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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.
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New projects
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative
CMI and LTS International will progressively assess the results of the Initiative. The real-time evaluation shall provide timely information and rapid learning opportunities.
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Contested Powers: Towards a Political Anthropology of Energy in Latin America
How is "energy" conceived and understood in Latin American politics and society? A new project explores recent decades a new wave of conflicts focused on questions of ownership, services, choice and sale of energy resources have marred the region's political stability and development and gained international notoriety and concern.
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Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
This project will study how human rights protection for forced migrants can help secure a lasting peace in three countries: Lebanon, Cyprus, and Pakistan/Afghanistan.
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A Way Out of Violent Conflict? The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding
How have these mechanisms affected peacebuilding in the aftermath of violent conflict? This project will develop an analytical framework useful for policy assessments of the impact of various transitional justice mechanisms on violence reduction and peacebuilding.
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New CMI Brief:
Zimbabwe's Multilayered Crisis
Once a vibrant and dynamic society, Zimbabwe has since the turn of the millennium gone through a complex multilayered and pervasive series of catastrophes. Political instability, lawlessness, misgovernment and a relentless economic meltdown has transformed this leading southern African nation into an international pariah.
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From the Annual Report:
Peace - the distance between wars
Afghans question the liberal peace, the democratization and the development projects that have set the course for Afghanistan's transition from war to peace.
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Do investors prefer countries with good institutions?
New investments in the African oil and gas sector may not be good news for ordinary Africans.
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The public sector - how can it deliver?
Equal access to health and other services require adequate funding of the state.
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What's law got to do with it?
Legal norms and institutions impact on how people are able to live their lives in many different and often unintended and unexpected ways.
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New Director of CMI:
Ottar Męstad
"CMI is more relevant than ever in relation to the challenges facing us. To produce knowledge that can contribute to lift people out of poverty, build peace and conquer injustice represents the most meaningful assignment for a research institute," says Mæstad.
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New Director of U4:
Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Hart
The new Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (www.U4.no) comes from a position with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she was Senior Anticorruption Advisor for 6 years, leading the agency's efforts to provide technical guidance for anti-corruption programming.
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Rafto
Siri Gloppen New Head of Rafto Prize Committee
Siri Gloppen, Research Director at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, is the new Head of the Rafto Prize Committee.
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Video
What will happen in Sudan after the elections?
Sudan is at the crossroads. President Bashir won the elctions in. The results have been challenged by the Sudanese opposition, and doubted by others, following many accusations of fraud. Norwegian and Sudanese researchers comments on the elections and the way ahead in a panel debate in the Bergen Recource Centre for International Development.
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Video: Literary Salon with Albie Sachs
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. Later in life he helped draft South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitutional Court for fifteen years. Sachs talks to host Siri Gloppen about his life and role as a judge in the formative years of post-apartheid South Africa.
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Bergen Resource Centre:
EADI workshop in September
The EADI Information Management Working Group meeting 2010 and NorDoc 2010 will take place 22 to 24 September 2010 at Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Bergen, Norway.This year’s theme is Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration of development institutions into bigger entities; What are the implications for research libraries, IT, and Communication and information departments.
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