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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 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
Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule....
in Small Wars and Insurgency

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.

CMI Brief | 2020
Everyday humanitarian diplomacy: Experiences from border areas
The term humanitarian diplomacy (HD) emerged in early 2000s. HD recognises the role of humanitarian actors when negotiating access, assistance and protection for civilians in situations of extreme insecurity and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2020:2) 4 p.

Book Chapter | 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.

Journal Article | 2019
Emergency Urbanism in Sabra, Beirut.
Since the mid-1980s, generations of displaced people have sought refuge in the ramshackle buildings that were once the Gaza-Ramallah Hospital, a multi-story hospital complex built by the Palestinian Liberation Organization...
in Public Anthropologist vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 171-193

Sudan Brief | 2019
The paradox of federalism and decentralisation in South Sudan: An instrument and an obstacle for peace
A power sharing agreement and the inauguration of a new government in South Sudan has been put to a halt. Disagreement on the number of states and local self-government, security...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Brief 2019:01) 5 p.

Report in External Series | 2019
The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan
Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the border region with...
Providence: The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (Costs of War) 14 p.

Journal Article | 2019
The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier: Configurations of freedom and humanity in Afghanistan
Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards of Western democracies. How are forms of...
in Anuac vol. 8 no. 1 pp. 31-57

Book | 2019
Interaction between Health Institutions in Knowledge and Medical Practices in South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains
This research thesis addresses the challenges confronting the establishment of stable and sufficient health care provision in Heiban Locality in South Kordofan / Nuba Mountains in the aftermath (2002–2011) of...
Bergen: Chr.Michelsen Institute

Journal Article | 2019
Humanitarian Militarism and the Production of Humanity
The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection...
in Social Anthropology vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 84-99

Report in External Series | 2019
Sunnism, Salafism, Sheikism: Urban Pathways of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon
This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). To understand Salafism’s popular appeal, it is...
Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt 18 p.

Book Chapter | 2019
Peace Agreements
Peace agreements are the codification of the terms of settlement between some or all conflict parties for the purpose of ending conflict between them. Between 1990 and 2018, over 1700...
in Scott Romaniuk, Manish Thapa, Péter Marton: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan

Book Chapter | 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

Journal Article | 2019
The historical roots of cooperative behavior—Evidence from eastern Congo
Cooperative norms and behavior are considered to be essential requirements for sustainable stabilization and development in conflict-affected states. It is therefore particularly important to understand what factors explain their salience...
in World Development vol. 116 pp. 100-112

Book Chapter | 2019
The plain drone, the armed drone and human security
The plain drone and the armed drone differ greatly in their impact on human security. The plain drone is essentially neutral; its impact depends on the nature and purpose of...
in Handbook of Intervention and Statebuilding. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Journal Article | 2019
The political economy of banking in Angola
From inauspicious beginnings in a post-socialist, highly dysfunctionalfinancial system, Angolan banking grew in less than a decade after theend of the country's long civil war into one of Africa's largest....
in African Affairs vol. 118 no. 470 pp. 49-74

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

CMI Brief | 2018
Women’s informal peace efforts: Grassroots activism in South Sudan
South Sudanese women have been grossly under-represented in formal peace negotiations. However, they have been active in informal peacebuilding at the local level where peace means rebuilding society. Such informal...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2018:07) 6 p.