Johanne Rokke Elvebakken

Research Interests

• Children Born of War (CBOW)
• Gender, Peace and Security
• Gender and inclusive mediation processes
• Peacebuilding and transitional justice in the Western Balkans
  
• Women, Peace and Security
  

Background

About

Johanne Rokke Elvebakken was the coordinator of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security from March 2019 to December 2021. She was also the PRIO point of contact for the NWM-network and coordinates the operational engagement of NWM-Norway. Elvebakken has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Durham University. She wrote her MA thesis on the main contestations of the Women, Peace and Security agenda within the Norwegian expert community. In January 2022 Elvebakken is starting a PhD in Political Science at the University of Oslo on the EuroWARCHILD-project. The project aims to explore the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war (CBOW) in Europe. Elvebakken has previously worked as a teacher of migrant and refugee children in Oslo and been a trainee at the Norwegian Embassy in Prishtina.

Education 

2015- 2017: Master of Science in International Relations from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

2011-2014: Bachelor of Arts In International Relations from the University of Durham. 

Research Groups

• Gender

PRIO Departments

• Dimensions of Security (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

• EuroWARCHILD
• High-Level Seminars on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Processes
• Nordic Women Mediators – Norway (NWM-Norway)
• Nordic Women Mediators (NWM)
• PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security
• Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: A Decade in Review

• Equal Peace? Women’s Empowerment and Multicultural Challenges in War-to-Peace Transitions
• Norway on the UN Security Council: PRIO Resources

Events

• Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:30-10:00 – Masculinity and Militarism - Moving Beyond Stereotypes
• Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:00-16:00 – Mediator as Gatekeeper and Door Opener
• Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:00-10:15 – Engaging Men for Gender Equality
• Wed, 14 Apr 2021 15:00-16:00 – Norway’s first 100 days on the UN Security Council: Living up to expectations?
• Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:00-15:00 – How to impact policy making? The Role of Research Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
• Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:00-16:00 – Building on 20 Years of Women, Peace and Security: The Norwegian National Commemoration of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
• Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:00-17:30 – Imagining Inclusive Mediation: Learning from Pioneering and Young Women Leaders
• Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:00-15:30 – The Role of Academia in Realising the Promise of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
• Wed, 27 May 2020 14:00-15:30 – Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the time of COVID-19: A hidden pandemic?
• Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:00-15:30 – The COVID-19 Crisis Response: putting women at the centre
• Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:00-20:00 – CANCELLED: Film Screening: 'The Prosecutors'
• Mon, 09 Mar 2020 09:00-11:00 – Fulfilling the SDGs for Hidden and Vulnerable Populations
• Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:00-10:00 – CANCELLED: The Women, Peace and Security Agenda from a Civil Society Perspective: The Cases of Canada and Norway
• Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:30-15:00 – ​Where is it Worst or Best to be a Woman?
• Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:00-12:30 – Gender Equality in Peace and Mediation Efforts: Norms and Practice
• Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:00-13:30 – Actors or Victims? Understanding Political Violence Targeting Women
• Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:00-17:00 – ​Launch of the Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security
• Thu, 09 May 2019 10:00-12:00 – Turning the Tables: Women’s multiple roles in peace processes

Publications

Elvebakken, J. R. (2017). The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A Normative Framework in Contestation (Master's thesis). Retrieved from BRAGE/BIBSYS. 

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