CMI researcher Elling N. Tjønneland has been commissioned by the Norwegian embassy in Pretoria to assist in the process of establishing a joint ...

Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include studies ...

The recent White Paper on Norwegian north-south policy (St. meld. nr. 19 (1995-96)) argues for an increased tying of Norwegian development assistance. ...

China, India, Malaysia and South-South development cooperation in the new Sudans. Daniel Large introduces and discusses with Gunnar M. Sørbø and Gunnar A. Holm.

Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. Later in life he helped draft South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitutional Court for fifteen years. Sachs talks to host Siri Gloppen about his life and role as a judge in the formative years of post-apartheid South Africa.

A travel through the richest oil countries in the world and an analysis of Caspian energy politics.

Caroline Osella (SOAS) and Knut Axel Jacobsen (UiB) in conversation with Åse Gilje Østensen (Royal Norwegian Naval Academy).

The political advances made in South Africa since the end of Apartheid have been formidable. However, there are challenges. There is a lack of a viable and strong civic tradition in the country.

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Utvikling og fattigdom i sør: Treng framtida bistand? Elling N. Tjønneland Norge og det nye verdens

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Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social ...

Prof. Rehman Sobhan challenges the traditional definition of poverty as a form of income deprivation. He redefines poverty a process that excludes significant segments of society from more equitable participation in development opportunities and in decision making. Sobhan identifies a variety of operational ideas to build a more inclusive society in South Asia.

Dr. Eddy Maloka is the CEO of the Africa Institute of South Africa. Previously, he was adviser to the former premiers of Mpumalanga and Gauteng, and he has worked closely with president Mbeki. He has written extensively on political and developmental issues in Africa, including the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Recently he has also written about the Sudan Peace Process and Africa in the new Millennium.

In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews one aspect ...

The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan: Problem and Prospects Garth le Pere; Elling N.

As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: ...

In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. There ...

The Norad programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE) is a programme for cooperation between institutions for cultural education in the South and partners ...