Jon Harald Sande Lie
Senior Research FellowJon Harald Sande Lie holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Bergen (2011) and is senior research fellow in the Research Group on Global Order and Diplomacy (GOaD).
His research scope pertains to international aid, global governance and state formation, focusing on development and humanitarian aid in Eastern Africa, particularly Ethiopia and Uganda where he has conducted long-term fieldworks in studying the partnership relation at the level of NGOs and those involving the World Bank.
He is co-editor for the journal Forum for Development Studies. He is project manager for the FRIPRO project Developmentality and the anthropology of partnership.
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Research project
Public–Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT)
2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)Private actors are increasingly operating in the name of development and in partnership with international development actors. This project (DEVINT) will explore the nexus of private actors and publicly funded aid organisations, focusing on how the meanings, processes and mechanisms of development are...
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News
NUPI awarded funding for four research projects by the Research Council of Norway
16.12.2020A good week for NUPI - The Research Council of Norway awarded NUPI funding for four new research projects. -
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NUPI awarded funding for four research projects by the Research Council of Norway
16.12.2020A good week for NUPI - The Research Council of Norway awarded NUPI funding for four new research projects. -
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NUPI awarded funding for five research projects by the Research Council of Norway
16.12.2020The Research Council of Norway awarded NUPI funding for five new research projects. -
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PM Abiy deserves the Nobel Prize, but can he keep the peace?
10.12.2019OP-ED: A process of change has been initiated in Ethiopia and the region, but it is under severe threat. -
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NUPI experts on the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
11.10.2019The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Abiy Ahmed for his efforts for peace and international cooperation, and especially for the initiative to solve the border conflict with Ethiopia’s neighbouring state Eritrea. -
Tue 3 Sep 2019Event
The evolving political dynamics in Ethiopia and its implications for the Horn of Africa
Time: 10:00 Location: NUPIIn this seminar, Dr. Abdeta Beyene of the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation in Ethiopia will talk about the evolving political dynamics in Ethiopia and its implications for the greater Horn of Africa.
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Mon 24 Jun 2019Event
Theory seminar: Brokered safety – labour recruitment and migration assistance in the Mekong region
Time: 12:15 Location: NUPIIn this theory seminar, Dr. Sverre Molland will talk about the importance of intermediaries and mediation for work recruitment in the Mekong region. He will also talk about how this can be seen as an integral part of government steering instruments, and as something aid organizations can benefit from...
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Local Ownership as Global Governance
2019The ownership discourse has profoundly altered the management of development aid. Nominally, it seeks to instil greater freedom as well as responsibilities among aid recipients. Revisiting two ethnographic studies (the World Bank–Uganda partnership and NGO relations in Ethiopia), this article shows how... -
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Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework
This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how blood kinship from the beginning has been accompanied,... -
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Donor-driven state formation: friction in the World Bank–Uganda partnership
2018The chapter explores the partnership relation between the World Bank and Uganda from 2000 and onwards. It demonstrates how the notion of politics frames apolitical development discourses, and argues for how the formation of partnership entails specific tacit governance mechanisms that have been central... -
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Analysing the political economy in eleven of Norway’s partner countries
22.06.2018Project Manager Stein Sundstøl Eriksen gives three key recommendations for Norwegian authorities. -
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How to do development studies?
04.06.2018Forum for Development Studies addresses the absence of a designated method. -
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Ethiopia: A Political Economy Analysis
2018This report provides an overview and analysis of some key issues pertaining to the political economy of Ethiopia in a historical perspective. The continuous rule of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) since 1991 has advanced a revolutionary democracy founded on the idea that... -
Fri 10 Nov 2017Event
Theory seminar: Internationalized rule. Budget support as a governance technology
Time: 13:15 Location: NUPIProfessor Klaus Schlichte presents findings from his ongoing research on the role and relevance of Max Weber to understand internationalised rule.
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Research project
Political economy analyses
2016 - 2018 (Completed)This project provides political economy analyses of eleven countries deemed important to Norwegian development cooperation.
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL
From humanitarian action to development aid in northern Uganda and the formation of a humanitarian-development nexus
2017The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in northern Uganda, which was driven by the government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty by discursively recasting the situation... -
Research project
Developmentality and the anthropology of partnership (DevAnt)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)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.
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Research project
Preventing Violent Conflict
2017 (Completed)The project is commissioned by the World Bank and seeks to better understand how the interplay between international actors and domestic political actors affects efforts to prevent violent conflict.
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL