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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

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Migration
  • Insurgencies
  • International organizations

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

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Chapter

New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare?

This chapter argues that new war zones are neither substantially new nor incomprehensible. It is only our approaches that all too often make us avoid seeing the obvious: people take up arms because they are angry, scared, poor, or short of other livelihood opportunities. On the one hand, regional ‘big men’ operate in a downward direction to capitalise on local grievances, largely for their own benefit. On the other hand, one can witness the evolution of local defence forces/militias moving upwards and becoming intertwined in larger networks and markets (and, in the process, producing new regional big men). A political anthropology of new war zones is therefore confronted by a field of constant flux and fragmentation, where the important dimension to keep track of is less the very agents of violence but the nodal points in these networks of governance and violence, and their ability to maintain networks across space and time.

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
Publications
Publications
Chapter

Erbil: Kurderne utfordrer regionens stater

Om boken (Available in Norwegian only: Midtøstens dramatiske historie har i stor grad dreid seg om kontrollen over og forbindelsene mellom de klassiske byene i regionen: Jerusalem, Bagdad, Mekka, Kairo og andre. Byene er brennpunkter i det større regionale bildet - liksom Midtøsten selv er et brennpunkt internasjonalt. Byene utgjør Midtøstens nervesystem, og har alltid gjort det. De rommer viktige deler av vår sivilisasjonshistorie, og består i dag som levende byer, tross ødeleggende kriger og okkupasjoner, med shoppingsentra, trafikkproblemer og nabokrangler. Statene er mer usikre og ustabile enheter, ofte formet av ytre makter uten hensyn til lokale identiteter, interesser og behov. Dette skaper konfliktmønstre som kan være vanskelig å forstå for oss som tar nasjonalstaten for gitt. Boka gir en faglig kompetent og lett tilgjengelig framstilling av kompleksiteten og nyansene i de brennbare spørsmålene som berøres, samtidig som overblikket holdes tydelig fram for leseren. Alle kapittelforfatterne har svært god kjennskap til byen de skriver om, og har et personlig engasjement for den.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • The Middle East and North Africa
Event
10:30 - 12:30
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
10:30 - 12:30
NUPI
Engelsk
17. Jan 2018
Event
10:30 - 12:30
NUPI
Engelsk

Breakfast seminar: Global disorder and distrust – the Middle East

New seminar series about the global distrust that has been more evident lately, and the first event will take a closer look what this development means for the Middle East.

Event
12:00 - 14:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
12:00 - 14:00
NUPI
Engelsk
9. Jan 2018
Event
12:00 - 14:00
NUPI
Engelsk

Islamic Insurgents in the MENA Region - Global Threat or Regional Menace?

Three researchers affiliated with NUPI presents the main findings in their recent study on insurgents in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Event
16:00 - 17:30
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
16:00 - 17:30
NUPI
Engelsk
11. Dec 2017
Event
16:00 - 17:30
NUPI
Engelsk

Many Ways to Lose a Billion: Extractive Sector Revenue Loss in Africa

Resource rich countries often fail to secure a fair share of their natural resource wealth. In 'Many Ways to Lose a Billion', Don Hubert sets out a revenue risk assessment framework, and an extensive collection of real-world case studies designed to help resource-rich countries stop tax avoidance.

Publications
Publications
Report

Mali: A Political Economy Analysis

  • Economic growth
  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
  • Economic growth
  • Development policy
  • Africa
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
Event
15:15 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
15:15 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk
23. Nov 2017
Event
15:15 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk

The ideology of failed states – why intervention fails

Professor Susan L. Woodward visits NUPI to talk about her new book on failed states.

Research project
2016 - 2018 (Completed)

Political economy analyses

This project provides political economy analyses of eleven countries deemed important to Norwegian development cooperation. ...

  • Development policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Development policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
Publications
Publications
Chapter

The evolving landscape of African insurgencies

Amid an array of shifting national, regional, and global forces, how have African insurgents managed to adapt and survive? And what differences and similarities can be found, both among the continent's diverse rebellions and guerrilla movements and between them and movements elsewhere in the world? Addressing these issues, the authors of Africa's Insurgents explore how new groups are emerging and existing ones changing in response to an evolving landscape

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
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