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Protection of Civilians – Norway in the Security Council
(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
(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 ... -
Protection paradoxes
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Protective Strategies in the 1990s: A Review of the Policy Discourses in UNHCR and the Executive Committee. Report prepared under a grant from the Research Programme on Forced Migration, the Research Council of Norway
(Research report, Research report, 1998)The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) composed of nation states. Collectively, the two bodies determine ... -
Provincial variations and entrepreneurialism in the development of China’s Distant Water Fisheries (2011–2020)
(Marine Policy vol. 147, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-01)This study rescales the current state-centric understanding of the development of China’s distant water fishing (DWF) and explores the instrumental role of Chinese provinces in actualizing and shaping this development. ... -
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations
(U4 Brief 2017:6, Report, 2017-10-01)Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016 We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that development agencies can use. U4 and DFID developed a proxy challenge competition ... -
PRSP in Tanzania: Do Mkukuta and the CCm Election Manifesto Pull in the same Direction?
(Research report, Research report, 2006)The National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP), or what is more commonly referred to by the Kiswahili acronym Mkukuta, has been in effect since July 2005. It is a key document setting out a broad framework ... -
Public Anthropology in Changing Times
(Public Anthropologist vol. 1 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-01)Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public ... -
Public Anthropology in the Digital Era
(The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Chapter, 2021-12-01)The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with ... -
Public construction projects - Angola. A need to fortify the barriers against corruption
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 5, Report, 2011-06-05)Between early 2002 and 2009 the Angolan government invested around $30.4 billion in new infrastructure, hospitals, schools and other public construction projects. These investments have been extraordinarily large against ... -
Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys: Lessons from Tanzania
(U4 Brief 2007:14, Report, 2007-11-01)Whereas the successful application of PETS in Uganda has received and continues to receive a lot of attention, less has been written about the experiences of PETS elsewhere. The Tanzanian experience clearly shows that PETS ... -
Public Sector Reform: What Works and Why?
(IEG Evaluation Report, Research report, 2008-05-24)The main objective of this evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is to help the World Bank learn how to contribute more effectively to public sector reform (PSR) in its member countries. The intended audience ... -
Questioning the Secular-Religious Cleavage in Palestinian Politics: Comparing Fatah and Hamas
(Politics and Religion vol. 7 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)Following the 2007 war between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian politics appears to have followed the regional trend where the competition between secularism and Islamism is developing into a major political cleavage. Through ... -
Quiet Engagement with the Taliban
(Survival vol. Vol 63 no. No 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-01) -
Quotas and women's substantive representation: Evidence from a content analysis of Ugandan plenary debates
(Politics & Gender vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)Despite the popularity of electoral gender quotas, the substantive impact of quotas on the plenary behavior of members of parliament (MPs) has yet to be thoroughly empirically explored, and in particular, there is a dearth ... -
Rainbow justice and peace building. South Africa 1994-2001
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Rainbow revolution in Latin America: The battle for recognition
(CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 1, Report, 2015-02-01)In a surprising turn of events, a “rainbow revolution” has blossomed in Latin America. In spite of the region’s long history of deep-rooted patriarchy, machismo, homophobia, and political and social marginalization of ... -
Rational Choice and the Problem of Institutions. A discussion of Rational Choice Institutionalism and its Application by Robert Bates
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism based within rational choice reasoning provide a theoretical basis ... -
Re-imagining African—Nordic relations in a changing global order
(Report 2/2022, Research report, 2022-08-01)This report asks how the special relationship between countries in Africa and the Nordic region may be affected by a changing global order, and how the African–Nordic cooperation can continue to evolve and remain ... -
Reality checks in Mozambique. 1st Annual Report - Baseline
(Research report, 2011-01-01)A series of five “Reality Checks in Mozambique” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focusing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/climate and energy that ...