- How can sexual violence in war be studied from a political-psychological perspective?
- What do perpetrators present as the causal factors for their crimes?
- How, according to them, could the crime take place?
Together with the Department of Psychology (UiO) and Psycholoy Students Without Borders, we proudly present the fifth seminar in the series PSYOPS - The Psychology of Political Struggle.
To shed light on a topic that sadly never seems to lose relevance, we have invited two brilliant researchers; Inger Sjelsbæk and Anette Bringedal Houge.
Coffee and breakfast (including croissants!) will be served from 8:30 AM. The lectures will begin at 9 AM. We are expecting a large audience so do come early and join in on the breakfast.
Inger Skjelsbæk is a psychologist and peace researcher, specializing in sexual violence in war. She holds positions as associate professor at the UiO and research professor II at ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ. In her book The Political Psychology of War Rape: Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011) she provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. By providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, she outlines how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological perspective.
Anette Bringedal Houge is a research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (UiO). In her recently submitted PhD on conflict-related sexual violence she addresses how law, and international criminal justice in particular, is used to narrate, explain, and manage such violence. It is a project that focuses particularly on how defendants – and perpetrators – are talked into being for the sake of and by criminal courts, and what this juridification of a particular social phenomenon entails for our understanding of that phenomenon. She holds a Master’s degree in Peace and conflict studies from the University of Oslo (2008).
