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Ingrid L. P. Nyborg

Ingrid L. P. Nyborg

Professor

  • International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric

Ingrid Nyborg is a Professor in International Environment and Development Studies, specializing in post-conflict and post-crisis development, human security and civil security reforms.  A qualitative and interdisciplinary researcher, her methodological focus is on the empowering and capacity-building potentials of participatory methods and co-production of knowledge with local communities, development organizations, and government staff.  

She spent the early years of her career assessing development aid projects, and working with research and education programs in agriculture, food security and resource management issues in Africa and South Asia. From 2005 she began to focus on post-conflict/crisis development, studying rural livelihoods, social and institutional aspects of sustainable sanitation, human security, gender and development, humanitarian policy and social vulnerability to climate change in the Swat Valley and Sindh, Pakistan, and rural Afghanistan. A red thread in this work explored how local perceptions of security and development compare with policy narratives.  In 2015 she received funding from the EC Horizon 2020 research and innovation program to lead a five-year study of Community-Based Policing in Post-Conflict Police Reform (ICT4COP). This was a global study of 12 case countries across four continents where she and her team of 35 international researchers studied examples of and potential for alternative, non-militarized forms of policing and community-oriented policing which focused on trust-building, broader understandings of security and well-being, as well as the use of ICT. This work has continued in the form of workshops and seminars for police advisors and policymakers, and has expanded to include studies of community policing in Europe and the US. She teaches Master's courses in security sector and post-conflict police reform, security and development, and teaches in professional courses for NATO and UN stability police on civil police capacity-building. She also is developing new courses for Norwegian police on policing in conflict, focusing on Ukraine. She is currently the Head of the Center for Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform (ICT4COP Center), based at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.