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• Kuppa i Sahel – med folket i ryggen?

  Where does it happen? | May 15, 2023

  • Andreas Lind Kroknes

  Kvifor godtek befolkninga at militæret fjernar dei valde leiarane i landet?

  

• Kjetil Selvik

  Kjetil Selvik is Research Professor in NUPI’s Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. He holds a PhD in political science fro...

  The Middle East and North Africa  Conflict  Governance  Insurgencies

  

• 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

  

• L’architecture de sécurité intérieure burkinabé face à la gestion d’une crise multidimensionnelle

  Publication : Rapport | 2022

  • Niagalé Bagayoko
  • Mahamoudou Savadogo

  The military response has been the main focus to address the multidimensional crisis that the Sahel has been going through since 2012. However, it is1

  

• Self-defence Militias and State Sponsorship in Burkina Faso

  Publication | 2021

  • Viljar Haavik

  Summary: Since 2015-16, Burkina Faso has been engulfed in an ongoing conflict with jihadist insurgent groups active across the Sahel in West Africa.1

  

• Central African Republic: What's behind the crisis?

  Publication : Interview | 2021

  • Andrew E. Yaw Tchie

  The situation in the Central African Republic's capital of Bangui is "apocalyptic" - that's how a former prime minister this week1

  

• Crisis update on Central African Republic

  Publication : Interview | 2021

  • Andrew E. Yaw Tchie

  For nearly two months Bangui – the capital of the Central African Republic – has been under siege. An alliance of rebel groups is attacking convoys o1

  

• Is France in a no-win situation in Sahel region?

  Publication | 0

  • Andrew E. Yaw Tchie

  Leaders of a group of five West African Sahel nations are currently meeting for the second day in Chad’s capital N'Djamena. The summit seeks to1

  

• Book presentation: The Counterinsurgent Imagination

  Event

  Fri 26 May 2023

  Time: 13:15 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPI

  How and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures?

  

• 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. One example is the standardization of the ...

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