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. ...

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 ...

This study investigates marriage presentations of Bengali Muslims, Rajbansis and aboriginal Oraons on the basis of a comprehensive review of theories ...

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.

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 ...

Roundtable conferance in Iran in October 2003, collaboration with PRIO and IPIS.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The theme of this working paper is gender and education in India, and more specifically the question why there is significantly higher participation of ...

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:

This article aims at discribing and analysing the shifts in accountability of the Maoist movement through successive periods, first as parlamentary actor ...

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 ...

This is a case study on Afghanistan which concentrates on a specific mine action project that focused on the reintegration of former combatants through ...

Web pages that present background information on the Afghan Transitional Authority, regional peacebuilding issues, peacebuilding actors, research institutions ...

This project gives an overview of the current labour conditions in the garment sector in Bangladesh, and evaluate the implementation of ethical codes ...

Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal ...

Research outputs consists of articles in international journals, a special journal issue, one PhD. thesis and three MA thesis.

Professor Anatol Lieven discusses the key arguments in his latest book with Arne Strand and Hans Inge Langø.