Teach a person how to surf: Cyber security as development assistance
Much policy literature on digitalization and development has focused on the importance of connecting developing countries to digital networks, and how such technology can expand access to information for billions of people in developing countries, stimulating economic activity, collaboration and organizations. Good connection to digital networks may have a fundamental impact on societies, changing not only how individuals and businesses navigate, operate and seek opportunities, but also as regards relations between government and the citizenry. Instead of adding to the substantial literature on the potential dividends, this report examines a less studied issue: the new societal vulnerabilities emerging from digitalization in developing countries. While there is wide agreement about the need to bridge the gap between the connected and the disconnected, the pitfalls are many, especially concerning cyber security, a topic often neglected, also in the recent World Bank report Digital Dividends (2016). The present report is an attempt at redressing this imbalance.
Vesten, resten og det multilaterale utviklingssystemet: Nye aktørar og spelereglar
Seminaret set fokus på nye og tradisjonelle multilaterale aktørars rolle og betydning i eit stadig skiftande miljø.
Nytt nummer av Internasjonal Politikk
Nå er tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikk åpent tilgjengelig for alle – hvor som helst, når som helst.
Prisvinnende artikkel om kvotering i indisk politikk
I går ble det klart at NUPIs seniorforsker Francesca R. Jensenius er vinneren av Chr. Michelsens pris for fremragende utviklingsforskning.
The European Union and Peacebuilding
The Rising Powers and Peacebuilding project seeks to address an important question that has not yet been thoroughly researched: what are the new approaches that rising powers have taken to peacebuilding, how do they differ from those of traditional powers and multilateral institutions, and what lessons can be learned from these new approaches?The policy briefs in this series provide a baseline on the roles of rising powers and their affiliated regional organizations in peacebuilding. To this point, little research has been conducted on the substance and impact of peacebuilding activities carried out by rising powers. This project seeks to address this gap in the research by providing a structured, critical analysis of the values, content and impact of recent peacebuilding initiatives of rising powers, comparing them to one another and to approaches by Western donors and international organizations. The project also aims to offer new theoretical claims about the role of the global South in peacebuilding, rooted in insightful empirical work (on Somalia, Afghanistan and Myanmar and on specific non-¬‐Western actors), and to make key policy audiences aware of alternative approaches and their empirical records and theoretical underpinnings (which may vary among values, global/regional power aspirations, bureaucratic approaches).The project partners will also produce case studies on the role of rising powers in peacebuilding, and include:ACCORD (an NGO based in South Africa), the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC), , the United Service Institution of India (USI), American University’s School of International Service (SIS), CSIS-¬‐Jakarta, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The project is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, American University, and NUPI.
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.