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Mark B. Taylor

Mark B. Taylor is a senior researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies in Oslo. His areas of interest include regulatory and policy responses to violence and conflict. A former managing director at the Fafo Institute, Mark has worked as an analyst and advisor to non-governmental organisations, business, governments and the United Nations, and as a journalist. He edits the blog on law, politics and accountability at http://www.lawsofrule.net

Research areas: Peacebuilding in practice , Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings

Publications

Conflict financing: what’s wrong with war economies?: Mark B. Taylor 21 May 2013
International responses to the economic dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding have been hampered by a confusion of approaches and the complexity of the realities of armed conflict or widespread violence. The conflict-financing framework is proposed as a practical means of understanding what responsibilities arise in war economies an... more
Economies of violence and peacebuilding: towards policy coherence: Mark B. Taylor 9 May 2012
The economies of irregular armed conflict are hard to control, but recent developments at the United Nations and OECD suggest that international responses to self-financing wars are evolving into a coherent approach. What is needed is the institutional capacity both to develop strategies appropriate for the economies of particular conf... more