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  • Publication : Book review

    Koonings, Kees, Dirk Kruijt and Dennis Rodgers (eds.), Ethnography as risky business: field research in violent and sensitive contexts

    2020
      • Frida Bjørneseth
    Ethnography as risky business is a 16‐chapter edited volume, providing its readers with a collection of first‐hand ethnographic experiences gathered in contexts shaped by violence and conflict. The book springs out of a symposium that took place in 2014, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The...
  • News

    COVID-19 and the consequences for international relations

    28.04.2020
    Read our briefs and expert commentary on how Covid-19 affects developing countries and international affairs.
  • Publication : Report

    Lessons from the Ebola Crisis in West Africa: Community engagement, crisis communication and countering rumours

    2020
      • Frida Bjørneseth
      • Morten Bøås
      • Henriette Ullavik Erstad
      • Alessio Iocchi
      • Kari M. Osland
    What lessons can we draw from the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone? While both the outbreak itself and the context is different, there are enough similarities between the Ebola crisis and COVID-19 to extract useful lessons and best practices. In this research note, the focus...
  • Publication : Academic article

    Gender, Parenthood and Feelings of Safety in Greek Refugee Centres

    2019
      • Frida Bjørneseth
    Forced migration and displacement are often associated with increased exposure to various risks that negatively affect personal safety. While experiences of displaced populations are heterogeneous, women have been shown to be exposed to intersecting factors, such as vulnerability to gender-based violence,...
  • Publication : Popular scientific lecture

    The Faiths for Forests Declaration and Action Agenda: Introduction and context

    An introduction and contextualization of the newly launched Faiths for Forests Declaration, outlining current faith-based initiatives for environmental protection and conservation.
  • Publication : Academic lecture

    Expectations of Change: Development Partnerships in Faith-Based Forest Conservation in Ethiopia

    Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Ethiopia, this paper explores how local faith communities, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), and international development organizations cooperate to define knowledge and practices of forest conservation. By following a church forest conservation-project...
  • Publication : Academic lecture

    Fieldwork on/with/through non-governmental organizations: navigating NGO ethnography

    Ethnographic fieldwork among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can provide rich data on the practices and micro-level processes of civil society actors, as well as mechanisms of cooperation or implementation. But ‘doing’ fieldwork is not an analogous process of entering a ‘field’ and collecting data...
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    NUPI experts on the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

    11.10.2019
      • Ane Teksum Isbrekken
    The 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.
  • 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.