EU performance as a Regional Security actor: Comparing ENP south to NATO’s MENA policy
Young research talent at NUPI
Gender-discriminatiory legislation is on the research agenda of NUPI’s Francesca R. Jensenius for the next four years. The funding comes from a prestigious FRIPRO award.
Prestigious funding to NUPI
NUPI has been awarded prestigious TOPPFORSK project funding to study how states cope with challenges in the field of power and geo-politics.
The humanitarian–development nexus in Northern Uganda
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged by shifting circumstances in the area in which humanitarian organisations operate. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in Northern Uganda, a transition that was driven by and large by the host government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty in the area, enabled by its discursive recast of the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development. This recast happened in spite of the persistent humanitarian sufferings and needs in the post-conflict area. Yet, it drove humanitarian donors and organisations to reorient their work. While some withdrew, others moved into more development oriented aid, showing organisational malleability and that the humanitarian principles are losing their regulatory hold over humanitarian action. In response to the transition, some originations payed heed to the sanctity of the humanitarian principles fearing jeopardising the humanitarian space, while other took a pragmatic stance to continue assist the civilians regardless how the situation was being portrayed. Hence, this article, demonstrating the formation of a humanitarian—development nexus, speaks to the wider debates about the relationship between humanitarian principles and pragmatic approaches and the evolving humanitarian mission creep – all central to general debates about the nature and future of humanitarianism.
How activists use benchmarks: Reformist and revolutionary benchmarks for global economic justice
SHAPING POLICY CURVES: COGNITIVE AUTHORITY IN TRANSNATIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING