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7 February 2012 | South Sudan's pipeline problem
Exploring the prospects of a new oil pipeline in East Africa
2 February 2012 | Bistand og nødhjælp i dansk sikkerhedspolitik?
Den større sammenhæng er en diskussion værd
1 February 2012 | Virker kontraktpolitik i fattige lande?
Analyse af udviklingsminister Christian Friis Bachs rettighedsbaserede udviklingsbistand
31 January 2012 | The intervention hangovers in stabilisation operations
Case studies from Afghanistan and Iraq
24 January 2012 | Tanganyika, Tanzania og den koloniale grænsedragning
Danskere i kamp i Tysk Østafrika under 1. verdenskrig
9 January 2012 | The world's first Muslim human rights commission
Analysis of OIC's new human rights commission by Marie Juul Petersen
4 January 2012 | Between pockets of efficiency and elite capture in Mozambique
The difficult roads to productive sector development
Foreign aid needs to focus more on economic cooperation and productive structures
22 December 2011 | Economic Transformation in Ghana
The Political Challenges
16 December 2011 | Vi kan ikke købe os til indflydelse i Afrika
Erfaringer fra 50-års dansk-tanzaniansk bistandssamarbejde
5 December 2011 | Sudan Looks East
New book on China and India in the two Sudans
30 November 2011 | Results-based aid – yes, of course!
The debate has turned down a cul-de-sac
29 November 2011 | Strammere, slappere og den hellige ild
Det 4. bistandstopmøde på 10 år starter i dag i Busan, Korea
18 November 2011 | Economic change in ’clientelist’ societie
Professor Mustaq Khan’s presentation is available
15 November 2011 | Agriculture in Tanzania: Political priorities trump economic ones when CCM is threatened
This hurts producers but benefits the ruling elite, the bureaucrats and the consumers
14 November 2011 | Lurking Beneath the Surface
High-Valued Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
9 November 2011 | Four factors that drive good economic performance
when engaging in productive sector development
1 November 2011 | Social Contracts and Security in Sub-Saharan African Conflict States
Seminar paper and presentation available
1 November 2011 | The Forgotten Villages - Land Reform in Tanzania
Land Reform in Tanzania
24 October 2011 | Rundt omkring generel budgetstøtte
Udviklingsbistanden blev diskuteret i P1 Formiddag
20 October 2011 | Fem gode grunde til at samarbejde med muslimske bistandsorganisationer
DIIS Comment af Marie Juul Petersen
3 October 2011 | Non-State Actors in Justice and Security Reform
Case studies on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Indonesia, Ghana, Marshall Islands
29 September 2011 | No easy way out for state formation in Somalia
Traditional Authorities in Somaliland and the Limits of Hybrid Political Orders
14 September 2011 | What drives developing countries to support productive sectors?
Ruling elites’ strategies for political survival!
9 September 2011 | It's time to engage Sudan's Islamists
Luke Patey in Middle East Policy
5 September 2011 | Udviklingsbistandens resultater - hurtige eller holdbare?
DIIS Comment af Adam Moe Fejerskov og Lars Engberg-Pedersen
30 August 2011 | Udviklingsbistanden kan ikke reducere terrortruslen i Danmark!
DIIS Comment af Lars Erslev Andersen, Lars Engberg-Pedersen og Nauja Kleist
DIIS Comment af Lindsay Whitfield
Foreign Direct Investment-led development and extractive industries in Africa
23 August 2011 | Instrumental, narrow, normative? Reviewing recent literature on religion and development
New article in Third World Quarterly by Ben Jones and Marie Juul Petersen
23 August 2011 | How countries become rich and reduce poverty
Why we must shift the focus of development aid from poverty to industrialization
18 August 2011 | En udviklingsbistand i dansk interesse
DIIS Comment af Lars Engberg-Pedersen
18 August 2011 | Udviklingsbistandens udfordringer
Ny serie af dansksprogede DIIS Comments om udviklingspolitiske problemstillinger
15 August 2011 | Customary Justice and the Rule of Law
New book with in-depth case studies on the role of customary justice in war-torn societies
