Professor Kais M. Firro holds the opening lecture. Minority politics, minority community dynamics, and relations between members of majority and minority religious communities in the Middle East from a historical and a contemporary perspective.

In Jordan, churches and mosques are situated side by side. In Sudan, religious minorities can hold powerful positions, but rarely do. Religious domination is not a question of black or white.

Norway has provided financial support to the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) since 2007.  The Norwegian Embassy (in the current phase) provides ...

The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. ...

In her book on The Adivasis of Bangladesh, Senior researcher Tone Bleie brings together a discussion of minority and indigenous rights with a social science analysis of how ethnic discrimination impacts on poverty processes and outcomes. She argues that colonial and post-colonial states compulsively produce majorities and minorities, marginalizing minorities with scant citizenship rights.

Literary Salon with Anne Sofie Roald and Turid Smith Polfus.

The main goal of the research project is to understand the consequences of the legal regime India has adopted to protect its indigenous peoples ...

Social anthropologist who works on the 'politics of faith' focusing on the legal regulation of religion, religious minorities, militias, conflict and local justice in Indonesia

The China Autonomy Programme (CAP) of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has aimed to study ways and means for protecting and promoting the ...

Government plans to establish care centers in Kabul for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers run afoul of international obligations to ensure ...

The five Nordic countries may be thought of as quite similar in many ways so that we would expect commonalities rather than differences among ...

This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural  structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority  ...

Despite an increase in the number of countries that have adopted women’s caucuses in sub-Saharan Africa, there is still little empirical ...

Why did Poland´s conservative government, the Law and Justice Party, launch an attack on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans ...

Cand. polit Lovise Aalen defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Oslo Friday 4 April. In her dissertation Aalen studies the national political framework of ethnic based federalism. She argues that ethnic political mobilisation must be understood as an outcome of both inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic relations.

Nepal is in the process of making a democratic federal republic. We hope to contribute to the discussions of ethnic and fiscal federalism based ...

This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the ...

The internal flight alternative (IFA) is a limit on refugee status that potentially applies when a claimant’s risk of persecution is confined ...

Danish-Norwegian Return Center for Minors in Kabul: Well-Founded Initiative? Jessica Schultz and Ter

The mapping of the chaning historical relationships between people, lands and identities in the central tribal belt of India and in north-eastern ...