (ADHOCISM)
Publication : Popular scientific article | 2021International organisations (IOs) are created with the aim of solving collective action problems when a crisis arises. Yet, member states have repeat1
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UN Peacekeeping and the Kindleberger Trap
Publication : Popular scientific article | 2021I nærmere et tiår har FN vært under press på grunn av et stort antall fataliteter, samt press fra medlemsstater om å kutte kostnader, særlig fra USA.1
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Future of UN Peace Operations: UN Support Offices to Regional Counterterrorism Operations?
Publication : Popular scientific article | 2021United Nations peace operations and the prevention of violent extremism and counterterrorism agendas (PVE/CT) have been on converging paths since the1
Projects All projects
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The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation (NAVIGATOR)
Research project | 2023 - 2027 (Ongoing)How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? And what factors should be emphasized...
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Ad hoc crisis response and international organisations (ADHOCISM)
Research project | 2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)ADHOCISM asks what is the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations?...
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Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON)
Research project | 2018 - 2022 (Ongoing)NUPI together with 40 partners from across the globe have established an international network to undertake research into the effectiveness of peace operations....
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Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)
Research project | 2017 - 2021 (Ongoing)The aim of this project is to strengthen the ability of UN peace operations to respond to global security challenges and improve their effectiveness....
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Overcoming Legal and Support Obstacles to Peacekeeping Strategic Force Generation (OLSOPSFG)
Research project | 2017 (Completed)The projects looks at a a joint collaboration between Norway and other UN member states for a rotational agreement to provide a transport plane to MINUSMA....
Events All events
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Libya after Gaddafi: What went wrong, and what role did Norway play?
EventThu 9 Mar 2023Time: 09:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPIIan Martin, the UN’s former representative in Libya, critically reflects on the international intervention in 2011, and subsequent events.
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UN Peacekeeping doctrine in a new era
EventTue 14 Mar 2017Time: 12:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPIWhat relevance does UN peacekeeping have for conflict management today? NUPI has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar and panel discussion about the new book “UN Peacekeeping doctrine in a new era”, co-edited by two of NUPI's researchers.
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Waging Peace: UN Peace Operations Confronting Terrorism and Violent Extremism
EventTue 25 Oct 2016Time: 13:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPIArthur Boutellis from the International Peace Institute will present his latest report on UN peace operations and violent extremism.
Articles All articles
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Ad hoc coalitions are increasingly charged to tackle international crises
28 Feb 2023How does this impact on international organisations?
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Big EU project to NUPI
6 Dec 2022From March 2023 NUPI will lead a large EU-funded project on how the EU should navigate multinational cooperation in times of global uncertainty.
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Management
3 Jan 2022 -
Peace, Conflict and Development
3 Jan 2022What can we do to prevent war? How can countries emerging from conflict avoid relapse? How well do international peace operations actually work?