Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development
About
Osland is a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of the Research Group on Peace and Conflict at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo.
Her main fields of specialisation are international police reform in particular and security sector reform in general, peace and state-building, war crimes, evaluation and measuring of peace operations, political analysis of the Balkans, and the changing character of war.
Osland has done extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, South Sudan, Sudan, FYR Macedonia, and Montenegro.
Selected publications
- Bøås, M, Osland, K. and Erstad, H.U. (2019) ‘Islamic Insurgents in the MENA Region. Global Threat or Regional Menace?’ NUPI working paper 884. Oslo: NUPI.
- Osland, K. and Peter, M. (2019) ‘The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: implementation and perception of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo.’ European Security 28(4): 439-512.
- Osland, K. (2014) ‘Much Ado About Nothing? The impact of international assistance to police reform in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and South Sudan. A Comparative Case Study and Developing a Model for Evaluating Democratic Policing.’ Oslo: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo/Akademika Publishing. 420pp.