African Peace Operations: Trends and Future Scenarios, Conclusions and Recommendations
Adapting the African Standby Force to a Just-in-Time Readiness Model: Improved Alignment with the Emerging African Model of Peace Operations
The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram
Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening divide between the theory and practice of peacekeeping. With the AU's African Standby Force becoming fully operational in 2016, this timely and much-needed work argues that responding to these challenges will require a new and distinctively African model of peacekeeping, as well as a radical revision of the current African security framework. The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of African peace operations, The Future of African Peace Operations gives a long overdue assessment of the ways which peacekeeping on the continent has evolved over the past decade. It will be a vital resource for policy makers, researchers and all those seeking solutions and insights into the immense security challenges which Africa is facing today.
Akademisk frukost: Oljefondet og utanrikspolitikken
Kva er samanhengen mellom Oljefondet og norsk utanrikspolitikk? Er det allereie eit verkemiddel, og bør det vere det? Velkommen til akademisk frukost hos Cappelen Damm med lansering av det første heildigitale og ope tilgjengelege nummeret av tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikk.
Framtida for freden i Afrika
Afrika treng ikkje frelsarar, men partnerar, ifølgje Cedric de Coning og John Karlsrud ved NUPI. Dei har nyleg gitt ut boka 'The Future of African Peace Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram'.
FN70: Korleis tenkje nytt om samspelet mellom humanitær innsats og utviklingshjelp?
Korleis kan FN styrkje samspelet mellom humanitære aktørar og utviklingsaktørar?
Gender Based Violence and Access to Justice: the Case of Ganta, Liberia
Amongst the various civil and criminal issues plaguing post-war Liberia, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (GBV) is one of the most prominent. A number of historical and contemporary realities are expressed through the issues of GBV in Liberia. Among these are the traditional gender roles that codify the domestic subordination of the women in Liberian society, and the widespread practices of GBV that emerged as a consequence of the ‘nationalisation of local conflict’ that the civil war in such a weak state brought about. Against this background, the Mapping Gender-based Violence and Access to Justice: Re-traditionalisationin Liberia (GENTRA) project was established to address the knowledge gap between assumptions about how GBV is best attended, and the actual preferences of Liberians. The focus of GENTRA is not on GBV cases as such, but rather on how people chose to address GBV in the plural legal system of Liberia, why people make these choices, how the different legal systems address GBV cases, and how people perceive the outcomesof these processes. Through this focus, GENTRA is mapping GBV and access to justice in Liberia, while creating a local database and capacity to help inform policymakers on GBV issues. The GENTRA project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and is a collaborative effort between the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation at the University of Liberia. In this Working Paper the researchers will document and analyse how people make these choice in and around the town of Ganta in Nimba County.
Konsortiumseminar:Terrorisme utan terroristar – den første terrorismebølgja i Sverige
Konsortium for forsking på terrorisme og internasjonal kriminalitet har gleda av å invitere til seminar med Professor Mats Fridlund frå Aalto Universitetet i Finland.
Konsortiumseminar: Presentasjon av boka "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State"
Konsortium for forsking på terrorisme og internasjonal kriminalitet, i samarbeid med Senter for islam- og midtaustenstudiar (SIMS) ved Universitetet i Oslo har gleda av å invitere til seminar med William McCants, som presenterer den nye boka si, "The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State".