Blar i Bora-import på forfatter "Strand, Arne"
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Afghan hydrocarbons: A source for development for conflict? A risk assessment of Norwegian involvement in development of the Afghan oil and gas industry
Strand, Arne; Hakim, Mohammad; Newrosi, Sediqa; Sarwari, Akbar; Williams, Aled (Research report, Research report, 2010)Norad has been engaged in capacity building and provision of technical support to the Afghan Ministry of Mines since 2007. A part of this engagement relates to the development of the Afghan Hydrocarbons Law, and commercialization ... -
Afghanistan: An Assessment of Conflict and Actors in Faryab Province to Establish a Basis for Increased Norwegian Civilian Involvement. How can Future Norwegian Involvement best be Targeted and Organised?
Bauck, Petter; Strand, Arne; Hakim, Mohammad; Akbari, Arghawan (Research report, Research report, 2007)The situation in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan is characterised by a substantial military and political uncertainty. Violent acts could at any moment hamper the humanitarian and development efforts. At the same ... -
Afghanistan: Current Humanitarian Challenges
Strand, Arne; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Najimi, A.W. (Research report, Research report, 2001)More than twenty years of war and civil war and a severe drought has increased the vulnerability of the Afghan population. The warring fractions, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, show low concern for the population ... -
Applied Social Science Research in Afghanistan. An Overview of the Institutional Landscape
Suhrke, Astri; Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Torunn; Harpviken Berg, Kristian; Sarwari, Akbar; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2008)This report is a preliminary mapping of Afghan institutional capacity in the field of applied social science research, as well as an assessment of the interest in, and potential for, further capacity building. The report ... -
Community Driven Development in Contexts of Conflict. Concept Paper Commissioned by ESSD, World Bank
Strand, Arne; Toje, Hege; Jerve, Alf Morten; Samset, Ingrid (Research report, Research report, 2003)Violent conflict represents not only a significant barrie r to development; it also wipes out efforts to improve the situation. Experience from many developing countries has shown that Community Driven Development (CDD) ... -
Conciliatory approches to the insurgency in Afghanistan: An overview
Suhrke, Astri; Chaudhary, Torunn Wimpelmann; Hakimi, Aziz; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Sarwari, Akbar; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2009)This report is a preliminary mapping of initiatives designed to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. It is a snapshot in time, focusing on practices or arrangements that were still ongoing during the second ... -
Conflictual Peacebuilding: Afghanistan Two Years after Bonn
Suhrke, Astri; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2004)This report charts the aid policies pursued in Afghanistan since late 2001 aimed at building peace in a country devastated by two decades of conflict. The report presents the four pillars of the peacebuilding design and ... -
Faryab survey. Comparison of findings from Maymane, 2006 and 2009
Strand, Arne; Organisation for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) (Research report, Research report, 2009)This is a follow-up to an earlier survey conducted in Maymane district by the Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) during a two-week period in early November 2006. In that survey 183 interviews were ... -
Humanitarian Challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative Structures and Gender and Assistance
Strand, Arne; Ask, Karin; Harpviken, Kristian Berg (Research report, Research report, 2001)The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community has intensified. UN sanctions and isolation has strengthened the ... -
Peacebuilding: Lessons for Afghanistan
Suhrke, Astri; Harpviken, Kristian Berg; Knudsen, Are; Ofstad, Arve; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2002)This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance for the present phase of peacebuilding and economic recovery. It ... -
Return in Dignity, Return to What? Review of the Voluntary Return Programme to Afghanistan
Strand, Arne; Akbari, Arghawan; Chaudhary, Torunn Wimpelmann (Research report, Research report, 2008)This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI), to assess the programme for voluntary return to Afghanistan. The programme is open to Afghan nationals whose asylum ... -
Review of Norwegian Earthquake Assistance to Pakistan 2005 and 2006
Strand, Arne; Borchgrevink, Kaja (Research report, Research report, 2006)The massive earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan and India on 8 October 2005, led to the loss of more than 75 000 lives, 100 000 were severely injured and 2.8 million were left without shelter. The relief ...