Themes:
Gender Politics,
Cultures and Politics of Faith,
The Politics of Violence and Security,
Rights and Legal Institutions
Geographic focus:
Sudan
Senior Researcher and Coordinator: Gender Politics
E-mail: liv.tonnessen@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938021
Mob:+47 90224104
Liv Tønnessen has a PhD in political science from the University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the intersection between Islam, politics and gender. She has a track record from the Middle East and northern Africa with long term stays in Sudan, Lebanon and Syria. Tønnessen speaks Arabic and has published on Islamism, Islamic feminism, legal pluralism and gender justice and women’s rights and gender based violence. Tønnessen is the co-ordinator of a research cluster on Gender Politics at CMI. She is also co-ordinating a seminar series on gender based violence and human rights accountability, which is a co-operation between CMI and the University of Bergen Tønnessen is additionally a board member of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and an external advisor in Forum for Women and Development within the area of women in conflict and war.
Liv Tønnessen's publications in Cristin
Exploring the Relationship between Democratization and Quota Policies in Africa
Ragnhild Muriaas, Liv Tønnessen and Vibeke Wang (forthcoming)
in Women's Studies International Forum
The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan: Ideological Battles for and against Gender Equality
Liv Tønnessen and Samia al-Nagar (forthcoming)
in Women's Studies International Forum
Nye utfordringer til islamsk feminisme: Kvinneaktivismens mange ansikter i Sudan og Iran
Marianne Bøe and Liv Tønnessen (2011)
in Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning vol. 4 no. 4 pp. 327-342
Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
in Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development vol. 17 pp. 43-62
Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
in Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal vol. 6 no. 1, pp. 25-39
Is Islam a threshold for escape or an insurmountable barrier? Women bargaining with patriarchy in post-Islamist Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2010)
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 30 no. 3. pp.583-594
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
in Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol.27 no.3 pp. 313-329
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Liv Tønnessen (2008)
in Journal of North African Studies vol. 13 no. 4 pp. 455-469
Islamisme og demokrati hånd i hånd
Liv Tønnessen (2005)
in Babylon. Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika vol. 3 no. 2 pp. 116-123
Introduction: Gendering the Arab spring: Religion, Citizenship and Democracy
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
in Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin: Faith in Civil Society. Religious Actors as Drivers of Change.. Uppsala: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
in Fellesrådet for Afrika
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
in Rachel Sieder and John McNeish: Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives. New York: Routledge-Cavendish
Hasan al-Turabi
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
in Natana J.DeLong-Bas, Asma Afsaruddin, Heba Raouf Ezzat and Hibba Abugideiri : The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women . Oxford: Oxford University Press
Al-Banna, Hasan
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
in John Esposito: Encyclopedia of the Islamic world. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press
From impunity to prosecution? Sexual violence in Sudan beyond Darfur
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
(NOREF Report, February 2012)
Sudan country case study: Child rights
Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Sida (UTV Working Paper no. 2011:3) (Commissioned by Norad and Sida)
The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots
Liv Tønnessen, Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt (2010)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2010: 2) 46 p.
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen, Anne Sofie Roald (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 5) 50 p.
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief) 4 p.
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
Liv Tønnessen, Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt (2010)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 1) 4 p.
Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 6 no. 4) 4 p.
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Bergen: University of Bergen 344 p.
Islamism and Democracy: An Inquiry into the Political Thought of the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi
Liv Tønnessen (2005)
Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Cand. Polit. Degree. Bergen: Department of Comparative Politics. University of Bergen 159 p.
Debates about criminal law in Sudan and family law in Tunisia
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presented at: Islamic and Muslim law: Perspectives, 30-31 August 2012, Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen
Women's political representation
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presented at: Conference on Women in Public Life at Center for Women's Studies, at Jordan University in Amman, Jordan, November 25-28, 2012.
