Researcher
Morten Bøås
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Summary
Morten Bøås (PhD) is Research Professor and works predominantly on issues concerning peace and conflict in Africa, including issues such as land rights and citizenship conflicts, youths, ex-combatants and the new landscape of insurgencies and geopolitics.
Bøås has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books and published a number of articles for academic journals. He has conducted in-depth fieldwork in a number of African countries and travelled widely elsewhere on the continent.
Expertise
Education
2001 Dr.Polit. (Ph.D) in Political Science, University of Oslo
1995 The CRE/Copernicus Seminar on Environmental Law
1994 Cand.Polit., in Political Science, University of Oslo
Work Experience
2013- Research professor, NUPI
2010-2012 Head of Research, Fafo’s Institute for Applied International Studies
2002-2010 Research Fellow, Fafo
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Evaluating Power Political Repertoires (EPOS)
EPOS aims to bring about a systematic problem shift in how power politics are studied by moving analytical focus from states' power resources and systemic features of world politi...
Challenges to the protection of civilians
This seminar takes a closer look on the challenges of protecting civilians.
Follow the money: the role of cross-border networks in natural resource extraction, stolen assets recovery, and tax havens and the regulation of cross-border capital flows from extractive industry in East Africa (FOLLOW)
The project will examine the formal and informal regulation of cross border flows of natural resource wealth, with a particular emphasis on the crossborder networks that are at the hea...
Understanding the conflicts in the MENA region
The purpose of the activity is to systematically explore and better understand the reconfiguration of violence in the MENA region. ...
Boko Haram: fra åpen forkynnelse til hypervoldelig salafisme?
«Konsortium for forskning om terrorisme og internasjonal kriminalitet» har gleden av å invitere til konsortiumseminar på NUPI
Rights up Front and the Protections of Civilians: Towards Ensuring the Core Responsibilities of the UN?
In the wake of the 2012 Internal Review Panel (IRP) findings on UN Action in Sri Lanka, which characterized the failed efforts of the UN as a “systemic failure”, the UN Secretary-General launched the Human Rights up Front (RUF) initiative in late 2013.
The political landscape of postwar Liberia: Reflections on national reconciliation and elections