Fri, men manipulert? Journalistikk og politikk i Tunisias retrett fra demokratiet
Tunisia var det eneste landet som begynte å utvikle seg som et demokrati etter den arabiske våren. Det ble etablert flere viktige institusjoner for å ivareta en demokratisk utvikling, ikke minst ytringsfrihet og frie medier. I dag glir imidlertid landet tilbake mot autokrati. Hva skjedde, og hvilken rolle spiller media og journalistikk i Tunisias sviktende demokrati?
KRONIKK: Pandemien skapte en lokaliseringsvekkelse, men vil den vare?
A quest to win the hearts and minds: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Multinational Joint Task Force
In January 2015, the African Union (AU) authorised the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) as a regional security arrangement of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) to deal with the threat of Boko Haram (BH) in the Lake Chad region. Its mandate includes the responsibility of ensuring a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by the BH insurgency, reducing violent attacks against civilians, facilitating stabilisation programmes in the Lake Chad region, facilitating humanitarian operations and the provision of assistance to affected populations. To achieve its mandate, the MNJTF undertakes both kinetic and non-kinetic operations. Its mandate has been renewed yearly since 2015, and in December 2022, the AU renewed its mandate for another 12 months. This report assesses the effectiveness of the MNJTF in delivering on its three mandate priorities to generate recommendations for the enhancement of the MNJTF´s overall effectiveness.
Frokostseminar: Russisk og europeisk utenriksdebatt i krigstid
Hvordan har Russlands utenrikspolitiske debatt endret seg, og hvordan påvirkes den av debatten i Europa?
The war in Ukraine and multilateralism as we know it
Multilateralism was in trouble long before Russia invaded Ukraine: Increased rivalry between China and Russia, on the one hand, and the US and its allies, on the other, has made the most important international decision making body – the UN Security Council –less capable than before of addressing core issues on its agenda. For sure, the Council has renewed mandates for existing peace operations, but have not been able to establish new ones to address on-going conflicts. With the war in Ukraine and the seeming solidification of closer ties between Russia and China, there is reason to expect that multilateral decision making will deteriorate further.
Nye allierte, nye mulighetsrom: Norge og Finland i en endret sikkerhetspolitisk kontekst (NORFIN)
Norge og Finland har lenge vært nære samarbeidspartnere i sikkerhets- og forsvarspolitikken. Med Finlands NATO-søknad blir de to landene også allierte. Dette prosjektet vil analysere mulighetsrommet f...
Johanna Kettenbach
Johanna Kettenbach er doktorgradsstipendiat i Forskningsgruppen for fred, konflikt og utvikling hos NUPI og er doktorgradsstudent i sosiologi ved...
The humanitarian-development nexus: humanitarian principles, practice, and pragmatics
The humanitarian–development nexus is increasingly being cast as the solution to humanitarian concerns, new and protracted crises, and to manage complex war-to-peace transitions. Despite widely endorsed amongst policymakers, this nexus presents some challenges to those implementing it. Humanitarian action and development assistance represent two distinct discursive and institutional segments of the international system that are hard to juxtapose. Humanitarianism’s apolitical and imminent needs-based approaches building on established humanitarian principles are fundamentally different from the more long-term, political, rights-based approaches of development. As they rub shoulders, as intentionally instigated by the nexus, they affect and challenge each other. These challenges are more acute to the humanitarian domain given the constitutive status of the humanitarian principles, which, when challenged, may cause changes to the humanitarian space and a mission-cum-ethics creep. This article explores the formation and effects of the humanitarian–development nexus as rendered both at the top, amongst policymakers, and from the bottom. The latter explores the discursive transition from conflict to reconstruction in Northern Uganda. Humanitarian organisations’ different response to the transition demonstrate more pragmatic approaches to the humanitarian principles and thus how the nexus itself is also formed bottom up and further exacerbates the mission creep.
The localisation of aid - debate and challenges
The localisation agenda resurfaced with the Covid 19-pandemic among development and humanitarian actors. Aid localisation refers to providing aid through local, grassroots institutions without the use of intermediaries, which involves a shift in power over policy and financial issue to local actors.
Fremmedkrigere i Ukraina: Bekymrede verdensborgere eller en sikkerhetstrussel?
Hva er motivasjonen til fremmedkrigerne i Ukraina og hvilke utfordringer møter de i krigen?