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Journal Article | Jan 2021
Legal Mobilization to Protect Women against Rape in Islamist Sudan
A popular uprising recently ousted Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist cronies from power after having ruled Sudan with an iron fist since 1989. Sexual abuse and torture orchestrated by the...
in Cahiers d'études africaines

Sudan Brief | 2020
After the uprising: Including Sudanese youth
The youth were the backbone of the protests that led to the fall of Sudan’s president Omer al-Bashir in April 2019. Yet, two years after the uprising they are still...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2020:7) 4 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2020
Sudan’s Transition: Living in Bad Surroundings
Following the 2019 April revolution, Sudan now finds itself in the middle of a profound and uncertain political transition. Should the transition succeed, the country could move in directions that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:4) 17 p.

Journal Article | 2020
European colonization and the corruption of local elites: the case of chiefs in Africa
The association between British colonial rule and lower levels of corruption is often emphasized in legal origins literature (La Porta et al., 2008). However, given the historical context of Africa, we hypothesize...
in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization vol. 179 pp. 80-100

Sudan Brief | 2020
COVID-19 and the urgent need to protect Sudanese women against violence
Three decades of Islamist rule institutionalized a culture of violence against women in Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic and state instructed lockdown has led to an acute situation for many Sudanese...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2020:5) 4 p.

Sudan Brief | 2020
Patriarchy, Politics and Women’s Activism in Post-Revolution Sudan
While Sudanese women were at the forefront of the popular uprising under the banner "freedom, peace and justice" that started in December 2018 and eventually led to the ousting of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2010:02) 4 p.

U4 Brief | 2020
Liberación de emergencia de personas en prisión debido al Covid-19. Un breve análisis a través de una perspectiva anticorrupción
Muchos países están implementando la liberación de emergencia de personas en prisión para mitigar la propagación de Covid-19. Dichas medidas, si bien son críticas para la salud pública, pueden permitir...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2020:12)

CMI Insight | 2020
Guerra no Norte de Moçambique, uma Região Rica em Recursos Naturais – Seis Cenários
Desde os ataques de Outubro de 2017 em Mocímboa da Praia, realizados por alegados insurgentes islamistas, vulgarmente referidos como Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama e localmente conhecidos como Al Shabab, não é...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:3) 18 p.

CMI Insight | 2020
War in resource-rich northern Mozambique – Six scenarios
Since the October 2017 attacks by alleged Islamist insurgents, commonly referred to as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama and locally know as Al Shabab, on Mocimboa da Praia, it has not been...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2020:02) 18 p.

Sudan Brief | 2019
Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism
This Sudan Brief is concerned with the fractionalization of Islamism during Bashir’s rule (1989-2019). It does not focus on the details of Bashir’s brutal rule, rather, it is about the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:3) 4 p.

Journal Article | 2019
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) on global health and development agendas....
in Journal of Adolescent Health vol. 65 no. 6

Journal Article | 2019
The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan
In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 lashes. Pregnancy outside a marriage contract constitute sufficient evidence...
in Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 21 no. 2 pp. 7-19

Book Chapter | 2019
Discrete Moves and Parallel Tracks: Gender Politics in post-2001 Afghanistan
in Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, Kathryn Spellman-Poots: Gender, Governance and Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Book Chapter | 2019
Exploración de las barreras para el acceso oportuno al diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer de cuello uterino y de mama en el Perú y su relación con la inversión pública
in López, R., Gianella, C., Meza, E.: La Otra Lucha Contra el Cáncer. Justicia Fiscal Por La Salud de las Mujeres.. Lima: Oxfam AIS pp. 17- 48

Book Chapter | 2019
Exploración de las barreras para el acceso oportuno al diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer de cuello uterino y de mama en el Perú y su relación con la inversión pública
in Roberto López Linares, Camila Gianella Malca, Edson Meza Cornejo: La Otra Lucha Contra el Cáncer. Justicia Fiscal Por La Salud de las Mujeres. Lima: Oxfam AIS pp. 17- 48

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Det farligste stedet å være kvinne er i eget hjem
En saudiarabisk tenårings flukt fra vold og trusler har skapt overskrifter verden over. I årevis hadde hun blitt utsatt for overgrep fra sine nærmeste familiemedlemmer. På ferie i Kuwait stakk...
Bistandsaktuelt 15.02.2019

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2019
Sudan: Presidenten gjør sykehusene til målskiver
Demonstranter som har blitt såret under opptøyene i Sudan har søkt til sykehusene for å få hjelp. Også der blir de ofre for regimestyrkenes kuler. For Omar al-Bashirs regime er...
Bistandsaktuelt 23.01.2019

Journal Article | 2018
Decade of Despair: The Contested Rebuilding of the Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp, Lebanon, 2007–2017
In mid-2007 the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli was destroyed by the Lebanese Army battling an insurgent Islamist group, Fatah al-Islam. Displacing about 30,000 Palestinian refugees, it was one...
in Refuge - Canada's Journal on Refugees vol. 34 no. 2 pp. 135-149

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
Trump straffer de svakeste palestinerne
Offentlig sier amerikanske myndigheter at USA ikke lenger vil bære byrden for et organ som lenge har vært i krisemodus, men bak kuttet til UNRWA ligger også dårlig skjulte politiske...
Dagbladet 21.09.2018

Sudan Brief | 2018
Drivers of child marriage in eastern Sudan
There are several causes that contribute to child marriage in eastern Sudan, including poverty, lack of education for girls, avoiding stigma and the legality of child marriage. However, tradition and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2018:02) 4 p.