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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...

Tildelt: kr 3,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Unravelling the Vicious Circle: Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Small-scale Fisheries

In this project we question how poverty can be alleviated through ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Alleviating poverty sometimes requires strategies which are inherently in conflict. This is particularly the case in economies based on natu ral resources. As one seeks to reduce pov...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Flammable Societies: The Role of Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility

Through the development of a series of comparative case studies in present-day Latin America, Africa, Europe and the former Soviet Union we propose to explore the way in which the current concerns for social responsibility in the international oil and gas industry are transferred into concrete s...

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Social networks, labour transactions and outcomes: A theoretical and empirical study of migrant workers, and their employers, in South-Asia.

We study motives and explanations for network use in labour transactions in low income countries and the implications for employers, and in particular for the segment of poor unskilled workers. One explanation favoured among economists is that networks ar e vehicles for effective information tran...

Tildelt: kr 1,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Decentralization as a strategy for resolving conflict?

For several decades governments in developing countries have placed spatial decentralization of responsibilities and resources to lower levels of government high on their political agenda. The principal objectives of decentralization have been down-sizing of central governments, responsive servi...

Tildelt: kr 3,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Rights, power and civic action: Comparative analyses of human rights-based approaches and civic struggle in development contexts

The purpose of this research is to improve our understanding of the interrelationships between human rights-based development and poverty reduction, on the one hand, and the forms and uses of power in developing societies on the other. It has a particular focus on how the empowerment of communit...

Tildelt: kr 4,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2008-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and implications for post-conflict economic recovery

Why does an end to armed intra-state conflict often not entail an end to violence and economic insecurity? This research project engages with a vital question facing policy-makers and development practitioners in post conflict situations: how to win the p eace. The core aim of the research projec...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 4,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Protected Areas and Poverty in Africa (PAPIA)

The linkage between area protection and poverty in Africa is a highly controversial topic. On the one hand, conservationists argue that protected areas constitute major tourist attractions and thereby provide one of the most important sources of foreign r evenues in real and potential terms. Thus...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Farmers' Rights related to Agrobiodiversity as a Means of Poverty Alleviation: Strategies of Civil Society Organisations

This post-doctoral project examines conditions for effective implementation of the provisions on farmers' rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), which is crucial for maintaining the global plant g enetic heritage and for poverty alleviati...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Akershus

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Ethics, Rights and Poverty: Global Theory and National Practice

Severe poverty is now seen by many as the most burning ethical issue of our time. In recent years, human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to poverty reduction have become particularly popular among UN agencies, bilateral donors and NGOs. Behind this increas ed interest, however, lies a multitude of...

Tildelt: kr 3,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

The moderation of Islamist movements

Research on Islamism tends to give precedence to the violent and militant movements. The argument developed in the recent literature is that Islamist rebellion and violence is a product of political exclusion accompanied by repression from the state. To o ur knowledge, there have not been systema...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Vestland

POVPEACE-Poverty and peace

Land reform, trust, and customary land rights in the socio-economic transformation of Malawi

The National Statistical Office of Malawi (NSO) is in 2006-7 conducting their National Census of Agriculture and Livestock (NACAL) as a very large survey (30,000 households in 6000 villages). The NACAL comprises a module for collecting data on land tenure and trust based collective action design...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Violence, poverty and police corruption

The police in low-income countries are among the most corrupt sector of their governments, sporadic evidence indicates. In this project we seek to estimate the extent of police corruption and explain its variation. Here the interaction between police beha viour and crime, some of which is violent...

Tildelt: kr 4,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

In the Shadow of a Conflict: Impacts of Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and Development in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia

While much attention has been devoted to Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform - its causes, manifestations, and impacts on Zimbabwean society - comparatively little has been written about the fates of those who left the country because of the conflict. In pa rticular, the processes by which they ent...

Tildelt: kr 4,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Akershus

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 ...

Tildelt: kr 5,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty reduction strategies in a public health pespective. Social grants, HIV/AIDS and the role out of HAART in South Africa

Despite high levels of unemployment South Africa?s welfare system is premised on full employment. HIV prevalence is highest among majority black African population, which also has the highest rate of unemployment (especially women) and the lowest per capi ta income. Low levels of schooling, few ...

Tildelt: kr 3,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Property, Possession and Conflict in Re/Building Settlement

In a world in which there is an increasing need for re/settle people torn apart by conflict, it is critical to create the basis for durable development, by providing a sustainable physical settlements and a socially and economically viable community. The challenges involved with this situation ...

Tildelt: kr 5,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2017

Sted: Oslo

POVPEACE-Poverty and peace

Violence in the Post-Conflict State

The ending of wars is often followed by continued or new forms of violence in the affected states. Partly masked by the commonly used prefix "post-conflict", such violence - whether associated with ex-combatants, organized crime, disaffected warlords, rec riminating agents of the state or post-wa...

Tildelt: kr 3,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Vestland

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Conflict resolution and democratisation in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami: A comparative study of Aceh and Sri Lanka

Contemporary peace processes in developing countries are commonly elite-focused and use developmental interventions to depoliticise contentious issues and achieve negotiated peace pacts. These characteristics raise concerns regarding the links between dev elopment and peace and regarding the mean...

Tildelt: kr 5,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2017

Sted: Oslo

POVPEACE-Poverty and peace

Poverty, prices and international inequality

The project focuses on global poverty and international inequality. For the measurement of both, it is necessary to adjust for price level differences across countries - in order to obtain comparable real income figures. The methods underlying this Purcha sing Power Parity (PPP) adjustment are ho...

Tildelt: kr 1,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2009

Sted: Oslo

NORGLOBAL-Norge - Global partner

Poverty and marginalisation in Central and West Africa: autochthony and land rights

Autochthony is the hallmark of the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, the controversial status of the Banyamulenge in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and it is also the centrepiece of the so-called 'Mandingo-issue' in Liberia. The current obses sion with autochthony has facilitated a d...

Tildelt: kr 3,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2006-2017

Sted: Oslo