• COAR Strategic Plan 2023-2027 

      Strand, Arne (Research report, 2023-01-01)
      Afghans have experienced conflicts and wars since 1979, and was in 2022 rankes as the world's 3rd most fragile country. A severe humanitarian crusis and limitations on basic rights poses severe challenges for the population. ...
    • Collective donor responses: Examining donor responses to corruption cases in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Zambia 

      de Vibe, Maja; Taxell, Nils; Beggan, Paul; Bofin, Peter (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 ...
    • Community driven development in fragile contexts 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Report R 2022:2, Research report, 2022-06-01)
      This review of community driven development discusses the incentive problems that arise when an external agency attempts to involve the local community in the planning and implementation of development projects.
    • Community-Driven Development or community-based development? 

      Strand, Arne; Hatlebakk, Magnus; Wimpelmann, Torunn; Wardak, Mirwais (CMI Report R 2022:3, Research report, 2022-06-01)
      Review of Norwegian-funded CDC projects in Afghanistan
    • Corruption in Afghanistan and the role of external players 

      Strand, Arne (Others, 2017-03-01)
    • Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Asian Studies Review vol. 37(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)
      Afghanistan’s justice system is currently at a crucial and troubled stage of development that will determine its effectiveness. This article focuses on the phenomenon of corruption inside judicial institutions. By ...
    • Country Evaluation Brief: Afghanistan 

      Strand, Arne; Suhrke, Astri; Taxell, Nils (Country Evaluation Briefs 7, Research report, 2016-11-01)
      Since 2001, Western political and military interests have largely defined the nature and magnitude of aid flows. Conventional criteria for development assistance (notably absorptive capacity and credible conditionality) ...
    • Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements 

      Forster, Robert; Bell, Christine (Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace, Chapter, 2022-07-01)
      Based on an analysis of the religious language found in contemporary peace agreements, Robert Forster and Christine Bell argue in Chapter 44 that such language should not be dismissed as culturally specific rhetoric, but ...
    • Elite Capture of Kabul Bank 

      Strand, Arne (Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges, Chapter, 2014-03-01)
      Afghanistan is entering the most critical period since the overthrow of Taliban back in 2001. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced withdrawal of international forces by 2014, and a sharp reduction ...
    • Er Kabul trygt for retur? 

      Wimpelmann, Torunn; Strand, Arne (Others, 2017-11-01)
      Noreg har så langt i år returnert over 500 afghanarar til Kabul. Samtidig er tryggleiken forverra i heile landet, og spesielt Kabul har store sivile tap. Stortinget er delt i oppfatninga om ein skal stanse eller halde fram ...
    • Examining poverty and food insecurity in the context of long-term social-ecological changes in Kabul, Afghanistan 

      Gautam, Yograj; Dutta, Anwesha; Jantz, Patrick; Saxena, Alark; De Lauri, Antonio (CMI Report 2023:1, Research report, 2023-05-01)
      This report examines how long-term socioeconomic and environmental changes have shaped the context for poverty and food insecurity in Afghanistan. An estimated 97% of the population is currently under the poverty line and ...
    • Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan 

      Suhrke, Astri (The rule of law in Afghanistan. Missing in inaction, Chapter, 2011-01-01)
      In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. There is much advice on policy priorities and sequencing – security, rule ...
    • Faithful Ally. The UK Engagement in Afghanistan. 

      Suhrke, Astri (PRIO Papers, Research report, 2011-01-01)
      The British government under Tony Blair was an early and major supporter of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The Royal Navy and Air Force participated in the first strikes against Afghanistan in October with Tomahawk ...
    • Financial intermediaries – Anti-money laundering allies in cash-based societies? 

      Passas, Nikos (U4 Issue 2015:10, Research report, 2015-01-01)
      Many informal cash-based economies run parallel financial systems that are very different to the Western banking concept. Such countries are perceived to have a high risk of money laundering. Looking at Afghanistan, Somalia, ...
    • Financing education in Afghanistan: Opportunities for action 

      Strand, Arne (Research report, 2015-01-01)
      The Afghan Ministry of Education estimates that there are presently 8.35 million students (39% of which are girls) in primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary government schools, including Islamic schooling, out of a ...
    • Frå vondt til verre? Afghanistan 10 år etter 

      Strand, Arne (Others, 2011-09-22)
    • Girls’ education in conflict and emergencies, case Afghanistan 

      Strand, Arne (Conference object, 2015-07-01)
      Education in Afghanistan and girls' access A major increase of children in school since 2001 Major inequalities, only 21 % of the girls complete primary education – rural/poor girls most vulnerable Three main factors ...
    • Gli hazara dell'Afghanistan tra asservimento, guerra ed emancipazione 

      De Lauri, Antonio (LARES. Quadrimestrale di studi demoetnoantropologici vol. 2016/2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-01)
      This article analyses the link between politics of enslavement, war and collective emancipation with particular reference to the Hazaras, an ethnic-religious minority of Afghanistan. The main objective of this paper is to ...
    • Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan 

      Altunisik, Meliha Benli (SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-01)
      In recent years Turkey has made Humanitarian Diplomacy (HD) an essential element of its foreign policy. This article analyzes Turkey’s HD as a role conception and role performance by focusing on two cases, Somalia ...
    • Is there legal pluralism in Afghanistan? Notes on injustice and access to justice 

      De Lauri, Antonio (Research report, 2023-03-01)
      This NCHS paper examines the use of the term legal pluralism in Afghanistan and argues that where access to justice is particularly difficult or neglected, social actors face an absence rather than a plurality of legal ...