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The Changing Nature of Power and Sovereignty in Afghanistan
(Research report, 2012-09-01)This paper aims to explain the broader contours of the emerging fields of political power in contemporary Afghanistan and its implications for regional politics. -
Military trials in Egypt: 2011-2014
(CMI Insight 2014:10, Report, 2014-12-09)The use of military tribunals to try civilians was one of the issues that made people rise against then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. This CMI Insight investigates the extent to which this practice has continued ... -
Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro
(Master thesis, 2016-01-01)In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) - allegedly a proximity policing ... -
Angola-Norway the perfect partnership?
(Conference object, 2015-07-07)From the 18th to the 23rd of September 2014 the Norwegian Council for Africa and the Chr. Michelsen Institute hosted a series of events on various topics related to Angola – including author talks in Stavanger, Bergen and ... -
Sudan peace agreements: Current challenges and future prospects
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2010: 1, Working paper, 2010-03-17)Since achieving independence, Sudan has been burdened with many conflicts which have hindered its economic, social and cultural development. While some of these problems can be attributed to colonial polices within the ... -
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 ... -
Au-delà du code de conduite : Développer la compétence éthique des agents publics
(U4 Brief 2011:15, Report, 2011-12-07)Les codes de conduite peuvent-il établir des normes d’éthique réalistes pour les agents publics ? La formation à l’éthique et aux normes professionnelles peut-elle changer, dans la pratique, le comportement des agents ... -
Media constraints in sub-Saharan Africa
(CMI Brief vol. 9 no. 4, Report, 2010-08-01)”Free and fair” elections depend not only on factors like adequate election management bodies, election transparency and the absence of coercion. For election to be truly free and fair citizens must also have access to ... -
Monitoring and Evaluating Poverty Reduction Policies in Mozambique. Study 2: Social Relations of Urban Poverty
(CMI Brief vol. 7 no. 3, Report, 2008-02-01)Issues of urban poverty have received little attention in Mozambique, even though the urban poverty rate is high and urban inequality is on the rise. In the bairros of Maputo, unemployment, crime and the high costs of food, ... -
Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia
(U4 Report 2013:1, Research report, 2013-11-04)In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses to corruption. A policy and follow up reports were developed, and ... -
Mapping anti-corruption tools in the judicial sector
(U4 Issue 2016:3, Research report, 2016-02-01)This U4 study investigates whether and how the judicial sector could benefit from anti-corruption measures that have proved useful in other sectors in improving the quality of the services they provide to users. Based on ... -
Enforcement of water rights
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9, Report, 2016-05-01)In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability of poor and marginalized people to secure access to water? Of the ... -
Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa
(Others, 2013-01-01)Many local governments in Africa have inadequate resources to deliver the services for which they are responsible. This paper examines opportunities and constraints to improving local revenue mobilisation by urban councils ... -
Corruption and state-corporate crime in fisheries
(U4 Issue 2015:15, Research report, 2015-01-01)This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where Russian, European and Asian fishing firms, supported by their home ... -
Knowledge Management for Anti-Corruption
(U4 Issue 2006:2, Research report, 2006-01-01)This Issue looks at the following questions: What is knowledge management and why does it matter? How can knowledge management systems be analysed and ranked? Are the U4 partner agencies collectively and individually good ... -
Digitizing the landscape: Technology to improve integrity in natural resource management
(U4 Brief 2017:1, Report, 2017-03-01)Many information technology initiatives have emerged in recent years with the aim of improving natural resource management. These take a variety of technological forms designed either to directly curb corruption in resource ... -
Nato i Afghanistan: Fredsbevaring eller antiterroroperasjon?
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Afghanistan: folk, konflikt og framtid
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Hunting for Per Diem: The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries
(Research report, 2012-04-01)Cash is a great incentive. The last decade has seen a boom in various forms of cash incentive programmes, from the conditional cash transfer programmes that emerged in Latin America in the late 90’s, providing cash to ...