From left to right: Johanne Rokke Elvebakken, Prof. Dr. Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard, Dr. Torunn L. Tryggestad, Prof. Dr. Inger Skjelsbæk, Lina Stotz

Team

  • Prof. Dr. Inger Skjelsbæk

    Project Leader

    inger.skjelsbak@stk.uio.no

    Inger Skjelsbæk is a Norwegian gender studies and peace research scholar with a PhD in political psychology. She is professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo (UiO) which she is also directing. She is also the thematic leader for gender at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at UiO. In addition, Skjelsbæk is research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and served as the institute's deputy director from 2009 to 2015. She now leads the EuroWARCHILD Project. Languages: Norwegian, English, German.

  • Dr. Torunn L. Tryggestad

    Researcher

    torunn@prio.org

    Torunn L. Tryggestad is a Norwegian political scientist and researcher focusing on gender, peace and security, and issues related to the United Nations and Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. In 2014, she received her PhD in political science. Since 2017 Tryggestad is deputy director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), where she is also director of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security. She is a partner of EuroWARCHILD. Languages: Norwegian, English, German.

  • Prof. Dr. Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard

    Researcher and Professor II

    ingvill.Mochmann@gesis.org

    Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard is a Norwegian political scientist located in Germany. She is professor of international politics at the CBS International Business School in Cologne and head of the EUROLAB at GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne. She has been working in the field of Children Born of War for 25 years and is managing chair of the foundation Children Born of War Project and professor II at the University of Oslo where she is part of the EuroWARCHILD project. Languages: Norwegian, German, English.

  • Johanne Rokke Elvebakken

    Doctoral Researcher

    j.r.elvebakken@stk.uio.no

    Johanne Rokke Elvebakken is a Doctoral Researcher on the EuroWARCHILD Project, at the Centre for Gender Research and the Department of Political Science, both at the University of Oslo (UiO). Elvebakken has a master’s and bachelor’s degree in International Relations. Her research focuses on the mobilisation of children born of war in Norway, Denmark and Kosovo. Languages: Norwegian and English.

  • Lina Stotz

    Doctoral Researcher

    lina.stotz@stk.uio.no

    Lina Stotz is a Doctoral Researcher with EuroWARCHILD and at the faculty of law of the University of Oslo (UiO). Her academic background is in international law with a master’s degree from the Geneva Academy of the Graduate Institute. Her research interests include international criminal law, gender justice and children’s rights and her PhD research focuses on the legal rights of children born of war. Languages: German, English, Dutch.

“When I was 43 I got a phone call from a woman who said she was my mother and that my father was a German soldier. That phone call changed my life.”

-Elna Johansen,
Child born of war and advocate for their rights at the launch of the EuroWARCHILD Project