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Sari Kouvo
Senior Lecturer
Department of LawAbout Sari Kouvo
I hold an associate professorship in international law and a lectureship in legal theory at Gothenburg University. Throughout my career, I have sought to combine academic work with policy and field work. My previous engagements include, co-director of Afghanistan Analysts Network, policy officer at the European External Action Service, head of program at the International Centre for Transitional Justice, adviser to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan and lecturing at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Kent University, Birkbeck University and Gothenburg university.
I hold a doctorate in International Law from Gothenburg University (Sweden). I have held visiting fellowships at the NATO Defense College (Italy), Kent University (UK), Abo Academy (Finland) and the Australian National University.
I have published extensively on Afghanistan, European Union, international law, especially human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law, and gender-related subjects.
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Research areas
- International law, human rights, conflict and crisis management, gender legal studies, Afghanistan
Teaching areas
- International law (especially human rights, humanitarian law, refugee law and international criminal law), conflict and crisis management (especially EU and Afghanistan), equality and non-discrimination law and legal theory
Selected publications
Tell Us How This Will End? Conflict, Justice and Reconciliation in Afghanistan (report)
Kouvo, Sari, Gossman, Patti
Afghanistan Analyst Network, 2013
Law as a Placeholder for Change? Women’s Rights and Realities in Afghanistan
Kouvo, Sari, Levine, Corey
in Kim Rubenstein and Katharine G Young (Eds.) (2016). The Public Law of Gender: from the local to the global, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Gender & International Law
Pearson, Zoe, Kouvo, Sari
Field Notes: Reconciliation, Justice and Mobilization of War Victims in Afghanistan
Kouvo, Sari, Mazoori, Dallas
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 5:3, s. 492-503, 2011
Making Just Rights? Integrating Human Rights and Gender
Kouvo, Sari
Iustus Publication, Sweden, 2004
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Special Issue Introduction: Nordic Legal Education, A Situated Gothenburg
Perspective
Sari Kouvo, Erik Björling
Nordic Journal on Law and Society - 2021 -
Intro Retfaerd Special Issue 2021: Dead or Alive? Contemporary and Future Approaches
to Nordic Critical Legal
Theory
Erik Björling, Sari Kouvo
Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift - 2021 -
Pandemier och andra kriser: Reflektioner kring rättens roll i
krishantering
Sari Kouvo, Tormod Otter Johansen
Ny Juridik - 2021 -
Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a
Fishbowl
Sari Kouvo
European journal of international law - 2020 -
Minnesord om Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
Sari Kouvo
2020 -
Gender, human rights and
security
Sari Kouvo, Corey Levine
The Gender and Security Agenda - 2020 -
A Challenging Agenda for Troubled Times: The Swedish Feminist Foreign
Policy
Sari Kouvo
Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift - 2019 -
Will the ICC Start an Investigation in Afghanistan after all? What we know so far about the ICC appeals
hearing
Sari Kouvo
2019 -
Legal Arguments and War Crimes: the ICC Appeals Hearing on Afghanistan in Five
Questions
Sari Kouvo
2019 -
Peace in The Air, But Where Is Justice? Efforts to get transitional justice on the
table
Sari Kouvo, Ehsan Qaane
2019 -
Civil Society Dialogue Network Policy Meeting EU support to transitional justice: A review three years after the adoption of the policy
framework
Sari Kouvo
2018 -
Mänskliga
rättigheter
Sari Kouvo
Förstå Afghanistan - 2018 -
Assadullah Sarwari Freed from Prison: What chances of war crimes trials in
Afghanistan?
