Kjersti Lohne

Forthcoming

Crime, Justice, and Foreign Affairs, Lohne, K., Solhjell, R. & Antonsen, K. (eds). forthcoming 2026/2027 with Routledge. 

Lohne, K (forthcoming) "Sociology of International Criminal Justice" in Schultz et al. Encyclopedia of Sociology of Law, Elgar Publishing. 

Lohne, K (forthcoming) "The State of Exception" in Schultz et al. Encyclopedia of Sociology of Law, Elgar Publishing. 

Lohne co-editor (with Gaetan Cliquennois, Francois Bonnet & Johanna Nickels) of special issue on 'Revisiting liberal penality and the human rights script' in Punishment & Society, expected publication early 2027. 

Lohne co-editor (with Gaetan Cliquennois, Natasa Mavronicola and Leila Ullrich) of special issue on 'Penal entrepreneurs in an age of conflict' in Theoretical Criminology, expected publication in 2028. 

Books

Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror (2026) Lohne, K., Houge, A. B., Liden, K. og K.B. Sandvik (red) Cappellen Damm Akademisk. 

Rettsvitenskap og samfunnsengasjement: Festskrift til Hans Petter Graver (2025) Arnesen F., Lohne, K., Michalsen, D. og I. Sand (red) Universitetsforlaget

Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context (2022) Christensen, M.J, Lohne, K. & M. Hornqvist (eds.) Routledge. 

Power in International Criminal Justice (2020) Bergsmo, M., Klamberg, M., Lohne, K., & C. B. Mahony, (eds.) Brussels, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. 

Lohne, K. (2019) Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) Oxford University Press.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Lohne, K. (2025) Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order Law & Social Inquiry. p.1-20. Review Essay. Online 2 May 2025. 

Aydın-Aitchison, A. et al. (2024). Global Atrocity Justice Constellations: Editors’ Introduction. International Criminal Law Review. p. 1–6. Online Publication Date 14 October 2024

Lohne, K. (2024) Autocracies and the International Criminal Court: Civil Society Engagement, Dissident NGOs, and the Pursuit of Justice International Criminal Law Review Online Publication Date 16 July 2024.

Lohne, K. (2024) Frictions and Logics of ‘Good State’ Support to International Criminal Justice: The Case of Norway International Criminal Law Review Online Publication Date 03 June 2024.

Sausdal, D. & K. Lohne (2021) "Theatrics of transnational criminal justice: Ethnographies of penality in a global age." Theoretical Criminology 25.3: 361-378.

Lohne, K. (2021) ‘Observing Justice at Guantanamo Bay: Human Rights NGOs and Trial Monitoring at the US Military Tribunals’, Human Rights Review. 22, p. 193–213.

Sandvik, K.B, Ikdahl, I. & K. Lohne (2021) 'Rettens rolle etter 22. juli: Minnearbeid, overlevende og gjenoppbygging', Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift.

Sandvik, K.B. & K. Lohne (2021) 'The struggle against sexual violence in conflict: investigating the digital turn', International Review of the Red Cross. 

Lohne, K. & M. Rua (2021) 'Rettslig mobilisering og strategisk sakførsen mot isolasjon i norske fengsler', Nordisk tidskrift for kriminalvidenskap. 

Lohne, K. 2021, ‘Penal welfarism “gone global”? Comparing international criminal justice with The Culture of Control’, Punishment & Society. Vol. 23. No. 1

Lohne, K., (2020) ‘Ethical Capacity and its Challenges in the Academy of Science: Historical Continuities and Contemporary Violence’, Biologia Futura. Online first.

Lohne, K. (2020) 'Penal humanitarianism beyond the nation state: an analysis of international criminal justice' Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Lohne, K. (2019) ‘Kristetilstanden i det internasjonale strafferettsprosjektet – en rettssosiologisk analyse’ Tidsskrift for strafferett’. 19(4). 

Lohne, K., (2018) 'As the Universal Breaks: Moments of Awkwardness in International Justice' New Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 3.

Houge, A.B. & K. Lohne (2017) 'End Impunity! Reducing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence to a Problem of Law', Law & Society Review, Vol. 51, Issue 4. 

Lohne, K. & K.B. Sandvik (2017), 'Bringing Law into the Political Sociology of Humanitarianism', Oslo Law Review, 4(1).

Houge, A.B, Lohne, K. & M. Skilbrei (2015), 'Gender and Crime Revisited: Criminological Gender Research on International and Transnational Crime and Crime Control', Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 16(2).

Sandvik, K.B & K. Lohne (2014), 'The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone: Giving Content to an Emerging Concept', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1).

Lohne, K. (2012), 'The Norwegian Data Inspectorate: Between Governance and Resistance', Surveillance & Society, 10(2).

Scientific book chapters

Stambøl, E., Berger, T., Lohne, K. & R. Solhjell (2025) "Travelling justice norms and crime control models: Power dynamics and contestations in global north-south relations" in Cavalcanti et al. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South, 2nd edition

Lohne, K., (2024) 'Penal Logics in International Politics. Nordic Foreign Policy on International Justice' in Werner et. al. (eds), Punishment in International Society: Norms, Justice and Punitive Practices, Oxford University Press. 

Lohne, K. (2022) ' Nordic penal humanitarianism: Status-branding, brand alignment, and penal power' in Christensen, M.J, Lohne, K. & M. Hornqvist (eds.) Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context , Routledge. 

Lohne, K., (forthcoming 2021) ‘Human Rights Advocacy in International Criminal Justice: Whose Rights? Whose Justice?’, in Susanne Karstedt, Chrisje Brants, and Nandor Knust (eds) Making a difference: the impact of transitional justice. Routledge. 

