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Smerte på flukt - fortelling fra en tysk menighet i Chile etter krigen
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)De fleste av de som kom til Chile, var overlevende fra andre verdenskrig og hadde opplevd forferdelige ting under krigen. Jeg har fortalt deg at min far for eksempel var en soldat i en alder av 16 og ble sendt til grensen mellom Frankrike og Belgia som amerikanerne invaderte. I sin tropp bestående av 200 soldater overlevde kun 6 personer, hvor en er min far. Dette er bare ett eksempel. Det var andre ... -
BRICS and the West: Don’t Believe the Cold War Hype
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2023-08-30)When Jim O’Neill coined the BRIC acronym in 2001, the point he was trying to convey was that the global economic system needed to incorporate the world’s largest emerging economies. His advice fell on deaf ears and in 2009, Brazil, China, India, and Russia decided to take matters into their own hands and formed the BRIC grouping. South Africa joined the group in 2010 to form the BRICS. This July, ... -
Should the Security Council Engage with Implications of Climate Change? Let’s Look at the Scientific Evidence
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2023-06-08)Climate change is a controversial topic at the United Nations (UN) Security Council. The Council has adopted over 70 resolutions and presidential statements that address aspects of climate-related peace and security implications. However, a few members strongly oppose adding climate change to the Security Council agenda. When a thematic resolution on the security implications of climate change came ... -
The Politics of Russian Arctic shipping: evolving security and geopolitical factors
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-03)This study examines how soft security, including economic and environmental issues, inform the broader security and geopolitical factors of Moscow’s policy on the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The authors begin by discussing how Russia’s hard and soft security perceptions of Arctic shipping evolved in the post-Cold War era, including perceptional changes in the context of the Ukrainian crisis and ongoing ... -
Youth, politics, and youth-led political violence in Nepal
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-25)This article examines how participation and mobilization of youth in politics has led to an unintended consequence: youth‐led violence. We define youth‐led violence as a particular form of political violence that emerged from an interplay between political power, domination, and rent‐seeking behavior. To elaborate on youth‐led violence between 1990 and 2018 in Nepal, we identified and analyzed ... -
Homesteading in the Arctic: The Logic Behind, and Prospects for, Russia’s ’Hectare in the Arctic’ Program
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)Moscow launched its “Hectare in the Arctic” program in summer 2021, allowing Russian nationals to obtain a free hectare of land in the country’s northern regions. This plan is the latest attempt to address the chronic problem of outmigration and to attract new settlers to the Russian Arctic. Yet, multiple obstacles stand in the way of making the scheme a viable demographic solution. The primary ... -
Climate change in context: putting people first in the Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-06)Climate change is a major challenge to Arctic and other Indigenous peoples, but not the only and often not the most pressing one. We propose re-framing the treatment of climate change in policy and research, to make sure health, poverty, education, cultural vitality, equity, justice, and other topics highlighted by the people themselves and not just climate science also get the attention they ... -
Does international elite sporting success or hosting major events affect self-rated health? An examination of potential positive externalities related to international sporting tournaments
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-22)Research question: It is a common expectation among politicians, civil servants and sport managers that hosting a major sporting event or achieving international elite sport success yields a variety of positive externalities grounded in the “Virtuous Circle of Elite Sport and Events” model. However, over the years various studies have shown that this model is not necessarily an accurate depiction ... -
Why International Pressure Is Not Helping End Violence in Ethiopia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07)Eight months into the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, it’s estimated that thousands are dead, 1.7 million are displaced, and hundreds of thousands are living in famine conditions. Despite intense pressure and punitive measures, the international response—led mainly by the United States (US) and the European Union (EU)—is not helping. Some critics have labeled the response a mistake. Others ... -
The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-05)This article considers the future of UN peace operations through a complexity theory lens. In the short-term peacekeeping will have to adapt to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fall-out of the Trump presidency. In the medium-term peacekeeping will go through a phase of uncertainty and turbulence due to geopolitical power shifts in the global order. In the longer-term peacekeeping ... -
Identity, stability, Hybrid Threats and Disinformation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-01)The following article examines the relevance of gender and intersectional analyses to better understanding hybrid threats, in particular those that are increasingly targeting civilian environments. The authors first present relevant concepts including hybrid threats and warfare, resilience, disinformation, civilian agency, and intersectionality as a method. Thereafter they discuss how disinformation ... -
Ethnicity, Belonging and Identity among the Eastern Gurage of Ethiopia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-05-27)In this paper, I will analyse a case of ethnic transformation in post-1991 Ethiopia based on an ethnographic study of the Eastern Gurage. The case represents an ethnic setting where the conventional conceptualization of ethnicity in terms of a notion of origin undermines the diversities expressed in various forms of category and boundary formations. The ethnic setting does not also fall into, but ... -
Psychosocial Support and Emergency Education: An Explorative Study of Perceptions among Adult Stakeholders in Sudan and South Sudan
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-14)The link between education and psychosocial wellbeing is important, but complex. This study seeks to explore stakeholder’s views on the role of school education in the psychosocial support and wellbeing of children in the context of Sudan and South Sudan. Qualitative interviews were conducted among teachers, parents, counsellors, and NGO staff who were stakeholders in terms of providing education ... -
Trust, Distrust, and Security: An Untrustworthy Immigrant in a Trusting Community
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-09-15)In security studies, there is an unquestioned assumption of a linear link between trust and security. However, such an assumption neglects complex identity dynamics that can be involved in trust‐building discourses for engendering security. There needs to be greater examination into what is meant by trust, and upon what, and whom, and how the politics of identity works in social trust building and ... -
Niches of agency: managing state-region relations through law in Russia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-09)State-region relations involve negotiations over the power to (re)-constitute local spaces. While in federal states, power-sharing ostensibly gives regions a role over many space-making decisions, power asymmetries affect this role. Where centralization trends may erode regional agency, law can provide an important tool by which regions can assert influence. We examine a case where, in response to ... -
Interventionary order and its methodologies: the relationship between peace and intervention
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-19)Recently there have been calls from policymakers around the world for practically engaged research to produce evidence-based policy for peace, security and development. Policymakers aim to align three types of methodological approaches to knowledge about peace, security and development in international order: methodological liberalism at state and international levels, aligned with ‘methodological ... -
Researching Ethnicity and Ethnic Politics Using a Single Case Study Method
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)This case is a study on ethnic politics in Ethiopia, using an interpretive methodology in the present context of the growing importance of ethnicity in politics across the globe. It primarily focuses on the ways in which a single case study on ethnicity and politics could be empirically performed. The case helps to understand the advantages and challenges of a single case study method in researching ... -
Arctic Exceptionalism’ or ‘comprehensive security’? Understanding security in the Arctic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-11-12)Since Mikhail Gorbachev’s icebreaking Murmansk speech in 1987, the Arctic has been considered to be an “exceptional” region of peace and cooperation in security studies. While acknowledging the relevance of this narrative, this article nevertheless argues the “Arctic exceptionalism” narrative is insufficient for understanding the complex security situation in the region. The lens of comprehensive ... -
Mobilities and peace
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-04)This article considers how an increasingly visible set of mobilities has implications for how peace and conflict are imagined and responded to. We are particularly interested in how these mobilities take form in everyday actions and shape new forms of peace and challenge existing ones. The article considers fixed categories associated with orthodox peace such as the international, borders and the ... -
A genealogy of mediation in international relations: From ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’ forms of global justice or managed war?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-22)What does it mean to mediate in the contemporary world? During the Cold War, and since, various forms of international intervention have maintained a fragile strategic and territorially sovereign balance between states and their elite leaders, as in Cyprus or the Middle East, or built new states and inculcated new norms. In the post-Cold War era intervention and mediation shifted beyond the balance ...
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