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NUPI Center for UN and Global Governance
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
Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)The aim of this project is to strengthen the ability of UN peace operations to respond to global security challenges and improve their effectiveness.
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Research project
Evaluating Power Political Repertoires (EPOS)
2016 - 2020 (Ongoing)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...
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Research projectWHAT DETERMINES HOW STATES ACT? Conflict is one of the many types of risks states are faced with. In the field of security, states increasingly rely on private enterprises to assess and manage the threats and risks. How may this influence the result? A new NUPI project will examine this.
The Market for Anarchy
2018 - 2022 (Ongoing)The Market for Anarchy project seeks to better understand how state behaviour is shaped by assessments of and responses to different types of risks.
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Research project
Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON)
2018 - 2021 (Ongoing)NUPI together with 40 partners from across the globe have established an international network to undertake research into the effectiveness of peace operations.
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Research project
Training for Peace (TfP)
2011 - 2018 (Ongoing)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.
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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
Nordic responses to Geopolitical challenges (GEONOR)
2017 - 2019 (Completed)Which tools to politicians in the Nordic countries have available to them in a more challenging geopolitical sphere?
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Research project
World of the Right: Alternative visions of global order (WoR)
2018 - 2021 (Ongoing)The project will look deeper into the conservative New Right in countries such as Russia, the US, and Europe, examining in particular the alternative visions of Western civilisational order that these...