CMI Staff
Cand.polit Liv Tønnessen
Thematic research group:
Peace, Conflict and the State
Rights, Democracy and Development
Keywords:
Islamism, democracy, human rights, state versus civil society, political liberalization, womens' civil and political rights, political inclusion
Geographic keywords:
The Middle East and Northern Africa
Sudan
Researcher
E-mail: liv.tonnessen@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938021 Mob: +47 90224104
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Liv Tønnessen is a PhD candidate in comparative politics. The PhD will examine Muslim women's activism for and against the Islamic state in Sudan since the Islamist coup d'etat in 1989. The PhD centeres around the question: how to be a woman activist under authoritarian Islamist rule?
| Projects | Project search: Liv Tønnessen |
Current and recently completed projects:
Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights
Start: Feb. 2010 (Current)
Geography: Guatemala; Kenya; Mozambique; Sudan
Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism
Start: Jan. 2009 (Current)
The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Start: Jan. 2007 (Current)
Keywords: Islamism, the state, political institutionalization, moderation
Geography: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Sudan.
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
Peacebuilding in Sudan: Micro- Macro Issues
Start: Sep. 2005 (Current)
Keywords: peacebuilding, conflict,
Geography: Sudan
Women and Peacebuilding in Sudan
Start: Apr. 2009 (Completed)
Keywords: Islamism, elite, grasroots, women, peacebuilding, state, civil society
Geography: Sudan
Religious Dialogue and Peace-Building in Sudan
Start: Dec. 2006 (Completed)
Keywords: Inter-religious dialouge, civil society, Islam, peace and conflict
Geography: Sudan
| Publications | Publication search: Liv Tønnessen |
Publications by category:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Feminist Interlegalities and Gender Justice in Sudan: The Debate on CEDAW and Islam
Tønnessen, Liv (2011)
in Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal vol. 6 no. 1 (forthcoming)
Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Women Bargaining with Patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2010)
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 30 no. 3
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
in Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol.27 no.3 pp. 313-329
Al-Banna, Hasan
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
in John Esposito: Encyclopedia of the Islamic world. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Tønnessen, Liv (2008)
in Journal of North African Studies vol. 13 no. 4 pp. 455-469
Islamisme og demokrati hånd i hånd
Tønnessen, Liv (2005)
in Babylon. Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika vol. 3 no. 2 pp. 116-123
CMI Reports
The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots
Tønnessen, Liv, 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
Tønnessen, Liv, Anne Sofie Roald (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2007: 5) 50 p.
CMI Briefs
The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
Tønnessen, Liv, 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
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 6 no. 4) 4 p.
Theses
Islamism and Democracy: An Inquiry into the Political Thought of the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi
Tønnessen, Liv (2005)
Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Cand. Polit. Degree. Bergen: Department of Comparative Politics. University of Bergen 159 p.
Conference Papers
Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Muslim Women in Post-Islamist Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2010)
Presented at: World Congress for Middle East Studies, Barcelona Spain
Bargaining with patriarchy in Sudan: The art of reimagining Islam
Tønnessen, Liv (2010)
Presented at: Transnational/Global Feminism: Issues, Contestations, Challenges
The Moderation of the Islamist Movement in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2010)
Presented at: The annual norwegian political science conference
Power and the Gendered Interview: Bargaining with Patriarchy
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Presented at: Sharia and Human Rights
Bargaining with Patriarchy in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Presented at: Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization:
The Myth of a Reformist? Hassan al-Turabi and Women's Civil Rights within the Islamic Family Law in Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (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
Tønnessen, Liv (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.
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Presented at: Plural Legalities Workshop
Hassan al-Turabi's Search for Islamist Democracy
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Presented at: NFU, Oslo
A Religious Belief in Democracy: -Hassan al-Turabi's Reinvention of Shura
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Presented at: Den Nasjonale Fagkonferansen i Statsvitenskap, Bergen, 2006
Newspaper Op-Eds
Fredsnasjon med fremmedfrykt II
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Dagbladet 02.08.2009
Kleskamp i Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Dagbladet 30.08.2009
Oppskriften på kvinnefrigjøring i Islam
Bøe, Marianne og Liv Tønnessen (2009)
Dagens Næringsliv 17.07.09
Fredsnasjon med fremmedfrykt
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Dagbladet 13.07.2009
En mørk og skummel ideologi
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Bergens Tidende 09.05.2009
Krig redder kvinnene?
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Aftenposten 8.12.2007
Blindt fokus på Islam
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Bergens Tidende 16.11.2007
Minoriteter i «muslimske land»
Tønnessen, Liv and Hilde Kjøstvedt (2007)
Bergens Tidende 30.06.2007
Norsk kvinnekamp i verden?
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Klassekampen 31.03.2007
Dialog er Nøkkelen til Integrasjon
Tønnessen, Liv og Anne Sofie Roald (2006)
Klassekampen 03.10.2006
Mannen bak Darfur-konflikten
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Ny Tid No. 19, 2006
Hassan al-Turabi: Maktsyk Agitator eller Kvinnevennlig Demokrat?
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Morgenbladet 8-14 September 2006
Glemte Konflikter i Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv og Inger Johanne Tjoflaat (2006)
Bergens Tidende 25. 07. 2006
Islam har skylden?
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Studvest 15.04.2006
Islam på godt og vondt
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Bergens Tidende 08.02.2006
Syria: Libanons akilleshæl
Tønnessen, Liv og Kristian Boysen (2005)
Bergens Tidende 15.03.2005
Mot Maktskifte i Syria?
Tønnessen, Liv (2005)
Bergens Tidende 29. 10.05
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Power and the gendered interview
Tønnessen, Liv (2009)
Workshop: Sharia and Human Rights
Mellom ideal og virkelighet: kvinners rettigheter under Sharia
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Fagernes 09.11.2007
Er islam og demokrati forenlig?Moderate islamisters nytolkning av Sharia
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Fagernes 09.11.2007
Norms in conflict - cultural rights, freedom of religion vs women's rights
Tønnessen, Liv (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?
Tønnessen, Liv (2007)
Fagdag for Midtøsten studiet, University of Bergen October 2007
Radikalisering av Islam
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Mellomkirkelig råd, Stavanger.
Islamisme i Sudan
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
FN-Sambandet, Oslo
Islam har skylden?
Tønnessen, Liv (2006)
Studentersamfunnet, Bergen.
