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Deputy Director at Peace Research Institute Oslo
Stai, Nora Kristine & Torunn L. Tryggestad (2022) ‘One Year On: Norway and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the UN Security Council’, GPS Policy Brief , 4. Oslo: PRIO.
Olsson, Louise; Angela Muvumba Sellström; Patty Chang; Torunn L. Tryggestad; Peter Wallensteen & Ingebjørg Finnbakk (2021) ‘Sweden as an Elected Member of the UN Security Council: Promoting Women, Peace and Security as Core Council Business, 2017–18’, PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Torunn L. Tryggestad (2021) ‘Protecting the brand? The hesitant incorporation of gender equality in the peace nation’, in Larsen, Eirinn; Sigrun Marie Moss; & Inger Skjelsbæk, eds, Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region. London: Routledge (113–133).
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Torunn L. Tryggestad (2020) ‘Pro-gender Norms in Norwegian Peace Engagement: Balancing Experiences, Values, and Interests’, Foreign Policy Analysis. DOI: 10.1093/fpa/orz028.
Skjelsbæk, Inger & Torunn L. Tryggestad (2019) ‘Donor States Delivering on WPS: The Case of Norway’, in Davies, Sara; & Jacqui True, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press (516–527).
Tryggestad, Torunn L. (2009) ‘Trick or Treat? The UN and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security’, Global Governance 15(4): 539–557.
Dr Torunn L. Tryggestad is Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO, and Director of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security. She holds a PhD in Political Science (University of Oslo) on the topic “International Norms and Political Change: ‘Women, Peace and Security’ and the UN Security Agenda”. Her research focuses on the gendered dimensions of conflict resolution, conflict management, peace mediation and peacebuilding.
She has extensive experience from teaching, training, and the provision of policy advice to various Norwegian stakeholders as well as international organisations such as the UN and NATO. Since 2013 she has been centrally involved in the planning and conduction of the UN High-Level Seminars on Gender and Inclusive Mediation Strategies and in establishing the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) network. Tryggestad was one of the principal authors of the Norwegian Government’s first National Action Plan on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2006). She was a member of the UN Secretary General’s fourth and fifth UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group from 2015-2020. She is also a former member of the NATO Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on Women, Peace and Security.
She was a member of Kilden’s Advisory Board (www.genderresearch.no) for the period 2019-2021, and was recently reappointed for another two-year period.