Aksel Mjeldheim
Head of IT Section
E-mail: aksel.mjeldheim@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938090 Mob: +47 92814448
Current and recently completed projects:
ICT capacity
Start: Jan. 2008 (Current)
Geography: Angola
Cooperation on improvement of IT system at CEIC
Start: Mar. 2007 (Current)
Keywords: ICT, Angola, CEIC, Open Access
Geography: Angola
Anti-Corruption Resource Centre U4
Start: Feb. 2002 (Current)
Keywords: corruption,anti-corruption
Geography: World
Research and Institutional Development Links between CMI and SEAPREN
Start: Apr. 2003 (Completed)
Keywords: Institutional cooperation, research, policy analysis, capacity building, poverty, governance, regioanal integration
Geography: Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
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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.
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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 og i kronikk i Aftenposten 4. juli.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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