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    • A Contradictory Mission? NATO from Stabilization to Combat in Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri (International Peacekeeping vol. 15 no. 2 April, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-05-01)
      Between 2001 and 2007, the United States and NATO gradually abandoned the commitment to a light military footprint in Afghanistan, initially adopted to avoid making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union. A heavy footprint, ...
    • A Critique of the Humanitarian (B)order of Things 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Journal of Identity and Migration Studies vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)
      The reification of humanitarian borders generates a politics of crisis that weakens the capacity to produce structural political changes and legitimizes exceptionalism and the reproduction of hierarchized borders. In this ...
    • A teoria do "encerramento do Ijtihad" no direito islâmico 

      Bonate, Liazzat (Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais vol. 80, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-03-01)
      O postulado da jurisprudência islâmica clássica sobre o “encerramento dos portões do ijtihad”, ou a teoria da abdicação da aplicação do raciocínio ...
    • Abortion rights legal mobilization in the Peruvian media, 1990–2015 

      Gianella, Camila (Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 19 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      State and non-state actors engaged in disputes to expand and limit abortion rights have engaged in legal mobilization—in other words, strategies using rights and law as a central tool for advancing contested political ...
    • Access to Justice and Human Rights in Afghanistan 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change vol. 60, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)
      In anthropological and legal literature, the phenomenon termed ‘legal pluralism’ has been interpreted as a co-presence of legal orders which act in relation to their own ‘levels’ of referring ...
    • Accountability and taxation: Experimental evidence 

      Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization vol. 216, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-01)
      The Rentier State Hypothesis states that taxation promotes government accountability. The argument is that citizens demand more accountability for spending of tax revenue than for spending of windfall revenue (e.g., natural ...
    • 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 ...
    • Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture? 

      Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein (World Development vol. 64 no. 259-272, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12-01)
      This study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because of land scarcity and land market ...
    • Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias 

      De Lauri, Antonio; Suhrke, Astri (Small Wars and Insurgency, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-01)
      This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule. The nonaccountable use ...
    • Assessment of environmental contamination with soil-transmitted helminths life stages at school compounds, households and open markets in Jimma Town, Ethiopia 

      Tadege, Bamlaku; Mekonnen, Zeleke; Dana, Daniel; Sharew, Bizuwarek; Dereje, Eden; Loha, Eskindir; Verweij, Jaco J.; Casaert, Stijn; Vlaminck, Johnny; Ayana, Mio; Levecke, Bruno (PLoS Negl Trop Dis . vol. 16 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-01)
      Background It remains largely unknown where and how infections with soil-transmitted helminths (STHs; Ascaris , Trichuris , Necator and Ancylostoma ) occur. We therefore aimed to identify possible sources ...
    • Assessment of the nail contamination with soil-transmitted helminths in schoolchildren in Jimma Town, Ethiopia 

      Tadege, Bamlaku; Mekonnen, Zeleke; Dana, Daniel; Tiruneh, Abebaw; Sharew, Bizuwarek; Dereje, Eden; Loha, Eskindir; Ayana, Mio; Levecke, Bruno (PLoS ONE vol. 17 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-01)
      Background Large-scale deworming programs have been successful in reducing the burden of disease due to soil-transmitted helminth (STH; Ascaris lumbricloides , Trichuris trichiura and hookworm) infections, but ...
    • Between Law and Customs: Normative Interconnections in Kabul’s Tribunals 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Diogenes vol. Vol. 60(3-4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01-01)
      The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari’a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international law. Studies on this arsenal tend to give special attention to the coexistence ...
    • 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 ...
    • Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Age of Neoliberal Developmentalism 

      McNeish, John-Andrew (Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies vol. 3 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-01-01)
      This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural policies in Bolivia and Guatemala. In drawing out and discussing ...
    • Boredom and Crisis in the Humanitarian Realm 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Anthropology Today vol. 30(6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)
      ‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general ...
    • Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector 

      Knudsen, Ståle; Rajak, Dinah; Lange, Siri; Hugøy, Isabelle (Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology vol. 88, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-01)
      This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations working abroad. Th ese transnational corporations (TNCs) are expected ...
    • ‘Cleaning the womb’: perspectives on fertility control and menstruation among students in Antananarivo, Madagascar 

      Jansen, Karine Aasgaard (Culture, Health and Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-01)
      This article discusses students' perspectives on fertility control, including induced abortion, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The study draws on a total of nine weeks of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017. ...
    • Co-morbid anaemia and stunting among children 2–5 years old in southern Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study 

      Orsango, Alemselam Zebdewos; Loha, Eskindir; Lindtjørn, Bernt; Engebretsen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv (BMJ Paediatrics Open, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-01)
      Background In Ethiopia, 38% of children less than 5 years of age are stunted and 57% are anaemic. Both have a negative impact later in life on physical growth and cognitive development and often coexist. There ...
    • Combating corruption: A transparency index for donors? 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (Development Today vol. 9 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999-01-01)
      For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There is now a remarkable consensus among aid organisations on the importance ...
    • Conceptualizing the Legitimacy of Non-Transitional Truth Commissions: Norway and Canada Compared 

      Skaar, Elin; Spitzer, Aaron John (Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol. 42 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-01)
      Recent years have seen a new trend in the transitional justice field, as Western democracies establish truth commissions (TCs) to address harms against Indigenous and national-minority populations. The first, most prominent, ...