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presented at: American Anthropology Association, November 14-18 2012 in San Fransisco
Women's 25% parliamentary quota in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen and Samia al-Nagar (2012)
Presented at: Democratization and quota policies in Africa
Civil society and the armed forces
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presented at: Agents or Guardians:Military-civilian relations in Latin America and the Middle East
Islam and State in Moderation? Post-Islamism in Sudan (1989-2011)
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presented at: Sudan workshop, Chr. Michelsen Institutt (CMI), 16th and 17th of January 2012
Research on Islam and MENA in Norway
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Presented at: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Freie University, Berlin October 6-8, 2011
Islamic feminism in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Presented at: Women's Worlds 2011: Inclusions, Exclusions, Seclusions: Living in a Globalized World. 3-7 july, University of Ottawa, Canada
Gender politics in post-CPA Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Presented at: Insitute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
The Failure of the civilizational project? The politics of everyday islamic feminism in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Presented at: European University Institute, 12th mediterranean research Meeting, April 6-9, 2011 Italy
The politics of everyday persistent practices: Muslim women resisting the islamist state in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Presented at: The annual Norwegian political science conference
Feminist Interlegalities and Gender Justice in Sudan: The Debate on CEDAW and Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2010)
Presented at: Nordic Middle East Conference
Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Muslim Women in Post-Islamist Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2010)
Presented at: World Congress for Middle East Studies, Barcelona Spain
Bargaining with patriarchy in Sudan: The art of reimagining Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2010)
Presented at: Transnational/Global Feminism: Issues, Contestations, Challenges
The Moderation of the Islamist Movement in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2010)
Presented at: The annual norwegian political science conference
Power and the Gendered Interview: Bargaining with Patriarchy
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Presented at: Sharia and Human Rights
Bargaining with Patriarchy in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Presented at: Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization:
The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Liv Tønnessen (2008)
Presented at: Nordic Middle East Society, seminar in Cairo and Alexandria, June 2008
The Myth of a Reformist? Hassan al-Turabi and Women's Civil Rights within the Islamic Family Law in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Presented at: The seventh Nordic conference on Middle East Studies in Helsinki,Finland 21-23 September 2007 "The Middle East: Diversity - Variation - Interpretation
Equal before Allah and Unequal befor Man? Hassan al-Turabi and Women's Rights in Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Presented at: PhD Course/Seminar in Conceptions of Islam
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Interpretations of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum.
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Presented at: Plural Legalities Workshop
Hassan al-Turabi's Search for Islamist Democracy
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Presented at: NFU, Oslo
A Religious Belief in Democracy: -Hassan al-Turabi's Reinvention of Shura
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Presented at: Den Nasjonale Fagkonferansen i Statsvitenskap, Bergen, 2006
En arabisk vår i Sudan?
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Dagbladet 15.08.12
En nobel kvinnes kamp for demokrati i Jemen
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Bergens Tidende 09.12.2011
Fredsnasjon med fremmedfrykt II
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Dagbladet 02.08.2009
Kleskamp i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Dagbladet 30.08.2009
Oppskriften på kvinnefrigjøring i Islam
Marianne Bøe og Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Dagens Næringsliv 17.07.09
Fredsnasjon med fremmedfrykt
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Dagbladet 13.07.2009
En mørk og skummel ideologi
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Bergens Tidende 09.05.2009
Krig redder kvinnene?
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Aftenposten 8.12.2007
Blindt fokus på Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Bergens Tidende 16.11.2007
Minoriteter i «muslimske land»
Liv Tønnessen and Hilde Kjøstvedt (2007)
Bergens Tidende 30.06.2007
Norsk kvinnekamp i verden?
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Klassekampen 31.03.2007
Dialog er Nøkkelen til Integrasjon
Liv Tønnessen og Anne Sofie Roald (2006)
Klassekampen 03.10.2006
Mannen bak Darfur-konflikten
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Ny Tid No. 19, 2006
Hassan al-Turabi: Maktsyk Agitator eller Kvinnevennlig Demokrat?
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Morgenbladet 8-14 September 2006
Glemte Konflikter i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen og Inger Johanne Tjoflaat (2006)
Bergens Tidende 25. 07. 2006
Islam har skylden?
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Studvest 15.04.2006
Islam på godt og vondt
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Bergens Tidende 08.02.2006
Syria: Libanons akilleshæl
Liv Tønnessen og Kristian Boysen (2005)
Bergens Tidende 15.03.2005
Mot Maktskifte i Syria?
