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Angola party politics: Into the African trend

Angola Brief | Jun 2011

Angolan politics is usually explained with reference to the country’s long and devastating civil war. The postponed elections, the domination of ...

Angola

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

Book Chapter | Jan 1994

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

From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon

Book Chapter | Aug 2010

From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon Are Knudsen Gl

Lebanon

LSMS Data Quality in Maoist Influenced Areas of Nepal

CMI Working Paper | Oct 2007

The first round of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS1) is a high quality data source that has been applied for a number of empirical studies. Data ...

Household survey, Civil war, JEL classification: C810, O120, Nepal

Incentives for peaceful behaviour

Project | Jan 2006 - May 2009

This is a review of the academic literature about incentives for violent and non-violent behavior in transitions from civil war. It takes stock of current ...

peacebuilding, incentives, civil war, postwar violence

Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro

Master's Thesis | Jan 2016

In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration ...

Brazil

Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

Report in External Series | Feb 2009

What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...

Natural resource management, natural resource wealth, resource curse, rentier state, oil, diamonds, armed conflict, war economies, conflict financing, CSR, peacebuilding

War in resource-rich northern Mozambique – Six scenarios

CMI Insight | May 2020

Since the October 2017 attacks by alleged Islamist insurgents, commonly referred to as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama and locally know as Al Shabab, on Mocimboa ...

Armed clashes, violence, army, insurgents, Mozambique

Does democracy reduce corruption?

Journal Article | Oct 2016

While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. ...

Democracy, corruption, conflict, endogeneity, Bangladesh

Compensatory Livestock Thievery: A New Trend in Economic Crime In Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)

Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2017

“Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out ...

livestock, Economic crime, Compensatory, Thievery, Practitioner, Victim, Broker, ARUSS, Sudan, Dilling, South Kordofan State

Tradition and Change: Afghan Women in an Era of War and Displacement

Book Chapter | Jan 2005

Afghan women, Religious traditions,Transformations, Transmission

Gender, religion, ritual, Afghanistan

The War in Yemen: The view from Iran

Report in External Series | Oct 2015

In the regional backdrop to the war in Yemen Iran is a pivotal actor. Saudi Arabia has made clear that it sees the conflict in Yemen as the extension ...

Yemen, Saudi Arabia

The Bergen Seminar 2000. After war: democracy and reconciliation in divided societies - lessons from the first phase

Project | Jan 1999 - Feb 2000

The seminar examined the short-term and long-term effects on reconciliation and democratication of policy measures that typically follow cessation of ...

Post-conflict, reconciliation, democratisation

Gli hazara dell'Afghanistan tra asservimento, guerra ed emancipazione

Journal Article | Jan 2016

This article analyses the link between politics of enslavement, war and collective emancipation with particular reference to the Hazaras, an ethnic-religious ...

Afghanistan, hazara, guerra, emancipazione

Explaining Variation in Violence after Civil War: A Comparative Analysis of Angola & the DR Congo

Project | Jan 2005 - Aug 2012

This PhD project analyzes why countries that recently have had a civil war experience different levels of collective violence in the postwar period. It ...

peacebuilding, civil war, postwar violence, Angola, DR Congo

The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Aug 2019

Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan

From War-Termination to Sustainable Peacebuilding?

Project | Sep 2004 - Dec 2005

This project is on the integration of armed groups in peace processes, focusing on how various types of armed groups - in terms of their embeddedness ...

Peacebuilding, Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration, Social embeddedness, Afghanistan and Guatemala

Sunnism, Salafism, Sheikism: Urban Pathways of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon

Report in External Series | Jan 2019

This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). ...

Lebanon

The limits of state-building in Afghanistan

Project | Jan 2005 - Dec 2007

An analysis of post-war Afghanistan with a focus on internationally-supported efforts to build a central state and related reconstruction efforts.

peacebuilding, post-conflict, afghanistan, reconstruction, statebuilding, Afghanistan

Lemstad Ingvild

Master's student

Master's student in political science focusing on post-war politics, governance and democracy.