Speaker Series: Conflicts, Sexual Violence and Women Empowerment? Insights from DR Congo, Liberia and Sri Lanka

Carlo Koos is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government at the University of Bergen and is affiliated with the Development Learning Lab, the WomanStats Project and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Previously he was also a humanitarian aid worker with Médecins Sans Frontières in South Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Swaziland, and Uganda. His research focuses on how experiences of war, conflict, and threats shape social and political attitudes and behaviors, and vice versa. He leads an ERC research project on the micro-level effects of civil wars on women´s empowerment and is involved in impact evaluations on women´s empowerment, political accountability, climate adaptation, water and sanitation. He´s published widely in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Journal of Peace Research.