Lohne, K., (2020) ‘Durkheim’s moral individualism and international criminal justice: a critical appraisal of humanity’s savages, victims and saviours’ in Eski, Y. and S. Walklate, eds., Genocide and Victimology, Routledge.

Lohne, K. (2020) 'Towards a Sociology of International Criminal Justice' in Bergsmo, M., Klamberg, M., Lohne, K., & C. B. Mahony Power in International Criminal Justice, Brussels, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher.

De Hoon, M. & K. Lohne (2019) '"All the World's a Stage: Constituting International Justice at the Assembly of States Parties Meeting' in Boer, L.J.M & S. Stalk, Backstage Practices of Transnational Law, Routledge.

Lohne, K., (2018) 'NGOs for International Justice: Criminal or Victims' Justice', in Ulfstein, G. & A. Føllesdal, The Judicialization of International Law, Oxford University Press.

Lohne, K. (2017), 'Global Civil Society, the ICC, and Legitimacy in International Criminal Justice', in Hayashi, N. & C.M. Bailliet (eds), The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Sandvik, K.B., M. Gabrielsen Jumbert & K. Lohne (2016), 'Drones for Good: Conceptualizing the Role of Drones in Global Governance' (in Chinese), In Zhuo Li (ed.), China International Strategy Review. Long River Press. 8.

Houge, A.B., Lohne, K. & M. Skilbrei (2014), 'Kriminologisk kjønnsforskning mellom Norge og verden', i Finstad, L. & H. Mork Lomell (eds), Motmæle - en antologi til Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård og Guri Larsen, Novus forlag.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2026). Human rights advocacy in international criminal justice : Whose rights? Whose justice? In Brants, Chrisje; Karstedt, Susanne & Knust, Nandor (Ed.), Transitional Justice: Legacies and Futures | Chrisje Brants, Susanne K. Routledge. ISSN 9781003133377. p. 133–146. doi: 10.4324/9781003133377-10. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter explores how human rights advocacy may contribute to skewing the project of international criminal justice against its liberal ambitions. In holding states accountable for human rights abuses, human rights NGOs advocate on behalf of defence rights; in holding individuals accountable for human rights abuses, human rights NGOs advocate on behalf of victims. The chapter delves into popular appeals on behalf of victims of international crimes and explores the concurrent stigmatization of defendants in international criminal justice. The chapter suggests that there is a lack of structural restraints on the call to ‘do justice’ at the international level, and that those that often play a major role in restraining criminal justice at the domestic level – human rights organizations – are in the driving seat of expanding criminal justice solutions at the international level and in transitional justice.

• Lohne, Kjersti & Houge, Anette Bringedal (2026). 22. juli og rettferdighetens tid. In Lohne, Kjersti; Houge, Anette Bringedal; Liden, Kristoffer & Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (Ed.), Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror. Cappelen Damm Forskning/NOASP. ISSN 9788202926151. p. 153–168. doi: 10.23865/cdf.289.ch8. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this chapter, we reflect on the contributions of this book and on the meaning of different temporalities in transitional justice through the prism pro vided by the sociology of time. By critically addressing the relationship between various conceptions of justice and different actors’ and constituencies’ experiences of time and its meanings following mass violence, our purpose is to take a constructive look at some of the fundamental premises of transitional justice in the aftermath of terror attacks in democratic societies. In doing so, we caution against a normative expectation to “leave the past behind” and propose a humbler approach to the relationship between time, justice, and mass violence.

• Lohne, Kjersti; Houge, Anette Bringedal; Liden, Kristoffer & Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2026). Overgangsrettferdighet etter 22. juli. In Lohne, Kjersti; Houge, Anette Bringedal; Liden, Kristoffer & Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (Ed.), Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror. Cappelen Damm Forskning/NOASP. ISSN 9788202926151. p. 9–26. doi: 10.23865/cdf.289.ch1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror handler om hvordan det norske samfunnet har forsøkt å forstå, svare på og finne veier videre etter 22. juli-angrepene i 2011 – i og utenfor rettsapparatet. Den 22. juli 2011 bombet en terrorist det norske regjeringskvartalet før han utførte et massedrap på AUFs ungdomsleir på Utøya. 77 personer ble drept, og framtiden ble endret for tusener av andre. 15 år senere undersøker bidragsyterne i denne boken rettferdighetens rammer etter terrorangrepene og ulike former for oppgjør, forsonings- og minnearbeid i tiden som har gått. Boken tar utgangspunkt i forskning på overgangsrettferdighet, og gjennom analyser av rettsprosesser, granskningskommisjoner, politiske holdninger, ulike former for minnearbeid, statens ansvar for borgernes frihet og sikkerhet og tidens betydning, viser boken hvordan overgangsrettferdighet kan forstås etter terror. Boken er en av tre bøker som beskriver ulike ringvirkninger i etterkant av 22. juli 2011, som resultat av forskningsprosjektet LAW22JULY: RIPPLES.

