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Palestina. Fakta på bakken
(Book, 2023-03-01)Et nytt perspektiv på Palestina. Hva kan det palestinske landskapet, flyktningleirer, bygninger og hus fortelle oss om utviklingen av konflikten i Palestina de siste 100 årene? I denne lille boka tar ... -
Palestinian Islamist movements: An annotated bibliography
(CMI report, Research report, 2002)This report consists of two parts. Part one gives an overview of the Islamist movements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The second part is a select bibliography of the main academic works in English on these ... -
Palestinian State-Formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004
(Research report, Research report, 2004)The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external Internal challenges that were addressed were the problem of corruption, institutional mismanagement and the emergence of ... -
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Palestinian women’s participation in the resistance against the Israeli occupation, most notably during the first Intifada (1987-93), has been characterised as broad and active, particularly at grass roots level. This ... -
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 7, Report, 2017-09-01)Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a proposed ban on FGM in the National Child Act miserably failed to materialize. ... -
Para quando as autarquias em Angola? Se desafios são os mesmos, porquê adiar constantemente a sua implementação?
(Angola Brief vol. 4 no. 8, Report, 2014-08-11)A Constituição de 2010, na sequência da Lei constitucional de 1992, reafirmou e aclarou “o princípio da descentralização político-administrativa” (artigo 213º, 1, CRA). O Presidente da República reconheceu recentemente a ... -
Parliament of Bangladesh: Boycotts, business, and change for the better
(CMI Brief vol. 11 no. 2, Report, 2012-04-11)The monumental building of the Parliament of Bangladesh is retracted in a park in the heart of Dhaka, and gives the impression of a powerful institution. In constitutional terms, it is indeed powerful. Bangladesh is among ... -
Parliamentary-Executive Relations in Malawi 1994-2004
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This article addresses the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government in Malawi during the multi-party era from 1994 until 2004. The argument is threefold. First, the presidential nature of ... -
Participation, representation and taxation: why collect taxes in oil rich Angola
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Partidos políticos em Angola: Na tendência africana
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 10, Report, 2011-06-20)A política em Angola é normalmente explicada fazendo referência à sua longa e devastadora guerra civil. As eleições adiadas, a dominância do Presidente da República e do partido no poder, e os resultados das eleições são ... -
Past, present and future: Fifty years of anthropology in Sudan
(Book, 2015-03-01)This book is about the history of anthropology in Sudan. Contributors to the book represent different generations of anthropologists who at some point in time either taught at the department in Khartoum or had some sort ... -
Pastoral Women in Town: The Case of the Migrant Fulbe in Sinja, Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:3, Working paper, 2020-11-01)The world has witnessed rapid urbanization and an increased number of women migrating in a phenomenon known as the femininization of migration. Urban areas are becoming extremely overcrowded and overburdened, putting ... -
Pastoralist Mobility among the Sudanese Ethiopian Borderland : Towards Cooperative Land Management
(Nomadic Peoples vol. 28 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-01)This study followed an interdisciplinary mixed approach that consisted of social research methods and geospatial technology to investigate the livestock mobility of four pastoralist groups from Sudan and two Ethiopian ... -
Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa: The Continued Threat of Famine
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference to same important features of pastoralism as a production system, ... -
Pathways for Urban Food Security in the Pacific: Situating the Urban Informal Food Sector in the Context of Urbanisation and Globalisation
(Journal of Resilient Economies (ISSN: 2653-1917) vol. 2 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-01)The urban context is often sidelined in the academic discourse surrounding food security in the Pacific. Yet, for some Pacific nations, cities are the home for most of their citizens. In this thematic literature review, ... -
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan
(Report, 2020-07-01)While Sudanese women were at the forefront of the popular uprising under the banner "freedom, peace and justice" that started in December 2018 and eventually led to the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, ... -
Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ... -
Pawns of peace. Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009
(Evaluation report no. 5/2011, Research report, 2011-11-01)This evaluation assesses Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009. It tells the story of Norway’s engagement, assesses the effects and identifies broader implications and lessons. The analysis is ... -
Pay for Honesty? Lessons on Wages and Corruption from Public Hospitals
(U4 Brief 2008:13, Report, 2008-05-02)Theft, graft, absenteeism and soliciting bribes in the health sector in developing countries is often blamed on low pay. But does low pay actually explain corruption? Several studies of public hospitals in Latin America ... -
Peace Processes and Statebuilding: Economic and Institutional Provisions of Peace Agreements
(Research report, 2007-06-26)This report originates in the growing international engagement in statebuilding and postconflict reconstruction during the past decade. The 2005 Paris declaration of the OECD referred to an emerging international consensus ...