Torunn Wimpelmann is Post. Doc. and researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute. Wimpelmann has worked in and on Afghanistan for several years. She recently completed her PhD at the School of oriental and African Studies on gender and security in post-2001 Afghanistan, as part of the CMI project ‘Violence in the Post-Conflict State’ funded by the Research Council of Norway. She holds a BA in Development Studies and Politics and an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of London.