Kjølv Egeland

Dr. Kjølv Egeland is a Senior Researcher at NORSAR, a research institute in Norway, focusing on global governance, climate change, and nuclear disarmament. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2018 before joining the Nuclear Knowledges program as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Security Studies between 2019 and 2023. Kjølv’s scholarly interests lie in nuclear discourse and politics, the philosophy of international law, and ideology critique. Writing on topics spanning from treaty-making processes to emerging military technology, his work has appeared in journals such International Affairs, Environmental Politics, Survival, and Global Governance. He is also the author of The Struggle for Abolition: Power and Legitimacy in Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Diplomacy (Routledge, 2024).