3 August 2011 | Islamizing aid. Transnational Muslim NGOs after 9.11.
New article in Voluntas by Marie Juul Petersen
13 July 2011 | Are ’Horizontal Partnerships’ the key to move the Paris Declaration forward in Busan?
DIIS Comment by Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Free elections and good governance do not secure better economic livelihood
PhD defence by Birgitte Lind Petersen
10 June 2011 | India in Africa
Exploring the Indo-Sino rivalry for Africa's oil
26 May 2011 | The poor and their negotiation possibilities
Tank Irrigration in India
2 May 2011 | No rocking of the boat
Climate change negotiations and development cooperation
2 May 2011 | Afrikas forbandelse
Luke Patey kommenterer i Politiken
2 May 2011 | The Long Reach of Africa’s Resource Curse
DIIS Comment by Luke Patey
14 April 2011 | Post-conflict budget support lessons from Mozambique
Budget-like support during post-conflict reconstruction can be a fundamental necessity
11 April 2011 | Inequality and development
Power point presentations from the Kapuscinski Lecture
25 February 2011 | Politics and Development: Exploring Practices in Policy Implementation
Research unit at DIIS changes focus
15 February 2011 | Business-state relations and economic development
Spring seminar series at DIIS
10 February 2011 | Fragile discourses
Why do donors use a terminology that is misleading?
1 February 2011 | The EUs Legal Ties with its Former Colonies: When Old Love Never Dies
Historical relations more important than Realpolitik
28 January 2011 | Mining for Sustainable Development - A missed opportunity
Donors and NGOs, where are you?
5 January 2011 | Kina kan ikke redde Sudan
Luke Patey kommenterer i Information
4 January 2011 | Recurrent cost boom threathens Millenium Development Goals
What the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, keeps quiet about
22 December 2010 | Justice and security – when the state isn’t the main provider
DIIS Policy Brief based on conference discussions
17 December 2010 | Eliteforskerpriser til tre DIIS-forskere
Johannes Lang, Luke Patey og Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen får Sapere Aude-bevillinger fra DFF
13 December 2010 | Security Sector Reform, the European Way
Securitization of development or developmentalisation of security?
13 December 2010 | Reconstructing Security After Conflict in Sierra Leone
The process and the consequences
9 December 2010 | Tanzania’s Land Law Reform: The Implementation Challenge
Slow and uneven progress
1 December 2010 | Evaluering af udviklingsbistanden
Præsentationer fra seminaret
26 November 2010 | Oil on Sudan's troubled waters
Harry Verhoeven and Luke Patey in the Guardian.
26 November 2010 | Medborgeridealer i forandring
Ny artikel af Birgitte Lind i Tidsskriftet Antropologi
22 November 2010 | Climate change and development cooperation
Presentations from the seminar, 19 November 2010
22 November 2010 | China and India hedge their bets in Sudan
Daniel Large and Luke Patey on Sudan's upcoming referendum
19 November 2010 | Chiefs – and the state-non-state dichotomy
Traditional leaders and justice reform in Sierra Leone
15 November 2010 | Asian Oil Security meets Corporate Responsibility
Podcast of Luke Patey's seminar at the National University of Singapore
10 November 2010 | 'Private sector development' in Africa
What does it mean and how does it occur?
More effective means of preventing corruption should be considered
9 November 2010 | The Politics of Legal Pluralism
New journal article by DIIS-Researcher Helene Maria Kyed
9 November 2010 | How students fare
Article by Birgitte Lind and Jytte Agergaard on everyday mobility and schooling in Nepal
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25 October 2010 | Community policing in Mozambique
Reducing crime - but doing it 'the dirty way'?
25 October 2010 | Regulating European development assistance through soft law affects EU power balance
Extensive use of soft law regulation strengthens Member States vis-à-vis EU institutions
8 October 2010 | Oil and Sudan's Coming Referendum
Luke Patey writes in Making Sense of Sudan
5 October 2010 | Udviklingsbistand, FN og 2015-målene
Sejler vi fremad med strømmen mod stormen?
28 September 2010 | Crude Days Ahead for Sudan?
Luke Patey's new article on oil and Sudan in African Affairs
27 September 2010 | What has been the impact of PRSPs in Africa?
The experience of Ghana and its implications for development aid
24 September 2010 | Små lette hop på stedet
Debat om resultaterne af FNs topmøde om 2015-målene
31 August 2010 | PhD Defense: The Power of Resistance
India’s National Oil Company and International Activism in Sudan
30 August 2010 | 2015
What lessons can we learn from the Millennium Development Goals?
