All content about Insurgencies

• 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.

  

• 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

  

• 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

  

• Ståle Ulriksen

  Ståle Ulriksen is a researcher at the Norwegian Naval College, part of the Norwegian Defence University, with a 20 percent position at NUPI,...

  Foreign policy  Security policy  Defence  NATO  Diplomacy  Terrorism and extremism  Conflict  Nation-building  Insurgencies  The EU  Regional integration  Oceans  Africa  The Arctic  Asia  Europe  The Middle East and North Africa  North America  The Nordic countries  Russia and Eurasia  Comparative methods

  

• Viljar Haavik

  Viljar Haavik is a Research Fellow at NUPI's Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development, as part of the research project Stre...

  Terrorism and extremism  Insurgencies  Fragile states  Africa  Conflict

  

• Natasja Rupesinghe

  Natasja Rupesinghe is a PhD fellow in the Research group on peace, conflict and development. She is also a DPhil candidate in International Re...

  Peace operations  Humanitarian issues  International organizations  United Nations  Africa  Conflict  Defence and security  Insurgencies

  

• Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)

  Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)

  How is the political authority to tax established, exercised and maintained over time? State-building requires predictable income. Without a domestic revenue base, even core activities states are expe...

  Economic growth  Governance  Development policy  Comparative methods  Insurgencies  Fragile states  International economics

  

• Morten Bøås

  Morten Bøås (PhD) is Research Professor and works predominantly on issues concerning peace and conflict in Africa, including issues su...

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