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Is Islam a threshold for escape or an insurmountable barrier? Women bargaining with patriarchy in post-Islamist Sudan
Journal Article | Jun 2010
This article explores women's bargaining with a patriarchal Islamic state in Sudan. The article is situated within the realm of the literature ...
CMI: Partner in Two New Centres of Excellence
News | 12 Nov 2012
The Legitimate Role of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the University of Oslo and the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health at the University of Bergen have been granted Centre of Excellence. CMI are consortium partners.
Pondering the text as change maker
Journal Article | Jan 2015
This article discusses Isabel Hofmeyr's Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. It highlights the many ways in which the rise of the printing ...
Repayment of old loans through new loans. Is cross-financing a problem for Grameen Bank?
CMI Report | Jan 1997
This study analyses the problem and extent of cross-financing in the Grameen Bank system. The main finding is that cross-financing is rarely a problem. ...
Grameen Bank, , Poverty, , Microfinance, Asia: Bangladesh
Inner frontiers: Santal responses to acculturation
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The Santals who constitute one of the largest communities in India, belong to the austro-asiatic linguistic group. They have managed to keep their language ...
India, Santal medicine, Politics, Religion, Asia: India
Dowry and bridewealth presentations in rural Bangladesh: Commodities, gifts and hybrid forms?
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
This study investigates marriage presentations of Bengali Muslims, Rajbansis and aboriginal Oraons on the basis of a comprehensive review of theories ...
Marriage presentations, Bengali Muslims, Rajbansi, Oraon, Asia: Bangladesh
NORAD Review Afghanistan
Project | Jun - Dec 2004
Afghanistan has within the span of three years moved from a complex political emergency to a nascent state-building process, a process that is not yet ...
peacebuilding, NGO-sector, programme review, post-war Afghanistan, Asia: Afghanistan, South Asia
Female Autonomy and Fertility in Nepal
Journal Article | May 2013
We explore the effect of female autonomy on individual fertility in Nepal. We find that families where wives have high level of autonomy have fewer children ...
Nepal
Afghan refugees: Victims of shifting politics
Book Chapter | Jan 2004
A large number of Afghans have now been refugees for more than 23 years. Some have never seen their homeland and some have repeatedly been forced to leave ...
Refugees, Forced migration, Asia: Afghanistan
Peacekeepers as nation-builders: Dilemmas of the UN in East Timor
Journal Article | Jan 2001
The UN mission in East Timor is the most comprehensive transitional administration undertaken by the UN to date. While having a combined function of peacekeeping ...
Asia: East Timor
Human rights in development. Yearbook 1999/2000. The millennium edition
Edited Book | Jan 2001
The yearbook is an on-going project between a number of research institutes, mostly in Europe. The edition is the 12th in the series. It contains artiles ...
International Criminal Court, World Trade Organisation, Minority rights, Affirmative action, Asia: Malaysia, Nepal., Americas: Guatemala
The relationship between the state, family and household. Consequences for women's participation in the education system in Kerala, India
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The theme of this working paper is gender and education in India, and more specifically the question why there is significantly higher participation of ...
Gender relations, Education, Kerala, India, Asia: India
Alternatives to forced return (Roundtable conferance on Afghanistan)
Project | Jul - Dec 2003
Roundtable conferance in Iran in October 2003, collaboration with PRIO and IPIS.
Forced migration, Asia: Afghanistan, Iran
Masculinity, Autonomy, and Attachment in Buddhist Burma
Event | 28 May 2014
People living in any society must mediate between two desires: to feel bonded to others ("connected") and to feel autonomous ("free"). Prof. Ward Keeler, University of Texas presents a lecture based on his recent research in Mandalay, Burma:
Burma
The dialectics of the shifiting accountability of the Maoist Movement in Nepal
Project | Feb - Dec 2003
This article aims at discribing and analysing the shifts in accountability of the Maoist movement through successive periods, first as parlamentary actor ...
Nepal, Maoists, accountability, Asia: Nepal
Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
The Netherlands have over the period 2000-2004 provided 1,2 billion for humanitarian aid, which was implemented by UN agencies, the Red Cross and Red ...
Humanitarian assistance, Aid evaluation, Asia: Afghanistan
Transforming local relationships: Reintegration of combatants through mine action in Afghanistan
Book Chapter | Jan 2004
This is a case study on Afghanistan which concentrates on a specific mine action project that focused on the reintegration of former combatants through ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Web Pages: Afghanistan - Peacebuilding in a Regional Perspective
Project | Jan 2003 - Sep 2004
Web pages that present background information on the Afghan Transitional Authority, regional peacebuilding issues, peacebuilding actors, research institutions ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading
Project | Jan - Aug 2003
This project gives an overview of the current labour conditions in the garment sector in Bangladesh, and evaluate the implementation of ethical codes ...
Asia: Bangladesh
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2020
Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal ...
climate migration, multivariate analysis, host community, distance, perception, Bangladesh