Astri Suhrke
Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
Astri Suhrke is a political scientist (Ph.D.) and Senior Research Fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.
She has broad experience in academic and applied research. Thematically her work has focused on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response. Currently, she is working on strategies of post-war reconstruction and, more widely, peacebuilding, with particular reference to Afghanistan and East Timor. She is leading a multi-year project funded by the Research Council of Norway on violence in the post-conflict State.
Astri Suhrke has participated in projects commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, various UN agencies (particularly UNHCR), Sida, Danida, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Dfid, and the World Bank. She is a member of a committee of experts serving the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
She has written widely on the politics of humanitarian policies in international organisations and the UN system, the concepts of human security and humanitarian intervention, and refugee movements. Her most recent books (co-authored) are Roads to Reconciliation (2005), Eroding Local Capacity. International Humanitarian Action in Africa (2003), and The Path of a Genocide. The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire (1999).
Spoken languages
English
Written languages
English
Expert publications
- 06/02/2008 - Afghanistan: new manoeuvres
