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).