Kjetil Selvik (1973-2024) has been a NUPI based part of PRIO projects and was employed at PRIO as a Senior Researcher in the autumn of 2019. Read his profile at NUPI.
Kjetil Selvik left PRIO in 2019. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Kjetil Selvik
Latest publications
Øystein H. Rolandsen & Kjetil Selvik (2023)
Disposable rebels: US military assistance to insurgents in the Syrian war
Disposable rebels: US military assistance to insurgents in the Syrian war
Journal article in Mediterranean Politics
Kjetil Bjorvatn & Jacob Høigilt (2016)
Youth and the Arab Revolutions
Youth and the Arab Revolutions
Book chapter in Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and stability
Erlend Paasche (2009)
From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security
From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security
Master thesis
Latest news
Friday, 25 Jun 2021
New Online Exhibition from the TRANSFORM Project
New Online Exhibition from the TRANSFORM Project
In societies at war or facing severe repression, what motivates individuals to take action for social justice when doing so involves great risk and uncertainty? How do such small but often heroic everyday acts of common people inspire larger transformations? And what is the impact of storytelling about everyday acts that challenge inequalities and injustices in places like Myanmar, Somaliland and Syria?The TRANSFORM research team has grappled with these questions for four years, and you will ...
Monday, 16 Nov 2020
A Future for Syria – Education Activism in Animation from PRIO
A Future for Syria – Education Activism in Animation from PRIO
What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? PRIO is proud to share the second of a series of three animations and comics from Myanmar, Syria and Somaliland, made for the TRANSFORM project in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.
Wednesday, 3 Apr 2019
Call for Abstracts: ‘Political agency and moral action in times of war’
Call for Abstracts: ‘Political agency and moral action in times of war’
This academic workshop focuses on political agency and moral action before, during and after violent conflict and war.
Friday, 2 Jun 2017
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the TRANSFORM project
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the TRANSFORM project
The TRANSFORM project had its kick-off workshop 1-2 June 2017.
Tuesday, 20 Dec 2016
PRIO Leads New Project on Social Transformation in Conflict Settings
PRIO Leads New Project on Social Transformation in Conflict Settings
The project will focus on how individual deeds, in times of radical uncertainty and flux, inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction a society takes.
Latest events
Thursday, 7 Dec 2023 09:00–10:00 UTC+01
Bakgrunnen for «Kvinne, liv, frihet!» i Iran
Bakgrunnen for «Kvinne, liv, frihet!» i Iran
Thursday, 10 Nov 2022 08:30–10:00 UTC+01
Lebanon’s Current Crisis and Prospects for Renewal - MidEast Breakfast Seminar
Lebanon’s Current Crisis and Prospects for Renewal - MidEast Breakfast Seminar
Thursday, 30 Sept 2021 14:00–16:00 UTC+02
Fighting for Social Justice
Fighting for Social Justice
Tuesday, 14 Jan 2020 08:45–16:00 UTC+01
What Role for Norwegian Soldiers in Fragile States?
What Role for Norwegian Soldiers in Fragile States?
9–11 Oct 2019
Political Agency and Moral Action in Times of War
Political Agency and Moral Action in Times of War
Friday, 26 Apr 2019 14:30–16:00 UTC+02
Art, Peace and Conflict: Artistic Activism in Syria
Art, Peace and Conflict: Artistic Activism in Syria
Wednesday, 21 Mar 2018 11:30–13:00 UTC+01
Israel, Iran og Syria-krisen - mot en ny krig på Israels nordfront?
Israel, Iran og Syria-krisen - mot en ny krig på Israels nordfront?
Recorded event
Lebanon’s Current Crisis and Prospects for Renewal - MidEast Breakfast Seminar
Lebanon’s Current Crisis and Prospects for Renewal - MidEast Breakfast Seminar
Multimedia
Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM)
Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM)
TRANSFORM examines how personal actions during times of significant uncertainty and change can motivate collective efforts or create new institutional practices that shape the path a society follows.
Recorded event
Fighting for Social Justice
Fighting for Social Justice
Multimedia
Somaliland: Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain (Somali)
Somaliland: Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain (Somali)
Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain: The Uffo Struggle for Justice tells the story of a group of heroic professionals in Somaliland during the war in the 1980s.
Multimedia
Somaliland: Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain (English)
Somaliland: Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain (English)
Sweet Smelling Wind Before the Rain: The Uffo Struggle for Justice tells the story of a group of heroic professionals in Somaliland during the war in the 1980s.
Multimedia
Syria: A Future for Syria (Arabic)
Syria: A Future for Syria (Arabic)
A Future for Syria follows the experiences of one Syrian woman who dedicated her life to education.
Multimedia
Syria: A Future for Syria (English)
Syria: A Future for Syria (English)
A Future for Syria follows the experiences of one Syrian woman who dedicated her life to education.
Multimedia
Myanmar: Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace (Burmese)
Myanmar: Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace (Burmese)
Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace tells the story of a Kachin land rights activist from Northern Myanmar, who has faced displacement, arrest and persecution by the Myanmar government for her commitment to fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities.
Multimedia
Myanmar: Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace (English)
Myanmar: Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace (English)
Fighting for Land, Dreaming of Peace tells the story of a Kachin land rights activist from Northern Myanmar, who has faced displacement, arrest and persecution by the Myanmar government for her commitment to fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities.
Recorded event
Art, Peace and Conflict: Artistic Activism in Syria
Art, Peace and Conflict: Artistic Activism in Syria
Recorded event
Israel, Iran og Syria-krisen - mot en ny krig på Israels nordfront?
Israel, Iran og Syria-krisen - mot en ny krig på Israels nordfront?
Work positions
2019
Senior ResearcherPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)