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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 – ...

Making unity unattractive: The conflicting aims of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Journal Article | Oct 2013

As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: ...

Power sharing after war, Sudan, South Sudan

Aalen Lovise

Research Director

Political scientist focusing on democracy, governance and women's employment and empowement in the Horn of Africa

Democratisation, human rights, federalism, ethnicity, post conflict power sharing, political institutions in developmental processes, women's participation in authoritarian contexts, Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti

Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

Paper prepared for the seminar "After War: Reconciliation and Democratization in Divided Societies - Lessons learned", Solstrand 27-29 March 2000

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)

Conflictual peacebuilding: Afghanistan two years after Bonn

CMI Report | Jan 2004

This report charts the aid policies pursued in Afghanistan since late 2001 aimed at building peace in a country devastated by two decades of conflict. ...

Afghanistan, Democratisation, Peacebuilding, Reconstruction, Security Sector Reform, Asia: Afghanistan

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

A country on the brink of collapse

News | 28 Oct 2016

Corrupt politicians, public debt spiraling out of control and war reborn. Can Mozambique survive in its current shape? War is once again ravaging Mozambique, ...

RENAMO, FRELIMO, corruption, Mozambique

Opportunity in Crisis: Navigating Afghanistan's Uncertain Future

Report in External Series | Aug 2015

Afghanistan’s future remains uncertain. After one of the longest and most ambitious interventions since the Second World War, peace and stability ...

Afghanistan

Cross-border trade in the war areas of the Sudans: Smuggling or a form of cooperation?

Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2016

After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. In ...

war, Border, Coping mechanisms, markets, Sumbuk, trade, Livelihoods, Sudan, South Sudan, Southern Kordofan State

After Bonn: Conflictual peace building

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

After Bonn: Conflictual peace building Astri Suhrke, Kristian Berg Harpviken and Arne Strand Recons

Asia: Afghanistan

The Logic of Conflictual Peacebuilding

Book Chapter | Jan 2005

The Logic of Conflictual Peacebuilding Astri Suhrke and Arne Strand After the Conflict: Reconstruct

Peace, Peace building, Africa: Mozambique., Asia: Afghanistan, East Timor

After Bonn: Conflictual peace building

Journal Article | Jan 2002

The Bonn Agreement of December 2001 lays the foundations for a political transition in Afghanistan after 23 years of war. The agreement excludes the defeated ...

Asia: Afghanistan

The paradox of federalism and decentralisation in South Sudan: An instrument and an obstacle for peace

Sudan Brief | Sep 2019

A power sharing agreement and the inauguration of a new government in South Sudan has been put to a halt. Disagreement on the number of states and local ...

Federalism, Decentralisation, South Sudan

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

Acquiescence to assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon?

Journal Article | Nov 2010

This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war ...

assassinations, impunity, Lebanon

Land Issues and Poverty Production: Requirements for Lasting Peace in Sudan and Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Nov 2007

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

Afghanistan, Sudan

The New Asylum Dilemma: Refugee, War Criminal or Terrorist?

CMI Brief | Jan 2006

After 9/11 and following terrorist attacks a new problem has presented itself with great force: How can Western states - like Norway - guarantee fair ...

Human rights, asylum, terrorists

Multialteral aid institutions and strategic donor behavior

Project | Feb - Dec 2003

The project builds on recent empirical evidence suggesting the importance of strategic donor behaviour for aid allocation to develop theoretical models ...

power, foreign assistance

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