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Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture
CMI Report | Jan 2018
The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role ...
Norwegian aid, Food security, Nutrition, Agriculture, Malawi, South-Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Afghanistan Seen Through Different Lenses
Journal Article | Aug 2013
Multiple book review essay on
Globalizing Afghanistan. Terrorism, War and the Rhetoric of Nation Building. Edited by Zubida Jalalzai and David Jefferess. ...
Afghanistan
Asian Models for Aid: Is There a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006
CMI Report | Oct 2007
The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...
Development aid, Asia, Japan, China, India, South Korea
Afghanistan. Peacebuilding in a regional perspective
CMI Conference Report | Jan 2004
Afghanistan's recent history clearly demonstrates that the regional context and external involvement can make or break a peacebuilding processes. In recent ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Conflictual peacebuilding: Afghanistan two years after Bonn
CMI Report | Jan 2004
This report charts the aid policies pursued in Afghanistan since late 2001 aimed at building peace in a country devastated by two decades of conflict. ...
Afghanistan, Democratisation, Peacebuilding, Reconstruction, Security Sector Reform, Asia: Afghanistan
Elections in Afghanistan
News | 20 Mar 2014
Despite an internationally conveyed image of uncertainty connected to the coming elections in Afghanistan, there is a strong sense of enthusiasm and optimism among many Afghans. Leading Afghan civil society actors hope that the enthusiasm will translate into high voter turn-out on election day.
Politics of Faith
Programme | Jan 2006 - Dec 2016
What is the impact of religion on democratization, development and conflict in the South?
This interdisciplinary research programme maps and explores ...
Religion, the state, secularisation, political institutionalisation, political mobilization, development, religious revival, conflict, violence and peace, Middle East and Northern Africa: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Sudan., Asia: Indonesia, Pakistan
Bonded Labor in Nepal
Project | Dec 2004 - Dec 2006
We study the liberation of the Kamaiyas of the western terai of Nepal. We discuss to what extent the Kamaiayas can be considered as bonded laborers, and ...
Asia: Nepal
Mainstreaming Mine Action
Project | Jan - Jul 2004
The study #7; Demonstrates the socio-economic development impact of landmines as well as of mine action operations; #7;Assesses to what extent mine action ...
Mine Action, Development, , Africa: Mozambique., Asia: Afghanistan., Europe: Croatia
KNOWFISH
Project | Jan 2002 - Dec 2004
The objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the information needs and appropriate institutional structures for fisheries management ...
Natural resource management, fisheries, local knowledge, Africa: Malawi, Mozambique
Assessing the impact of transport and energy infrastructure on poverty reduction
Project | Mar - Dec 2003
ADB, in collaboration with the World Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and U.K. Department for International Development (DfID), ...
poverty, energy, transport, Asia: China, India, Thailand
Households, Livelihoods and Social and Political Transformation in Nepal
Project | Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
The project examines the underlying changes in economic and social conditions in Nepal and their relationship to the political transformation that is ...
Nepal
Foreign direct investment during transition. Determinants and patterns in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001
This paper provides an analysis of foreign direct investments to the countries of the former Soviet Union and 10 of the former socialist economies in ...
Europe: Former Soviet Union
Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative structures and gender and assistance
CMI Report | Jan 2001
The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community ...
Asia: Afghanistan
Responses to human right criticism: Kenya-Norway and Indonesia-the Netherlands
Book Chapter | Jan 1995
This is a comparative study of responses to active human rights criticism by two donor countries, Norway and the Netherlands vis-รก-vis Kenya and Indonesia, ...
Human rights, International relations, Netherlands, Norway, Kenya, Indonesia
Knudsen Are John
Research Professor
Social anthropologist focusing on micro conflict, displacement and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East
Islamism, peacebuilding, post-conflict violence, retributive justice, honour killings, refugees and IDPs, forced migration, micro-foundations of conflict and violence, Asia: Pakistan, Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (refugees, IDPs)
Does Employment Empower Women?
Event | 24 Nov 2016
This seminar looks at the impact of industrial jobs on health, domestic violence and political participation among women i Ethiopia. Key note Prof. Ruth ...
Ethiopia
Evaluation of Norwegian Support to Protection of Cultural Heritage
Project | Sep 2008 - Apr 2009
This evaluation addressed the experiences of Norwegian support to the protection of cultural heritage in developing countries. Norwegian support started ...
Culture, Cultural Heritage, Nepal, Malawi, Ethiopia
In Pursuit of Poverty Reduction: What Have Parliaments Got to Do with It?
CMI Report | Jan 2006
Launched only 6 years ago, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has become a key reference document to a majority of developing countries. More ...
Aid, Parliament, Poverty, PRSP, Tanzania, Asia
Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading initiatives
CMI Report | Jan 2003
Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. In least ...
Ethics, Codes of conduct, International trade, Working conditions, Labour standards, Textile industry, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh