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U4 Issue | Sep 2019
Social accountability and water integrity: Learning from experiences with participatory and transparent budgeting in Ethiopia and Nepal
Experiences with social accountability measures in water management schemes in Nepal and Ethiopia offer useful lessons for practitioners. Participation and transparency in budgeting measures open up new spaces for deliberation,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:11)

Journal Article | Jul 2019
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia
High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in 2007, corruption has been viewed as a...
in The Journal of Development Studies

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Locating China's Maritime Silk Road in the context of the South China Sea disputes
The South China Sea (SCS) is a bitterly contested maritime battleground for state sovereignty, oil and gas and, perhaps above all, for the marine resources on which large populations of...
in Carmen Amado Mendes: China's New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order. London: Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group pp. 165-179

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Mujib dynasty retains control in Bangladesh
Across South Asia political dynasties are generally in decline. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of the Indian Congress Party and the Bhutto clan of the Pakistan People's Party are both deteriorating. But...
East Asia Forum (Canberra, Australia ) 10.08.2018

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 and 2015 the Bangladeshi gay scene was...
East Asia Forum, Australia 23.03.2018

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Democracy decaying in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted opposition leader Khaleda Zia — the nation’s former...
East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018

Sudan Report | 2018
Community Views on Child Marriage in Kassala: Prospects for Change
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2018:1)

CMI Report | 2018
Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture
The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role of agriculture in economic growth...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:01) 57 p.

Book Chapter | 2017
Two steps forward, one step backwards: Indonesia’s winding (anti-)corruption journey
Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private...
in Ting Gong, Ian Scott: Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia . London: Routledge

Sudan Report | 2017
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2017:3) 67 p.

Journal Article | 2016
Ritual Power: Risk, spirituality and religious pluralism on Lombok
This article shows how rituals occupy a key role in the negotiation of inter-religious relations on the island of Lombok. Building on Howe’s (2000) argument that the anthropology of ritual...
in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) vol. 17 no. 5 pp. 419-438

CMI Working Paper | 2016
«Nowadays there are shoot-outs all the time». Women, children, and Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro.
Executive summary
This CMI Working paper explores the implementation of the Brazilian government’s favela (shantytown) policing program, Unidades de Pacificacion Policiais (UPP) or The Pacifying Police Units, from the point of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:7) 28 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2016
From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
Introduction
In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency against the rule in Khartoum. Supported by Janjaweed tribal militias, the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:3) 14 p.

CMI Brief | 2016
Petroleum fund in Tanzania? Other alternatives may be better
The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development and jobs. This Brief argues that the Tanzanian society...
Bergen & Dar es Salaam : Chr. Michelsen Institute & REPOA (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 10) 4 p.

Journal Article | 2016
Introduction: Performing the State
Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative aspects of governance and state-making in Southeast...
in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) vol. 172 no. 2-3 pp. 171-178

Journal Article | 2016
Female Empowerment and the Education of Children in Nepal
There is sufficient evidence to say that female empowerment affects economic and social outcomes, in particular for girls. There is, however, no unified approach to the measurement of female empowerment....
in Journal of Developing Areas vol. 50 no. 2 pp. 1-19

CMI Insight | 2016
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight no. 4) 8 p.

Journal Article | 2016
The politics of complexity in Bodoland: the interplay of contentious politics, the production of collective identities and elections in Assam
in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies vol. 39 no. 2 pp. 478-493

Master's Thesis | 2016
Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro
In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)...
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master degree, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen . Bergen: University of Bergen 146 p.

Journal Article | 2015
Keeping the New Broom Clean: Lessons in Human Resource Management from the KPK
Indonesia has been struggling to reform its corrupt bureaucracy for years. In 2002 an independent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) was established by law. This article explains how the commission has...
in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia vol. 171 no. 4 423 - 454 p.