Natasja Rupesinghe is a PhD Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group. She is also a DPhil candidate in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Natasja Rupesinghe’s PhD project examines jihadist insurgent mobilisation in the Sahel region of West Africa. More broadly, her research focuses on conflict, political violence, civilian agency and protection issues, as well as how states and international operations respond to violence and instability.
