• Aid, growth and peace: A comparative analysis 

      Suhrke, Astri; Buckmaster, Julia (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      The paper examines patterns of post-conflict aid in a sample of 14 countries, with in-depth qualitative analysis of seven cases. The study shows that – contrary to the findings of World Bank-supported research in this area ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)
      The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 and 1990, and most provided for national assemblies and elections in one form or ...
    • "Economic Aid to Post-Conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler" 

      Suhrke, Astri; Villanger, Espen; Woodward, Susan L. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      This paper retests the analysis of “Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies,” by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming in European Economic Review). It finds that their data and analysis do ...
    • Filling "the Gap": Lessons Well Learnt by the Multilateral Aid Agencies 

      Suhrke, Astri; Ofstad, Arve (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      An assumed gap between relief and development assistance was widely discussed in the 1990s. Urged to “mind the gap”, the multilateral aid agencies adjusted. In terms of the initial learning phase - i.e. readiness to recognize ...
    • Governance Interventions in Post-War Situations: Lessons Learned 

      Wang, Vibeke; Suhrke, Astri; Tjønneland, Elling N. (Research report, Research report, 2005)
      This report addresses governance issues in post-war situations as these are dealt with in three sets of literature: •the growing case-based knowledge arising from the experience in internationally-assisted transitions ...
    • Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict: A-State-of-the-Art Report 

      Hybertsen, Bente; Suhrke, Astri; Tjore, Gro (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      The rapid growth of international aid allocated to "complex humanitarian emergencies" has led to parallel calls for preventive action. It is also asked how humanitarian assistance and other forms of international civilian ...
    • Migration, State and Civil Society in Southeast Asia 

      Suhrke, Astri (Working paper, Working paper, 1992)
      The paper was prepared for a conference on the impact of international migration on the security and stability of states, which was organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1991. The analysis focuses ...
    • 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 ...
    • Safeguarding the Right to Asylum 

      Suhrke, Astri (Working paper, Working paper, 1992)
      The paper was prepared for a UN Expert Group meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, January 1993, in preparation for the 1994 World Conference on Population and Development. The paper analyzes the challenges which contemporary ...
    • UN support for peacebuilding: Nepal as the exceptional case 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      In the annals of UN peace operations, the mission in Nepal (UNMIN) appears as an exceptional case. Most peace support operations today are multidimensional – covering the security sector, political transition, relief and ...