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Peacebuilding in practice: All Peacebuilding in practice
Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings: Fragile states and peacebuilding in the new global context; All Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings
Protection of civilians: All Protection of civilians
Norway and emerging powers: All Norway and emerging powers
Women, peace and security: All Women, peace and security

The political economy of transitions: analysis for change: 27 March 2013
UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) jointly organised a conference on the political economy of democratic transitions, with a focus on understanding models, policies and processes underpinning economic transformation and the renegotiation of the social contract. The conference discu... more
Poverty and radicalisation into violent extremism: a causal link?: Atle Mesøy 23 January 2013
The consensus in past research into terrorism and radicalisation into violent extremism (RVE) is that generally there is no link between poverty and radicalisation, and if such a link exists, it is a weak one. However, insufficient attention has been paid to how terrorism has changed over the last few years to become a phenomenon that... more
The UN Mission in South Sudan and its civilian protection strategy: an early assessment: Jort Hemmer 8 February 2013
Eighteen months on from the formation of the UN Mission to the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), this policy brief looks into the mission and its performance to date. It pays particular attention to UNMISS’s contribution to the protection of civilians (PoC) – the mission’s self-proclaimed key responsibility. more
Turkish and Iranian interests and policies in the South Caucasus: Evanthia Balla 23 April 2013
The South Caucasus, situated as it is at the crossroads of Eurasia’s major energy and transport corridors, continues to play a vital role in the world’s security affairs. After the end of the cold war the South Caucasus emerged as a key region in the geopolitical contest among regional and global powers. more
Sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings: $A young survivor of sexual violence at a women\'s and girl\'s centre by Amnesty Interational$ Inger Skjelsbaek 14 March 2013
The laudable focus on assisting victims of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings distracts attention from the need to focus on dealing with the perpetrators of such violence, which is the only way to prevent it from happening. The current British initiative is an attempt to do this. Generally, zero-tolerance policies r... more