Kirsty Cunningham
Online and Publications Coordinator (U4)
E-mail: kirsty.cunningham@cmi.no
Phone: +47 47938077 Mob: +47 98058187
CV - Kirsty Cunningham
Kirsty Cunningham holds a BA in European Languages and Law from UWE, Bristol, UK, and an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, as well as a certificate in web design from IT Akademiet. She has worked in administrative positions in the UK, Spain, and Norway; including at the Office of International Relations in the Department for Research and Education at the University of Bergen.
As a team member of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre since January 2005, Kirsty works mainly with U4 publications (layout, editing and publishing) and the U4 website at www.U4.no.
Current and recently completed projects:
Anti-Corruption Resource Centre U4
Start: Feb. 2002 (Current)
Keywords: corruption,anti-corruption
Geography: World
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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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