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Conflict

How do various actors contribute to peaceful resolution of conflicts?

At NUPI, research on conflict resolution often has a practical aim: to improve the methods uses for creating dialogue and reconciliation among the parties to a conflict. This can involve both getting them to the negotiations table, and establishing lasting solutions for peace. Small states, big states, governmental and civil-society actors around the world may be involved in conflict resolution. The study of conflict resolution is closely linked to peace operations and peacebuilding, diplomacy and studies of conflicts.

Research questions within the field of conflict resolution can include:

What ways can lead to formal peace negotiations?
What are the roles of the negotiators and facilitators in negotiations?
How are the power relations in a peace process?

News about conflict

‘We need to reflect on what “freedom” means to us’
25 Jun 2020
- - Ane Teksum Isbrekken
What does freedom mean? In her new book, NUPI Senior Research Fellow Rita Augestad Knudsen examines the use of this concept within international politics.

Utenrikspolitikk Diplomacy Conflict resolution International organizations Styring
Sustaining Peace in the time of COVID-19
12 May 2020
- - Jenny Nortvedt
NUPI is present with several events at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development. See them all here!

United Nations International organizations Peace operations Security policy Conflict resolution Nasjonsbygging Pandemier Sårbare stater AU Africa
The PREVEX project officially launched in Brussels
7 Feb 2020
- - Henriette Ullavik Erstad
Why are some communities more likely to experience violent extremism than others?

Terrorisme og ekstremisme Conflict resolution Opprørsgrupper The Middle East and North Africa Africa Komparativ metode The EU

All news about conflict (total 79)

Publications about conflict

Publication : Report

Chad’s Pivotal Role in the Regional Crisis

2020
An analysis of Chad's regime role in the context of the military and humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin
Africa Humanitarian issues Conflict resolution
Publication : Academic article
The Origins of Boko Haram, and Why the War on Terror Matters
2020
- - Alessio Iocchi
This article, prompted as a response to a recent contribution penned by Audu Bulama Bukarti,returns to the history of an incident occurred in 2003 between the Nigerian security and a group of militants popularly known as the “Nigerian Taliban” and considered as a precursor to Boko Haram. While the historiography...
Terrorisme og ekstremisme Africa Conflict resolution
Publication : Academic article
Spaces and Institutional Logics in Post-Conflict Settings of Mitrovica
2020
- - Kari M. Osland
Spaces structure interactions between communities in post-conflict settings. They are governed by particular institutional logics, which can foster boundary building and boundary transgression. This article proposes an extended version of the concept of ‘everyday peace’ including a focus not only on...
Security policy Regional integrasjon Utenrikspolitikk Europe Conflict resolution Styring International organizations The EU