Minoo Koefoed is a Senior Research Fellow in the Peace, Conflict and Development Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), where she works on three research projects on climate security interlinkages. She holds a PhD from the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University in Peace and Development Research.
Minoo’s research interests concern climate (mal)mitigation and vulnerable communities, grassroots resistance, social movement mobilisations, Indigenous peoples and minority politics, power dynamics, postcolonial perspectives and feminist research methodologies. Her current research deals with interlinkages between climate change and human security dimensions among subaltern groups from critical theoretical positionalities. Minoo has also undertaken research on resistance and ethnopolitical mobilisations among Kurdish movement activists in Turkey, and cultural and civil resistance in Palestine, ethnographic research ethics. She has several years of experience with ethnographic research methods and field research in diverse contexts, and has published in journals like the Journal of Political Power, African Security and Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
Koefoed is a co-researcher and the overarching coordinator of the XCEPT-funded research project Managing Climate, Peace and Security Risks in the Borderlands of the West African Sahel Belt (CPS-WASahel).