Liv Tønnessen (2005)
Bergens Tidende 29. 10.05
Kvinner og den arabiske våren
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
Norske historiedager Songdal 05.05.2013
Islam og Kvinneaktivisme i kjølevannet av den arabiske våren: Eksempler fra Egypt, Tunisia og Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
Høyskolen på Lillehammer 31.01.2013
Kvinners rettigheter og den arabiske våren: To steg tilbake heller enn ett fremover?
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
Lillehammer Yrkeskvinners Klubb 31.01.2013
Konflikt i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Presentasjon for studenter fra sjøkrigsskolen 25.10.2012
Gendering the Arab Spring: Religion, Citizenship and Democracy
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Faith in Civil Society. Religious Actors as Drivers of Change April 24-25
Women and the Arab Spring
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Peace and conflict studies, University of Oslo February 9, 2012
Kvinnepolitikk i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2012)
Religionsvitenskap
How to account for the centrality of contests relating to women's rights in projects of Islamization?
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Trial lecture, University of Bergen December 1, 2011
Caught between adultery and rape
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Nordglobal conference, Oslo October 25, 2011
From impunity to prosecution
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 11, 2011
Kvinnekamp i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
NORAD January 26, 2011
Sharia: Hva er Islamsk lov?
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Senioruniversitetet, Fana kulturhus November 8, 2011
Women's fight against violence and for justice in northern Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2011)
Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman Sudan May 16, 2011
The Politics of women's representation in Sudan: From the elites to the grasroots
Liv Tønnessen and Hilde Kjøstvedt (2010)
PRIO, Oslo March 2, 2010
Power and the gendered interview
Liv Tønnessen (2009)
CMI/University of Bergen: Sharia and Human Rights
Mellom ideal og virkelighet: kvinners rettigheter under Sharia
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Fagernes 09.11.2007
Er islam og demokrati forenlig?Moderate islamisters nytolkning av Sharia
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Fagernes 09.11.2007
Norms in conflict - cultural rights, freedom of religion vs women's rights
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Human Rights and Development, a master course in comparative politics, University of Bergen 19.10.2007
Det demokratisk underskudd i Midtøsten og Nord Afrika: What's Islam got to do with it?
Liv Tønnessen (2007)
Fagdag for Midtøsten studiet, University of Bergen October 2007
Radikalisering av Islam
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Mellomkirkelig råd, Stavanger.
Islamisme i Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
FN-Sambandet, Oslo
Islam har skylden?
Liv Tønnessen (2006)
Studentersamfunnet, Bergen.
Politics of Faith
Start: Jan. 2006 (Current)
Keywords: Religion, the state, secularisation, political institutionalisation,political mobilization, development, religious revival, conflict, violence and peace.
Geography: Middle East and Northern Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Sudan.
Asia: Indonesia and Pakistan
Protection of Civilians: From Principle to Practice
Start: Mar. 2012 (Initiation)
Geography: Afghanistan, Colombia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, and the Horn of Africa
Women's fight against violence and for justice in northern Sudan
Start: Apr. 2011 (Current)
Keywords: Violence, women, conflict, agency, Islamic law reform
Geography: Sudan
Peacebuilding in Sudan: Micro- Macro Issues
Start: Sep. 2005 (Completed)
Keywords: peacebuilding, conflict,
Geography: Sudan
Gender based violence in conflict-torn Sudan
Start: Apr. 2011 (Completed)
Geography: Sudan
The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Start: Jan. 2007 (Completed)
Keywords: Islamism, the state, political institutionalization, moderation
Geography: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Sudan.
Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights
Start: Feb. 2010 (Completed)
Geography: Guatemala; Kenya; Mozambique; Sudan
Transformations in the Arab World
Start: Jan. 2011 (Current)
Geography: Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Sudan
Allahu Akbar: A Friday in Khartoum
I am sipping to my coffee as I am listening to the local imam through the loudspeaker as he addresses his congregation inside the mosque.
The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan: Ideological Battles for and against Gender Equality
Liv Tønnessen and Samia al-Nagar (forthcoming)
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
Liv Tønnessen (2013)
