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
Migrasjonskrisa og EUs rolle
Korleis kan EU svare på dagens migrasjonskrise?
Radikal islam vokser frem i Russland
Russland strever, mer enn noe annet europeisk land, med utfordringene radikal islam bringer med seg.
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.
Radikal islam i Russland: Lokale og globale dimensjonar
Russland strevar, meir enn noko anna europeisk land, med utfordringane radikal islam fører med seg. I Noreg har vi svært avgrensa tilgang til informasjon om radikal islam i Russland. NUPI er derfor veldig glade for å vere vertskap for to av Russlands fremste forskarar på feltet.
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