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African Development: What role do the rising powers play?
Report in External Series | Jan 2015
The July 2014 BRICS Summit marked a change in the level of the ambitions of this alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. ...
Rising powers, BRICS, Development, Aid, China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, Africa
What does Islam have to do with it? A close look at the facts: FGM in the Horn of Africa
Journal Article | Jan 2015
The horn of Africa has the highest prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in the world, including in its most severe forms. ...
Female Genital Mutilation, Islam, violence against women, horn of Africa
Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in Africa
Journal Article | Nov 2013
The authors in this special issue on Democratization and Gender Quotas in Africa are in various ways exploring the long-term effects of processes ...
Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1960 to 2008
Journal Article | Jan 2013
We investigate whether uranium, similar to other resources, is associated with armed conflicts. The analysis uses grid cells in Africa to test ...
Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Rural Africa
Journal Article | Jul 2019
We argue that polygyny creates a social imbalance where few, economically well-off men marry many wives and many poor men marry late or never. ...
Polygyny, Bride prices, Family, Violence, Africa, Africa
Shattered promises and hopes: The 2001 local elections in southern region
Book Chapter | Jan 2002
Shattered promises and hopes: The 2001 local elections in southern region Siegfried Pausewang and L
Africa: Ethiopia
A population resisting local control and intimidation? The elections in Gedeo, southern region
Book Chapter | Jan 2002
A population resisting local control and intimidation? The elections in Gedeo, southern region Sieg
Africa: Ethiopia
Prospects for peace, security and human rights in Africa's Horn
News | 1 Feb 2005
This book deals with the prospects for peaceful change, human rights and state-building in the Horn of Africa. There are few regions in the world that are more in need of peace and human security, yet prospects are threatened by numerous sources of conflict.
Research - Policy Links in Sub-Saharan Africa
Event | 14 Sep 2007
In Africa, policies are easily pronounced but difficult to implement. The links between policy and policy research are very tenuous. Professor David Olusanya Ajakaiye exlores why.
From curse to development: Natural resources, institutions and public revenues
Event | 8 Sep 2009
The discovery of oil or mineral resources has been associated with devastating political conflict and economic setbacks insted of sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. The Oslo conference is aimed at eliciting lessons learned from recent efforts to improve the management of natural resources in developing countries.
Angola, DRC, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, East Timor, Laos, and Mongolia
Albie Sachs
Event | 15 Mar 2010
Albie Sachs, Judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2009), and author of the book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, held this year's Chr. Michelsen lecture.
South Africa
China in Africa: What role does China play in Angola's reconstruction programme?
Event | 23 Nov 2010
China's role in Angola is particularly massive and major loans have been provided for Angola's reconstruction in exchange for access to Angola's oil. Corkin explores the role of the Angolan government in the evolvement of Chinese-Angolan relations.
Angola
African perspectives on climate change governance
Event | 6 Nov 2013
Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. The poor are the most vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise, the destruction of coastal zones, drought and water shortages. Is fair global interenational climate governance possible, asks Professor Oliver C. Ruppel.
Ethiopia, the Somali territories and regional conflict dynamics in the Horn of Africa
Event | 9 May 2014
Tobias Hagman gives a talk on the peace negotiations between the Somali rebel group Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian government.
Ethiopia, Somalia
Can health systems 'travel'? How socio-political contexts are shaping health services in Africa
Event | 12 Feb 2015
This seminar is dedicated to the discussion of health systems in Africa as products of their social and political environment. With Jean Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Claire Wendland.
Ethiopia
Survey experiments in Africa. Do's and don'ts.
Event | 4 Mar 2015
Join us for an introduction on how to conduct survey experiments in Africa.
Youth in Africa: How Africa's post conflict regimes handle the African Millennias (Norglobal)
Project | Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
The population in sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing and the youngest in the world, yet the politicians ruling them are typically among ...
Women and Peacebuilding in Africa
Project | Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
The project looks at the cost of women’s exclusion and the possibilities for their inclusion in peace talks, peacebuilding, and politics ...
Women, peacebuilding, Africa, legal reform, Algeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Sudan
Evaluation of Training for Peace in Africa
Project | Jun 2013 - May 2014
This is an evaluation of the impact of Training for Peace in Africa (TfP). TfP is major programme funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, ...
Training, peacekeeping, evaluation, Africa
Elections and Democracy in Africa
Project | Nov 2009 - May 2010
The aim of the research project “Elections and Democracy in Africa” is to contribute to a comparative understanding of the challenges ...
Liberation movements, pro-democray movements, Africa, elections, democracy, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe