Internasjonal intervensjon og lokal politikk: Innsikt frå Aceh
Fabio Scarpello gjestar NUPI for å presetere boka "International Interventions and Local Politics: Fragmented States and the Politics of Scale".
Alt om atomvåpen og nedrustning
Nobels fredspris 2017 går til ICAN for deres arbeid med forbud mot atomvåpen. Her finner du NUPIs stoff om atomvåpen og nedrustning.
Estlands president om tryggleik i den baltiske regionen
Estland speler ei viktig rolle i Europas forhold til Russland. Estlands president besøkjer NUPI for å gi eit innblikk i tryggingsutfordringane i området.
Frukostseminar: Japans tryggleiks- og utanrikspolitiske utfordringar på den koreanske halvøya
Nord-Koreas hurtige framgang i utviklinga av atom- og missilprogram har blitt ein alvorleg tryggingstrussel mot det internasjonale samfunnet. Junya Nishino gjester NUPI for å fortelje om trusselen frå ein japansk ståstad.
KRONIKK: Norge og atomvåpenforbudet - hva nå?
Flere land kan slutte seg til det nye forbudet mot atomvåpen. Men har Norges storting og regjering baller til det? Sverre Lodgaard skriver i Dagsavisen.
Ny bok: Fremvoksende makter i sør kan endre fredsbygging fundamentalt
Hva er nytt og innovativ ved fredsinnsatsen til de fremvoksende maktene i det globale Sør?
Building Bridges for Success:Rethinking Peace Operations Training for Complex Environments
Witnessing the changes in armed conflict since the 1990s, several global political-level agendas have emerged, recognizing the growing human suffering from armed conflict and the long-term consequences on societies. These high-level agendas, such as Protection of Civilians (POC), Women, Peace and Security (WPS), and Children in Armed Conflict (CAAC), address crucial issues that fall under a broader human security approach, and are to be addressed by peace operations. As such, they have at an increasing rate been included in strategic level doctrine and policy. The three global UN peace and security reviews published in 2015 stress the need for a shift to more people-centered, inclusive processes, establishing better context awareness, and investing in cooperation with external counterparts significantly. If peace operations are to remain relevant and effective in achieving international peace and security, this needs to be taken into account. This shift within peace operations requires that the preparation and training of peacekeepers follow suit in order to meet the challenges faced in increasingly complex environments. This policy brief therefore advocates for the adoption of an integrated approach to peace operations training, putting greater emphasis on comprehensive, people-centered approaches and contextual analysis.
Limiting violent spill-over in civil wars. The paradoxes of Lebanese Sunni jihadism. 2011-2017
Research on violent spillovers in civil war has often exaggerated the potential for conflict contagion. The case of Lebanon is a counter-example. Despite the massive pressure of the horrific war in next-door Syria, it has, against all odds, remained remarkably stable – despite the influx of more than 1 million Syrian refugees and almost complete institutional blockage. This paper, based on ethnographic research and semi-structured interviews from Lebanon, studies the determination to avoid a violent spillover into Lebanon from the perspective of the country’s Sunni Islamists. Recent trends in the scholarly literature have shown that Islamists are not inherently revolutionary, nor always dogmatists, and often serve many social purposes at home. The main argument is that the Syrian war has not been imported into Lebanon; instead, the Lebanese conflict is externalized to Syria. Lebanon’s conflicting factions, including the Islamists, have found the costs of resorting to violence inside Lebanon to be too high. Even those Lebanese Sunnis who have crossed the borders to fight in Syria do so because of domestic reasons, that is, to fight against Hezbollah on Syria soil, where they can do so without risking an explosion of the Lebanese security situation. Sectarianism, in the sense of opposition to Hezbollah and the Lebanese Shia, is the main driver of radicalization for Lebanese Sunnis.