Ingvild Magnæs Gjelsvik

PhD Research Fellow

Email: Ingvild.Magnaes.Gjelsvik@phs.no

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Background and experience

PhD Candidate

For the past few years my research has mainly been evolving the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism. Currently, I am writing a PhD in Political Science (UiO) looking at the roles of the police in the multi-agency approach to prevent violent extremism at the local level in Norway. My PhD is co-funded by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and I am affiliated to the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX). I also work as a researcher in the EU project Community-Based Policing and Post Conflict Police Reform.

Research

Roles of the police in preventing violent extremism
Nordic multi-agency prevention models
Community policing in Kenya and Somalia
Vigilantism
Right-wing extremism
Prevention of radicalization and violent extremism
De-radicalization and disengagement

Projects

No ongoing projects

Research groups

Preventive Policing (PREVPOL)

Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf; Lindekilde, Lasse; Fjellman, Anne Marie; Bjørgo, Tore; Solhjell, Randi & Haugstvedt, Håvard [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2023). Trust in interagency collaboration: The role of institutional logics and hybrid professionals. Journal of Professions and Organization. ISSN 2051-8803. 10(1), p. 65–79. doi: 10.1093/jpo/joac022. Full text in Research Archive
Christensen, Tina Wilchen; Lindekilde, Lasse; Sivenbring, Jennie; Bjørgo, Tore; Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs & Solhjell, Randi [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). “Being a Risk” or “Being at Risk”: Factors Shaping Negotiation of Concerns of Radicalization within Multiagency Collaboration in the Nordic Countries. Democracy and Security. ISSN 1741-9166. 20(1), p. 1–24. doi: 10.1080/17419166.2023.2220117. Full text in Research Archive
Solhjell, Randi; Sivenbring, Jennie; Kangasniemi, Mari; Kallio, Hanna; Christensen, Tina Wilchen & Haugstvedt, Håvard [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Experiencing trust in multiagency collaboration to prevent violent extremism: A Nordic qualitative study. Journal for Deradicalization. p. 164–191. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
In previous studies, multiagency collaboration was identified as a key strategy for early intervention in violent extremism. However, there has been little focus on professionals’ shared communication to support collaboration. The aim of this study was to describe trust in multiagency collaboration teams in the Nordic countries tasked with preventing violent extremism. The data have been collected through simulatedcase discussions for groups (N=13) and individual interviews (N=78) with multiagency professionals in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden and analyzed using the thematic analysis method. Based on our results, trust emerged on 1) structural, 2)professional and 3) perceived personal levels. In addition, we identified facilitators and barriers for building trust at these levels. To fully understand the potential of trust, we argue that there is a need to take into account all these three levels of trust. Finally, we find that particularized trust can function as a foundation for building generalized trust. In future, more knowledge is needed about how to enable and manage trust with multiagency collaboration at organizational, but also national and international, level.
Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2020). Police Reform and Community Policing in Kenya: The Bumpy Road from Policy to Practice. Journal of Human Security (JHS). 16(2), p. 19–30. doi: 10.12924/johs2020.16020019. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
A reform is underway in Kenya, aimed at transforming the police organization into a people- centred police service. Among other things, this involves enhancing police-public trust and partnerships through community policing (COP). Two state-initiated COP models have been implemented: the National Police Service’s Community Policing Structure, and the Nyumba Kumi model of the President’s Office. On paper, police reform and the two COP models would appear to have the potential to improve police-public cooperation. In practice, however, implementation has proven difficult. Interviews and meetings with local community organizations, community representatives and police officers in urban and rural parts of Kenya indicate that scepticism towards the two COP models is common, as is refusal to engage in them. But why is this so? Why are these two COP models unsuccessful in enhancing police-public trust and cooperation? This article analyses how various contextual factors—such as conflicting socio-economic and political interests at the community and national levels, institutional challenges within the police, the overall role and mandate of the police in Kenya, and a top-down approach to COP—impede the intended police paradigm shift.

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Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2021). Moderator in digital seminar titled "Living with the Taliban?" for the Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime. Presenters Ingrid Nyborg and Surendra Sharma. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban took the world by surprise, but it was nevertheless not completely unexpected. The news is now filled with scenes of panic and trepidation, and both Afghans and the international community are uncertain how the new regime will manage the momentous task of running a country and ensuring human security for its people. In this talk, we will begin by reflecting on the diversity of experience of local communities with the Taliban in the past, linking it to a broader set of insecurities faced by mainly rural populations. We then move on to look at what police reform, heavily supported by the international community, looked like in the period prior to the Taliban takeover, and reflect on whether there is a role for these police under the Taliban, and what this might be.
Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2020). Factors Hindering Community Policing in Kenya. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The presentation is based on my recent article Police Reform and Community Policing in Kenya: The Bumpy Road from Policy to Practice. Journal of Human Security, 16(2), and sums up up contextual factors hindering the implementation the two state led COP models in Kenya
Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2020). Ekstremisme og forebygging bolk 1: Fenomener, begreper og trender. Full text in Research Archive
Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2020). Lessons Learned from Police Reform and Community Policing in Kenya. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Presentation of main lessons learned from the implementation of Community Policing in Kenya based on interviews and observation carried out in urban and rural parts of the country with local organizations, community members and police.
Noer, Christian; Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf; Lindekilde, Lasse; Fjellman, Anna Maria; Sivenbring, Jennie & Bjørgo, Tore [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2023). Public Perceptions of CVE Policies and Attitudes Towards Reporting Concerns of Radicalization in the Nordic Countries. Centre for Documentation and Counter Extremism. Full text in Research Archive
Gjelsvik, Ingvild Magnæs (2020). Closeness Versus Distance: Relational Aspects of Community Policing. Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet (NMBU). Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Community policing is increasingly used as a strategy for bringing the police and public closer together. However, both close and distanced police-public relationships have advantages and disadvantages. How close should the police and the public ideally be? Based on interviews with community-based organizations, NGOs, community members and police officers in urban and rural parts of Kenya, this policy brief analyses community policing through a relational lens, identifying the pros and cons of closeness versus distance in police-public relations.