Ehsan Qaane , Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2017 -
Law as a Placeholder for Change? Women’s Rights and Realities in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo, Corey Levine
in Kim Rubenstein and Katharine G Young (Eds.) (2016). The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global - 2016 -
Gender and the UNSCR 1325 Women, Peace and Security
Agenda
Sari Kouvo
in Jochen Rehrl and Galia Glume (Eds.) (2016). Handbook on CSDP Missions and Operations: The Common European and Security Policy of the European Union. pp. 153-157 - 2016 -
International Criminal Law and
CSDP
Sari Kouvo, Christian Behrman
Jochen Rehrl and Galia Glume (Eds.) (2016). Handbook on CSDP Missions and Operations: The Common European and Security Policy of the European Union. pp. 133-136 - 2016 -
A War with no End in Sight: The backlashes regarding Afghan women’s
rights
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2014 -
Gender & International
Law
Zoe Pearson, Sari Kouvo
2014 -
Theatre and Justice: Examples from
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo, Nadia Siddiqui, Hadi Marifat
in Peter D. Rush and Olivera Simić (Eds.) (2014). The Arts of Transitional Justice. Culture, Activism, and Memory after Atrocity. Springer Series in Transitional Justice, vol 6 - 2014 -
On a Knife’s Edge: The looming parliamentary debate about the Elimination of Violence against Women
Law
Christine Roehrs, Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2013 -
AIHRC Commissioners Finally
Announced
Sari Kouvo, Martine van Bijlert
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2013 -
Tell us how this Ends? Discussing Transitional
Justice
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2013 -
Dismantling Human Rights in Afghanistan: The AIHRC facing a possible downgrading of
status
Sari Kouvo, Kate Clark
2013 -
Tell us how this will End? Transitional Justice and Prospects for Peace in
Afghanistan
Patricia Gossman, Sari Kouvo
2013 -
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (Eds.) (2013). Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice - 2013 -
The Mud Might Stick: Women’s Shelters
Again
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2012 -
Women and Reconciliation (4): A Response to Anatol Lieven’s Afghan Books
Review
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2012 -
What Next for the AIHRC (2): Civil Society
Responses
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2012 -
Day in Afghanistan: Where the Personal is still
Political""
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2012 -
New Commissioners for Human Rights: An End to the Standstill, or an End to Human
Rights?
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2012 -
Transfers and Torture: The British Army halts transfers of detainees to the National Security
Directorate
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2012 -
Afganistanin
naiset
Sari Kouvo
in A Koivula and T Trumpler (Eds) (2012). Afganistan: Johdatus Maahan ja Kulttuuriin - 2012 -
A Plan without Action: The Afghan Government’s Action Plan for Peace, Justice and
Reconcilon
Sari Kouvo
in M. van Bijlert and S. Kouvo (Eds.) (2012). Snapshots of an Intervention. The Unlearned Lessons of Afghanistan’s Decade of Assistance (2001–11) - 2012 -
Snapshots of an Intervention. The Unlearned Lessons of Afghanistan’s Decade of Assistance
(2001–11)
Sari Kouvo, Martine van Bijlert
2012 -
Women and Reconciliation: What are the
Concerns?’
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2011 -
Shelters in the Storm: The Controversy over Women’s
Shelters
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
Victims’ Organisations Sound a Wake-Up
Call
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
Where Fear has Replaced Trust: Some Reflections after the World Humanitarian Day in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
Acting on Old News? NATO Suspends Detainee Transfers in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
A Message for Peace in the Middle of
War
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
Women and Reconciliation (3): One Step Forward and a Running Match
Backwards
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
Mothers behind Bars: What about the
Children?
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2011 -
The Past is Here to Stay: Listening to Afghan Voices on Justice and
Reconciliation
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2011 -
Taking Women Seriously? Gender and State-Building in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
S Kouvo and Z Pearson (Eds.) (2011). Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary International Law – Between Resistance and Compliance? - 2011 -
Introduction
Sari Kouvo, Zoe Pearson
in S Kouvo and Z Pearson (Eds.) (2011). Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary International Law: Between Resistance and Compliance? - 2011 -
Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary International Law: Between Resistance and
Compliance?
Sari Kouvo, Zoe Pearson
2011 -
Field Notes: Reconciliation, Justice and Mobilization of War Victims in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo, Dallas Mazoori
International Journal of Transitional Justice - 2011 -
Facts for Reconciliation: Human Rights Documentation
Needed
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2010 -
After Two Years in Legal Limbo: A first glance at the approved “Amnesty
law”’
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network - 2010 -
Six years late, the Constitutional Commission is formed; but will it take on president and
parliament?
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2010 -
The Civilian Cost of Armed Conflict in Afghanistan: An Overview of Recent
Reports
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2010 -
What comes after remembering? Some thoughts after National Victims Day in
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
Afghanistan Analysts Network Dispatch - 2010 -
European Union Approaches to Peace, Justice and Security in Post-Conflict Contexts: Lessons from Afghanistan and the
DRC
Sari Kouvo, Laura Davies
in Making the Difference? Strengthening Capacities to Respond to Crisis and Security Threat - 2010 -
State-Building and Rule of Law and : Lessons from
Afghanistan?
