Publications: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 1115
-
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:2, Working paper, 2020-02-01)Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the coming decades. This ... -
A place-based framework for assessing resettlement capacity in the context of climate change induced displacement
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:3, Working paper, 2020-02-01)Place-based resettlement capacity assessments to identify potential resettlement places for climate migrants are needed to guide climate change related resettlement programs. The authors propose and validate a conceptual ... -
The UAE’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Claiming State Sovereignty, Regional Leverage and International Recognition
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:1, Working paper, 2020-02-01)The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the world’s third-largest donor of humanitarian aid relative to Gross National Income in 2016. The country was among the top five humanitarian assistance state-donors in the world ... -
The changing role of Chinese development aid
(CMI Insight 2020:1, Report, 2020-03-01)In recent years, China has significantly increased its development interventions. China is now among the major providers of aid to Africa. Foreign aid has become an important tool in the range of instruments applied by the ... -
Everyday humanitarian diplomacy: Experiences from border areas
(CMI Brief no. 2020:2, Report, 2020-02-01)The term humanitarian diplomacy (HD) emerged in early 2000s. HD recognises the role of humanitarian actors when negotiating access, assistance and protection for civilians in situations of extreme insecurity and armed ... -
Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: Insights from Zambia
(CMI Brief no. 2020:1, Report, 2020-02-01)What does it take for a female politician to win a party nomination? We still know little about women’s entry into politics in countries without formal gender quotas. Using data from Zambia, we argue that both in ... -
Irregular Migration or Human Trafficking? The Realities of Cross-border Population Mobility in Western Sudan
(Report, 2020-03-01)A new public discourse labels irregular migration as human trafficking. The new discourse has been shaped by emerging globalized migration patterns and the increased securitization of Europe’s borders. This brief ... -
Policy implementation under stress: Central-local government relations in property tax administration in Tanzania
(Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction vol. 26 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-01)Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and challenges ... -
Crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2010:1, Working paper, 2019-06-01)This paper assesses determinants of crop market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, with a focus on transaction cost, asset endowment and cooperatives. The study is based on household survey data from ... -
Forest becomes frontline: Conservation and counter-insurgency in a space of violent conflict in Assam, Northeast India
(Political Ecology, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-01) -
Interaction between Health Institutions in Knowledge and Medical Practices in South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains
(Book, 2019-04-01)This research thesis addresses the challenges confronting the establishment of stable and sufficient health care provision in Heiban Locality in South Kordofan / Nuba Mountains in the aftermath (2002–2011) of the protracted ... -
Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
(CMI Working Paper WP 2019:3, Working paper, 2019-01-01)A number of studies suggest that our narratives about the situation of the poor and vulnerable affect how we view them and treat them. Theoretically, a potentially powerful way to make host communities more welcoming of ... -
Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism
(CMI Brief no. 2019:3, Report, 2019-12-01)This Sudan Brief is concerned with the fractionalization of Islamism during Bashir’s rule (1989-2019). It does not focus on the details of Bashir’s brutal rule, rather, it is about the emerging disunity from within which ... -
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
(Journal of Adolescent Health vol. 65 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) on global health and development agendas. ... -
Afghanistan. Ricostruzione, ingiustizia, diritti umani
(Book, 2012-01-01)Con la caduta del regime talebano nel 2001, imponenti progetti di ricostruzione sono stati avviati in Afghanistan con l'apparente scopo di democratizzare il Paese. Con riferimento al settore giustizia, il libro sviluppa ... -
Giustizia
(Book, 2008-01-01)Dall'introduzione: Volgendoci alla giustizia, il nostro sguardo è spinto al di là del perfettamente misurabile, restituendoci immagini terrene e divine, storiche e mitiche, dolorose e gloriose. Le riflessioni raccolte in ... -
A Critique of the Humanitarian (B)order of Things
(Journal of Identity and Migration Studies vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-01)The reification of humanitarian borders generates a politics of crisis that weakens the capacity to produce structural political changes and legitimizes exceptionalism and the reproduction of hierarchized borders. In this ... -
Governing Petroleum Resources: Prospects and Challenges for Tanzania
(Book, 2019-11-01)Over the last decade, large deposits of natural gas have been discovered off the southern coast of Tanzania. This book analyzes the long-term process of how a country develops the institutions that govern resources, the ... -
Managing the born-free generation: Zimbabwe’s strategies for dealing with the youth
(CMI Working Paper WP 2019:02, Working paper, 2019-10-01)A rich literature on Africa’s autocratic and repressive regimes has discussed the diverse strategies through which these regimes seek to consolidate and stay in power. Prominent strategies include election rigging, extensive ... -
Beyond Islamist Extremism: Women and the Algerian Uprisings of 2019
(CMI Brief no. 2019:09, Report, 2019-10-01)February 22, 2019, marked a watershed moment in Algeria’s history, and a key moment in the struggle for women’s rights. For the first time since its independence 57 years ago, massive protests swept the country and were ...