Astri Suhrke
Completed projects
International Norms, Local Dynamics
Protection of Civilians: From Principle to Practice
Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan
After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy
Households, Livelihoods and Social and Political Transformation in Nepal
Policy Briefs Afghanistan
The Price of Protection. Gender, Violence and Power in Afghanistan
Achieving Durable Peace in Afghanistan
Intra-alliance Analysis: Policies and Approaches of NATO Allies in Afghanistan
Transitional Justice, Violence and Reconciliation
Social exclusion, democratic inclusion and the insurgency in Nepal
Violence in the post-conflict state
Review of support for Afghans returning from Norway
The limits of state-building in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: A Model for Peace Building? A Norwegian-German Conference
The effects of post-war aid
Norwegian NGOs in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Review and Lessons Learned
Review of Afghan Development Strategy
Conflictual peacebuilding: Afghanistan two years after Bonn
Alternatives to forced return (Roundtable conferance on Afghanistan)
Evaluation of International Media Support
Current refugee law and issues
Peacebuilding
Conference: Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Humanitarian assistance to complex emergency situations in Africa
Evaluation of Danida's assistance supporting human rights and democratisation
Human security and development
Danish humanitarian assistance
Human rights conference 1998
Refugees in a human rights perspective
Humanitarian assistance and conflict
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Political scientist focusing on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response.
Political scientist focusing on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response.
More recently, Astri has focused on the politics of humanitarian policies in the UN system, concepts of human security and peacebuilding. She is also working on strategies of post-war reconstruction and statebuilding, with particular reference to Afghanistan.
She has led several research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway: The Multilateral Aid system (2001-03); Aid in Post-Conflict Situations (2003-05), and Violence in the Post-Conflict State (2005-08). 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, the World Bank and UNDP. She is a member of a committee of experts serving the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Her most recent books are When More is Less. The International Project in Afghanistan (2011), The Peace In Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding (co-edited anthology, 2012) and Roads to Reconciliation (2005) (co-edited anthology).