Publications
Recent Submissions
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Introduction to the special issue. War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering
(War and Society, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-01)In this text, we introduce the Special Issue ‘War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering’ by highlighting the need to challenge, expand, and reorient ... -
Conceptualizing the Legitimacy of Non-Transitional Truth Commissions: Norway and Canada Compared
(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, ... -
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda
(Population, Space and Place, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-01)This article investigates the nature of refugee journeys by triangulating open-ended, closed, and spatial survey data collected among South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda. While much research focuses on migration ... -
How can women benefit from private sector development?
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Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and Transitional Justice in Guatemala
(CMI Report R 2024:01, Research report, 2024-09-01)Preface Guatemala is a paradigmatic case of long-run efforts to punish perpetrators for conflict-related crimes of sexual violence during armed conflict. Truth commission reports published after the internal armed conflict ... -
Evaluation of Norad’s use of knowledge in portfolio management
(Evaluation Report 4/2024, Research report, 2024-09-01)A few years ago, Norad published its strategy towards 2030 and was reorganised to better fit its responsibility for managing an increasing share of Norwegian development aid. The strategy stressed the importance of using ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ...
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