Sari Kouvo
2009 -
Security Sector Reform in
Afghanistan
Fatima Ayub, Sari Kouvo, Rachel Wareham
2009 -
Addressing Gender-specific Violations in
Afghanistan
Fatima Ayub, Sari Kouvo, Yasmin Sooka
2009 -
Afghanistan: Transitional Justice in the Context of Ongoing
Conflict
Sari Kouvo
2009 -
Quick and Dirty’ Approach to Women’s Rights – A Case Study of
Afghanistan
Sari Kouvo
Feminist Legal Studies - 2008 -
Calling a Spade a Spade – Tackling the Women and Peace
Orthodoxy
Sari Kouvo, Corey Levine
Feminist Legal Studies - 2008 -
Righting the course? Humanitarian intervention, the war on terror and the future of
Afghanistan
Fatima Ayub Sari, Sari Kouvo
International Affairs - 2008 -
Orford, Anne: International Law and its Others Cambridge University Press, UK
2006
Sari Kouvo
Nordic Journal of International Law - 2007 -
Ihmisoikeudet
Sari Kouvo
in Johanna Kantola and Johanna Valenius (Eds.) (2006). Maailmanpolitiikan arkipäivää: 10 käsitettä feministiseen kansainvälisten suhteiden tutkimukseen - 2006 -
Elster, Jon: Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, UK
2004
Sari Kouvo
Nordic Human Rights Law Journal - 2005 -
The United Nations and Gender Mainstreaming: Limits and
Possibilities
Sari Kouvo
in Doris Buss and Ambreena Manji (Eds.) (2005). International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches - 2005 -
The United Nations and gender mainstreaming: limits and
possibilities
Sari Kouvo
International law : modern feminist approaches - 2005 -
Promoting Equality between the Sexes through Human Rights – International and Nordic Feminist Perspectives on
Rights
Sari Kouvo
in Anu Pylkkänen and Eva-Maria Svensson (Eds.) (2004). Nordic Feminism at a Crossroads - 2004 -
Making just rights? Mainstreaming Women?s Human Rights and a Gender
Perspective
Sari Kouvo
2004 -
Promoting equality between the sexes through human rights : international and nordic feminist perspectives on
rights
Sari Kouvo
Nordic equality at a crossroads : feminist legal studies coping with difference - 2004 -
Internationell handel med kvinnor för sexuella ändamål – kunskap, ansvar och
konsumentmakt
Sari Kouvo
in Johansson, S. (Ed.) (2003). Nya och gamla perspektiv på transporträtten - 2003 -
Nousiainen, Kevät, Gunnarsson, Åsa, Lundström, Karin and Niemi-Kiesläinen, Johanna: Responsible Selves. Women in the Nordic Legal Culture. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Great Britain
2001
Sari Kouvo
Australian Feminist Law Journal - 2002 -
Könsdiskrimininering. En analys av Nationell och Internationell Rätt. Iustus förlag, Uppsala
2001
Sari Kouvo, Lotta Lerwall
Europarättslig tidskrift - 2002 -
Nousiainen, Kevät, Gunnarsson, Åsa, Lundström, Karin and Niemi-Kiesläinen, Johanna: Responsible Selves. Women in the Nordic Legal Culture’. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Great Britain
2001
Sari Kouvo
Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift - 2001 -
Kvinnor och internationella mänskliga rättigheter – ett
kanon?
Sari Kouvo
Feministiskt perspektiv - 2000 -
Lundström, Karin: Jämlikhet mellan kvinnor och män i EG-rätten. En feministisk analys. Iustus förlag, Uppsala
1999
Sari Kouvo
Nordic Journal of Women's Studies - 2000 -
Charlesworth, Hilary and Chinkin, Christine: The Boundaries of International Law. A Feminist Analysis,
2000
Sari Kouvo
Nordic Journal of International Law - 2000 -
Staten, grundlagen and sexualiteten: pornografidebatten och statens ansvar för demokratins
idéer
Sari Kouvo, Eva-Maria Svensson
in Andersson, B. (Ed.) (2000). Samhällets demokratiska värdegrund. En fråga om mångfald, olikhet men lika värde - 2000 -
Staten, grundlagen och sexualiteten -pornografidebatten och statens ansvar för demokratins
idéer
Eva-Maria Svensson, Sari Kouvo
Värdegrundens publikationsserie nr 1/2000 - 2000