29 August 2010 | Diskussionen om Afghanistan
Læs briefet bag 'rapporten'
DIIS Comment af Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Hiring, firing, transfer, demotion and promotion practices in the public sector
26 June 2010 | Good Governance: desirable governance goal
- but unachievable agenda for poor countries, says Mustaq Khan
Member state interests stand in the way
15 June 2010 | Book anthology: Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone
Perspectives from those who did it
International conference discussed legal pluralism in Mozambique
27 May 2010 | Grænser for udviklingsbistand
Bistanden kan ikke opnå resultater alle steder
Call for papers
- og arbejde aktivt for saudiarabisk involvering
The EU’s attempt at promoting democracy as part of its development policy is ineffective
7 May 2010 | 'Nice children don't eat a lot of food'
Aid, famine and adaption to food insecurity in North Wollo, Ethiopia
7 May 2010 | Nyt nordisk forum for bistandsdebat
Nordisk Afrika Institut lancerer online forum om udvikling og bistand
3 May 2010 | Development aid and its unintended effects
- outcomes of development aid are difficult to plan
20 April 2010 | Oil and Politics in Sudan
Luke Patey in the-african.org
6 April 2010 | Security and Justice Reform in Sierra Leone
A decade of learning revisited
17 March 2010 | Det går ufattelig godt i Afrika
Sådan lød oplægget i P1 Morgen
17 March 2010 | Udviklingsbistand og erhvervsstøtte i Afrika
Diskussion af den nye danske udviklingspolitik i P1 Horisont
Competition over resources generated from the markets shapes national political struggles
25 February 2010 | Ny udviklingsminister
Søren Pind vil være et aktiv for bistandsdebatten
25 February 2010 | 50 års bistandserfaringer på spil
Regeringens udspil til en ny udviklingspolitik
10 February 2010 | Reframing the aid debate
Blog on aid at DIIS
4 February 2010 | Poverty is concrete and local
Poverty reduction must be comprehensive, relational and global
1 February 2010 | Støtte til erhvervssektorudvikling i fattige lande
Tre seminaroplæg er tilgængelige her
Call for papers
11 January 2010 | Sikkerhed og udvikling
Kan udviklingsbistanden skabe sikkerhed – og for hvem?
18 December 2009 | The Poverty Reduction Strategy in Mozambique
What is the moorings, usage and future of the PRSP in Mozambique?
17 December 2009 | Reframing the aid debate
Why aid isn't working and how it should be changed
17 December 2009 | Regulating the distances to authorities
House projects and governance relations in Maputo, Mozambique
17 December 2009 | Når danske politikker undergraver udviklingsbistanden
Politik skal koordineres for at skabe udvikling, men ringe koordinering er værre end ingen
17 December 2009 | DIIS researchers in special issue of 'Policing and Society' on post-conflict policing
The role of non-state actors in post-conflict policing and security sector reform?
8 December 2009 | Avoiding renewed civil war in Sudan
New chapter from Luke Patey on Post-2011 scenarios in Sudan
3 December 2009 | Network governance: Culture, Agency and Power
New DIIS Working Paper examines three principles of non-state informal organisation
DIIS Comment by Morten Broberg
1 December 2009 | Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afganistan
New DIIS Working Paper examines Afghan State-building Viewed from the Margins
27 November 2009 | Armed rebellion, smuggling, cross border trade - and state-making in eastern Congo
Transborder economy and state-making in borderlands
20 November 2009 | The Impact of Economic Activism on Asian national Oil Companies in Sudan
New article from Luke Patey in Journal of Modern African Studies
20 November 2009 | The Political and Economic Role of Asia in Sudan
DIIS coorganizes international conference in New Delhi
13 November 2009 | Discussions of development cooperation
Ownership - Direct support to the poor - European development policies
9 November 2009 | How do donors think?
DIIS seminar discussed how ideas, research, bureaucracy, context influence donor thinking
27 October 2009 | Kriser, klima og udviklingssamarbejdet
Europæiske udviklingsdage i Stockholm
23 October 2009 | State Elites and the New Poverty Agenda in Bangladesh
New working paper examining Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper process in Bangladesh
9 October 2009 | Private sector led growth and development cooperation
New working paper looks at the many roads taken and why few pass by Paris
6 October 2009 | Analyzing Ghanas Recent National Elections
Ghana’s December 2008 elections were very competitive, free and fair
1 October 2009 | Nu skal afrikanske landmænd selv kunne efterspørge rådgivning
Lancering af Afrikansk netværk for brugerstyret landbrugskonsulenttjeneste
24 September 2009 | Elites, Production and Poverty: a comparative study
Launches a new website and its first working papers
10 September 2009 | Sisyfos på overarbejde
Internationalt udviklingssamarbejde i 2020
7 September 2009 | Fuelling Mistrust
Luke Patey comments on oil in Sudan on BBC World Service
6 August 2009 | Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2009
The Arctic, piracy, development aid, and much more...