• Stambøl, Eva Magdalena; Tobias, Berger,; Lohne, Kjersti & Solhjell, Randi (2025). Travelling Justice and Global Criminology. Power Dynamics and Contestations in Global South-North Relations. In Cavalcanti, Roxana Pessoa; Fonseca, David S; Weis, Valeria Vegh; Carrington, Kerry; Hogg, Russell & Scott, John (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031749322. p. 1–20. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-74932-2_15-1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter examines how justice norms and crime control models travel around the world, and the Global South’s role in global, supranational, and transnational criminology. We argue that the Global South has exercised more agency than it has typically been credited with in contributing to, initiating, and contesting international justice and transnational crime control. Internationally, global justice norms and policies have been primarily shaped by Global North countries, yet this chapter shows how Global South countries have engaged in contestation, struggle, and alternative worldmaking in the development of these international justice regimes. Transnationally, the travel of crime control models has tended to occur through the foreign policies of Global North countries, yet the chapter problematizes these processes of “diffusion” and “translation” and highlights the contested nature of Global North-South interactions. Finally, we reflect on the implications for global criminology of the Global South’s changing role amid shifting global power dynamics, as the liberal global order fragments and gives way to multipolarity.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order. Law and Social Inquiry (LSI). ISSN 0897-6546. 50(2), p. 598–617. doi: 10.1017/lsi.2025.25. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In times of political crisis and attacks against the foundations of political liberalism, can we put our trust in lawyers and other legal occupations to fight for our freedoms when they are under attack? The role of the legal profession in the rise, development, and resilience of political liberalism has been at the core of a body of work commonly framed as “the legal complex”: Terence C. Halliday and Lucien Karpik’s Lawyers and the Rise of Western Political Liberalism, Halliday, Malcolm Feeley, and Karpik’s Fighting for Political Freedom, Halliday, Karpik, and Feeley’s Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony, and Feeley and Malcolm Langford’s The Limits of the Legal Complex. In view of the precariousness of political liberalism in contemporary global politics, this review essay reflects on the core ideas of the legal complex literature. By identifying connections with other strands of scholarship on legal agents, legal mobilization, and the move to law in transitional politics, I suggest rescaling the study of the legal complex to enable consideration of its relevance for the study of political liberalism at the international level of analysis and, specifically, of its importance to the resilience of the liberal international order currently in rapid decline.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Autocracies and the International Criminal Court: Civil Society Engagement, Dissident ngo s, and the Pursuit of Justice. International Criminal Law Review. ISSN 1567-536X. 24(4), p. 407–437. doi: 10.1163/15718123-bja10200. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The rising tide of autocratization does not bode well for the International Criminal Court (icc), which has almost exclusively intervened in contexts of autocratic rule. As the Court is dependent not only on state cooperation but also on non-governmental organizations (ngo s) for effectiveness and legitimacy, this article explores the role—if any—of dissident ngo s in the pursuit of justice for international crimes committed under autocratic regimes. It shows that, while ngo s have been fundamental to the working of the icc, autocratic states are particularly challenging for the icc and ngo s to operate in. Despite this, ngo s may have found new ways of holding autocratic states to account for international crimes—with or without the icc.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Frictions and Logics of 'Good State' Support to International Criminal Justice: The Case of Norway. International Criminal Law Review. ISSN 1567-536X. 24(5-6), p. 729–744. doi: 10.1163/15718123-bja10181. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Penal Logics in International Politics: Nordic Foreign Policy on International Justice. In Wagner, Wolfgang; Durmusoglu, Linet R.; Hola, Barbora; Kroeze, Ronald; Prooijen, Jan-Willem van & Werner, Wouter G. (Ed.), Punishment in International Society: Norms, Justice, and Punitive Practices. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197693483. p. 73–98. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To contribute to the development of an international sociology of punishment, this chapter offers an analysis of penal power when it is detached from its association with national justice and enters the realm of the international. Specifically, the chapter contributes a comparative analysis of Nordic discourses driving penal power in two overlapping yet nonetheless distinct areas of transnational concern – namely the field of international criminal justice, and the prosecution of foreign fighters. It argues that whereas a humanitarian discourse drives the Nordic engagement in the larger field of international criminal justice, the discourse on foreign fighters is characterized by ‘securitization’– transforming the prosecution of international crimes into a matter of national security. As such, the analysis raises interesting questions about penal logics in international politics, and about how penal power beyond the nation state remains receptive to securitization in spite of political support for an international system of criminal justice.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2022). Nordic penal humanitarianism: Status-building, brand-alignment, and penal power. In Lohne, Kjersti; Hörnqvist, Magnus & Christensen, Mikkel Jarle (Ed.), Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context. Routledge. ISSN 9781003195504. p. 128–145. doi: 10.4324/9781003195504-10. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Ikdahl, Ingunn & Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Rettens rolle etter 22. juli: Minnearbeid, overlevende og gjenoppbygging. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 5(3), p. 28–45. doi: 10.18261/issn.2535-2512-2021-03-03. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Mens de straffe- og sikkerhetsrettslige aspektene ved terrorangrepet 22. juli 2011 har vært grundig belyst i sakprosa og faglitteratur, har rettens mer generelle rolle i møte med 22. juli ikke blitt gjenstand for samme oppmerksomhet. Denne artikkelen skisserer en rettssosiologisk forskningsagenda ved å kartlegge de rettslige virkningene av 22. juli i lys av rettens møte med overlevende, minnearbeid og gjenoppbygging. Vi viser hvordan den norske staten og rettsapparatet i all hovedsak ser ut til å velge ordinære virkemidler i respons til det ekstraordinære 22. juli. Vi er interessert i hvordan retten fordeler ressurser og overprøver offentlige inngrep i sin reaksjon på 22. juli, og hvordan ulike aktører setter retten i spill i kampen om den autoritative fortellingen om 22. juli. På tross av at rettsliggjøring og rettslig mobilisering kan styrke rettigheter, viser våre foreløpige analyser at rettsliggjøringsprosesser også bidrar til å konsolidere sosiale og politiske konfliktlinjer, og kan vanskeliggjøre forsoningsprosesser i etterkant av 22. juli. Således er artikkelens formål å bidra til økt forståelse av rettens og rettssosiologiens rolle i møte med ekstraordinære hendelser og av 22. juli som en rettslig begivenhet med konsekvenser for det norske samfunnet.

