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Hassan al-Turabi: Maktsyk Agitator eller Kvinnevennlig Demokrat?
Newspaper Op-Ed
Morgenbladet skiller ikke på en tilfredsstillende måte mellom "tenkeren Hassan al- Turabi" og "politikeren Hassan al-Turabi". ...

Norsk kvinnekamp i verden?
Newspaper Op-Ed
For dem er fravær av gunnleggende sivile rettigheter en daglig og håndfast utfordring som Norge må ta på alvor. I fredsavtalen ...

Is it the Fault of NGOs Alone? Aid and Dependency in Eastern Sudan
CMI Working Paper
Scholars of development studies have long debated the efficacy of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan, especially in eastern Sudan, where humanitarian ...

Peacebuilding in post-war situations: Lessons for Sudan
CMI Report
This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade or so that are relevant to the current challenges in Sudan. While there ...

Islamism and Democracy: An Inquiry into the Political Thought of the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi
Master's Thesis
My focus of analysis is Islamist democracy as conceived by the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi. I examine Turabi's Islamist democracy in light ...

Kan vi gjøre noe?
Newspaper Op-Ed
Den vedvarende konflikten i nabolandet Tsjad mellom president Deby og en splittet politisk opposisjon der Darfur brukes både som base og kamparena. ...

The comprehensive peace agreement in the Sudan: Institutional developments and political trends in focus areas
CMI Working Paper
The Sudan is a vast and varied country in terms of its geography and people, defining its social and political relations from the colonial era through ...

Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
CMI Report
International considerations regarding religious pluralism and the accommodation of different religious communities were at the forefront in the peace ...

Peacebuilding in Sudan: Micro- Macro Issues
Project
A comprehensive peace agreement was signed between the Sudan government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in January 2005. Peacebuilding ...

Sudan Peace Agreements: Current Challenges and Future Prospects
CMI Working Paper
Since achieving independence, Sudan has been burdened with many conflicts which have hindered its economic, social and cultural development. Several ...

The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots
CMI Report
Women’s political participation is regarded as not only desirable but vital to the advancement of gender equality. The approach of this project ...

The impact of the international financial crisis on the economy of the Sudan
CMI Report
The analysis in section four will focus on the negative impact of the crisis by examining its anticipated effect on various aspects of the economy. Section ...

One Against All: The National Islamic Front (NIF) and Sudanese Sectarian and Secular Parties
CMI Working Paper
Any attempt to define and characterize the relationship between the National Islamic Front (NIF) and the sectarian and secular parties in Sudan must ...

Election Observation in Sudan - Possible Challenges
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Election Observation in Sudan - Possible Challenges Sudan Elections 2009 - a seminar organised by the Norwegian Support Group for Peace in Sudan elections, ...

Peace without Unity: The Dilemma of Reconciling Divergent Perspectives in Post-Conflict Sudan
CMI Working Paper
Maintaining and promoting conflict-ridden Sudan as a unified entity has emerged as a central plank in the agenda of most, if not all, parties to the ...

Transforming Pastoralism: A Case Study of the Rufa'a al Hoi Ethnic Group in the Blue Nile State, Sudan
CMI Working Paper
The pastoral sector in Sudan in general and in the Blue Nile State in particular has been marginalized and impoverished as a result of detrimental state ...

Minoriteter i «muslimske land»
Newspaper Op-Ed
Hva er det Heitmann egentlig mener når han henviser til «muslimske land»? Er det et land der majoriteten av befolkningen er muslimer, ...

Glemte Konflikter i Sudan
Newspaper Op-Ed
I Sudan tar den humanitære katastrofen i Darfur all oppmerksomhet fra andre regionale problemområder som Abyei, Sør-Kordofan/Nubafjellene ...

Bargaining with patriarchy in Sudan: The art of reimagining Islam
Conference Paper
Bargaining with patriarchy in Sudan: The art of reimagining Islam Transnational/Global Feminism: Issues, Contestations, Challenges Patriarchal bargaining, ...

Learning to build a sustainable peace: Ownership and everyday peacebuilding
CMI Report
Lack of local ownership is seen as a central explanation for why peacebuilding efforts often fail to yield sustainable peace dividends. Based on research ...

The Paradox of Representation in Sudan: Muslim Women's Diverging Agendas
CMI Brief
The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given ...

The Moderation of the Islamist Movement in Sudan
Conference Paper
The Moderation of the Islamist Movement in Sudan The annual norwegian political science conference Islamism, Sudan, Islam, political inclusion, post-Islamism, ...

Can the Sudan Achieve the MDGs Given its Past and Present Expenditures Allocation Patterns?
CMI Report
Many scholars, decision makers and politicians have started to doubt whether the IMF and World Bank debt sustainability measures and debt relief under ...

The Politics of Local Boundaries and Conflict in Sudan. The South Darfur Case
CMI Working Paper
Up to 1994, Darfur region (the present three states of Darfur) had remained a single integrated political and administrative unit since the establishment ...

Land Issues and Poverty Production: Requirements for Lasting Peace in Sudan and Afghanistan
Report in External Series
During the last decade, an increasing share of foreign aid has been provided to countries coming out of civil war or experiencing severe conflict. Most ...

The Myth of a Reformist? Hassan al-Turabi and Women's Civil Rights within the Islamic Family Law in Sudan
Conference Paper
The Myth of a Reformist? Hassan al-Turabi and Women's Civil Rights within the Islamic Family Law in Sudan The seventh Nordic conference on Middle East ...

Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights in Sudan
CMI Brief
During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception ...

Islamisme i Sudan
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Islamisme i Sudan FN-Sambandet, Oslo Sudan, Islamism, religion and conflict Sudan Liv Tønnessen liv toennessen liv tonnessen

Sudan: Prospects for Peace. The Role of the International Community
Journal Article (Non-Refereed)
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement represents a major opportunity for positive change and sustainable peace in Sudan. Continued engagement of the international ...

Religious Dialogue and Peace-Building in Sudan
Project
This project investigates whether Islam within the Sudanese civil society is being used to promote or to undermine the on-going peace-building process. ...

Aalen Lovise
Senior Researcher
Lovise Aalen is a political scientist with extensive experience in research on democratisation and human rights in the Horn of Africa.  She is ...

Tønnessen Liv
Researcher
Liv Tønnessen is a PhD candidate in comparative politics.   The PhD will examine Muslim women's activism for and against the Islamic state ...

Villanger Espen
Senior Researcher (on leave)
Villanger is an economist doing research on poverty and income mobility analysis, the rural economy, gender equality, bonded labour, foreign aid and ...

Feminist Interlegalities and Gender Justice in Sudan: The Debate on CEDAW and Islam
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Feminist Interlegalities and Gender Justice in Sudan: The Debate on CEDAW and Islam Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal Islamism, Islam, ...

Power and the Gendered Interview: Bargaining with Patriarchy
Conference Paper
Power and the Gendered Interview: Bargaining with Patriarchy Sharia and Human Rights Interview, patriarchy, Sudan Sudan Liv Tønnessen liv toennessen liv ...

Local violence and international intervention in Sudan
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Local violence and international intervention in Sudan Review of African Political Economy Sudan Gunnar M. Sørbø gunnar m. soerboe gunnar m. sorbo

Utenriksanalyse: Vestlig press styrker Bashir
Newspaper Op-Ed
Omverdenen taler med to tunger overfor Sudan, og gjør dermed valgseier mulig for landets ettersøkte president. Utenriksanalyse: Vestlig ...

Land issues and poverty reduction: Requirements for lasting peace in Sudan and Afghanistan
Book Chapter
Land issues and poverty reduction: Requirements for lasting peace in Sudan and Afghanistan The poorest and the hungry. Assessments, analyses, and actions ...

Kleskamp i Sudan
Newspaper Op-Ed
Kleskamp i Sudan Dagbladet Sudan Liv Tønnessen liv toennessen liv tonnessen

Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Debates on Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum Journal of North African Studies Sudan ...

Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Socio-Economic Integration Issues in Southwest Kordofan
CMI Report
This report is the product of desk-work which consists of 50 per cent of the workload, and a truncated field visit for only one week to Northern Lagawa ...

External Debts, Growth and Peace in the Sudan. Some Serious Challenges Facing the Country in the Post-Conflict Era
CMI Report
Traditional studies on the external debt problem have focused mainly on the development of the magnitude and trends of the external debt in the low-income ...

Communal Land Rights and Peace-Building in North Kordofan: Policy and Legislative Challenges
CMI Working Paper
Land policies are of fundamental importance to the wellbeing of and the economic opportunities open to rural people, good governance, and peaceful coexistence. ...

Krig redder kvinnene?
Newspaper Op-Ed
Det er problematisk å gjøre afghanske kvinner til passive ofre som må «reddes» av Vesten fra «onde islam» til ...

Opprørere må sendes til Haag
Newspaper Op-Ed
Ugandas borgerkrig truer nå skjøre fredsprosesser i Sudan og Kongo. Om regionen skal få fred må de ettersøkte opprørslederne ...

Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Interpretations of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum.
Conference Paper
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Interpretations of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum. ...

Mannen bak Darfur-konflikten
Newspaper Op-Ed
De intense forhandlingene ledet av den afrikanske union (AU) om Darfur, har nå kuliminert i en fredsavtale undertegnet av den største opprørsbevegelsen ...

Fred i Sudan?
Newspaper Op-Ed
Fred i Sudan? Bergens tidende Africa: Sudan. Gunnar M. Sørbø gunnar m.

Prospects for peace, security and human rights in Africa's Horn
Edited Book
This book deals with the prospects for peaceful change, human rights and state-building in the Horn of Africa. The authors try to address root causes ...

Pastoral ecosystems and the issue of scale
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
This paper uses examples from Kenya and the Sudan to argue that the scale at which we pitch our analysis when trying to identify the basic properties ...

Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights
Project
This project is a joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights, covering the period 2001-2009. It comprises the mapping ...

Women and Peacebuilding in Sudan
Project
Participation in the various processes in a post-conflict transition, where power structures may be cemented, is important for the advancement of women. ...

The Moderation of Islamist Movements
Project
The project investigates the impact of political inclusion on Islamist movements in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Sudan. However, there have not been ...

Norwegian assistance to countries in conflict
Project
This evaluation explores lessons learned from Norwegian assistance to six countries within the broad field of conflict prevention, conflict resolution, ...

Research Partners
About CMI
Johan Helland Malaysia Centre for Economic Development and Ethnic Relations (CEDER), University of Malaya CMI contact: Inge Amundsen Malawi ...

CD-ROM collection
CMI Library
/by Gerhard K. Heilig Co-operation in research & higher education South-North, 2003 / NUFU Programme, NORAD Fellowship Programme Community ...

Sub-Saharan Africa
Geographic region
Research on Sub-Saharan Africa dominates our research portfolio and our commissioned work. CMI staff have extensive research competence in a number ...

Sørbø Gunnar M.
Senior researcher
Social anthropologist with extensive experience from research, research management and consultancy work. Sørbø's professional profile ...

Roald Anne Sofie
Senior researcher, Director Politics of Faith
Roald's professional profile and research interests include Islamic movements, gender issues in Islam, Muslim immigrants in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia, ...

Sudan
Book Chapter
Sudan Learning to build a sustainable peace: ownership and everyday peacebuilding Ole Jacob Sending Samia el Nagar and Gunnar M. Sørbø samia el nagar ...

Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Muslim Women in Post-Islamist Sudan
Conference Paper
Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Muslim Women in Post-Islamist Sudan World Congress for Middle East Studies, Barcelona Spain ...

Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Women Bargaining with Patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Women Bargaining with Patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan Comparative Studies of South Asia, ...

Bargaining with Patriarchy in Sudan
Conference Paper
Bargaining with Patriarchy in Sudan Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Liv Tønnessen liv toennessen liv tonnessen

International Criminal Court: Law or Politics?
Popular Presentations and Lectures
http://samfunnet.uib.no/index.php?vm=program&id=659#prog   International Criminal Court: Law or Politics? Debate organized by the Bergen ...

Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory Nordic Journal ...

Confronting corruption in humanitarian aid: Perspectives and options
U4 Brief
Humanitarian crises that call for international assistance almost always take place in countries that either can’t or won’t meet the needs ...

Arab Foreign Aid: Disbursement Patterns, Aid Policies and Motives
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
This paper examines Arab aid flows and aid policies, and contrasts them with the broad picture of Western practice. Much aid has been used to build ...

Slutt på ekte bistand
Newspaper Op-Ed
Det er uttrykk for de gamle verdiene om nestekjærlighet og solidaritet som er og har vært bærebjelken for den store folkelige støtten ...

Er islam og demokrati forenlig?Moderate islamisters nytolkning av Sharia
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Er islam og demokrati forenlig? Moderate islamisters nytolkning av Sharia Fagernes Islam, democracy, women's rights, minority rights, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, ...

Afghanistan
Book Chapter
The amount of expenditure and the absence of regular evaluations prompted this evaluation. Arne Strand (CMI) and Gunnar Olesen (CopenhagenDC) undertook ...

Spillet om Darfur
Newspaper Op-Ed
Spillet om Darfur Aftenposten Africa: Sudan. Gunnar M. Sørbø gunnar m. soerboe gunnar m.

Assessment of developments in Sudan
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Assessment of developments in Sudan Norad, April 2005 Gunnar M Sørbø gunnar m soerboe gunnar m sorbo

Conflicts and peacebuilding - the Sudan case
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Conflicts and peacebuilding - the Sudan case Norad, September 2004 Gunnar M Sørbø gunnar m soerboe gunnar m sorbo

Political developments in Sudan
Popular Presentations and Lectures
Political developments in Sudan Oslo Donor Conference, April 2004 Gunnar M Sørbø gunnar m soerboe gunnar m sorbo

Islam har skylden?
Newspaper Op-Ed
Påstandene om at islam og demokrati er uforenlige, er unyansert og til dels uforenlig med fakta. Er islam årsaken til det demokratiske underskuddet ...

Islamisme og demokrati hånd i hånd
Journal Article (Peer-Reviewed)
Islamisme indikerer en ideologi der islam bevisst blir brukt som en guide for politisk handling og ideologien varierer fra ekstrem moderasjon til ekstrem ...

Norwegian assistance to countries in conflict: the lesson of experience from Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi
Unpublished Commissioned Report
(Evaluation Report 11.98) Norwegian assistance to countries in conflict: the lesson of experience from Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, Sudan, Rwanda and ...

Does aid to institution development work? Reflections on personal experiences
CMI Working Paper
The author has spent close to ten years as advisor to planning organisations in four developing countries: Pakistan, Kenya, the Sudan and Bangladesh. ...

Politics of Faith
Programme
Politics of Faith Leaflet Politics of Faith Religion, the state, secularisation, political institutionalisation,political mobilization, development, ...

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