5 August 2009 | Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2009: Arktis, pirateri, bistandspolitik og meget mere…
Ny forskning om dansk udenrigspolitik offentliggjort den 6. august
21 July 2009 | Rethinking Third World Politics - twenty years later
How to make sense of transfers of political concepts, models, ideas and institutions
21 July 2009 | The State and Development Governance. The Least Developed Countries Report 2009. UNCTAD
Ole Therkildsen has written a background paper for this report.
Lindsay Whitfield is co-editor of the book and author of three chapters
Lars Buur, Neil Webster and Lindsay Whitfield organized a panel at the conference.
24 June 2009 | Efter 2015
Konference diskuterer afløser til FN’s udviklingsmål.
24 June 2009 | Everyday security in a Sierra Leonean diamond town
Fieldwork between October 2008 and June 2009.
22 June 2009 | Generel budgetstøtte eller konkrete bistandsprojekter?
To forskellige tilgange til udviklingsbistanden diskuteret på P1 Morgen.
2 June 2009 | Finanskrisen smitter af på FN’s 2015-mål
Tre rapporter diskuterer finanskrisens indvirkning på udsigten til at opnå 2015-målene.
Freetown book launch of 'Security System Transformation in Sierra Leone, 1997l-2007'
26 May 2009 | Chronic Poverty or Inequality: What should be the Objective of Development Cooperation?
PowerPoint presentations from the seminar are now available.
Neil Webster on the organizing committee of the FAU conference.
France Bourgouin joins the research unit for Politics and Governance.
28 April 2009 | Skal Afrika have udviklingsbistand?
Seminar satte spørgsmålstegn ved bistanden.
21 April 2009 | New report: Participation, Decentralization and Human Rights
A Review of Approaches for Strengthening Voice and Accountability in Local Governance.
25 March 2009 | The Horror of the Mob
The Violence of Imagination in South Africa
24 March 2009 | Academic conference on the role of identity in Sudan
'Local, Regional and National Dimensions of Identity in Sudan’
18 March 2009 | Den fælles fremtid
Engelsk konference om udvikling i finans-, klima- og fødevarekrisernes skær.
18 March 2009 | Towards 2015: Effective Management for Development
DIIS researchers gave four seminars for the Danida Fellowship Centre course.
17 March 2009 | New electronic publishing unit on matters of Power Conflict and Democracy (PCD) in S&SE
Neil Webster joins International Advisory Board.
17 March 2009 | Second international workshop: Elites and the New Poverty Agenda
Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur, Neil Webster and Lindsay Whitfield attended from DIIS.
17 March 2009 | Youth, Schooling and Citizenship in Nepal
Birgitte Lind Petersen has returned from PhD fieldwork in far Western Nepal.
10 March 2009 | New book: State Violence and Human Rights
Chapter on traditional authority and state law by DIIS researcher Helene Maria Kyed.
6 February 2009 | Development goals after 2015?
Richard Manning discusses the usefulness of the Millennium Development Goals
6 February 2009 | Security System Transformation in Sierra Leone, 1997-2007
Book Launch in London on 26 February
3 February 2009 | Opbygning af lokaldemokrati i Mozambique
Revidering af MS ActionAid-program med Helene Maria Kyed som revisionsteamets leder.
29 January 2009 | Pris til DIIS-forsker ved uddelingen af EliteForsk-prisen 2009
Ung Eliteforskerpris til Helene Maria Kyed
27 January 2009 | UNDP-DCAF Handbook for Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector
Chapter contributed by DIIS researcher
A unique insight into the thinking of SSR practitioners
13 January 2009 | In the Vicinity of the State: House Construction, Personhood and the State in Maputo
Ph.d.-forsvar af Morten Nielsen d. 6. februar kl. 14 på Institut for Antropologi.
23 December 2008 | Virker udviklingsbistanden?
En stigende andel af danskerne tror det ikke.
22 December 2008 | How much and how states tax make a huge differences to how well their populations live
For poor countries the capacity to tax can be the difference between chaos and development.
22 December 2008 | The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors.
New book edited by Lindsay Whitfield.
