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Journal Article | forthcoming 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

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2021
Inter-group interaction and attitudes to migrants
Abstract
We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which tests the impact of interaction with migrants on host community members’ attitudes towards migrants....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2021:02) 34 p.

Journal Article | Jan 2021
Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector: The case of Equinor’s social investments in Tanzania
Multinational corporations have been criticised for their rhetorical support to - as opposed to substantive engagement with - gender equality in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in poor countries....
in Women's Studies: International Forum vol. 84 pp. 1-8

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
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations working abroad. Th ese transnational corporations (TNCs) are expected...
in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology vol. 88 pp. 1-21

Book | 2020
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press (Paperback February 2021)
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as...
NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press

U4 Issue | 2020
Corrupt networks in the Indonesian forestry sector. Politics and pulp in Pelalawan, Riau
In Indonesia, the persistence of illegal logging has long been attributed to corrupt networks involving powerful brokers, private sector entrepreneurs, and local political heads. But how do these networks function,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:12)

U4 Issue | 2020
Corrupt networks in the Indonesian forestry sector. Politics and pulp in Pelalawan, Riau
In Indonesia, the persistence of illegal logging has long been attributed to corrupt networks involving powerful brokers, private sector entrepreneurs, and local political heads. But how do these networks function,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2020:12)

CMI Report | 2020
Literature Review: Democracy and Human Rights in contemporary Latin America (2015-2020) Trends, challenges, and prospects
Abstract
Through a review of scholarly and other well-informed articles as well as media reports, this CMI Report aims to summarize discussions on challenges for democracy and human rights in Latin...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2020:01)

CMI Working Paper | 2020
Preparing to leave? Household mobility decisions in climate affected areas of coastal Bangladesh
Abstract
We present unique survey data on the migration predictions of 400 households in two extremely climate exposed unions of coastal Bangladesh. We have four main findings. First, despite having prospects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:04) 33 p.

U4 Practitioner Experience Note | 2020
Twenty years with anti-corruption. Part 2. Fighting the ‘seven deadly thins’ – starting the DFID journey
DFID’s experience between 1997 and 2010 saw a fundamental shift in the accepted role of a development agency and unique innovations in anti-corruption thinking and operations. The years would also...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practitioner Experience Note 2020:2)

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.

CMI Working Paper | 2020
The UAE’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: Claiming State Sovereignty, Regional Leverage and International Recognition
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the world’s third-largest donor of humanitarian aid relative to Gross National Income in 2016. The country was among the top five humanitarian assistance state-donors...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2020:1) 11 p.

Journal Article | 2020
Kinship, Caste, and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa
This paper investigates whether an individual’s relationship to the head of household and caste are associated with the level of his or her morbidity and, in the event of illness,...
in Journal of Development Studies vol. 56 no. 1 pp. 45-62

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

Report in External Series | 2019
Building accountable resource governance institutions
Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest concessions to trade in wildlife products are...
Washington D.C.: Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Consortium (TNRC Introductory Overview)

Edited Book | 2019
The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America
Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that...
New York: Routledge

U4 Brief | 2019
Une cour internationale de lutte contre la corruption ? Synthèse des débats
L’impunité et la dimension transfrontalière de la corruption ont suscité des appels à la création d’une cour de lutte contre la corruption qui pourrait tenir les kleptocrates responsables de leurs...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2019:6)

Journal Article | 2019
The New Lost Boys of Sudan
Currently, around seven million people are affected by migration and displacement to, from, and through Sudan. Nearly one million people are seeking refuge inside Sudan’s borders from neighboring and regional...
in POMEPS Studies : Youth Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. vol. 36

Book Chapter | 2019
Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption
This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive and power-preserving corruption. It is argued that the...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.