• Lohne, Kjersti & Hoon, Marieke de (2021). Is International Criminal Justice Enough? Reconciliation and Justice After Mass Violence. Georgetown journal of international affairs. ISSN 1526-0054. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Durkheim’s moral individualism and international criminal justice: a critical appraisal of humanity’s savages, victims and saviours. In Eski, Yarin (Eds.), Genocide and Victimology. Routledge. ISSN 9781138311718. p. 38–50. doi: 10.4324/9780429458675. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  By their ability to ‘shock the conscience of humanity’, core international crimes – war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide – are instilled with a ‘higher’ victim profile than what is generally the case in domestic criminal justice. While the permanent International Criminal Court – as an embodiment of the international community – have been delegated the authority to punish on behalf of its member states, this chapter moves beyond such a politico-legal approach to offer a cultural insight into the ‘global’ authority to punish, asking, who are the ‘we’ who punish? Drawing on empirical research from the author’s study of human rights advocacy at the ICC and conceptual work that is the legacy of Emile Durkheim, the chapter explores how the notion of ‘humanity’ is put at the centre of international criminal justice’s moral foundation, and does work to justify criminal punishment when it is disembedded from the nation state. As such, the chapter suggests that international criminal justice serves, in the name of humanity, to reinforce a cosmopolitan imaginary of a global moral order, albeit one that is, in its current manifestation, biased, selective and situated.

• Lohne, Kjersti & Rua, Marte (2021). Rettspolitisk mobilisering og strategisk sakførsel mot isolasjon i norske fengsler. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab. ISSN 0029-1528. 108(1), p. 118–135. doi: 10.7146/ntfk.v108i1.125567. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Solitary confinement in prison and police detention has been a widespread criminal policy and human rights problem in the Scandinavian countries for decades. However, in recent years, there has been a significant legal mobilization in Norway whereby lawyers individually and collectively have challenged solitary confinement in the courts. This use of strategic litigation has been directed towards solitary confinement in police custody, remand and during imprisonment. Based on qualitative interviews and documents, we analyze the organizational and legal strategy behind this legal mobilization, along with its effects and preconditions. We find that strategic litigation by lawyers has played an important role in the struggle against solitary confinement in Norway, but that it has benefited from – and played in tandem with – a legal and political opportunity structure consisting of national as well as international actors, processes, and legal frameworks. These findings raise the question of whether lawyers and civil society can contribute in similar ways in the other Scandinavian countries.

• Sausdal, David & Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Theatrics of transnational criminal justice: Ethnographies of penality in a global age. Theoretical criminology. ISSN 1362-4806. 25(3), p. 361–378. doi: 10.1177/13624806211029562. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Observing Justice at Guantánamo Bay: Human Rights NGOs and Trial Monitoring at the US Military Commissions. Human Rights Review. ISSN 1524-8879. p. 1–21. doi: 10.1007/s12142-021-00619-z. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Ethical capacity and its challenges in the academy of science: historical continuities and contemporary violence. Biologia Futura. ISSN 2676-8615. doi: 10.1007/s42977-020-00021-9. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Penal welfarism ‘gone global’? Comparing international criminal justice to The Culture of Control. Punishment & Society. ISSN 1462-4745. doi: 10.1177/1462474520928114. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Lohne, Kjersti (2020). The struggle against sexual violence in conflict: Investigating the digital turn. International Review of the Red Cross. ISSN 1816-3831. 102(913), p. 95–115. doi: 10.1017/S1816383121000060. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Towards a Sociology of International Criminal Justice. In Bergsmo, Morten; Klamberg, Mark; Lohne, Kjersti & Mahony, Chris (Ed.), Power in International Criminal Justice. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISSN 9788283481143. p. 47–78. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Inspirations, Inclinations and Thanks from a Young European Criminologist. Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology. 18(3). Full text in Research Archive
• Hoon, Marieke de & Lohne, Kjersti (2019). ‘All the world’s a stage’: constituting international justice at the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties meeting. In Boer, Lianne J.M. & Stolk, Sofia (Ed.), Backstage Practices of Transnational Law. Routledge. ISSN 9780367086572. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Krisetilstanden i det internasjonale strafferettsprosjektet – en rettssosiologisk analyse. Tidsskrift for strafferett. ISSN 1502-685X. 19(4), p. 413–435. doi: 10.18261/issn.0809-9537-2019-04-03. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Artikkelens formål er å bidra med rettssosiologisk innsikt i studiet av internasjonal strafferett og til en dypere forståelse av ICCs (Den internasjonale straffedomstolen) «krisetilstand». Analysens første del tar for seg den internasjonale strafferettens strukturelle betingelser, med særlig fokus på den geopolitiske og historiske plasseringen av det internasjonale strafferettsfeltet i den liberale verdensordenen. Deretter identifiseres de globale «entreprenørene» bak ICC, det vil si transnasjonale nettverk av menneskerettighetsaktivister, rettsaktivister og ikke-statlige organisasjoner, før fokuset snevres inn på individene og institusjonell makt i det internasjonale strafferettsfeltet. Ved å stille spørsmål om hvem det er som «gjør» internasjonal strafferettferdighet i det daglige, viser artikkelen hvordan misforhold og skjevheter i det internasjonale strafferettsfeltets betingelser og sosiale strukturer slår uheldig ut for den internasjonale strafferettens normative forankring i det «globale» samfunnet. Avslutningsvis diskuteres spørsmålet om hva ICCs legitimitetsproblemer betyr for domstolens fremtid, og hvordan begreper som «krise» også åpner for kritisk potensial.

