• National and international migration policy in Lebanon 

  Knudsen, Are John; Forster, Robert (Others, 2022-12-01)

  This EFFEXT Background Paper provides a brief presentation of migration and migration policy dynamics between the European Union (EU) and Lebanon. It presents an overview of key Lebanese national and international ...

• Monitoring sand mining in Morocco 

  Ameziane, Lahcen; Katz-Lavigne, Sarah; Suykens, Bert (Research report, 2022-01-01)

• Mapping global sand: extraction, research and policy options 

  Katz-Lavigne, Sarah; Pandey, Saumya; Suykens, Bert (Research report, 2022-01-01)

• River sand commodity chains in Tanzania: Stakeholders, governance and environmental impacts 

  Shitima, Christina; Suykens, Bert (Research report, 2022-01-01)

• UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward 

  Berg, Kjersti G.; Jensehaugen, Jørgen; Tiltnes, Åge A. (CMI Report R 2022:04, Research report, 2022-09-01)

  Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and how that has ...

• Le secteur de l’or à Madagascar : au cœur des pratiques illicites. Le cas de Dabolava et Betsiaka 

  Rabenandrasana, Clément; Harris, Ignace; Rabemazava, Daniel (U4 Report 2022:2, Research report, 2022-11-01)

  À Madagascar, l’exploitation aurifère pourrait constituer une source de développement majeure pour le gouvernement et la population. Cependant, chaque année, l’État malgache ...

• Integrating corruption considerations into Nationally Determined Contributions. Insights from Colombia’s climate adaptation efforts at the local level 

  Oviedo, Juan Camilo Ceballos (U4 Issue 2022:15, Research report, 2022-11-01)

  Urban and local governments are vital for climate change adaptation efforts. But, as the case of Colombia shows, local administrations are not always properly equipped for the scale of the challenge.

• Refugees as future returnees? Anatomy of the ‘paradigm shift’ towards temporary protection in Denmark 

  Vedsted-Hansen, Jens (CMI Report 2022:6, Research report, 2022-11-01)

  The ‘paradigm shift’ in Danish asylum policy, officially introduced in 2019, implied the adoption of quasi-mandatory rules on revocation of asylum residence permits as soon as the circumstances in the country ...

• Activism from the closet: Fear of a double backlash against a nascent queer movement in Sudan 

  Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia; Allah, Samah Khalaf (Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation, Chapter, 2022-11-01)

• Specialised anti-corruption courts – A comparative mapping. 2022 update 

  Stephenson, Matthew C.; Schütte, Sofie Arjon (U4 Issue 2022:14, Research report, 2022-11-01)

  While there are no definitive best practices for specialised anti-corruption courts, existing models and experience provide some guidance to reformers considering the creation of similar institutions.

• Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia 

  Williams, Aled; Dupuy, Kendra (The Journal of Development Studies vol. 55 no. 10, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-01)

  High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption has been viewed as a potential impediment to the achievement of ...

• Опыт войны: проект “WARFUN” 

  De Lauri, Antonio (Others, 2022-11-01)

• Transoceania: Connecting the World beyond Eurasia. 

  Roszko, Edyta (Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back, Chapter, 2022-11-01)

  This chapter engages with Chris Hann's concept of Eurasia and his focus on interconnectedness and commonalities within the 'supercontinent', which is conventionally throught of as divided into two continents, Europe and ...

• Ansar al-Sunna and Women’s Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation 

  Tønnessen, Liv (Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies vol. 37 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-01)

  This article explores the possibilities, limits, and paradox of Salafi female agency at a time when Ansar al-Sunna is assuming a new political role under the rule of an Islamizing state in Sudan. The Islam Ansar al-Sunna ...

• Expert adoption of composite indices: A randomized experiment on migrant resettlement decisions in Bangladesh 

  Kolstad, Ivar; Karim, Azreen; Lujala, Päivi; Wiig, Arne (CMI Working Paper WP 2022:03, Working paper, 2022-11-01)

  In settings where complex social decisions are made, information is often aggregated into indices to facilitate decision making. The value added of such composite indices depend, inter alia, on the extent to which decision ...

• Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan 

  Tønnessen, Liv (Peace, Conflict and Development vol. 17, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-08-01)

  This article explores the validity of critical mass theory in the context of a 25% women’s quota in the national parliament in post-conflict Sudan. It is being argued here that the implementation of a women’s ...

• Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory 

  Tønnessen, Liv (Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol. 27 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08-01)

  This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through a qualitative analysis of his writings as well as semi-structured ...

• Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam 

  Tønnessen, Liv (Religion and Human Rights vol. 6 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01-01)

  The fundamental argument put forward by Islamists, who have ruled Sudan since 1989, for not signing the convention is based on cultural relativism; different cultures provide indigenous and local solutions to their women's ...

• Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional right 

  Tønnessen, Liv (Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-01)

  This article explores how working women in Sudan's capital negotiate legal constraints placing them under the guardianship of their husbands, imposing strict public dress and behavioral codes upon them, and upholding ...

• The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan 

  Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 21 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)

  Abstract In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 lashes. Pregnancy outside a marriage contract constitute ...

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