Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, S.J.D. Harvard Law School, is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. Her research takes a socio-legal approach to technology, international law and humanitarian action. Her work has appeared in, inter alia, Disasters; the International Journal of Refugee Law; Refugee Survey Quarterly; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; and the IFRC World Disasters Report 2013.