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Civil society and peace building in Sudan: A critical look
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:2, Working paper, 2016-05-01)Abstract The role of civil society organizations in peace making and peace building is often valorized, especially in countries that witness protracted conflicts. The assumption underlying this valorization is that while ... -
Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East: A Literature Review
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:5, Working paper, 2014-07-01)In the 1950s and 1960s, a wave of military coups in the Middle East triggered extensive research on the role of military forces throughout the region. Since the early 1980s however, civil-military relations in the Middle ... -
Civilian and Military Relations in Turkey: A Historical Survey
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:11, Working paper, 2016-12-01)This CMI Working Paper presents an analysis of civilian-military relations in Turkey, casting light on institutional, legal and economic aspects that have shaped the military’s role in society. An assessment of contemporary ... -
Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
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Colonial legacy, state-building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:16, Working paper, 2015-01-01)Ethnicity has received increased attention in studies of Africa's economic and institutional development. We present evidence on the long-term effects of Britain's "divide-and-rule" colonial strategy that deliberately ... -
Communal Land Rights and Peace-Building in North Kordofan: Policy and Legislative Challenges
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2008: 3, Working paper, 2008-03-04)Land policies are of fundamental importance to the wellbeing of and the economic opportunities open to rural people, good governance, and peaceful coexistence. Therefore, land policy and analysis of specific interventions ... -
Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with the recipient when aid dries up. A strategic recipient may avoid ... -
Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that conditionality fails. One explanation for this failure could be that a ... -
Comparing Borderland Dynamics. Processes of territorialization in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, southern Yunnan in China, and the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:3, Working paper, 2015-03-19)The paper is a contribution to the recent debate in social science of border situations and the way borders affect borderland populations. The paper is directly comparative in form, by comparing three borderland situations, ... -
Comparing legal activism in Zimbabwe and Zambia
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:5, Working paper, 2020-11-01)Battles over democracy are manifested in contestations over legal frameworks and within judicial institutions. Lawfare refers to the strategic use of law and legal institutions by actors in civil and political society to ... -
Compensatory Livestock Thievery: A New Trend in Economic Crime In Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:3, Working paper, 2017-08-01)“Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out of a war environment. In this form of crime, thieves steal animals, particularly ... -
Conceptualizing ‘Leave No One Behind’
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:04, Working paper, 2021-09-01)Abstract The term ‘leave no one behind’ is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals that were adopted by United Nations (UN) member states in 2015, and the phrase has frequently been used in the ... -
Constraints for a Conservation-Based Agricultural Development Policy in Ethiopia. A Baseline Study in Fedis Awraja
(Working paper, Working paper, 1992)A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental protection measures. The survey included not only agricultural support services, ... -
Controlling fiscal corruption. Theoretical approaches and illustrations from Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)The primary concern of this paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining corruption in tax administration. The emphasis is on how the incentive structure of the tax system affects the decisions ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:1, Working paper, 2016-05-01)Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that goes beyond the sole objective of profit maximization. The term ... -
Corporate social responsibility in the Angolan oil industry
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)What are the responsibility of oil companies in resource rich countries? Do they take these responsibilities? Based on a utilitarian perspective and theories of the resource curse, we discuss the oil companies’ corporate ... -
Corruption and market reform
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects.Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatizationcampaigns. ... -
Corruption in tax administration: Lessons from institutional reforms in Uganda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase revenue and curb corruption. This paper examines recent experiences in the fight ... -
Corruption: Critical assessments of contemporary research. Report from a multidisciplinary workshop
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), organised a workshop on ‘corruption research’ in Oslo 19-20 October ... -
Countries in violent conflict and aid strategies: The case of Sri Lanka
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)In countries with an ongoing violent conflict aid donors are confronted by four sets of issues: How the volume and orientation of the program may influence a peace process; whether development efforts may be undertaken in ...