kjerskar
PhD Candidate with a special focus on disability rights
Academic Interests
- Human rights
- Disability rights
- Equality and non-discrimination
- Peace and conflict
- Quantitative methods
Background
Master degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), UIO.
Has previously worked, inter alia, as a research assistant and consultant at the Centre for Human Rights, an intern at the Permanent Delegation of Norway to the Council of Europe, and as the Vice President for Amnesty International's student network in Trondheim.
Teaching
STV 4020 - Forskningsmetode og statistikk
PECOS4022 - Applied Statistics for Peace and Conflict Studies
HUMR5191 - Human Rights Methodology: Research, Analysis and Thesis
HUMR5702 - Human Rights and Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practices
HUMR5132 - Human Rights Law in Context
Introductory Course in Human Rights
Projects
Cooperating with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
Publications
- Hvidsten, Andreas H & Skarstad, Kjersti (2018). The challenge of human rights for peace research. International Theory. ISSN 1752-9719. 10(1) . doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752971917000161
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2018). Ensuring human rights for persons with intellectual disabilities?. International Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1364-2987. 22(6) . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2018.1454903 Full text in Research Archive.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2018). Human rights through the lens of disability. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. ISSN 0924-0519. 36(1), s 24- 42 . doi: 10.1177/0924051917753251
- Skarstad, Kjersti & Stein, Michael Ashley (2017). Mainstreaming disability in the United Nations treaty bodies. Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1475-4835. 17(1), s 1- 24 . doi: 10.1080/14754835.2017.1286238
- Skarstad, Kjersti & Strand, Håvard (2016). Do human rights violations increase the risk of civil war?. International Area Studies Review. ISSN 2233-8659. 19(2), s 107- 130 . doi: 10.1177/2233865916629567
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2015). Human Rights Violations and Conflict Risk: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment, In Cecilia Marcela Bailliet & Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen (ed.), Promoting Peace Through International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198722731. 7. s 133 - 148
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2017). Forskning og menneskesyn. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2017). Vergemålsloven på kollisjonskurs med menneskerettighetene. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2016). Når offeret ikke kan snakke. Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2016). Ørjasæter snakker ikke på vegne av alle søsken av utviklingshemmede. Morgenbladet.no.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2015). Et samfunn for alle. Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen.
- Hvidsten, Andreas H & Skarstad, Kjersti (2014). Realistiske symboler. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2013). FN-konvensjonen om rettigheter for mennesker med nedsatt funksjonsevne, I: Anne Marit Godal (red.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no). Store norske leksikon AS. Artikkel.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2013). Wesley Cragg (ed.) Business and Human Rights. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131.
- Andreassen, Bård A. & Skarstad, Kjersti (2012). Hemmende dobbeltmoral. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2012). Do Human Rights Violations Increase the Risk of Civil War?.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2012). Marcia H Rioux, Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones (eds) Critical perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. 30(1)
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2012). Menneskeverd og likestilling i fare. Bergens Tidende. ISSN 0804-8983.
- Skarstad, Kjersti (2011). Økende kjønnsforskjeller i Kina. Adresseavisen. ISSN 0805-3804.