Sociologist currently focusing on governance and human rights research.

Jan Isaksen has been involved in two studies of SADC restructuring. See: Isaksen, J. 2002. Restructuring SADC - Progress and Problems. Bergen: The Chr ...

Many analysts of grassroots conflicts in African emphasized one of the following factors to be the most important: ethnic divisions, competition over ...

This article is about judicial reform in the Southern Cone in the 1990s. It shows that for Argentina and Chile, procedural code reforms were motivated ...

Over the last decade, large deposits of natural gas have been discovered off the southern coast of Tanzania. This book analyzes the long-term process ...

Candidate selection and informal soft quotas for women: gender imbalance in political recruitment in

In Tanzania, there is a striking increase in the number of girls who get pregnant from the ages 16 to 20. Among 16 year olds, 11 percent get pregnant, whereas 61 percent of the 20 year old girls start childbearing. Why do so many girls have babies when they are this young? How does this affect their economic situation and possibilities of entering the job market?

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a proposed ...

Governments in developing countries are typically constrained by a limited fiscal capacity to finance the provision of essential public goods – ...

The papers from the Maputo conference in April ready for download Letter of invitation Maputo Table of contents Brito, Luis de: Challenge for Democracy: ...

Lise Rakner has been appointed professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. She is the first female professor at the Institute.

Chinese investment in SADC: a global perspective Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig Furthering Southern Afr

Civil society and human security: a conceptual note Lise Rakner Furthering Southern African integra

Cand. polit Lovise Aalen defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Oslo Friday 4 April. In her dissertation Aalen studies the national political framework of ethnic based federalism. She argues that ethnic political mobilisation must be understood as an outcome of both inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic relations.

A new book offers a rich ethnographic study of the Fulbe (Fulani) in the savanna belt in the eastern part of Sudan.

Presentation and discussion with editors Gunnar M. Sørbø (CMI) andAbdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (University of Khartoum).    The ...

SADC restructuring, prioritisation and donors, 2006-2008 Elling N. Tjønneland Furthering Southern A

How do societies deal with gross human rights violations after the end of violent conflict? This symposium critically examines the justice and reconciliation processes by comparing the Norwegian post-World War II experience to more recent cases from Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. There are high expectations that exploitation of natural ...

This is a commissioned evaluation report of a project implemented over three years by the Centre for Legal Assistance (CELA) in Malawi. It centred on ...