Reforms, Customs and Resilience: Justice for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Liberia
This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in the aftermath of sexual violence.
Fragility and human security in the Maghreb-Sahel: Challenges and solutions
NUPI and FRIDE have the pleasure of inviting to this full-day seminar. The seminar addresses the main drivers and manifestations of fragility across the Maghreb and Sahel including key security threats, governance failures, ethnic issues and resource scarcity.
Winners and losers of the refugee crisis
Emotions run strong in the global migration debate. NUPI’s Morten Bøås calls for a more sober debate in order to achieve better policy.
Making the best of good intentions
The refugee crisis is sparking a wave of solidarity. To make the best of good intentions, these spontaneous movements should collaborate with existing humanitarian organizations.
Economic outlooks for Africa
African Economic Outlook 2015: What are Africa´s economic outlooks?
Challenges facing UNMISS in South Sudan
NUPI has the pleasure of inviting you to an open seminar about challenges in South Sudan:
The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS): Protecting Civilians in a Volatile Environment
Refugees across the Mediterranean: causes and consequences
Libya has recently become the most important transit country. Considering the transport of refugees through Libya and across the Mediterranean, a new growth industry has developed in a country without a functioning state.
Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.
Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping Economy