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Islamic Feminism, a public lecture

Sudan Working Paper | Nov 2014

The programme Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan and South Sudan (ARUSS) aims to build academic bridges between Sudan and South Sudan. Theoverall ...

education, research, Islamic feminism, Sudan

Why and How Civil Defense Militias Emerge: The Case of the Arrow Boys in South Sudan

Journal Article | Jan 2014

This article uses a collective-action framework to study the mobilization of the Arrow Boys (AB), a community defense militia in South Sudan. Drawing ...

De Vele Gezichten van Corruptie; een Antropologische Kijk

Journal Article | Jan 2005

The general and widely accepted definition of corruption as 'the abuse of public office for private gain' presupposes a definite separation between the ...

Corruption

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

When Neighbours Become Killers: Ethnic Conflict and Communal Violence in Western Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2007

Across Africa land rights conflicts are escalating between indigenous and migrant ethnic groups. This paper analyses the communal violence that took place ...

Ethnic conflicts, Violence, Uganda

Assessing the restructuring of SADC - positions, policies and progress

CMI Report | Jan 2001

This study was commissioned by Norad. The Report provides an assessment of the institutional restructuring of SADC and an input to the planning of future ...

Regional integration, Regional co-operation, Southern Africa, SADC, Development assistance, Peace, Democratisation, Security, Water, Power, Trade agreements, Africa: SADC

Return to war in South Sudan

Report in External Series | Apr 2014

While the crisis in South Sudan that started in December 2013 was triggered by a power struggle in the ruling party (SPLM), the causes for the rapid breakdown ...

Sudan

Evaluation of the Norwegian Fredskorpset (FK Norway)

Project | Jun - Dec 2015

Fredskorpset is a Norwegian government agency established to promote and fund exchange of young professionals and volunteers between Norway and developing ...

Civil society, technical assistance, NGOs, Norway, Africa, Asia

Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple mobilities in and out of the South China Sea

Project | Sep 2019 - Aug 2024

The South China Sea is known as a contested maritime battleground. Not just for state sovereignty, oil and gas but above all for the marine resources ...

Fisheries, Natural resource management, Governance, Borders, Militarisation

Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development

Book | Jul 2018

It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures ...

Tax, coercion, reform, Africa

China and global integrity-building: Challenges and prospects for engagement

U4 Issue | Jun 2019

Due to its economic weight and an increasingly active outreach towards developing countries under the framework of "South-South Cooperation", the People's ...

Litigating the Right to Health

Programme | Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy? The project investigates whether litigation can make health ...

Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, South Africa

Discourses of gender and caste in rural South Asia. An analysis of the ideology of impurity

DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991

This paper focuses on ideology, gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. First the epistemological grounding of a critical feminist theory of ideology ...

Asia: India

Discources of gender and caste in rural South India: An analysis of the ideology of impurity

CMI Report | Jan 1991

Discources of gender and caste in rural South India: An analysis of the ideology of impurity Karin

Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections

Journal Article | Sep 2014

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has ...

Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan

Litigating health rights. Can courts bring more justice to health?

Edited Book | Oct 2011

The last fifteen years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of health rights cases focusing on issues such as access to health services and essential ...

How does litigation affect health financing?

Report in External Series | Jan 2010

In the last fifteen years, judicial claims to secure health services as a matter of right have become an important phenomenon in a number of countries ...

health litigation

Hybrid Regimes and the Challenges of Deepening and Sustaining Democracy in Developing Countries

Journal Article | Dec 2008

A wave of democratisation swept across the developinng world from the 1980s onwards. However, despite the momentous transformation that this so-called ...

Democratization

Intergovernmental fiscal relations in the developing world: A review of issues

Book Chapter | Jan 2001

Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in ...

Mozambique - a sub-Saharan African NIC?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

This paper analyzes and explains foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mozambique. The country was one of the fastest growing countries in the world during ...

Africa: Mozambique