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Waging war and building peace in Afghanistan

Journal Article | Sep 2012

Visions of peace and the means of violence have been strategically joined at the very foundation of the international engagement in Afghanistan since ...

Afghanistan

Patrolling a proxy-war: Soldiers, citizens and Zuʻama in Syria Street, Tripoli

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

The deadliest proxy war in Lebanon is that between Bab al-Tabbaneh (Sunni) and Jabal Mohsen (Alawite), two neighbourhoods in downtown Tripoli. The conflict ...

micro-conflict, civil-miltary relations, , Lebanon

Post--war power sharing

Project | Jun 2009 - Dec 2013

This project aims at improving our understanding of the implications of introducing power-sharing arrangements in post-war multi-ethnic states – ...

The War in Angola: Internal Conditions for Peace and Recovery

Report in External Series | Jan 1989

The War in Angola: Internal Conditions for Peace and Recovery Inge Tvedten Current African Issues

Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon

Journal Article | Dec 2016

This (open access) article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik ...

Lebanon, martyrs, Rafik Harir, post-civil war

Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction

Book | Jan 1997

After more than twenty years of devastating civil war, Angola is slowly moving toward peace and reconciliation. In this accessible introduction to one ...

Angola

Reconstruction as Modernisation: The 'post-conflict' project in Afghanistan

Journal Article | Sep 2007

This paper examines the post-war reconstruction programme in Afghanistan, arguing that it contains the seeds of radical social change. The paper analyses ...

post-war reconstruction, , Afghanistan

Explaining Variation in Violence After Civil war: A Comparative Analysis of Angola (2002-2009) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (2003-2010)

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2013

Explaining Variation in Violence After Civil war: A Comparative Analysis of Angola (2002-2009) and

Peacebuilding, postwar violence, collective violence. War duration, no. of factions, conflict settlement. Amnesties, prosecutions, ICC. Elections, economic growth, regional neighborhood. Statebuilding, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Jessica Stern: My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide

Book Review | Oct 2020

Jessica Stern: My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide Anna Gopsill Publi

Violence in the post-conflict state

Project | Aug 2006 - Dec 2008

The ending of wars is often followed by continued or new forms of violence in the affected states. Such violence, whether associated with ex-combatants, ...

peacebuilding, violence, armed conflict, post-war reconstruction, Angola, DR Congo, Afghanistan, Lebanon

Congo-Kinshasa

Book Chapter | Jan 2000

This is a country profile of the Democratic Republic of Congo, published in the 2000-2001 yearbook of the Norwegian Council for Africa (in Norwegian). ...

DR Congo

The effects of post-war aid

Project | Jan 2003 - Jun 2005

The project examines factors shaping the implementation of peace agreements and the effects of strategies for social, economic and political (re-)construction ...

post-war reconstruction, development assistance, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, democratisation, Africa: Mozambique, Rwanda., Americas: Guatemala

Democratizing a dependent state: The case of Afghanistan

Book Chapter | Mar 2009

Democratizing a dependent state: The case of Afghanistan Astri Suhrke War and democratization. Leg

Democratization, Afghanistan

Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?

CMI Insight | Nov 2014

Lebanon is straining under the fallout from the Syrian civil war amidst catering for one million refugees. Can the Lebanese Armed Forces contain the crisis ...

Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), civil-military relations, deeply-divided societies, multi-confessional armies, Lebanon, Syria

Economic Incentives for Peacebuilding

Report in External Series | Sep 2008

What does social science literature tell us about economic incentives for peacebuilding? A variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations. ...

economic incentives, peacebuilding, statebuilding, foreign aid, reparations, DDR, aid coordination

Central Africa

Book Chapter | Jan 2002

This is a profile of the Central African region, published in the 2002-2003 yearbook of the Norwegian Council for Africa (in Norwegian). The article focuses ...

DR Congo

Towards a comprehensive refugee policy: Conflict and refugees in the post-Cold War world

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1992

This study was prepared for a joint ILO/UNHCR meeting in Geneva, May 1992, on international aid strategies to reduce emigration pressures. The paper analyses ...

Refugees, International politics, Social conflicts, International conflicts

Peacebuilding and Democratic Consolidation in Post-War Guatemala: A Comparative Assessment of the Impact of Civil-Military Reforms in the Peace Accords

Master's Thesis | Dec 2007

This thesis seeks to combine institutional peacebuilding theory and democratization theory in order to understand the process and the result of the implementation ...

The Taliban and the humanitarian soldier: Configurations of freedom and humanity in Afghanistan

Journal Article | Jul 2019

Humanitarian wars are a primary means of globally affirming a specific model of humanity, built according to the cultural, moral, and economic standards ...

Afghanistan

Conflict of Interests or Interests in Conflict? Diamonds & War in the DRC

Journal Article | Jan 2002

The article explores how the exploitation of mineral resources such as diamonds contributed to prolonging the armed conflict that broke out in the Democratic ...

Natural resources, diamonds, duration of war, armed conflict, DR Congo, Great Lakes region