Ellen Emilie Stensrud

Head of Research and Senior Researcher
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Email ellen.stensrud@hlsenteret.no
Phone +47 22 84 21 27
Mobile phone +47 92 04 66 84

Research areas

I am leading the project Mass Atrocity Responses, which addresses topics such as resistance against human rights abuses, mass atrocity prevention, protection of religious minorities, and transitional justice. This is part of the Center's work on international minority protection and mass atrocity prevention, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NORAD. I have been studying international responses to the situation for the Rohingya in Myanmar in light of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, presented in I a special issue on atrocity prevention in Myanmar for the journal Global Responsibility to Protect. I have also studied the role of freedom of religion or belief in minority protection and transitional justice mechanisms.

I am currently working on three different topics within the broader framework of responses to mass atrocities. First, I am coordinating the project “Mass atrocity resistance”, which is a research and networking project studying local actors’ strategies to resist the most serious human right abuses. The project will result in an edited volume currently under review. Second, I am collaborating in a project, funded by NOS-HS, on small states and atrocity prevention at the UN. I am co-editor of a special issue for the Nordic Journal of Human Rights on this topic. Third, I am coordinating a project on gender and atrocity prevention.  

I am closely affiliated with the work of the Inclusive Citizenship and Human Rights project, coordinated by Ingvill Plesner at the Holocaust center. I am also a member of the Politics after War research network and the Women Network on the Responsibility to Protect, Peace and Security. I am regularly teaching at an international course on atrocity crimes prevention and human rights, and have since 2024 been part of the course directors.

Prosjektnettside: www.massatrocityresponses.com

  • Folkemord og massive menneskerettighetsbrudd: forebygging og motstand 
  • Rettsoppgjør og internasjonale tribunaler
  • Sammenliknende folkemordstudier
  • Sørøst-Asia (særlig Kambodsja og Myanmar)

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Publications

  • Stensrud, Ellen E. "Bringing Realism to the Idealism of Small States: Norway and Atrocity Prevention at the UN Security Council", Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2024.2395722
  • Stensrud, Ellen E. and Martin Mennecke. "Approaching the 20th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect: Can small states save R2P?", Nordic Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming vol. 4, 2024).
  • Stensrud, Ellen E. "The Politics of the ECCC: Lessons from Cambodia’s Unique and Troubled Accountability Effort", Just Security, 13 October 2022.
  • Stensrud, Ellen E. “The Rohingya Crisis, the Democratisation Discourse, and the Absence of an Atrocity Prevention Lens,” Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 13 (2-3) 2021.
  • Martin Mennecke and Ellen E. Stensrud. “Myanmar and (the Failure of) Atrocity Prevention”, Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 13 (2-3) 2021. 
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. “Vil trosfrihetspolitikk hjelpe Rohingyaene I Myanmar?” [«Will politics of freedom of religion or belief help the Rohingyas in Myanmar?»] ”, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, report, 2019. Blog version
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. “Mass atrocity prevention: An overview of risk assessment and early warning”, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, policy brief, 2019.
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. “Myanmar and the genocide debate: Why definitions matter”, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, report, 2016.
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. “Mixed Courts and the Problem of Legitimacy: A Study of the Mixed Courts in Cambodia and Sierra Leone”. Phd-thesis, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, 2015.
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. “Den kambodsjanske tragedien og kampen om oppgjøret etter Pol Pot [The Cambodian Tragedy and the Fight for Justice after Pol Pot]”, in Bernt Hagtvet, Nik. Brandal and Dag Einar Thorsen (eds.) Folkemordenes Svarte Bok [The Black Book of Genocide] (2nd edition). Oslo: Oslo University Press, 2014.
  • Stensrud Ellen Emilie. “Mixed justice, mixed legacy : the special court for Sierra Leone”, in Lilian A. Barria and Steven D. Roper (eds.) The Development of Institutions of Human Rights. A Comparative Study. Londn: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • Stensrud, Ellen Emilie. "New Dilemmas in Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Mixed Courts in Sierra Leone and Cambodia", Journal of Peace Research, vol. 46 (1) 2009.
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