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Sudan was divided in 2011 when South Sudan achieved its independence after the longest war on the African continent. We research how local conflicts are absorbed into or affected by...
“For the Guarantee of Law and Order”: The Armed Forces and Public Security in Brazil
CMI Working Paper | Sep 2014
The transition to democracy in Brazil came with a significant change in the role the armed forces could play for public security within the country. According ...
Brazil, armed forces, public security, civil-military relations
Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?
CMI Insight | Nov 2014
Lebanon is straining under the fallout from the Syrian civil war amidst catering for one million refugees. Can the Lebanese Armed Forces contain the crisis ...
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), civil-military relations, deeply-divided societies, multi-confessional armies, Lebanon, Syria
The Sudan Armed Forces and Prospects of Change
CMI Insight | Apr 2016
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has a long history of siding with civil protestors in times of national political crisis. In recent years, waves of popular ...
Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces, Arab Spring, Military
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): A united army for a divided country?
Book Chapter | Jan 2017
Multi-confessional armies are often seen as being weak and prone to disintegration. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is a case in point. From its inception ...
Lebanon, civil-miliary relations, army, urban conflict, deeply-divided societies
Custodians of social peace or contenders in a popularity contest? The Egyptian Armed Forces and Egypt’s Coptic Christians
CMI Working Paper | Apr 2015
This report analyses current and past relations between the Egyptian Coptic Christian community and the Egyptian Armed Forces, discussing contemporary ...
Egypt, Egyptian Coptic Christian Community, Egyptian Armed Forces, civil-military relations
The Argentine Military in Democracy: Moving Beyond Issues of Civilian Control to a Citizen Soldier Paradigm
CMI Working Paper | Jun 2015
Argentina’s transition to democracy in 1983 ended decades of cyclical military interventions in politics. Since then a long and complex process ...
Armed forces, democratic civilian control, civil-military relations, citizen-soldier, Argentina
Agents or Guardians: The military and civil society in Latin America and the Middle East
Project | Jan - Dec 2012
As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, CMI ...
Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias
Journal Article | Jun 2020
This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality ...
Afghanistan, armed governance, CIA, Afghan militias, peace talks, accountability
Situating (In-)Security: A United Army for a Divided Country
Project | Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
Lebanon is a deeply-divided country with a troubled civil war history (1975–90). The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is multi-confessional, ...
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), civil-military relations, deeply-divided societies, multi-confessional armies, Lebanon, Syria
The Armed Forces and the Economy in Latin America: Contemporary Trends and Implications for Civil-Military Relations.
CMI Working Paper | Nov 2016
This paper examines several cases of military economic activities that persist in Latin America, despite the political and economic liberalization processes ...
Honduras, Latin America, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia
“A Civil-Military Alliance”: The Venezuelan Armed Forces before and during the Chávez era
CMI Working Paper | May 2016
Executive summary
When Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) came to power in Venezuela in 1998, the military was bestowed with a new—and controversial—role ...
military, politics, Chávez, Bolivar, soldiers, alliances, Venezuela
Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East: A Literature Review
CMI Working Paper | Jul 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, a wave of military coups in the Middle East triggered extensive research on the role of military forces throughout the region. ...
Literature review, Civil Military relations, Middle East
Conflict of Interests or Interests in Conflict? Diamonds & War in the DRC
Journal Article | Jan 2002
The article explores how the exploitation of mineral resources such as diamonds contributed to prolonging the armed conflict that broke out in the Democratic ...
Natural resources, diamonds, duration of war, armed conflict, DR Congo, Great Lakes region
Sustainability and Transition in Afghanistan: A Political Economy Analysis
Report in External Series | Jan 2011
This report argues that billions of dollars in international assistance to Afghanistan in the past decade have created a rentier state that is unprecedented ...
Transition, sustainability, Afghanistan
Documentary film: Nahr el-Bared Talks Back
Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2012
Nahr el-Bared talks back
On 20th May 2007, fighting broke out between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and a new militia group calling itself Fatah al-Islam ...
Forced migration, refugees, IDPs, Lebanon
Egypt´s military chiefs get connected
News | 2 Mar 2011
Questions are raised about the intentions of the Egyptian armed forces and if they will stretch to meet the people´s demands. Voices in the international community are concerned. With good reason.
Egypt
A Hawk in Dove’s Feathers: Colombian Civil-Military Relations Under Santos
CMI Insight | Feb 2015
Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight reviews ...
Civil-Military Relations, Colombia
Strengthening Norwegian-Brazilian cooperation
News | 15 Nov 2011
A new collaboration project between Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Brasilia strengthens the academic bonds between Norway and Brazil. The project aims to explore the role of armed forces in transitions to democracy.
Darfur crisis: The role of traditional leaders in dealing with violence against women
Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2014
The armed conflict between the Sudan government and rebel groups in Darfur erupted in 2003. Escalating violence included sexual assaults on women. Many ...
Sexual violence, women, Darfur, Sudan
Servants of the nation, defenders of la patria: The Bolivarian Militia in Venezuela
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2015
In 2008, the government of now-deceased President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela passed a law creating what is known as the Bolivarian militia (Milicia ...
Bolivarian militia, civil-military relations, gender, class, Venezuela