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• Lohne, Kjersti; Solhjell, Randi & Antonsen, Katrine (2027). Extraterritorial crime control: governing, positioning, resisting. Routledge. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The edited volume develops the concept of extraterritorial crime control to make sense of the nexus between criminal justice, foreign affairs and international relations. By extraterritorial crime control, we mean the ways in which states and international organisations project and deploy criminal justice tools, institutions and norms beyond their territorial borders in order to govern, discipline or strategically shape other sovereign spaces. The extraterritorial lens enables us to see the strategic and often asymmetric ways in which criminal justice is mobilised and exported. As such, the book is aimed at understanding how extraterritorial criminal justice can function both as governance at a distance and as a form of state positioning in international relations.

• Lohne, Kjersti; Houge, Anette Bringedal; Liden, Kristoffer & Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2026). Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror. Cappelen Damm Forskning/NOASP. ISBN 9788202926151. 169 p. doi: 10.23865/cdf.289. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Etter 22. juli. Overgangsrettferdighet og terror handler om hvordan det norske samfunnet har forsøkt å forstå, svare på og finne veier videre etter 22. juli-angrepene i 2011 – i og utenfor rettsapparatet. Den 22. juli 2011 bombet en terrorist det norske regjeringskvartalet før han utførte et massedrap på AUFs ungdomsleir på Utøya. 77 personer ble drept, og framtiden ble endret for tusener av andre. 15 år senere undersøker bidragsyterne i denne boken rettferdighetens rammer etter terrorangrepene og ulike former for oppgjør, forsonings- og minnearbeid i tiden som har gått. Boken tar utgangspunkt i forskning på overgangsrettferdighet, og gjennom analyser av rettsprosesser, granskningskommisjoner, politiske holdninger, ulike former for minnearbeid, statens ansvar for borgernes frihet og sikkerhet og tidens betydning, viser boken hvordan overgangsrettferdighet kan forstås etter terror. Boken er en av tre bøker som beskriver ulike ringvirkninger i etterkant av 22. juli 2011, som resultat av forskningsprosjektet LAW22JULY: RIPPLES.

• Arnesen, Finn; Lohne, Kjersti; Michalsen, Dag & Sand, Inger Johanne (2025). Rettsvitenskap og samfunnsengasjement: Festskrift til Hans Petter Graver. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215075297. 541 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti; Christensen, Mikkel Jarle & Hörnqvist, Magnus (2022). Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion of Exceptionalism. Routledge. ISBN 9781032049793. 200 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti; Hörnqvist, Magnus & Christensen, Mikkel Jarle (2022). Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context. Routledge. ISBN 9781003195504. 200 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Bergsmo, Morten; Klamberg, Mark; Lohne, Kjersti & Mahony, Chris (2020). Power in International Criminal Justice. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISBN 9788283481143. 894 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198818748. 288 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Lohne, Kjersti; Solhjell, Randi & Antonsen, Katrine (2026). Crime, Justice and Foreign Affairs: forthcoming edited volume. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Criminal justice is an integrated—but underexplored—dimension of states’ foreign affairs. Criminologists have studied the widening net of global crime governance as part of the liberal international project, where efforts to fight transnational and international crimes and insecurities while promoting penal reform in the Global South have dovetailed liberal universals of human rights, rule of law, democracy, and development (Lohne 2019; Russo and Stambøl 2022; see also Cohen 1982). Today, due in part to seismic geopolitical shifts, the liberal international order underpinning these discourses, and their practices are in rapid decline (Goddard et al., 2024; Lake et al., 2021). Crime, Justice, and Foreign Affairs is a forthcoming volume that explores the relationship between criminal justice and notions of order-making beyond territorial sovereignty: How do crime control policies, practices, logics, and technologies of crime governance factor in the foreign policy toolbox? How is criminal justice part of states’ external logics and manifestations of sovereign power—and their efforts to contribute to global order-making? By offering a set of original empirical analyses of the “external” logics of crime governance from a diverse set of authors from around the world, the book seeks to advance criminological knowledge on how penality fares outside the territorially bounded nation-state order of analysis. Such a rescaled focus on order and order-making represents a new direction in criminology, which despite its fixation on social order, has by and large taken international order for granted.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). De forsøker å stanse verdens verste forbrytelser. Slik straffes de av USA. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Over natten mistet de tilgang til Apple, Paypal og bankkontoene sine. Amerikanske sanksjoner griper langt inn i hverdagen til dommerne ved Den internasjonale straffedomstolen.

• Alecu, Andreea Ioana; Antonsen, Katrine & Lohne, Kjersti (2025). Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 3: Danish Penal Aid | Oxford Law Blogs. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How does penal power travel beyond the nation state? This question has concerned border criminology for some time now, which have helped uncovered various ways in which humanitarianism has been put to work on and for penal power in legitimating its transfer beyond the nation state (see themed series on ‘penal humanitarianism’). In our current research project, we have set out to map the intersections of humanitarian reason and penal governance in detail, focusing on the forms of penality leaving Denmark, Norway, and Sweden through development aid—indeed, as a form of ‘penal aid’ handed over to other states, societies, and citizens and as part of the ‘crime-development’ nexus. In three country-specific blog entries, we present descriptive statistics and visualizations from our datasets on Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish penal aid from 1990 to 2022, focusing on ‘what’ Scandinavian penal aid is, ‘where’ it is delivered, ‘how’ it is categorized and funded, and through ‘who’, meaning, which actors are involved in this form of penal transfer.

