John Karlsrud

Dr John Karlsrud is Senior Research Fellow at the Peace and Conflict Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo, Norway. His article "The UN at War: Examining the Consequences of Peace Enforcement Mandates for the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali" from 2015 is the second most downloaded article in the journal Third World Quarterly. He has worked for NATO, NUPI and the UN in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Chad, Palestine (West Bank), Norway and USA, and conducted field research and shorter missions to Haiti, Liberia, Mozambique, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Ukraine.