Tora Sagård

Tora Sagård is a university lecturer in political science at Oslo New University College, where she has been employed since the autumn of 2021. She primarily teaches research methods and statistics and is responsible for the institute’s methodology instruction.

Tora is currently serving as Acting Program Director for the study programs at the Institute for Social Sciences and International Relations (ISIR).

Before joining Oslo New University College, she worked as a research assistant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), where she participated in several research projects.

Tora holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo (UiO), with a specialization in international politics and statistical methods. For her master’s thesis, she was awarded the “Dare to Know” prize by the Faculty of Social Sciences at UiO.

Selected Publications

• Dahl, M., Celestino, M. R., Gates, S., & Sagård, T. (2026) Security Force Disloyalty in Violent and Nonviolent Campaigns, 1970–2013: Introducing a New Dataset. Journal of peace research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopres/xjaf020
• Clayton, G., Nygård, H. M., Strand, H., Rustad, S. A., Wiehler, C., Sagård, T., ... & Bara, C. (2023). Introducing the ETH/PRIO civil conflict ceasefire dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(7-8), 1430-1451.
• Sagård, T. (2021). Hva er Internasjonal Politikk. Internasjonal Politikk, 79(3), 257-260.
• Sagård, Tora (2021) When is Conventional Wisdom Wise? Testing the Assumptions behind Preventing Violent Extremism Oslo: UNDP-PRIO
• Sagård, Tora (2021) Who Is Likely to Support Terrorism? Testing the Assumptions behind Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), Conflict Trends, 2. Oslo: PRIO.