Follow the money: the role of cross-border networks in natural resource extraction, stolen assets recovery, and tax havens and the regulation of cross-border capital flows from extractive industry in East Africa (FOLLOW)
Dette forskningsprosjektet vil studere i detalj den formelle og uformelle reguleringen av flyten av naturressurser og andre kilder til velstand på tvers av nasjonale grenser, med et spesielt fokus på ...
Developmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank-Uganda partnership
The instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, this article – drawing on an analysis of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Strategy Paper (PRSP) model and its partnership with Uganda – demonstrates how lopsided aid relations are being reproduced in profound ways. Analysed in terms of developmentality, the article shows how the donor aspires to make its policies those of the recipient as a means to govern at a distance, where promises of greater inclusion and freedom facilitate new governance mechanisms enabling the donor to retain control by framing the partnership and thus limiting the conditions under which the recipient exercises the freedom it has been granted.
United Nations peace operations review (UNPOR )
I oktober 2014 utpekte FNs generalsekretær et høynivåpanel som skal legge frem en rapport om FNs fredsoperasjoner, både de militære og politiske....
Peace Capacities Network: Peace Operations, Civilian Capacity and Security Sector Reform in a Changing World Order (PeaceCap )
Peace Capacities Network (PeaceCap) undersøker betydningen fremvoksende stormakter har for fredsoperasjoner, reform av sikkerhetssektoren og for sivile ressurser....
Training for Peace 2011 - 2019 (TfP)
Training for Peace er et internasjonalt program som bidrar til anvendt forskning og policyutvikling innen feltet fredsoperasjoner i Afrika....
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.
Boko Haram: frå open forkynning til hypervaldeleg salafisme?
«Konsortium for forsking om terrorisme og internasjonal kriminalitet» har gleda av å invitere til konsortiumseminar på NUPI
Klam hånd over Nigeria
I sentrum for presidentvalget i Afrikas mest folkerike land står en betydelig utfordring: Opprørsgruppen Boko Haram.
Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa