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Journal Article | Dec 2019
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy
In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded by freezing political and economic relations with Norway, introducing...
in International Political Science Review

Book Chapter | Nov 2019
Congenitally Conjoined and Inseparable: Politics and Corruption in Nigeria
This chapter analyses political corruption in Nigeria through the trajectory of a number of scandals and their background. It underscores the resilience of political corruption in the country, where the...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

Book Chapter | Oct 2019
Ceasefires
A review of the practice and content of ceasefire agreements and provisions in peace agreements. The article include a discussion on the definition of ‘ceasefire’ and related terms, such as...
in Romaniuk, S., Thapa M., and P. Marton: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan

CMI Insight | Jun 2019
Zambia’s looming debt crisis – is China to blame?
Is China pressuring poor countries with debt? Debt trap diplomacy is a recent term that is used to describe Chinese loans for infrastructure and development in developing countries. Zambia is...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2019:01)

CMI Report | May 2019
Gendercide and marginalisation – An initial review of the knowledge base
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2019:04)

Journal Article | Mar 2019
Overcoming the Limits of Legal Opportunity Structures: LGBT Rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia
Costa Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex marriage (SSM) in mid-2000s; however, these...
in Latin American Politics and Society. vol. 61, Special Issue 2 pp. 138-163

CMI Report | Feb 2019
Review of the realisation of Norway’s “Strategy for intensifying international efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation for the period 2014–2017”
This report was commissioned by Norad and the evaluation was realised by Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Joar Svanemyr is the main author of the report. Camilla Gianella at CMI and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:16)

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries
Early pregnancies are generally associated with negative effects on women’shealth and education (Goldin & Katz 2002; Rasul 2008), as well as theireconomic achievement (Bailey 2006; Miller 2010). Early pregnancies arealso...
in Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman, and Jean-Philippe Platteau: Towards Gender Equity in Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 141-166

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Citizenship, statelessness, and human rights protection in Sudan's constitutions and post South Sudan secession challenges
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Several efforts, such as the 2005 Comprehensive Peace...
in Constitution-making and Human Rights in the Sudans (Lutz Oette, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (eds.))

Report in External Series | Jan 2019
Norwegian Aid and Triangular South-South Cooperation. Mapping, analysis and implications for Norwegian knowledge transfer
This is a mapping study commissioned by Norad's Knowledge Bank as an input to the preparation of their new approach to South-South cooperation. The study maps and reviews trends in...
Oslo: Norad (Discussion Paper, Norad Report no. 1/2019) 28 p.

Journal Article | 2018
'Goats eat where they are tied up': illicit and habitual corruption in Mozambique
The article shows that corruption is structural and omnipresent in Mozambican society, effectively legitimising corrupt practices at all levels. Using an anthropological approach, it argues that small-scale corruption has the...
in Review of African Political Economy vol. 45 no. 158

Journal Article | 2018
Diversification and democracy
Does diversification of an economy improve the chances of democracy? In theory, diversification may reduce elite cohesion and improve citizen outside options, making democracy more likely. This paper estimates the...
in International Political Science Review vol. 39 no. 4 pp. 551-569

Book Review | 2018
Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Historical Perspective ( Abingdon, Routledge, 2015) 258pp
in The Irish Yearbook of International Law 2016-17 vol. 11-12 pp. 274-78

U4 Brief | 2018
The Mozambique hidden loans case: An opportunity for donors to demonstrate anti-corruption commitment
When the Mozambican government issued guarantees for over 1 billion US$ - ignoring their own oversight mechanisms and lending rules - they ended up in public debt distress. Donors have...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2018:6)

Report in External Series | 2018
Third independent review of the Indonesia-Norway cooperation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from REDD+
The LoI process was always expected to be a complex and innovative exercise involving many stakeholders and relationships, with progress marked by slow, directional change over a long period. The...
Edinburgh: LTS International

Commissioned Report | 2018
End-review Norwegian Embassy Support to the Blue Diamond Society, Nepal
This report presents the findings, conclusion and recommendations of an end-review of the second phase (2015-2018) of the Norwegian Embassy support to Blue Diamond Society (BDS) in Nepal. BDS is...
(Commissioned by Norad)

Book | 2018
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures of domestic political leadership, and...
London/New York: Zed Books (African Arguments Book Series,) 216 p.

Commissioned Report | 2018
Evaluation of Norwegian support to civil society through Norwegian organisations. Report from presentation seminars in Nepal and Ethiopia. April 2018
The evalution report From Donors to Partners? examined the role of Norwegian organsiations in supporting civil society in developing countries, It was published in January 2018. Norad's Evaluiation Department hosted...
Oslo: Norad Evaluation Department pp. 1-46 (Limited circulation, distributed to participants and Norwegian embassies)

CMI Report | 2018
Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries
Executive summary
How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning different types of knowledge and skills in formal,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:5) 115 p.

U4 Issue | 2018
Exploring the role of digital civil society portals in improving Right to Information regimes
Over the past two decades, advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have transformed the way people access and interact with the information that governments produce and hold. The development...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2018:1)