All content about Insurgencies

• Children in Violent Extremist Organizations

  Event

  Wed 21 Apr 2021

  Time: 15:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

  Terrorist organizations, like ISIS, Hamas and the Taliban have exploited children for years. This seminar takes a closer look at the different ways in which these groups recruit and deploy children.

  

• Jihadist Governance in the Sahel

  Event

  Tue 22 Jun 2021

  Time: 11:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

  Often depicted as “Islamic terrorists”, jihadist insurgent governance has rarely been systematically researched in the academic literature. In this seminar, we will discuss what the research tells us about how jihadists govern and why their governance differs not only between different groups but also within the same group.

  

• Living with the Taliban?

  Event

  Tue 21 Sept 2021

  Time: 15:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

  How do local communities experience the Taliban vis a vis questions of security? What did the police reform look like before the Taliban takeover, and will there be a role for the police under Taliban?

  

• WEBINAR: Jihad in the Sahel: Actors, developments and context

  Event

  Tue 21 Apr 2020

  Time: 10:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

  Who are the jihadi insurgents, why are they gaining ground, and what are the likely future developments in the Sahel?

  

• WEBINAR: Launch of special issue of International Spectator

  Event

  Wed 2 Dec 2020

  Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

  We are happy to promote the launch of a special issue of the "International Spectator" journal on Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making, guest edited by Morten Bøås and Francesco Strazzari.

  

• The internal brakes on violent escalation: Why ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence

  Event

  Tue 21 May 2019

  Time: 09:15 Europe/Oslo | Location: Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts hus, Universitetet i Oslo

  Despite the massive expansion of research on violent escalation, there is insufficient answers to why some extremist groups choses not to engage in violence, even if they are capable of doing so.

  

• Reactions to state regulation of Islam in times of Daesh (STATEISLAM)

  Research project | 2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

  In recent years, in response to the rise of ISIS, governments in the Middle East have begun to control the religious spheres in their countries more tightly. In Egypt, for example, President Abdulfatt...

  Security policy  Terrorism and extremism  Human rights  Governance  Conflict  Comparative methods  The Middle East and North Africa  Nationalism  Nation-building  Insurgencies  Fragile states

  

• Boko Haram: fra åpen forkynnelse til hypervoldelig salafisme?

  Event

  Wed 25 Mar 2015

  Time: 09:15 Europe/Oslo | Location: C.J. Hambrosplass 2 D

  «Konsortium for forskning om terrorisme og internasjonal kriminalitet» har gleden av å invitere til konsortiumseminar på NUPI

  

• Fragility and human security in the Maghreb-Sahel: Challenges and solutions

  Event

  Sat 3 Oct 2015

  Time: 09:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPI

  NUPI and FRIDE have the pleasure of inviting to this full-day seminar. The seminar addresses the main drivers and manifestations of fragility across the Maghreb and Sahel including key security threats, governance failures, ethnic issues and resource scarcity.

  

• Islamist Social Movements and Hybrid Regime Types in the Muslim World

  Publication | 2022

  • Morten Bøås
  • Tine Gade

  Since the Arab Uprisings in 2010–2011 and subsequent counterrevolutions, socio-economic and political crises have occurred with rapid frequency in th1