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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

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
What makes countries vulnerable to transnational organised crime?: Ivan Briscoe 28 September 2011
Countries emerging from conflict or other major crises face numerous difficult challenges on the road to state-building. One of the most harmful is the rise of violent crime, which threatens weak state institutions and the rule of law. In a number of cases, this concern is accentuated by the presence of transnational organised crime. I... more
La protección de la población civil en el derecho internacional humanitario: tendencias y dificultades: Camilla Waszink 7 October 2011
El presente documento examina las dificultades que conlleva proteger adecuadamente a la población civil durante los conflictos armados de conformidad con el derecho internacional humanitario (DIH). Aunque el DIH establece un marco jurídico exhaustivo para proteger a los civiles de los efectos de las operaciones militares, este contra... more
Rising Powers: From regional leaders to global players? 25 April 2012, 13.00-15.00 Location: PRIO, Hausmannsgate 7, Oslo, Norway: The end of the Cold War heralded the end of global governance based on the power balancing structures linked to bipolarity. Twenty years on, there remains a lack of consensus on the status of the distribution and the exercise of power in today’s multipolar world. What is clear, however, is the rise of new powers seeking a global polit... more
Women’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations: agents of change or stranded symbols?: Kathleen M. Jennings 1 September 2011
This report reviews the existing evidence relating to the impact of uniformed women peacekeepers – i.e. military or police – in UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs). First, it lists the arguments most commonly used to advocate for increasing women’s participation in PKOs. The central focus of these arguments is that increasing the number... more