• Antonsen, Katrine; Lohne, Kjersti & Alecu, Andreea Ioana (2025). Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 2: Swedish Penal Aid | Oxford Law Blogs. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How does penal power travel beyond the nation state? This question has concerned border criminology for some time now, which have helped uncovered various ways in which humanitarianism has been put to work on and for penal power in legitimating its transfer beyond the nation state (see themed series on ‘penal humanitarianism’). In our current research project, we have set out to map the intersections of humanitarian reason and penal governance in detail, focusing on forms of penality leaving Norway, Sweden and Denmark through development aid—indeed, as a form of ‘penal aid’ handed over to other states, societies, and citizens and as part of the ‘crime-development’ nexus. In three country-specific blog entries, we present descriptive statistics and visualizations from our datasets on Norwegian, Swedish and Danish penal aid from 1990 to 2022, focusing on ‘what’ Scandinavian penal aid is, ‘where’ it is delivered, ‘how’ it is categorized and funded, and through ‘who’, meaning, which actors are involved in this form of penal transfer.   

• Lohne, Kjersti; Alecu, Andreea Ioana & Antonsen, Katrine (2025). Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 1: Norwegian Penal Aid. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How does penal power travel beyond the nation state? This question has concerned border criminology for some time now, which have helped uncovered various ways in which humanitarianism has been put to work on and for penal power in legitimating its transfer beyond the nation state (see themed series on ‘penal humanitarianism’). In our current research project, we have set out to map the intersections of humanitarian reason and penal governance in detail, focusing on forms of penality leaving Norway, Sweden and Denmark through development aid—indeed, as a form of ‘penal aid’ handed over to other states, societies, and citizens and as part of the ‘crime-development’ nexus. In three country-specific blog entries, we present descriptive statistics and visualizations from our datasets on Norwegian, Swedish and Danish penal aid from 1990 to 2022, focusing on ‘what’ Scandinavian penal aid is, ‘where’ it is delivered, ‘how’ it is categorized and funded, and through ‘who’, meaning, which actors are involved in this form of penal transfer.   

• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). Global morgen: Verden etter Gaza - Hvilke verdier skal styre? Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). Reflections on statements by ICC Vice-President and Judge Rosario Salvatore Aitala and State Secretary Andreas Kravik, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). The Ordinary, Liminal Lives of Informants in Participatory Dictatorships: Lessons for Transitional Justice. Law and Social Inquiry (LSI). ISSN 0897-6546. 50(1), p. 343–347. doi: 10.1017/lsi.2025.5. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2025). Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order. Full text in Research Archive
• Solhjell, Randi; Lohne, Kjersti & Alecu, Andreea Ioana (2025). Penal Policy Beyond the State: Examining police export as foreign aid. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To address regional development, political and conflict issues in the Global South, Global North donors have engaged in police reform and sent police officers through foreign aid since the 1990s. While donors generally agree on democratic policing and principles of human rights, there is little consensus on how these norms are implemented (Ellison & Pino, 2012, p. 2), especially when applied to different histories and contexts (Watson & Kerrigan, 2018). Scholars have shown that such policing model and their exports have failed to establish democratically response and locally accountable policing (Blaustein, 2015; Ellison & O'Reilly, 2008; Ellison & Pino, 2012). But less is know about the origin of these exports situated in foreign aid projects from the Global North. We take a closer look at foreign data from 2000 to 2022, from three relatively generous donors considering aid per capita, namely Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Our data shows the variety of project themes, actors involved and geographical location, that together illustrates who gets funded, where, when and topic priorities of donors.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Reflections from reading "Victims and Labour at the International Criminal Court: the Blame Cascade". Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti; Solhjell, Randi & Alecu, Andreea Ioana (2024). Policing the global borderlands: a mapping of Scandinavian police aid. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Reflections from reading "Informers up close: stories from communist Prague". Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Debatten - Norge vil måtte arrestere Netanyahu. [TV]. NRK Debatten. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Hvis domstolen sier ja til arrestordre, kan ikke Netanyahu reise til Norge. Da vil han bli arrestert. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Den internasjonale straffedomstolen risikerer å kollapse. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Debatt: Den sterkestes rett eller folkerett? Likhet for loven i Ukraina og Palestina. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det internasjonale samfunnets manglende evne til å gripe inn for å forhindre et mulig folkemord på Gaza står i sterk kontrast til den resolutte handlingen Russland ble møtt med etter invasjonen av Ukraina. Gapet mellom "vesten og resten" ser ut til å øke, og oppfatninger om vestlig dobbeltmoral ser ut til å få fotfeste. Hvilke konsekvenser dette kan få for folkerettens legitimitet, og hva bør Norge gjøre for å ha troverdighet i en av sine viktigste utenrikspolitiske målsettinger: et aktivt forsvar av folkeretten? Utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide møter professor i rettsvitenskap og styreleder for ICJ-Norge, Terje Einarsen og professor Kjersti Lohne til samtale ledet av Elin Ludviksen.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Nordisk utenrikspolitikk i en internasjonal rettsorden. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Senatorer i brev til ICC: – Dere er blitt advart. [Internet]. NRK . Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Civil Society Participation in International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Tror det er lettere å få dem dømt for utsulting. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Antonsen, Katrine; Solhjell, Randi & Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Update on qualitative and quantitative research in JustExports. Full text in Research Archive
• Antonsen, Katrine & Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Kriminalitet og straff i norsk bistand. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Kommentarer til rapportlansering av 'Norge i en splittet verden: multimeldingen fem år etter". Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Nye rettsforhandlingar i Guantanamo etter 11/9-åtaka. [Radio]. NRK Nyhetsmorgen. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2024). Conflict as Property: IKRS and the legacy of Nils Christie. Full text in Research Archive
• Aydın-Aitchison, Andy; Buljubašić, Mirza; Lohne, Kjersti; Sancin, Vasilka & Gomez, Camilo Tamayo (2024). Global Atrocity Justice Constellations: Editors’ Introduction. International Criminal Law Review. ISSN 1567-536X. p. 1–6. doi: 10.1163/15718123-bja10216. Full text in Research Archive
• Antonsen, Katrine; Solhjell, Randi & Lohne, Kjersti (2023). Promoting justice in a time of friction. Full text in Research Archive
• Houge, Anette Bringedal; Lohne, Kjersti & Lingaas, Carola Diane (2023). Norges nye krigsforbryter. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2022). 20 år siden første fanger på Guantanamo. [Radio]. NRK P1 - Dagens. Full text in Research Archive
• Ugelvik, Thomas & Lohne, Kjersti (2022). 14 Kjersti Lohne: Fagets grenser, Guantanamo Bay, eksport av straffeverdier. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2022). Cracks are appearing in the Nordic Region’s perception of itself as a humanitarian pioneer. [Journal]. Nordforsk.org. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2022). Nordens selvforståelse som humanitære foregangslande slår sprækker. [Journal]. Nordforsk.org. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Vi legitimerer internationalt engagement og intervention med humane begrundelser, men der er også stærke egeninteresser og branding på spil, fortæller forsker bag ny bog om nordisk retspolitik.

• Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora; Ikdahl, Ingunn; Lohne, Kjersti; Vestad, Maja; Sørlie, Anniken & Moe-Pryce, Marit (2022). Law after July 22, 2011: Survivors, Memory and Reconstruction. PRIO Paper. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  ​While the criminal law and security governance aspects of the July 22 terror attack in Norway have been extensively analyzed in the academic literature, much less attention has been given to processes involving civil law, legal mobilization and legal-bureaucratic processes. ​The slow workings of the law mean that the aftermath of July 22 is still unfolding in different legal processes. This PRIO paper carves out a socio-legal research agenda intended to bridge the aforementioned knowledge gap. In so doing, it identifies various aspects of how the law deals with survivors, their families and the bereaved. It also addresses the legal debates over memorials and the reconstruction and securitization of the Norwegian Government Quarter. We argue that in choosing between extraordinary and ordinary legal mechanisms and instruments to deal with the terror attack, the state and the legal system have opted for the latter. This emphasis on “ordinary law” must be investigated. We are interested in how law distributes resources, rights and identities and sets limits on government interventions – and how individual actors and organizations mobilize the law to shape the political, popular and legal narratives around July 22.

• Lohne, Kjersti; Schaffer, Johan Karlsson; Thorsen, Dag Einar & Bjørkdahl, Kristian (2021). Rights and democracy as Nordic brands. Full text in Research Archive
• Houge, Anette Bringedal & Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Når offeret blir forbryter. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti; Mathé, Nora Elise Hesby; Myksvoll, Mari Skuggedal & Reinertsen, Hilde (2021). Akademisk ytringsfrihet: Tre løsningsforslag. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Midlertidighet, eksternfinansiering og press fra eksterne interesser kan utfordre yngre forskeres akademiske ytringsfrihet.

• Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Correction to: Observing Justice at Guantánamo Bay: Human Rights NGOs and Trial Monitoring at the US Military Commissions (Human Rights Review, (2021), 22, 2, (193-213), 10.1007/s12142-021-00619-z). Human Rights Review. ISSN 1524-8879. 22(2), p. 215–215. doi: 10.1007/s12142-021-00625-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Lind, Anders Torgeir Hjertø; Falck, Runa; Stuvøy, Ingvill & Lohne, Kjersti (2021). Regjeringen må på banen for fremtidens forskning. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). DEBATT: Utvid gjennomføringsstipendet! Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). LEIAR: UiO bør utvida gjennomføringsstipendet for stipendiatar. [Journal]. Uniforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Arne Benjaminsen: – Vi må være innstilt på at det blir en krevende høst. [Journal]. Uniforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Human Rights Advocacy in International Criminal Justice: Whose Rights? Whose Justice? Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Kjersti Lohne er valgt inn i universitetsstyret. [Journal]. Uniforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Introducing Advocates of Humanity. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Hun droppet akademia etter doktorgraden: – Slipper maset om å være best. [Journal]. Forskerforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Penal Power in International Politics. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti & Elken, Mari (2020). Unge forskere opplever uetisk press. [Journal]. forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Om hvordan sivilsamfunnet har bidratt til et sterkere individuelt rettsvern gjennom bruk av domstolene, særlig ved isolasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Kampen mot straffefrihet for internasjonale forbrytelser. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Doing Research in the Field of International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2020). Seks forskere snakker om sex: når sex blir våpen. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti & Elken, Mari (2019). En sårbar situasjon. [Journal]. Forskningsetikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Why ethics and science move at different speeds, and the unfortunate trend to legalize research ethics. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Ny undersøking: Unge forskarar rapporterer om etisk press. [Journal]. Krono. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Are there ethical limits to what science can and should achieve? Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). The Skewed Nature of Global Justice-Making. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Hvilket ansvar har de store institusjonene i å ivareta forskningsintegritet og opplæring i forskningsetikk? Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). ESC Young Criminologist Award Acceptance Speech. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Feltarbeidsrefleksjoner fra Guantanamo: - om hverdagsliv, tortur og tvilsomme rettsoppgjør i det varige unntaksstedet. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Scandinavian Rights Revolution - og min delstudie av Advokatforeningen. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Global civil society in the fight against impunity for international crimes. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Teaching Critique in Transitional Justice. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Who makes the rules? [Journal]. Research Europe. Full text in Research Archive
• Lohne, Kjersti (2019). Power to punish: International Criminal justice and penal humanitarianism. Full text in Research Archive
• Stotz, Lina; Smith, Peter Scharff; Lohne, Kjersti & Ødegaard, Ingvill Constanze (2026). Children Born of War and Narratives of (Non-) Recognition in International Criminal Law and Beyond. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sammendrag Hvert år blir tusenvis av barn født inn i krig. Noen av dem står enda nærmere konflikten enn andre: De blir til når en soldat eller et medlem av en væpnet gruppe på motpartens side får et barn med en lokal sivilist, vanligvis en kvinne, midt i en væpnet konflikt. I forskningen omtales de som «barn født av krig» (CBOW). Disse barna har én forelder på «fiendens» side og én forelder med røtter i det lokale samfunnet. Denne avhandlingen utforsker juridiske og personlige fortellinger om og fra denne lite studerte gruppen. Gjennom analyse av juridiske kilder og livshistorier undersøker den hvordan barn født av krig blir forstått, beskrevet og anerkjent, og hvordan krigen setter spor gjennom hele deres livsløp. Prosjektet bidrar til forskningen om CBOW samt til bredere debatter om kjønn, offerrolle, seksuell vold og grensene for internasjonal strafferett. Ettersom CBOW i økende grad fremstår som rettssubjekter i internasjonal og nasjonal rett, gir denne detaljerte redegjørelsen for deres anerkjennelse verdifulle teoretiske og praktiske bidrag. Trusler eller ofre? Gjennom historien har den dominerende fortellingen om CBOW fremstilt dem som en trussel. Denne fortellingen finnes mange steder der CBOW bor, blant annet i landene som inngår i denne studien: Tyskland og Norge, Bosnia-Hercegovina (BiH) og Den demokratiske republikken Kongo (DRK). Fortellingen om CBOW som trusler kommer tydelig til uttrykk i uttrykk som «fiendens barn», som fremstiller dem som utenforstående og som en potensiell fare for lokale eller nasjonale fellesskap. Følgelig opplever mange CBOW diskriminering og sosial ekskludering mens de vokser opp. I nyere tid har det vokst frem en ny fortelling om CBOW som ofre, delvis fremmet av CBOW selv. De motstridende fortellingene om CBOW som henholdsvis trusler og ofre, og hvordan dette har formet anerkjennelsen av dem i lovgivningen og utenfor, står sentralt i avhandlingen. Dette gjenspeiles i hovedforskningsspørsmålet: Hvordan har fortellinger om anerkjennelse og manglende anerkjennelse av CBOW utviklet seg, og hvilken betydning kan CBOWs egne perspektiver ha for hvordan de anerkjennes? Spørsmålet undersøkes gjennom juridiske kilder, dokumenter og intervjumateriale, kombinert med juridisk og narrativ analyse. Nasjonale variasjoner Utviklingen i anerkjennelse av CBOW varierer betydelig mellom land. I Norge og Bosnia-Hercegovina har CBOW organisert seg kollektivt for å oppnå juridisk anerkjennelse, om enn med varierende resultater. I Tyskland har CBOW ikke engasjert seg i kollektive tiltak for juridisk anerkjennelse, men har arbeidet for andre former for synlighet og offentlig anerkjennelse. I Den demokratiske republikken Kongo (DRK) har CBOW heller ikke mobilisert for juridisk anerkjennelse, men har likevel oppnådd det. I 2021 anerkjente Den Internasjonale straffedomstolen (ICC) for første gang i internasjonal rettshistorie, CBOW i DRK som ofre for internasjonale forbrytelser. Dette ble fulgt opp av en ny avgjørelse fra i 2024, der ICC anerkjente ugandiske CBOW som ofre for internasjonale forbrytelser. Det er særlig innenfor internasjonal strafferett at den juridiske anerkjennelsen av CBOW har fått gjennomslag de siste årene. Avhandlingen undersøker derfor internasjonal strafferett i lys av CBOW, kombinert med kvalitative analyser av intervju- og dokumentasjonsmateriale fra de nevnte casestudiene. Risikoer ved anerkjennelse og behovet for nyansering i fortellingen analysen av rettskilder viser hvordan domstoler kan bidra til å reprodusere stigma selv når formålet er å anerkjenne skade. Et eksempel er fremstillingen av CBOW som «ofre for sin egen unnfangelse». Rettslig anerkjennelse kan dermed både virke styrkende og bidra til å videreføre eller forsterke forestillinger om den den søker å beskytte. For å forhindre en slik forvrengning tyder funnene på at den rettslig relevante skaden som CBOW har lidd, må forstås bedre. Dette argumentet utdypes gjennom analyser av intervjumateriale fra CBOW født under andre verdenskrig i Tyskland og Norge, samt på 1990-tallet i Bosnia-Hercegovina. Materialet gir en rik beskrivelse av livserfaringene til flere generasjoner av CBOW og tilfører narrative nyanser til forståelsen av skade og skyld slik CBOW selv opplever dem. Intervjuene utfordrer stereotypier og synliggjør den livslange kompleksiteten ved å vokse opp med en identitet splittet på tvers av konfliktlinjer. Samlet sett foreslår avhandlingen en offerfokusert sosiologisk-juridisk redegjørelse for CBOW. Tilnærmingen bidrar til å belyse teoretiske, empiriske og praktiske «gåter» og forskningshull i den eksisterende litteraturen. Disse bidragene er relevante og aktuelle, ettersom anerkjennelsen av CBOW er et tema som i økende grad kommer til syne i juridisk praksis og i forskningen. Denne avhandlingen ble utarbeidet som en del av EuroWARCHILD-prosjektet, finansiert av Det europeiske forskningsrådet (ERC) og ledet av professor Inger Skjelsbæk. Se www.eurowarchild.org

• Jarland, Julie; Binningsbø, Helga Malmin; Lohne, Kjersti & Skardhamar, Torbjørn (2019). Courts of Conflict: The Impact of International Criminal Justice in Armed Conflict. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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