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Spirited warriors: Conspiracy and protection on Lombok
Book Chapter | Jan 2011
Spirited warriors: Conspiracy and protection on Lombok Kari Telle Engaging the Spirit World in Mode
Indonesia
Spirited places and ritual dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok
Journal Article | Sep 2009
This article concerns the 'living' landscape inhabited by Sasak Muslims on the Indonesian island of Lombok, viewed in the context of reformist efforts ...
Islam, ritual practice, spiritual, resacralisation, Indonesia
Dharma power: Searching for security in post-new order Indonesia
Journal Article | Aug 2009
Security concerns are creeping into new aspects of everyday life in Indonesia, resulting in new organizational forms and ways of perceiving self and society. ...
Dharma wisesa, ontological uncartainty, power, security, spirit, army, Indonesia
Love in Law – The Indian Supreme Court decides in favour of LGBT persons
CMI Brief | Nov 2018
On 6 September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court delivered a 493-pages-long verdict on LGBT rights and love. “Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India” ...
LGBT rights, India
A Conflict Does Not Rot: State and Civil Society Responses to Civil War Offences in Mozambique
Journal Article | Jun 2013
This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil war in ...
Civil War, Gamba Spirits, Gorongosa, Human Rights, Local Justice, Mozambique, Transitional Justice, Mozambique
Modernisation narratives and small-scale fisheries in Ghana and Zambia
Journal Article | Nov 2011
The desire to modernise African small-scale fisheries has persisted since colonial times. In terms of research into and policy on fisheries, mainstream ...
Ghana, Zambia
The Mood and Rhetoric of Critique
Event | 29 Aug 2013
Open lecture with Assistant Professor Ruth Mas(University of Colorado).
This lecture is concerned with the relationship between secularity ...
Abyei: Sudan´s West Bank
News | 6 Apr 2011
South Sudan's July 9, 2011 Independence Day is fast approaching, but ongoing violence in Abyei, including the deliberate burning of villages by northern-aligned forces and the displacement of 20,000 people, threatens to undo progress toward peace in Sudan.
Sudan
'Informal Practice, Cultural Capital and Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania'
Book Chapter | Dec 2008
The book concludes with a chapter by Åse Berit Grødeland that deals with the ways in which negative consequences of reform and the opportunity ...
informal practice, informal networks, informal contacts, communism, post-communism, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania
Simón Bolívar- a man of war and a symbol of freedom
News | 27 Mar 2014
During the recent revolution in Egypt, Simon Bolívar- a man from a different war, a different century and a different continent- was watched over and embraced by protestors as a symbol for their struggle. Why?
Venezuela
Time, Trust and Patience
News | 30 May 2014
Development aid must given to those who need it the most. Aid must be long-term, patient and build on trust, said Alf Morten Jerve. Alf Morten Jerve passed away 15 May.
FOOD AND FURY
Event | 16 Oct 2012
Food evokes emotions. Food shapes nations and cultures. Food can be a source of conflict. Food riots are one of the oldest forms of people's revolutions.
Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit public address
News | 13 Oct 2010
Read the public address of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit on his return from the official visit to the United States of America.
Sudan
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
CMI Brief | Sep 2017
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 ...
FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan
A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi
CMI Brief | Apr 2016
The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, culturally ...
election, Malawi, gender, Joyce Banda