Publications
Recent Submissions
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Contested airport lands in the Global South
(Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa, Chapter, 2024-09-01)With the acceleration of airport construction and expansion in low- and middle-income countries, a multi-disciplinary scholarship that relates infrastructural development to social aviation is unfolding. By shifting the ... -
WARFUN Diaries - Volume 3 - 2024
(Others, 2024-09-01)The WARFUN Diaries is an open access publication connected to the project “War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)”, funded by the European Research Council and led by Research ... -
‘Unleash the hounds!’: NAFO’s memetic war narrative on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict
(Critical Studies on Security, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-01)Since the Web 2.0 revolution, war and war communication are no longer under the control of states. Rather, the new media ecology entails the possibility that internet users get involved in the info politics of any armed ... -
Evaluating anti-corruption interventions: The state of practice
(U4 Issue 2024:04, Research report, 2024-06-01)Introducing a new framework for assessing the quality of evaluations in anti-corruption interventions, revealing widespread issues and providing fresh insights into evaluation practices. -
Non-state actors and anti-corruption work in Cambodia: Gaps, opportunities, and synergies
(U4 Issue 2024:6, Research report, 2024-08-01)Civil society has been restricted in recent years, but opportunities exist for engagement and impact. -
Non-state actors and anti-corruption work in Cambodia: Gaps, opportunities, and synergies
(U4 Issue 2024:6, Research report, 2024-08-01)Civil society has been restricted in recent years, but opportunities exist for engagement and impact. -
Advancing corruption prevention in Ukraine: a constructive approach
(U4 Issue 2024:03, Research report, 2024-06-01)To be more sustainable Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenda should include strategies to deliver constructive prevention, that is ways to incentivise anti-corruption as a norm and collective practice. -
Local Perceptions and Experiences of Smuggling and Human Trafficking in Sudan. The case of North Darfur and Northern State of Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2024:1, Working paper, 2024-06-01)Abstract This study aims to investigate local perceptions about human trafficking in Sudan among migrants who want to travel to Libyan and Europe. The study falls within the domain of qualitative research, with primary ... -
Breaking the silence on domestic violence
(Report, 2024-06-01)Despite towering evidence of domestic violence in Sudan, many are reluctant to admit that it even exists. This brief argues that this denial could be linked to a lack of understanding of domestic violence. -
Bistand eller kjøp av tjenester. Hvordan finansiere bidrag til globale fellesgoder?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2024:1, Working paper, 2024-06-01)Dette notatet presenterer et nytt rammeverk for hvordan man kan tenke systematisk på ansvaret for finansieringen av internasjonale bidrag til globale fellesgoder. Det peker også på konkrete tiltak som vil ... -
Forum: Critical ethnography
(Journal article, 2024-01-01)Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence ... -
Pastoralist Mobility among the Sudanese Ethiopian Borderland : Towards Cooperative Land Management
(Nomadic Peoples vol. 28 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-01)This study followed an interdisciplinary mixed approach that consisted of social research methods and geospatial technology to investigate the livestock mobility of four pastoralist groups from Sudan and two Ethiopian ... -
Book Review: Tine Gade, Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'
(Others, 2024-05-01)Why did so many episodes of Lebanon’s contentious politics in the last century occur in Tripoli? In her work, Sunni City , Tine Gade traces the hundred-year trajectory (1920-2020) of the ‘Sunni ... -
Evaluation of Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative Support to Civil Society
(Evaluation Report 1/2024, Research report, 2024-04-01)The Evaluation Department at Norad, in collaboration with CMI and Vista Analyse, has conducted an evaluation of the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative's support to civil society. The purpose of this ... -
Wind and solar energy in Mexico and Kenya: Corruption risks and drivers
(U4 Issue 2024:1, Research report, 2024-04-01)Renewable energy, prone to 'old corruption', reveals shared risks in Mexico and Kenya. Corruption impacts policymaking, planning, and communities, demanding tailored measures and robust implementation. -
Deforestation in Peru: Confronting the informal practices, state capture, and collusion
(U4 Brief 2024:5, Report, 2024-04-01)Greater transparency and accountability of elected officials, as well as enhanced environmental management, is crucial to meeting the challenges faced by those who wish to protect the Amazon. -
Tax research at CMI - Annual Report 2023
(Others, 2024-01-01)The Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of key people, research projects, publications, seminar contributions and organization of other activities by CMI’s Tax Research Group. -
Refugees find employment in very different settlement contexts
(HVL Policy Brief vol. 1 no. 2, Others, 2024-04-01)Ukrainian refugees have settled in various locations across Estonia, driven by housing shortages and steep rents in the capital city. However, this spatial distribution does not adversely affect their job prospects, and ... -
The role of trust and norms in tax compliance in Africa
(Human Development Report 2023-2024 "Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world", Chapter, 2024-04-01)The tax system is a key formal institution with a unique role in the social contract between people and governments, as an essential source of revenue for governments to fund public services and programmes that benefit ... -
Syrian Self-settlement in Lebanon’s ‘Arrival Cities’: Refugee Livelihoods in Tripoli, Beirut, and Tyre
(Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East, Chapter, 2024-03-01)Taking arrival cities as their point of departure, Robert Forster and Are John Knudsen compare settlement choices and outcomes for Syrian refugees living in the poorest neighbourhoods in Beirut, Tripoli and Tyre. The latter ...
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