Kjersti Skarstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kjersti Skarstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kjersti |
| FAMILY NAME | Skarstad |
| SIGNATURE | SKARSTAD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8040-1108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Democratic representation of dependent claim makers
Critical human rights research
Oppression or Support? Social Policy in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Individuals’ self-determination, in the sense of making one’s own decisions and controlling one’s own life, constitutes a fundamental human right. It is also pivotal to the realisation of other human rights, and has become a founding pillar of social policy. Through interviews with eight persons who have intellectual disabilities, this article looks at whether, how, and why the promise of self-determination stated in Norwegian guardianship and so…
Ensuring human rights for persons with intellectual disabilities: Self-determination policies and the use of force in the case of Norway
Individuals’ equal right to make their own decisions and to control their own lives is fundamental to realising human rights. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities confirms this axiom by obligating States Parties to ensure that all persons with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities (ID), have the right to self-determination. However, the means by which this right can become a reality …
Human rights through the lens of disability
Notions discriminatory to persons with disabilities commonly underpin political theories of rights. While persons without disabilities are considered “normal” and independent, persons with disabilities are commonly seen as “deviant” and dependent. Persons with intellectual disabilities are also seen as lacking the autonomy required to have human rights. Acknowledging the equal human rights of all human beings, the United Nations Convention on the…
The challenge of human rights for peace research
Human rights law posits a close, almost self-evident, relation between human rights and peace. Peace researchers, however, see this relation as an unsettled empirical question. In this essay, we consider the peace researchers’ (implicit) critique of human rights law. We argue that seeing the relation between human rights and peace as an empirical question rests on a largely unexamined conceptual separation of justice and peace. Re-investigating t…
Mainstreaming disability in the United Nations treaty bodies
As of the beginning of this century, the United Nations (UN) human rights system had comprehensively elided persons with disabilities from its purview. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) responded to this lacuna in 2006. The CRPD obligates states parties to mainstream disability by protecting and promoting the human rights of persons with disabilities in all policies and programs and intersects disability with other …
Do human rights violations increase the risk of civil war
Despite the fact that there are strong assumptions surrounding the effects of human rights violations on the risk of civil war, very few researchers have tested the relationship in an empirical and systematic manner. By drawing on both human rights- and civil war research, this article presents an integrated human rights peace and conflict theory. The effects of rights violations are tested by applying quantitative research methods. The main find…
Human rights through the lens of disability
Notions discriminatory to persons with disabilities commonly underpin political theories of rights. While persons without disabilities are considered “normal” and independent, persons with disabilities are commonly seen as “deviant” and dependent. Persons with intellectual disabilities are also seen as lacking the autonomy required to have human rights. Acknowledging the equal human rights of all human beings, the United Nations Convention on the…
Mainstreaming disability in the United Nations treaty bodies
As of the beginning of this century, the United Nations (UN) human rights system had comprehensively elided persons with disabilities from its purview. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) responded to this lacuna in 2006. The CRPD obligates states parties to mainstream disability by protecting and promoting the human rights of persons with disabilities in all policies and programs and intersects disability with other …
Ensuring human rights for persons with intellectual disabilities: Self-determination policies and the use of force in the case of Norway
Individuals’ equal right to make their own decisions and to control their own lives is fundamental to realising human rights. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities confirms this axiom by obligating States Parties to ensure that all persons with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities (ID), have the right to self-determination. However, the means by which this right can become a reality …
Oppression or Support? Social Policy in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Individuals’ self-determination, in the sense of making one’s own decisions and controlling one’s own life, constitutes a fundamental human right. It is also pivotal to the realisation of other human rights, and has become a founding pillar of social policy. Through interviews with eight persons who have intellectual disabilities, this article looks at whether, how, and why the promise of self-determination stated in Norwegian guardianship and so…
The challenge of human rights for peace research
Human rights law posits a close, almost self-evident, relation between human rights and peace. Peace researchers, however, see this relation as an unsettled empirical question. In this essay, we consider the peace researchers’ (implicit) critique of human rights law. We argue that seeing the relation between human rights and peace as an empirical question rests on a largely unexamined conceptual separation of justice and peace. Re-investigating t…
Do human rights violations increase the risk of civil war
Despite the fact that there are strong assumptions surrounding the effects of human rights violations on the risk of civil war, very few researchers have tested the relationship in an empirical and systematic manner. By drawing on both human rights- and civil war research, this article presents an integrated human rights peace and conflict theory. The effects of rights violations are tested by applying quantitative research methods. The main find…
The challenge of human rights for peace research
Human rights law posits a close, almost self-evident, relation between human rights and peace. Peace researchers, however, see this relation as an unsettled empirical question. In this essay, we consider the peace researchers’ (implicit) critique of human rights law. We argue that seeing the relation between human rights and peace as an empirical question rests on a largely unexamined conceptual separation of justice and peace. Re-investigating t…
Mainstreaming disability in the United Nations treaty bodies
As of the beginning of this century, the United Nations (UN) human rights system had comprehensively elided persons with disabilities from its purview. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) responded to this lacuna in 2006. The CRPD obligates states parties to mainstream disability by protecting and promoting the human rights of persons with disabilities in all policies and programs and intersects disability with other …
Ensuring human rights for persons with intellectual disabilities: Self-determination policies and the use of force in the case of Norway
Individuals’ equal right to make their own decisions and to control their own lives is fundamental to realising human rights. The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities confirms this axiom by obligating States Parties to ensure that all persons with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities (ID), have the right to self-determination. However, the means by which this right can become a reality …
Human rights through the lens of disability
Notions discriminatory to persons with disabilities commonly underpin political theories of rights. While persons without disabilities are considered “normal” and independent, persons with disabilities are commonly seen as “deviant” and dependent. Persons with intellectual disabilities are also seen as lacking the autonomy required to have human rights. Acknowledging the equal human rights of all human beings, the United Nations Convention on the…
Oppression or Support? Social Policy in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Individuals’ self-determination, in the sense of making one’s own decisions and controlling one’s own life, constitutes a fundamental human right. It is also pivotal to the realisation of other human rights, and has become a founding pillar of social policy. Through interviews with eight persons who have intellectual disabilities, this article looks at whether, how, and why the promise of self-determination stated in Norwegian guardianship and so…
Critical human rights research
Democratic representation of dependent claim makers
Human rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)