From 1 July 2006 she combined this job with the position as chair of the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee), a board for supervision of the Norwegian Police Security Service, the Norwegian Defence Security Staff and the Norwegian Intelligence Service. She left the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee in 2011. Recent publications include "De nye krigene i et kjønnsperspektiv" [The new wars in a gender perspective], part of the anthology "Kjønn, krig, konflikt" [Gender, war and conflict], edited by Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad (Oslo: Pax, 2008). She also edited the anthology "Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century" along with Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Kathleen Kuehnast (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2011). She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Tromsø (since 1993) and the University of Stockholm (since 2002). In 1999 she was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, and she was promoted to Commander of the order in 2002. In 2018 she became an honorary member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights; the last person to be so honoured was Gro Harlem Brundtland. Helga Hernes has been married to Gudmund Hernes, a sociologist and former politician. Their son Stein Hernes has been an advisor for Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.