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Complicated coordination in a complex emergency
by Bjørn Ivar Kruke
Stavanger: University of Stavanger, Faculty of Social Sciences, Risk Management and Societal Safety (2010) XV, 330 s. PhD thesis UiS
Humanitarian assistance, Emergency relief, Aid coordination, Theses, Sudan

Desafios para Mocambique 2010
organiza#pcÆo, Lu¡s de Brito ... [et al.]
Maputo: IESE, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Econ¢micos (2010) 357 s.
Politics, Economic policy, Social policy, Foreign relations, Mozambique

Frontiers of unity - an experiment in Afro-Arab cooperation
Francis M. Deng
London: Routledge (2010) VII, 238 s.
History, Conflict management, Ethnic groups, Politics, Dinka, Abyei, Sudan

Global marketplace for private health insurance - strength in numbers
editors, Alexander S. Preker, Peter Zweifel, and Onno P. Schellekens
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXXIV, 491 s.
Health insurance, Developing countries, Health financing, Health economics, Chile, Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, China, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Korea R

Grappling with the beast - indigenous Southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930
edited by Peter Limb, Norman Etherington, Peter Midgley
Leiden: Brill (2010) XI, 377 s. European expansion and indigenous response
Colonialism, History, Indigenous population, Africa, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Islam and christianity in the Horn of Africa - Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan
Haggai Erlich
Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publ. (2010) XI, 225 s.
Islam, Christianity, Religion, Africa, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan

Localizing transitional justice - interventions and priorities after mass violence
edited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf ; with Pierre Hazan
Stanford. Calif.: Stanford University press (c2010) XVI, 344 s. Stanford Studies in Human Rights
Justice, Transitional justice, Human rights, South Africa, Peru, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Burma, Israel, Lebanon

Mediations of violence in Africa - fashioning new futures from contested pasts
edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
Leiden: Brill (2010) XVIII, 265 s. Africa-Europe group for interdiciplinary studies
African literature, Traditional culture, Collective memory, Violence, Social aspects, Africa, Somalia, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda

Overcoming developing country debt crises
edited by Barry Herman, Jos' Antonio Ocampo, and Shari Spiegel
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010) XIX, 511 s. The initiative for policy dialogue series
External debt, Developing countries, Case studies, Argentina, Ethiopia

Public sentinel - news media
Pippa Norris, editor
Washington, D.C.: World Bank (c2010) XXI, 420 s.
Mass media, Politics, Democracy, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Ethiopia, Iraq

Regionalismus im südlichen Afrika - die Handels- und Sicherheitspolitik der SADC
Jacqueline Jaspert
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010) 411 s.
Trade policy, National security, Regional integration, SADC, Southern Africa

Saving Darfur - everyone's favourite African war
by rob Crilly
London: Reportage Press (2010) XX, 247 s.
Conflicts, Sudan, Darfur

Securing the peace - the durable settlement of civil wars
Monica Duffy Toft
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (c2010) XIII, 228 s.
Civil war, Conflict management, Peace, Case studies, El Salvador, Uganda, Sudan

Self-determination and national unity - a challenge for Africa
edited by Francis M. Deng
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press (2010) 263 s.
Politics, Nationalism, Ethnic conflicts, Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Botswana

Self-determination and national unity - a challenge for Africa
edited by Francis M. Deng
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press (2010) 263 s.
Politics, Nationalism, Ethnic conflicts, Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Botswana

The Comparative political economy of development - Africa and South Asia
edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer
Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge (2010) XXVI, 358 s. Routledge studies in development economics
Economic policy, Social policy, Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Asia, India, Afghanistan

The International politics of mass atrocities - the case of Darfur
edited by David R. Black and Paul D. Williams
London: Routledge (2010) XIV, 272 s. Security and governance series
Genocide, Armed forces, Conflicts, Foreign relations, African Union, UN Security Council, European Union, Sudan, United States, China, United Kingdom, France, Canada

The Poor under globalization in Asia, Latin America and Africa
edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010) XXIII, 474 s. UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
Poverty, Globalization, Africa, Ethiopia, South Africa, Asia, India, Philippines, China, Latin America, Brazil, Peru

The River Nile in the post-colonial age - conflict and cooperation among the Nile basin countries
edited by Terje Tvedt
London: I.B. Tauris (2010) VI, 293 s.
Water resources, Conflicts, History, Africa, Nile, Burundi, Tanzania, Congo DR, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt

The Struggle over land in Africa - conflicts, politics
edited by Ward Anseeuw
Cape Town: HRSC press (2010) XII, 289 s.
Land, Land use, Land reform, Conflicts, Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe

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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

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

Gunnar Sørbø comments in VG

Senior researcher Gunnar M. Sørbø comments on the election results in Norwegian paper VG. Read more

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

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


Recent publications

Overworked? On the relationship between workload and health worker performance Ottar Mæstad, Gaute Torsvik and Arild Aakvik (forthcoming)

Informal payments and the quality of health care: mechanisms revealed by Tanzanian health workers Ottar Mæstad (forthcoming)

Fishery as a livelihood strategy in Malawi. Analyzing a small LSMS sub-sample Magnus Hatlebakk (forthcoming)

Assessing the Implications of PARPA II in Rural Northern Mozambique 2006-2009 Inge Tvedten, Margarida Paulo, Carmeliza Rosário (2010)

'Não fica bem que uma mulher seja chefe quando existem homens'. Género e Pobreza no Sul de Mocambique Inge Tvedten, Margarida Paulo, Minna Tuominen (2010)


Recent projects and programmes

A Way Out of Violent Conflict? The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding

Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Southern Mozambique (Sub-Project 3)

Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights

Nigeria: Norwegian Support of Good Governance

Sida: Study on Support to Parliaments


Recent library acquisitions

Complicated coordination in a complex emergency by Bjørn Ivar Kruke
Humanitarian assistance, Emergency relief, Aid coordination, Theses, Sudan

Desafios para Mocambique 2010 organiza#pcÆo, Lu¡s de Brito ... [et al.]
Politics, Economic policy, Social policy, Foreign relations, Mozambique

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