Kristina Roepstorff left PRIO in 2025. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Kristina Roepstorff
Latest publications
A particular kind of humanitarian negotiation space? Negotiating the rescuing of lives at sea in the Central Mediterranean
Journal article in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
Culture is a lens that helps us understand not just how we act, but how we perceive one another
Popular article in Humanitarian Alternatives
Tacit engagement in humanitarian action: making sense of silence and secrecy in humanitarian negotiations
Journal article in Journal of International Humanitarian Action
Mopping Up, Keeping Down, and Propping Up: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations with authoritarian regimes
Book chapter in Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations
Ethical Dilemmas in Humanitarian Negotiations
Popular article in Norwegian Centre for Humnitarian Studies Blog
Humanitarian Mediation: Conceptual and Ethical Explorations
NCHS Paper
Red Lines and Grey Zones: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations and the need for a research agenda
Popular article in Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies Blog
Latest news
Call for PhD-Level Course: Ethics in Humanitarian Negotiation and Mediation
PRIO invites applications for this course on Ethics in Humanitarian Negotiation and Mediation which will be taught online 23-27 September 2024. The application deadline is 15 June.
New papers and podcast on humanitarian negotiations
In the research project Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation (RedLines) two papers and a new podcast episode have recently been published in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS).
Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Webinars on Syria, Afghanistan
Both the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria and the Red Lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan webinars were recorded and can be streamed via the seminar webpages.
RedLines Project Kick-Off Meeting
The Red Lines and Grey Zones project has been officially launched with a kick-off meeting on the 1st of March.
Do No Harm Project Represented at the IHSA Conference at two panels: The Ethics of Humanitarian Technology: Looking Back &Taking Stock & Humanitarian Innovation: Have We Come Full Circle?
Hosted by the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA), the Conference on Humanitarian Studies was held at Sciences Po, Paris between 3-5 November 2021, with the theme ‘New realities of politics and humanitarianism: between solidarity and abandonment’.
Latest events
Culture and the ethics of humanitarian negotiations
RedLines project represented at the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2024
Ethics in Humanitarian Negotiation and Mediation - PhD level course
CCHN (Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation) session on search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean
Histories and Futures of Ethics in Humanitarian Negotiations
Webinar on Red lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan
Webinar on the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria
FAIR Cyprus workshop on ethical considerations in peace negotiations’
Culture and the ethics of humanitarian negotiations
In this online roundtable, the contributors share their reflections on the role of culture in humanitarian negotiations and how it relates to their ethical dimension.
Culture and the ethics of humanitarian negotiations
The ethics of localisation in humanitarian action (Part 2)
Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, localisation has been firmly on the agenda. This conversation explores the ethics of the localisation of humanitarian action.
The ethics of localisation in humanitarian action (Part 1)
Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, localisation has been firmly on the agenda. This roundtable discussion explores the ethics of the localisation of humanitarian action.
Webinar on Red lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan
Webinar on the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria