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DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Konferanse om klimaendring og sikkerhet

Menneskeskapt klimaendring er en av vår tids største utfordringer. Spørsmålet om klimaendringenes betydning fred og sikkerhet er nå også kommet i søkelyset, ikke minst gjennom to begivenheter i 2007: behandlingen i FNs sikkerhetsråd og tildelingen av Nobe ls fredspris til IPCC og Al Gore. Både de...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

The social determination of terrorist threat: Concepts of threat in Norwegian and E.U. anti-terror law

The project will catalogue and examine selected core legal, regulatory and policy documents of Norwegian and European Union security management. Following the principles and methods developed in the SORISK project, it will analyze how understandings of th reat vary as a function of varying social...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Advanced Conflict Data Catalogue: Defining an Industry-Standard for Data on Armed Conflict

The quantitative study of armed conflict is rapidly developing. The Armed Conflict Dataset, a joint Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and PRIO project, has for some time been the most widely used dataset in this field. In order to maintain this status we must address the changing needs of the...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Security Implications of Climate Change

The project moves the research frontier forward on two fronts: 1) by applying an inclusive definition of armed conflict, also covering one-sided and non-state conflicts and organized urban violence; and 2) by paying attention to the role of two largely ov erlooked processes with significant chall...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Theorizing Risk, Money and Moralities in Migration (TRiMM)

Prosjektet tar for seg teoretiske sider ved internasjonal migrasjon og transnasjonale relasjoner gjennom studier av risiko, penger or moralske oppfatninger. Størstedelen av arbeidet bygger på et case-studie av migrasjon fra Senegal til Spania. De teoretiske analysene er også knyttet til forskerne...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

Understanding 'financial security' in an age of uncertain

Financial securitization was heralded by orthodox economists to reduce societal risk through novel forms and techniques of risk management. It is all the more perplexing then, how a celebrated model of risk optimization can itself pose an unexpected threa t to a few distant municipalities in the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Why Rape? Perpetrators, Punishment and Social Narratives; A study of sexual violence offenders from the former Yugoslav wars.

The focus in this project is to study the male perpetration of sexual violence in war. The focus will be on the male perpetrators themselves and how they view their actions in hindsight and in light of their punishment. By extension, the project will also focus on the ways in which male perpetra...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Diasporic Citizens: Public Policy, Diaspora Engagement and Citizenship in Britain, Norway and Germany

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Awarded: NOK 48,196

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Integration and investment behaviour of African migrant entrepreneurs in Europe: Investing at home?

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Awarded: NOK 40,923

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems

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Awarded: NOK 37,406

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

PRIO PES rammebevilgning

PRIOs long-term research and development strategy calls for a strong investment on international research collaboration and funding at a variety of levels. Central to this aim is the expansion and development of long-term, continuous participation in Euro pean Union funding and research arrangeme...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

ENGAGE, European and African Engagements with the New Migration and Development Paradigm

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Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Shamsuddin, Farrid, GB, statsstip. 2008-09

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Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Training for International Publishing on Transnationalism and International Migration (TIP-TIM)

This training programme will bring together a group of twelve participants in four workshops over a two-year period. Each workshop will combine specialized training and individual follow-up. The programme is a co-operative effort between the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) an...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Pastoralism in China: Policy and practice

In contemporary China pastoralism as a way of life is under pressure. This project investigates the links between changes in herding practices and changes in the policy framework governing access to important resources such as grazing land and water sourc es. Using multi-sited field research, the...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The Payoff of Promises: Articulating, Negotiating and Implementing Wealth Sharing

Peace agreements offer an opportunity for poverty alleviation. Wealth-sharing is often part of the negotiations to end civil wars, but the outcome often disappoints, both the aggrieved who had placed their hopes in rebellion and the international sponsors of the settlement. This study focuses o...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Youth Exclusion and Political Violence

Recent academic studies have found that large youth cohorts, or 'youth bulges', under conditions of social, economic and political exclusion, increase the risk of political violence such as small-intensity armed conflict, terrorism and rioting. However, these large youth cohorts may also represe...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Going Home to Fight? Explaining Refugee Return and Violence

This project examines why some returning refugees come to destabilize the peace process in their home country. Despite considerable literature on refugee warriorism in exile, there is no analysis of their role upon return. Likewise, the challenge of rein tegrating refugee warriors does not figur...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2017

Location: Oslo

SAMRISK-Samfunnssikkerhet og risiki

The Social Determination of Risk: Critical Infrastructure and Mass Transportation Protection in the Norwegian Civil Aviation Sector

Risk is implicitly related to human values. It reflects a certain understanding of human life, of individual and collective hopes and fears, of expectations about what might be lost and what is worth keeping, about what one is willing to sacrifice, and in deed about what one is willing to fight o...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Disaggregating the Study of Civil Wars

This project will explore civil wars in a geographical perspective and transnational context. Cross-country comparative statistical studies, as well as much of the case-study literature, focus on various state characteristics that influence the likelihood of civil war. However, the nation-state ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Civil War Society: the Southern Sudan 1955-2004

I have been invited to be a visiting scholar by the Program of African Studies (PAS) at the Northwestern University (NWU) for the period 15 August - 15 December 2007. The stay at PAS will become an integrated part of my doctoral fellowship at the Centre f or Study of Civil War (CSCW) at PRIO that...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

SAMF-Fagkomiteen for samfunnsvitenskap

Disaggregating Civil Wars (ECRP - 2007)

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Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Yasutomi, Atsushi (JP), stp-utl-07/08

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Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Oslo

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

Converging and conflicting ethical values in the internal/ external security continuum in Europe

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Awarded: NOK 88,024

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Domestic Capabilities for Peaceful Conflict Management

This project focuses on the causes of peace. It seeks to investigate which contexts facilitate the existence of domestic capabilities for peaceful conflict management and why. Capabilities for peaceful conflict management may save many countries from the large human and economic costs of war. Res...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Comparative Ethics of War

This project aims to develop a better understanding of how just war theories have been assessed within the world's leading religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. None of these traditions are static; each has undergone significant transformations over...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Remittances from immigrants in Norway

Prosjektet vil frembringe ny kunnskap om pengeoverføringer fra innvandrere i Norge til deres opphavsland. Dette er et viktig element i varige transnasjonale bånd i etterkant av internasjonal migrasjon. På verdensbasis mottar utviklingsland dobbelt så mye i overføringer fra sine utvandrere som i o...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding Towards the integration of ethics in peacebuilding research

An increasing amount of research is being done on the means of peacebuilding, but there is a lack of research and debate on its aims. This is unfortunate not only from a scholarly, but also from a political point of view. In recent years critique has been directed towards the political premises ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security (CHALLENGE)

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Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

SAM-EU-Samfinansiering EU-kontoret

Human Rights in Conflicts: The Role of Civil Society (SHUR)

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Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

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