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NUPI Center for UN and Global Governance

Themes

  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations

The UN and the rest of the multilateral system is under increasing pressure to manage friction between member states, and to act on global challenges, such as climate change, violent conflicts and wars, and the negative effects of globalization.

At the same time, the character of multilateralism is changing, with the G20, the BRICS and regional organizations like the African Union taking on a more assertive role, and where a range of private regulatory networks is becoming more important.

NUPI's Centre for UN and Global Governance is a strategic research initiative aimed at analyzing these trends and assessing its implications for Norwegian foreign policy. The Centre will serve as a hub for research across NUPI’s research departments, and focuses, inter alia, on:

  • The evolution of the UN and other international and regional organizations in response to broader political developments
  • The role and efficacy of UN and other peace operations in a changing global order
  • The emergence of regional and hybrid organizations, and new types of international organizations
  • Changes in the roles, networks and partnerships between states, international organizations, regional organizations, CSOs, and firms
  • The role and functioning of the UN Security Council in a changing world

The Center will be co-coordinated by Ole Jacob Sending and Cedric de Coning.

Projects

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Research project
2023 - 2027 (Ongoing)

The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation (NAVIGATOR)

How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? And what factors should be emphasized...

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Regional integration
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • Peace operations
  • Migration
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Regional integration
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • Peace operations
  • Migration
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
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Forskningsprosjekt
2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

Ad hoc crisis response and international organisations (ADHOCISM)

ADHOCISM asks what is the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations?...

  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • AU
Research Project
2023 - 2026 (Ongoing)

Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)

The aim of the project is to strengthen the ability of UN peacekeeping and other peace operations to respond to global security challenges, adapt to a changing global order, and continue contributing ...

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • AU
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • AU
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Research Project
2016 - 2020 (Completed)

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 politics to the actual...

  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
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Research Project
2018 - 2023 (Completed)

The Market for Anarchy

The Market for Anarchy project seeks to better understand how state behaviour is shaped by assessments of and responses to different types of risks....

  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Conflict
  • Climate
  • Governance
  • International organizations
Forskningsprosjekt
2018 - 2023 (Completed)

Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON)

NUPI together with 40 partners from across the globe have established an international network to undertake research into the effectiveness of peace operations....

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • South and Central America
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • AU
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • South and Central America
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • AU
Research project
2011 - 2019 (Completed)

Training for Peace 2011 - 2019 (TfP)

The Training for Peace Programme (TfP Programme) is an international programme that contributes towards capacity building within the broader ambit of peace operations in Africa....

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • AU
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Africa
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • AU
Research project
2017 - 2022 (Completed)

Developmentality and the anthropology of partnership (DevAnt)

The concept of partnership is central to the organisation of international development aid. This project will study the concept of partnership in theory and practice....

  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Research project
2016 - 2019 (Completed)

Nordic responses to Geopolitical challenges (GEONOR)

Which tools to politicians in the Nordic countries have available to them in a more challenging geopolitical sphere?...

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
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Research Project
2018 - 2022 (Completed)

World of the Right: Alternative visions of global order (WoR)

The project looks deeper into the conservative New Right in Russia, the US, and Europe, examining in particular the alternative visions of Western civilisational order that these movements harbour, an...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations

Themes

  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations