During the last decade, an increasing share of foreign aid has been provided to countries coming out of civil war or experiencing severe conflict. ...

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

Paper prepared for the seminar "After War: Reconciliation and Democratization in Divided Societies - Lessons learned", Solstrand 27-29 March ...

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

Researching forced migration issues, in a war or post-war context, poses numerous problems. Defining a forced migrant is not always easy, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Review of the book: Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War, by Richardo Soares de Oliveira.  New York: Oxford University ...

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

This evaluation assesses Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009. It tells the story of Norway’s engagement, assesses ...

This week, the UN-commission inquiring into the murder of Hariri are submitting their report to the UN Secretary General. Are Knudsen's new paper on Lebanon's fragile post-war decade, provides a detailed background to the attempts at rebuilding the country from war and the political events that culminated with the murder of Hariri.

CMI has been awarded a 2-year grant under the Research Council of Norway's new program on Poverty and Peace. The project, entitled Violence in the Post-Conflict State", starts by noting that civil wars are often followed by continued or new forms of violence in the affected states. Such violence - whether associated with ex-combatants, organized crime, disaffected warlords, recriminating agents of the state or post-war marginalized groups - seems widespread but poorly understood.

Séverine Autesserre's new book The Trouble with the Congo explores the DRC's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy. Hosted by CMI researcher Ingrid Samset, and with CMI's Deputy Director Arne Strand and former CMI Director Gunnar M. Sørbø, this literary salon with author Séverine Autesserre elaborates on the Congo experience and discusses strategies for peacebuilding and international intervention in war-torn areas.

Astri Suhrke and Ingrid Samset challenge the analysis in the World Development Report: What is the purpose of this statistical analysis? Good policy must be based on nuanced research.

The first multiparty elections were held in Angola in 1992 as a part of the democratization and peace process. However, the September 1992 ...

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

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 ...

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

Political scientist focusing on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response.