• Problemet er systemet 

      Suhrke, Astri; Strand, Arne (Others, 2009-01-01)
      The Problem is the System (English version) Valgkrisen i Afghanistan var bisarre til det siste. President Hamaid Karzai – utskjelt som korrupt leder og valgfusker i stort format – ble utropt til vinner av sin egen ...
    • Protection of Civilians – Norway in the Security Council 

      De Lauri, Edited by Antonio; Turunen, Salla; Suhrke, Astri; Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen; Lidén, Kristoffer; Karlsrud, John (CMI Report R 2021:01, Research report, 2021-02-01)
      This report summarizes a policy seminar organized by the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies in December 2020. It briefly points out some of the key challenges and opportunities for Norway in the Security Council in ...
    • Protection of civilians: Why they die in US strikes 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 7, Report, 2015-01-01)
      Read online The US military strike that devastated the MSF hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on 3 October generated profound, if short-lived, outrage in much of the world. The US government promised an ...
    • Quiet Engagement with the Taliban 

      Suhrke, Astri; Strand, Arne (Survival vol. Vol 63 no. No 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-01)
    • Reconstruction as Modernisation: The 'post-conflict' project in Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri (Third World Quarterly vol. 28 no. 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-09-01)
      This paper examines the post-war reconstruction programme in Afghanistan, arguing that it contains the seeds of radical social change. The paper analyses the tensions of the present reconstruction project in light of the ...
    • Restructuring the state: Federalist Dynamics in Nepal 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Report R 2014:02, Research report, 2014-06-01)
      Since the end of the civil war in 2006, Nepal has been on the edge of a peaceful but truly revolutionary change to restructure the state along federal lines. The issue has dominated the political discourse, wrecked the ...
    • Safeguarding the Right to Asylum 

      Suhrke, Astri (Working paper, Working paper, 1992)
      The paper was prepared for a UN Expert Group meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, January 1993, in preparation for the 1994 World Conference on Population and Development. The paper analyzes the challenges which contemporary ...
    • The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri; De Lauri, Antonio (Costs of War, Research report, 2019-08-01)
      Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the border region with Pakistan. The problems associated ...
    • The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri; De Lauri, Antonio (Research report, 2019-08-01)
      Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the border region with Pakistan. The problems associated ...
    • Towards 2014 and beyond: NATO, Afghanistan and the "Heart of Asia" 

      Suhrke, Astri (Noref Policy Brief August 2012, Research report, 2012-09-14)
      Two different and basically conflicting visions of Afghanistan’s post-transition future were discernible by mid-2012. In one, Afghanistan’s security is anchored in an “enduring partnership” with NATO. The U.S. and its ...
    • UN support for peacebuilding: Nepal as the exceptional case 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      In the annals of UN peace operations, the mission in Nepal (UNMIN) appears as an exceptional case. Most peace support operations today are multidimensional – covering the security sector, political transition, relief and ...
    • We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Report R 2015:11, Research report, 2015-12-01)
      Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation programs. A government White Paper on the subject in 2008 proclaimed that ...
    • Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate 

      Suhrke, Astri; Schmeidl, Susanne (Central Asian Survey vol. 42 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-01)
      Nearly two years after the Taliban seized power in Kabul, in August 2021, the international aid community continued to search for workable approaches to deal with the new situation. Afghanistan’s deepening economic ...