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New CMI Brief:
Media constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa
Democratic elections depend on a free press. "Free and fair" elections require free access to information. The last two decades of elections show that political constraints and restricted access to information prevents an independent media in Sub-Sharan Africa. Read more
Malaysian Merdeka Award:
Just Faaland receives award for Outstanding Contribution to the People of Malaysia
Former director of CMI, Just Faaland, has received the Merdeka award. Faaland is awarded for his role in the formulation of the National Economic Policy (NEP). Read more
A review of training for peace in Africa:
Navigating complexity.
TfP has been an important programme which has made a significant contribution to the evolving African Peace and Security Architecture, but the programme has struggled with implementing suggested measures to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. Read more
CMI Report on Norad's engagement in Afghan Oil:
Afghan Hydrocarbons: A Source for Development or for Conflict?
A Risk Assessment of Norwegian Involvement in Development of the Afghan Oil and Gas Industry, identitfies a range og risks and advises Norad to await further engagement. Increased risk for instability, mistrust between central and local governments, distrust of Afghan and international intentions are but a few of the challenges discussed. Read more
Afghanistan
Afghanistans Pentagon Papers
Wikileaks-lekkasjen viser at USA og de allierte fører en krig de taper, slik avsløringene om Vietnamkrigen viste på 70-tallet, skriver Astri Suhrke i kronikk i Dagbladet 27. juli. Read more
Learning to build a sustainable peace:
Ownership and Everyday Peacebuilding
Lack of local ownership is seen as a central explanation for why peacebuilding efforts fail to yield sustainable peace dividends. Based on research in Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia and Sudan, this study shows that external actors foster unsustainable reform efforts because they assume ownership as a conditional right as their to give when certain conditions are met. Read more
Drawing the Lines: The Norwegian debate on civilian-military relations in Afghanistan
Humanitarian assistance should be distributed on the basis of need while upholding the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality and neutrality; it must not be used for the purposes of political gain, relationship-building, or "winning hearts and minds". Read more
Upside-down state-building:
The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan
The internationals can provide coercion and capital but cannot provide national leadership or legitimacy. Weaknesses in both respects have troubled the Afghan venture from the beginning, in large part because of the heavy external footprint, writes Astri Suhrke. Read more
'Opitanha' revisited:
Monitoring and Evaluating Mozambique's Poverty Reduction Strategy
This report analyses poverty and well-being in the rural district of Murrupula, revisiting four local communities and a total of 120 households, three years after the first study in 2006. Read more
New research-cooperation in Bangladesh:
CMI and Centre for Policy Dialogue signs a three-year agreement
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted 15 million NOK to fund a three-year research and capacity building programme between CMI and the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) focusing on Inclusive Growth and Good Governance. Read more
CMI Annual Report:
A Momentous Year
2009 was a momentuous year at CMI. We moved to the city centre. We opened a new arena for research communication: Bergen Research Centre for International Development. And in the same year, we achieved a publication record with the highest number of peer reviewed articels ever. Read the online version. Read more
New project:
Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
This project will study how human rights protection for forced migrants (refugees and internally displaced persons, IDPs) can help secure a lasting peace in three countries: Lebanon, Cyprus, and Pakistan/Afghanistan. Read more
European Coalition on Oil in Sudan
UNPAID DEBT: The Legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Sudan, 1997-2003
With the report UNPAID DEBT, ECOS calls upon the oil companies Lundin Petroleum from Sweden, Petronas from Malaysia and Austria's OMV and their home governments to account for the injustices suffered by the victims of the oil wars in Block 5A. Read more
Fellows programme occasional paper 3 2010
Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement viewed through the eyes of the Women of South Sudan
Born in a territory between North and South Sudan, politically speaking the author is from the North. However, like many Sudanese women, the author feels that being a Sudanese woman is what is important for her. It is as a Sudanese woman that she feels she has the liberty to speak about Sudanese women - regardless of their political and geographic affiliations. Read more
World Bank Report
Toward Sustainable and Broad-Based Growth
A Country Economic Memorandum from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit at the World Bank. Read more
Situration Report from ISS
Jonglei 2010: Another round of disarmament
Although the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of January 2005 formally ended the war between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), internal security has remained a major problem for the fledgling southern government. Read more
Enough Project press release
A Benchmarks Report Card for Sudan
May 6, 2010 An independent review by six leading human rights and Sudan advocacy groups reveals that the Sudanese peace processes for Darfur and Southern Sudan show no significant progress. They are at best stagnating and at worst backsliding toward complete failure and a return to full-scale, national war. Read more
International Crisis Group - New Report
Sudan: Regional Perspectives on the Prospect of Southern Independence
Nairobi/Brussels, 6 May 2010: If, as likely, South Sudan decides to secede from the North at its January 2011 self-determination referendum, it will need support from Sudan's neighbours to ensure the decision is respected and new conflict is prevented. Read more
External news
Gunnar Sørbø comments in VG
Senior researcher Gunnar M. Sørbø comments on the election results in Norwegian paper VG. Read more
Afghanistan
Tid for linjeskifte
Prosessen mot forhandlinger for fred vil styrkes hvis NATO stanser militære offensiver og erklærer en ensidig våpenhvile, skriver Kristian Berg Harpviken , Astri Suhrke, Arne Strand i kronikk i Aftenposten 4. juli. Read more
