• Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma 

      Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most important of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The paper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a fringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist ...
    • Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Developing Countries 

      Andvig, Jens Chr.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)
      Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly by the poor. Extensive corruption in the police, experienced or ...
    • Crime, poverty and police corruption: a review of issues 

      Andvig, Jens Chr.; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (Conference object, 2008-07-08)
      Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly by the poor. Extensive corruption in the police, experienced or ...
    • Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: A never ending story? 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Insight 2016:1, Report, 2016-01-01)
      Women inside and outside of the Sudanese government were deeply concerned about the high prevalence rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) after decades of efforts to eradicate the practice. Criminalization of FGM emerged ...
    • Crisis at South Africa’s universities – what are the implications for future cooperation with Norway? 

      Tjønneland, Elling N. (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 3, Report, 2017-03-01)
      South Africa’s universities have witnessed unprecedented student revolts over the past two years. It began as protests against a rise in tuition fees and calls for removals of symbols of the apartheid past. It rapidly ...
    • Criteria for general budget support and general sector support. Report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

      Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      This report assesses a set of criteria for providing development aid in the form of general budget support and sector support. The criteria are suggested by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relate to good ...
    • Crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania 

      Bezu, Sosina; Villanger, Espen (CMI Working Paper WP 2010:1, Working paper, 2019-06-01)
      This paper assesses determinants of crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, with a focus on transaction cost, asset endowment and cooperatives. The study is based on household survey data from ...
    • Cross-border trade in the war areas of the Sudans: Smuggling or a form of cooperation? 

      Elhassab, Ahmed; Elhassab, Omer Mohammad; Villanger, Espen (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:8, Working paper, 2016-12-01)
      After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. In contrast to previous attempts to use trade to reduce tensions, such markets are now ...
    • Cuán preparados estamos para evaluar la real implementación de las convenciones anticorrupción? Lecciones desde las Américas 

      Peñailillo, Miguel (U4 Issue 2009:5, Research report, 2009-05-26)
      La Convención de las Naciones Unidas Contra la Corrupción (CNUCC) es el más reciente y significativo logro en una serie de tratados internacionales que buscan combatir la corrupción. Todas estas convenciones anticorrupción ...
    • Cultural cooperation with Nepal 

      Lange, Siri; Shrestha, Era; Korvald, Tordis (Research report, Research report, 2009)
      This report is a mid-term review of Norway’s support to the cultural sector in Nepal. Norwegian support has focused on the following areas: theatre production, music education, institutional capacity building, and documentation ...
    • Curbing Women Activists in Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court 

      Tønnessen, Liv (CMI Insight 2015:5, Report, 2015-01-01)
      In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread sexual violence in Darfur. In the wake of the ICC, the Sudanese regime has curbed ...
    • Cursed before production? 

      Dupuy, Kendra; Katera, Lucas (CMI Brief no. 2019:01, Report, 2019-02-01)
      Big discoveries of high value natural resources can have negative economic, political, and social effects long before full production of a resource begins. While Tanzania has already experienced some tensions around the ...
    • Custodians of social peace or contenders in a popularity contest? The Egyptian Armed Forces and Egypt’s Coptic Christians 

      Christiansen, Lars Gunnar (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:4, Working paper, 2015-04-16)
      This report analyses current and past relations between the Egyptian Coptic Christian community and the Egyptian Armed Forces, discussing contemporary events on the backdrop of historical analysis. Based on a thorough ...
    • Customers play an important role in shaping firms’ VAT compliance 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Kagoma, Cecilia; Mdee, Ephraim; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem; Somville, Vincent (Others, 2021-01-01)
      Value added tax (VAT) is one of the main modes of raising tax revenue worldwide but has significantly underperformed as a revenue collection tool in Africa. Non-compliance by taxpayers is a major challenge. This Misum ...
    • Custos e consequências das Dívidas Ocultas para Moçambique 

      Cortês, Edson; Orre, Aslak; al, et. (Research report, 2021-06-01)
      Portuguese version of "Costs and consequences of the hidden debt scandal in Mozambique", publication CMI & CIP: Em 2013, banqueiros europeus, empresários baseados no Médio Oriente, políticos e altos funcionários ...
    • Darfur crisis: The role of traditional leaders in dealing with violence against women 

      Takana, Yousif (CMI Sudan Working Paper SWP 2014:4, Working paper, 2014-12-15)
      The armed conflict between the Sudan government and rebel groups in Darfur erupted in 2003. Escalating violence included sexual assaults on women. Many women who have been raped live with a stigma, or are forced to get ...
    • Darfur: Struggle of Power and Resources, 1650-2002, An Institutional Perspective 

      Takana, Yousif Suliman Saeed (Book, 2016-01-01)
      The cnflicts in Sudan have been driven by multiple causes, a major one being increasing competition over natural resources. This is very much the case in Darfur, and Takana's book addresses both the hisotircal root causes ...
    • Data Analysis: How to deal with qualitative data 

      Skaar, Elin (Others, 2023-09-01)
      Qualitative Research + Human Rights: Bridging the Gaps Between Socio + Legal Research Writing Bootcamp + Workshop The event is organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and School of Law at the University of Galway ...
    • Dealing with a violent past: The impact of transitional justice 

      Skaar, Elin; Dahl, Åse Johanne Roti (CMI Brief vol. 11 no. 5, Report, 2012-06-25)
      This brief assesses the impact of transitional justice mechanisms on peace and democracy. Based on four case studies from Africa and Latin America, it argues that the expected positive effects of transitional justice may ...
    • Dealing with the good and the evil. Introducing morality as an anthropological concern 

      Lønning, Dag Jørund (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      Questions of morality and ethics - good and evil - have not been anthropological favourites. Such issues have been addressed within certain applied environments as well as currently within American cultural anthropology, ...