Åshild Kolås

Research Professor

Email: ashild@prio.org

Work phone: +47 22 54 77 68

X: @AshildKolas

Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashild_Kolas

Research Interests

Currently working on identity, representation, sovereignty, governance and digital politics.

Åshild Kolås
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Event

Friday, 10 Oct 2025 09:00–12:00 UTC+02

Indian girls taking a selfie in desert village, Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India. Photo: Getty Images

Digitalization and women’s (dis)empowerment in India

The seminar on Digitalization and Women’s (Dis)empowerment in India brings together researchers of India and Indian researchers to discuss India’s digitalization and societal change with a focus on the experiences of Indian women.

Book chapter

2019

No Peace in a Ceasefire: Women's Agency in the Kachin Conflict

Book chapter in Women Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics

News

Thursday, 7 Feb 2019

New GPS Policy Brief on Women in the Myanmar Peace Process

This new GPS Policy Brief on women’s participation in the Myanmar peace process asks: How well are women represented in the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) involved in the peace process?What kind of work do the women do? Do the women participate in decision-making as members of the EAOs’ central executive committees? Read the policy brief in full here.

Event

Monday, 5 March 2018

WOMENsPEACE Conference on Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar

Academic conference organised by PRIO in collaboration with Ar Yone Oo and Nepal Center for Contemporary Research

Book chapter

2017

Introduction: Women, Peace and Security in Review

Book chapter in Women, Peace and Security: From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Edited volume

2017

Women, Peace and Security in Nepal: From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Edited volume

News

Tuesday, 19 Nov 2024

Authors and panelists at the book launch of 'Women's Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency. . Photo: -

Book launch: Women's Empowerment in India, in Women's Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency.

On 19 November, PRIO Global Fellow Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya and PRIO Research Professor Åshild Kolås took part in a book launch of their recently published book "Women's Empowerment in India, in Women's Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency" in New Delhi.

Edited volume

2019

Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics

Edited volume

Policy brief

2019

Women in Ethnic Armed Organizations in Myanmar: Numbers and narratives

GPS Policy Brief

Book chapter

2017

Introduction: Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Book chapter in Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

News

Friday, 30 Jun 2017

New issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update

Empowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in DR Congo

News

Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024

Women’s Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency

PRIO Researcher Åshild Kolsås, PRIO Global Fellow Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya and Eileen Connolly have co-edited the newly published Women's Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency.

News

Wednesday, 31 Jul 2019

PRIO Researchers Contribute to New Book on Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics

The book describes women’s efforts as agents for change in Myanmar and examines the potential of the peace process as an opportunity for women’s empowerment.

News

Thursday, 8 Mar 2018

Participants at the conference on 'Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar'.

Conference on 'Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar' held in Bangkok on 5 March

The conference was organised by the PRIO project on 'Gender Equality, Peace and Security in Nepal and Myanmar' (WOMENsPEACE).

News

Friday, 24 Nov 2017

Nang Raw Zakhung has been assisting armed groups in their negotiations with the Myanmar government. Photo: Inclusive Security@Flickr

Call for papers: Women, peace and security in Myanmar

WOMENsPEACE

News

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Two new books on Women, Peace and Security in India and Nepal

Åshild Kolås, PRIO Research Professor, has published two new books on Women, Peace and Security in India and Nepal.

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