Board member for CMI
Post. Doc. Researcher, CMI
Political ethnographer whose current focus is on the intersections between gender, violence and political and legal orders in contemporary Afghanistan.
Torunn holds a BA in Development Studies and Politics and an MA in Conflict, Security and Development, both from the University of London. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies on gender and security in post-2001 Afghanistan, as part of the CMI project ‘Violence in the Post-Conflict State’ funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Website:
http://www.cmi.no/staff/?torunn-wimpelmann
Projects:
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
2017 - 2022