Team
Jana Krause
Jana Krause is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Principal Investigator of the ResilienceBuilding project. Her research focuses on communal conflict and civil war; civilian agency and protection; peace processes and local peacebuilding; and the gender dimensions of peacebuilding. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Myanmar, and more recently in Kenya and South Sudan. She is author of ‘Resilient Communities: Nonviolence and Civilian Agency in Communal War’ (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Co-Editor of ‘Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings’ (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Imrana Buba
Imrana Buba is a Doctoral Candidate and Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. His doctoral research focuses on the dynamics of political violence in northeast and northwest Nigeria, particularly the unintended negative consequences of civilian self-protection.
Leonor Toscano
Leonor Toscano is a Doctoral Candidate and Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Her doctoral research focuses on the gender dimensions of civilian agency and local peacebuilding in the context of communal and electoral violence in Kenya, particularly on women’s inclusion in Local Peace Committees.
Marika Miner
Marika Miner is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the ResilienceBuilding project. She holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the strategic dynamics of protest and repression and the use of digital technology.
Debjani Banerjee
Debjani Banerjee is the Research Assistant for the ResilienceBuilding project. She has completed her Masters in Global Development Studies form Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Research Associates
Louise OIsson
Louise Olsson is Research Director of the Global Norms, Politics and Society Department and leads PRIO’s Gender Research Group. Her research focuses on the gendered dynamics of war, effects of conflict resolution on women’s rights, and Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in Nordic national security and defense policies and implementation.
Sebastian van Baalen
Sebastian van Baalen is a Research Associate for the ResilienceBuilding project. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. His research focuses on the dynamics of violence and governance in civil war, electoral violence, nonviolent action, and postwar violence.
Kathleen Klaus
Kathleen Klaus is a Research Associate with the ResilienceBuilding project and Senior Associate Lecturer in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral and communal violence, elections, land rights, climate change, and forced migration.
Rachel Ibreck
Rachel Ibreck is an Ethics Advisor with the ResilienceBuilding project and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the politics of human rights, justice and memory in Africa.
Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch is a Research Associate with the ResilienceBuilding project and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. Her research focuses on civilian collective action during civil war and conflict transformation and escalation.
Former Researchers
Melanie Sauter
Melanie Sauter was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the ResilienceBuilding project. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on the micro-dynamics of political violence, especially the role of humanitarian organizations and peacekeepers in conflict and the climate-conflict-peacebuilding nexus.