Coordination and Capacity Building within the Security Sector in Bosnia-Herzegovina (SSRBiH )
The project is currently organized to both coordinate Norway’s support to the intelligence and security sector in Bosnia-Herzegovina and to do research on relevant topics....
Europe in transition – Small states and Europe in an age of global shifts (EUNOR)
What is the significance of the EU for small states in Europe today?...
The Russo–Ukraine crisis and the role of the EU: implications for Norway
The Ukrainian crisis has become the most pressing security-policy issue in Europe....
United Nations peace operations review (UNPOR )
In October 2014 the UN Secretary-General appointed the High-Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations. The Panel is reviewing developments in peacekeeping and special political missions over the ...
Peace Capacities Network: Peace Operations, Civilian Capacity and Security Sector Reform in a Changing World Order (PeaceCap )
The Peace Capacities Network explore how rising powers influence peace operations, security sector reform and civilian capacities...
Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods
Developments in the last fifteen years have driven renewed interest in hegemonic-stability and power-transition theory. The persistence of US-centered primacy during the 1990s produced new arguments f...
Training for Peace 2011 - 2019 (TfP)
The Training for Peace Programme (TfP Programme) is an international programme that contributes towards capacity building within the broader ambit of peace operations in Africa....
The UN at war: examining the consequences of peace-enforcement mandates for the UN peacekeeping operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali
The UN peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali were in 2013 given peace enforcement mandates, ordering them to use all necessary measures to ‘neutralise’ and ‘disarm’ identified groups in the eastern DRC and to ‘stabilise’ CAR and northern Mali. It is not new that UN missions have mandates authorising the use of force, but these have normally not specified enemies and have been of short duration. This article investigates these missions to better understand the short- and long-term consequences, in terms of the willingness of traditional as well as Western troop contributors to provide troops, and of the perception of the missions by host states, neighbouring states, rebel groups, and humanitarian and human rights actors. The paper explores normative, security and legitimacy implications of the expanded will of the UN to use force in peacekeeping operations. It argues that the urge to equip UN peacekeeping operations with enforcement mandates that target particular groups has significant long-term implications for the UN and its role as an impartial arbitrator in post-conflict countries.