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The politics of the excluded. The future of the Palestinian political order after 7/10.

The overarching empirical question of the project is: where will Palestinians go politically after the Gaza war and the destruction of Gaza? Will the Palestinian political system be renewed and reformed, and will it be an inclusive or an exclusive system—both internally and in terms of Palestinia...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Conditions for stability and sustainable returns in Syria (StaR)

The 2011 to 2024 Syrian war caused severe destruction and massive migration. 6.1 million Syrians became refugees in neighboring countries and Europe and 7.4 million were internally displaced (IDP) within Syria. This changed with the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024 and establishment of a ne...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Vestland

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Leveraging Protracted Refugee Situations: Comparing how Lebanon and Turkey have responded to Syrian displacement

The Syrian civil war (2011–2024) created the world’s largest refugee crisis, as over 14 million Syrians fled their homes. Syria’s neighbouring states took in most of those refugees. At its highest point, Turkey hosted over 3.5 million Syrian refugees and Lebanon hosted approximately 1.5 million. ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Asian Diffusion: China’s Governance Promotion and Vietnamese Adaptation (ADAPT)

China increasingly promotes its domestic development success as an example for others. How do these ideas travel, and how are they received in other countries? While most research on international diffusion has focused on how liberal democracies promote governance abroad, ADAPT explores how gover...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Environmentalized Peace: Community-Based Approaches to Water and Air Security in Jordan and Palestine

What happens when pollution from war doesn’t stop at the border? Environmentalized Peace is a groundbreaking project exploring how communities in Jordan and Palestine can work together to confront a new and invisible threat: conflict-driven air pollution drifting across borders. For decades, muni...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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Waters of Reconciliation: Local Governance and Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Nile and Yarmouk Basins (MENA Water & Peace)

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is experiencing one of the most acute water crises globally. Hosting over 5% of the world’s population but less than 1% of its renewable freshwater resources, the region is at the nexus of climate stress, urbanization, and protracted conflict. Water ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Refugee Return, Urban Recovery, and Climate Change in Syria and the Middle East (RETURNEC)

The war in Syria has created one of the world’s largest and longest-lasting displacement crises. Millions of Syrians remain refugees in neighbouring countries, while millions more are displaced inside Syria. Return is often treated as the natural end of displacement, yet we know surprisingly litt...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

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EMPHASIS-Exploring Mitigation Pathways for Holistic Sustainable development in Indian States

India has evolved from a nation with relatively low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a significant player in global climate governance. Unlike other major GHG emitters such as the United States, the European Union, and China, India still has considerable development needs and has relatively low ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Health, Opportunities, and Poverty Eradication: India’s Democracy-Healthcare Paradox and Global Impact

HOPE examines how and to what extent the interplay of democratic governance, socio-economic exclusion, and comparative development strategies shapes health policy in India. It focuses on the impact of democratic governance on overall health policy, the socio-economic consequences of underinvestme...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Understanding and Countering the Advance of AI-enabled Digital Authoritarianism in Asia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming societies across the world. In Asia, these changes bring opportunities—but also serious risks. While AI can improve public services and support development, it can also be misused to monitor citizens, spread false information, and weaken democracy. Thi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Russian Indigenous peoples organizations and their diplomatic agencies in the Arctic and beyond

Against the backdrop of an evolving geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape, there remains a significant gap in the understanding of academics and policymakers regarding the role of Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) in influencing public diplomacy in the Arctic and beyond. The project aims t...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Eritrean diaspora engagement and its impact on European democracies

In early September 2023, violent clashes involving the Eritrean community in Bergen, Norway, caught the public's eye. These incidents highlighted the impact of events in Eritrea on Eritreans living in Norway. The events in Bergen weren't isolated - similar violent protests had taken place across ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Vestland

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The Future of EUrope (TFoE) - Public and elite preferences for the relationship between EU and non-EU countries

Crises such as the war in Ukraine, the influx of refugee into Europe or climate change have put the spotlight on European cooperation beyond the internal relations of the European Union, involving a wider group of (European) countries. These and similar crises in the past have also highlighted th...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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CONTEST: How populist illiberal regimes shape gender norms in Europe

In 2020, the Varieties of Democracy Institute reported that, for the first time since 2001, the international system was dominated by autocracies. This is a phenomena that has an impact on gender norms globally. The CONTEST project examines how two illiberal populist regimes within Europe, Hungar...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Mobilizing the new Russian diaspora in a context of sanctions, social exclusion and fear of repression

The large-scale emigration from Russia has taken place against a backdrop of sanctions, transnational political repression, and social inclusion/exclusion dynamics, which vary significantly across host countries. A key area of exploration for the project is how these differences impact political ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Power Politics and Security in the Arctic

Power Politics and Security in the Arctic (POPSARC) asks two overarching questions. First, what characterises Western allies’ current approaches to security in the Arctic? Second, how are allied interactions in the Arctic sphere materialising – in statements, strategies, and observable material p...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The Russian Hybrid Intelligence State

How does intelligence shape Russian domestic politics and foreign and security policy? Contemporary Russia is often characterized as a ‘KGB state’. Current and former intelligence officers, including President Putin, increasingly dominate politics and economy, bringing with them the culture, worl...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

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Political and Societal Violence in Russia

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Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

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Unpacking Arctic Security Dynamics: A 3D approach to geopolitics in the Barents and Bering Seas

Arctic security relations are fraught. State-to-state security relations are the tensest they have been since the end of the Cold War. Hotlines between military command centres exist, but confidence-building measures and dialogue are absent. Arctic tension does not primarily come about because...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

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UKRAINETT PLUS: Research collaboration and knowledge sharing Norway – Ukraine

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 created an urgent need for research-based knowledge about Ukrainian society, both in Ukraine and in Norway. In response, researchers at OsloMet established UKRAINETT, a network that by now has grown to more than 100 members from various academic ins...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Nordic Space Infrastructures - Environment, Security, and Future Imaginaries of Outer Space in the High North

Over the last decade, a rapidly increasing number of public and private actors are seeking a place in the exclusive ‘space club’. Private bodies and states - including the Nordic countries - are developing launch sites in the Arctic region. The development of the space sector has long been of mar...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Next Arctic Rush? Critical Materials for the Energy Transition

If the Paris Agreement is to be fulfilled, 80% of the world’s energy production must be zero-emission by 2030, and all energy must be zero-emission by 2050. The technologies needed to achieve this dramatic shift depend on certain critical materials (lithium, copper, rare earths, etc.). If these a...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Joint Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea after Russias Invasion of Ukraine

Since the mid-1970s, Norway and Russia have managed the rich fish resources of the Barents Sea jointly, including the world’s largest cod stock. The achievements of the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission are widely regarded as a golden standard for international fisheries management. Ho...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Peace as a continuation of war by other means? Russian Approaches to Peace Processes (RAPP)

Russia engages in a number of peace processes. This project is designed to investigate why, how and to what end Russia engages. It examines both conflicts in which Russia is a belligerent party (e.g., Ukraine), conflicts where it is involved as a mediator (e.g., Afghanistan), and conflicts where ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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China and Evolving Multilateral Craftmanship in the Age of Digitalization (CHIMULTI)

China and Evolving Multilateral Craftmanship in the Age of Digitalization Which international organizations develop responsibilities for digital- and data technology (digitech) governance and how do major powers work to craft influence in these organizations? This is the overarching theme invest...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Norwegian Centre on Geopolitics

GEOPOL brings together five premier Norwegian research institutions: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (host), the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), the University of Oslo (UiO) as an educational and competence-building partn...

Awarded: NOK 45.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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China’s changing role in global environmental governance. A prism for understanding its key role in other world order issues.

China is a major contributor to global environmental problems and is central to solving them. Its actions have important implications for global environmental governance (GEG). China has become an important global actor in many ways. Given China’s domestic politics and role in international envir...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Making use of Arctic science - The Case of the Arctic Council

On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. At the time, Russia was in the middle of its chairmanship period of the Arctic Council. The member states of the Arctic Council recognised the importance of a united response, and work with Russia was temporarily paused. Since then, the degree...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Developmental Peace? Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan [AsiaPeace]

The AsiaPeace project (2023 - 2026) explores local perceptions of China's dual role as a development actor and peacebuilder in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It aims to provide new insights into how China handles conflicts in areas it engages. Although China has traditionally claimed to pursue a forei...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Contested Ukraine: Military Patrotism, Russian Influence and Implications for European Security

Since 2014, Ukraine's sovereignty has been fundamentally challenged, and not only by military means. Side by side with the use of military force, there is a dramatic and multifaceted struggle to influence the population's political attitudes and sense of belonging. Both before and after the full-...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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