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Journal Article | Dec 2019
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal
Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation of attitudes towards women as...
in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Book | Nov 2019
Governing Petroleum Resources: Prospects and Challenges for Tanzania
Over the last decade, large deposits of natural gas have been discovered off the southern coast of Tanzania. This book analyzes the long-term process of how a country develops the...
Bergen: CMI and REPOA 186 p.

Edited Book | Nov 2019
Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in...
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd. c 200 p.

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

Sudan Brief | Sep 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.

CMI Brief | Sep 2019
Turkey’s Humanitarian Diplomacy: The AKP Model
Turkey has become a major global humanitarian actor. They have been widely engaged in Somalia and Syria, Pakistan and Myanmar and hosts the world’s largest number of refugees with more...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:08) 5 p.

Report in External Series | Aug 2019
A Gender Analysis of Peace Agreements and Transitional Documents in Libya, 2011-2018
This Spotlight addresses the questions: How did peace agreements and transition documents signed in Libya between 2011 and 2018 provide for the inclusion of women and gender? When and how...
Forster, R. (2019). A Gender Analysis of Peace Agreements and Transitional Documents in Libya, 2011-2018 (PA-X Report, Spotlight Series). Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh

Report in External Series | Aug 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 | Jun 2019
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 189-192 vol. 26 no. 2 299-323 p.

U4 Issue | May 2019
Comparing peer-based anti-corruption missions in Kosovo and Guatemala
International missions brought foreign experts to help local partners tackle corruption and organised crime in Kosovo and Guatemala. With unprecedented investigative powers, those efforts sought to disrupt criminal networks and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:6)

Journal Article | Apr 2019
Twenty Years After Ottawa: ‘Unpacking’ Mine Action in Peace Agreements
Mine action is essential for long-term peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. Using new data, this paper explores the nexus between mine action and peace processes, providing an analysis of trends in...
in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development vol. 14 no. 2 pp. 150-163

Journal Article | Apr 2019
A Triad of Confrontation: State Discipline, Buddhist Purification, and Indiscipline as a Local Strategy in Central Vietnam
In the village of Sa Huỳnh, state, fishers, and Buddhist clergy draw from semiotic ideologies but often employ a common political language, rarely agreeing on its meaning. Highlighting different structural...
in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography vol. 48 no. 2 pp. 183-208

Impact Series | Apr 2019
Changing the public narrative: The case of forced sterilizations in Peru
In a drive for lower birth rates during the mid-90’s, Peruvian authorities launched a campaign to persuade women to get sterilized. More than 200 000 women underwent the surgical procedure...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Impact Series IS 2019:01)

U4 Issue | Apr 2019
Education sector corruption: How to assess it and ways to address it
Education sector corruption erodes social trust, worsens inequality, and sabotages development. Types of corruption in elementary-secondary education range from academic cheating to bribery and nepotism in teaching appointments to bid-rigging...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:5)

Journal Article | Mar 2019
Policy implementation under stress: Central-local government relations in property tax administration in Tanzania
Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and challenges facing such cooperation...
in Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
The ‘Secret Loans Affair’ and Political Corruption in Mozambique
In 2016, the ‘secret loans affair’ sprung on to the Mozambican political scene with the discovery that three government-owned companies – controlled by the military intelligence – had borrowed around...
in Inge Amundsen (ed.): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd.

Report in External Series | Jan 2019
Transforming Pastoralist Mobility in West Darfur: Understanding Continuity and Change
In the Darfur Region of Sudan, patterns of livestock mobility and livelihood systems are continually adapting and transforming themselves in the face of multiple challenges. Earlier studies have shown that...
A Feinstein International Center publication, January 2019

Journal Article | 2018
Introducing post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) for management of severe anemia in Malawian children: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perceptions and motivation
Background
Severe malarial anaemia is one of the leading causes of paediatric hospital admissions in Malawi. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is the intermittent administration of full treatment courses of antimalarial to...
in BMC Health Services Research vol. 18 no. 984 pp. 1-15

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.

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxation
On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences of ordinary citizens. We find that...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:11)