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Between emerging economies and protracted conflict: challenges to sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Politics of Conflict Economies: Miners, Merchants and Warriors in the African Borderland
Between doctrine and practice: The United Nations peacekeeping dilemma
The Mediterranean migration crisis and the role of the EU
How shall the EU respond to the current crisis?
Radical Islam on the rise in Russia
More than any other country in Europe, Russia is struggling with the challenge of Radical Islam.
Peacebuilding, Ownership, and Sovereignty from New York to Monrovia: A multi-sited Ethnographic Approach
How does peacebuilding organize people within systems of power and authority? In this dissertation I address the ways in which current global peacebuilding processes challenge established notions of the state and different conceptions of sovereignty. Adopting a studying-through approach further enabled me to trace aspects and activities across several organizational levels and geographical sites during fieldwork; (i) the UN Security Council, (ii) peacebuilding bureaucracy and policy making in DPKO in New York, (iii) the implementation level and peacebuilding process in Liberia. Peacebuilding activities turned Liberia into an object of governing. This produced certain paradoxical processes, whereby the UN, in seeking to build the state, also became the state.
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad I and II (MINURCAT I + II)
This chapter focuses on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT I + II), a peacekeeping mission deployed by the UN Security Council in September 2007 to address some of the spillover effects of the war in Darfur, Sudan. MINURCAT was initially protected by a smaller European force, EUFOR, to carry out its mandate to protect civilians in danger, including refugees and displaced persons, and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid in Chad. After providing an overview of the crisis in Chad, the chapter outlines MINURCAT’s mandate and evaluates its operational achievements and limitations, as well as the important lessons that can be learned from its experience.
Radical Islam in Russia: Local and global dimensions
More than any other European country Russia struggles with the challenge of Radical Islam. Bearing in mind the very limited information we get in Norway on issues related to Radical Islam in Russia NUPI is very happy to host two of Russia’s most prominent scholars on these issues.
Mali at the cusp of UN peace operations reform
Whilst UN peacekeeping is more critical than ever, it is also under severe pressure, writes Cedric de Coning.