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Jon Harald Sande Lie
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Jon Harald Sande Lie er sosialantropolog (PhD fra Universitetet i Bergen), forsker 1 og leder for i Forskningsgruppen for fred, konflikt og utvikling ved NUPI.
Hovedtema for forskningen hans er internasjonal bistand, global styring og statsdannelse, med fokus på utvikling og humanitær bistand i Øst-Afrika, spesielt Etiopia og Uganda, hvor han har oppholdt seg i lange perioder i forbindelse med feltarbeid og studert partnerskapsforholdet mellom aktørene på NGO-nivå og aktørene involvert i verdensbanken.
Lie er medredaktør for tidsskriftet Forum for Development Studies. Han er prosjektleder for FRIPRO-prosjektet «Developmentality and the Anthropology of Partnerhsip».
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Utdanning
2011 PhD i sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Bergen
2004 Cand. Polit. i sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Oslo
2000 Cand. Mag. med sosialantropologi, idehistorie, religionshistorie, filisofi, og miljø og utvikling i fagkretsen.
Arbeidserfaring
2022- Forsker 1, NUPI
2011- Seniorforsker, NUPI
2007-2011 Forsker, NUPI
2004- Stipendiat, sosialantropologisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen
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Tøm alle filtreThe humanitarian-development nexus: humanitarian principles, practice, and pragmatics
The humanitarian–development nexus is increasingly being cast as the solution to humanitarian concerns, new and protracted crises, and to manage complex war-to-peace transitions. Despite widely endorsed amongst policymakers, this nexus presents some challenges to those implementing it. Humanitarian action and development assistance represent two distinct discursive and institutional segments of the international system that are hard to juxtapose. Humanitarianism’s apolitical and imminent needs-based approaches building on established humanitarian principles are fundamentally different from the more long-term, political, rights-based approaches of development. As they rub shoulders, as intentionally instigated by the nexus, they affect and challenge each other. These challenges are more acute to the humanitarian domain given the constitutive status of the humanitarian principles, which, when challenged, may cause changes to the humanitarian space and a mission-cum-ethics creep. This article explores the formation and effects of the humanitarian–development nexus as rendered both at the top, amongst policymakers, and from the bottom. The latter explores the discursive transition from conflict to reconstruction in Northern Uganda. Humanitarian organisations’ different response to the transition demonstrate more pragmatic approaches to the humanitarian principles and thus how the nexus itself is also formed bottom up and further exacerbates the mission creep.
The localisation of aid - debate and challenges
The localisation agenda resurfaced with the Covid 19-pandemic among development and humanitarian actors. Aid localisation refers to providing aid through local, grassroots institutions without the use of intermediaries, which involves a shift in power over policy and financial issue to local actors.
Frokostseminar: Norsk bistand og trender i Norden – bistandskutt og egeninteresser?
Hvordan har bistandsmidler fra de nordiske landene endret seg etter at krisene i Europa for alvor brøt ut?
The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Bridge Too Far?
In their basic and caricature forms, development aid and humanitarian assistance highlight important differences that materialize in attitudinal, institutional, and funding obstacles in the implementation of the humanitarian-development nexus. While the nexus is implemented in order to respond to new types of crises characterised by the protracted nature of the conflicts, cooperation across the aisle has proved hard to achieve in practice. However, policymakers and practitioners have different perspectives on the nexus, and depending on the individual practitioners tasked with implementing the nexus, it can still work. To achieve this, boundary work is needed in order to overcome the distinct segments of the nexus’ constituent parts working in silos. To foster such boundary work, actors responsible for implementing the nexus in practice should be given greater autonomy so that the nexus is better sensitised to local actors, contexts and concerns, rather than being driven by headquarters’ policy demands.
Offentlig–Privat Utviklingsgrensesnitt i Etiopia (DEVINT)
Private aktører opptrer stadig oftere som drivkrefter for utvikling og i samarbeid med internasjonale utviklingsaktører. Dette prosjektet (DEVINT) utforsker grensesnittet mellom privat...
WEBINAR: Theory Seminar: Models as Viral Assemblages
På dette teoriseminaret presenterer Marit Tolo Østebø frå si seinaste bok Village Gone Viral: Understanding the Spread of Policy Models in a Digital Age.