22 December 2008 | Evolving NGO-state relations across Europe
DIIS researchers participate in a study of private aid organisations.
22 December 2008 | Decentralisation of Security Provisions and Citizenship
Post.doc. grant to Helene Maria Kyed from Forskningsrådet for Samfund og Erhverv (FSE).
1 December 2008 | Economic divergence and welfare convergence
DIIS Working Paper takes a look at welfare indicators and their links to aid
27 November 2008 | Democracy and its Discontents in South Africa's townships
New article by DIIS researcher on Sovereignty and Human Rights
25 November 2008 | Is there a market for peace? Global halal networks as strategic metaphors
New DIIS Working Paper discusses the political history of informal economy
25 November 2008 | Bureaucracy and informality - a double-edged sword
New DIIS Working Paper discusses the political history of informal economy
24 November 2008 | New book: Beside the State. Emergent Powers in Contemporary Africa
Chapter by Helene M. Kyed: 'Traditional' Leaders Formalization in Post-war Mozambique.
18 November 2008 | Climate change
DIIS activities related to climate change
5 November 2008 | Afrika. Økonomisk vækst men hvordan?
Artikel af Ole Therkildsen bragt i Politiken d. 30. oktober 2008.
3 November 2008 | De fattige lande indhenter de rige
DIIS Policy Brief analyserer velfærdsindikatorers udvikling i ulandene
30 October 2008 | Den private andel af pengestrømmene til fattige lande er stigende
DIIS Policy Brief beskriver de forskellige ressourcestrømme til ulandene
24 October 2008 | Increasing importance of non-ODA financial flows to poor countries
New DIIS Working Paper provides an overview of current resource flows
24 October 2008 | Pragmatism and comprehensiveness are essential
Six new DIIS Policy Briefs discuss governance support in fragile situations
23 October 2008 | Are good intentions development’s worst enemy?
Seminar in the Hague discussed challenges facing donors in development cooperation.
22 October 2008 | Inclusive Citizenship and Social Accountability
Esbern Friis-Hansen has received funds to finance the startup phase of a research program.
10 October 2008 | Harmonisation dangers and incentive problems
Workshop during the Copenhagen Nordic Africa Days discussed reforms of development aid.
Presentation from the seminar on October 7, 2008, is now available.
25 September 2008 | Issues and dilemmas in fragile situations
DIIS publishes report synthesizing a study involving 17 researchers
25 September 2008 | Background papers on fragile situations
DIIS report offers discussions of four central issues
24 September 2008 | Where is International Development Cooperation Heading after the Accra High Level Forum?
Presentations from the seminar on September 23, 2008, are now available.
12 September 2008 | Korruptionsbekæmpelsens tilsigtede og utilsigtede konsekvenser
Oplæggene fra dagens seminar om udviklingsbistand og korruption findes her.
20 August 2008 | 3 pointer om fup og svindel med udviklingsbistanden
’Pas på pengene’ er ikke den bedste udviklingsstrategi.
18 August 2008 | State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa af Lars Buur og Helene Kyed
Høvdingene Kommer! Boganmeldelse i Weekend Avisen, 21.08.08.
14 July 2008 | Globale udfordringer og mere indflydelse til fattige lande
Højdepunkter fra en konference om Verdensbankens fremtid.
Local level implementation of security sector reform in Sierra Leone's Kono District
30 June 2008 | Firkantede meninger har det ikke let
Der er mange grunde til, at Tanzania og Vietnam klarer sig så forskelligt
30 June 2008 | Building democracy in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan
Neil Webster has helped in designing a part of new training programme
24 June 2008 | Moving Beyond Health Research to Research for Health: Capacity, Collaboration & Challenges
European preparatory meeting for Bamako 2008
12 June 2008 | Sociale entreprenører: de nye fattigdomsbekæmpere?
Diskussion af virkningerne i den tredje verden.
On May 26, 2008, DIIS hosted a seminar on the challenges of development and aid in 2008.
26 May 2008 | Bono's Product (RED) initiative: Wedding hard commerce and corporate social responsibility
New Working Paper by Stefano Ponte, Lisa Ann Richey and Mike Baab
On Monday 19 May, 2008, DIIS hosted a seminar on the future challenges of development NGOs.
Peter Kragelund (DIIS) deltog i konferencen Development, Justice, Governance.
20 May 2008 | Celebrities, consumption and international aid
New article in Third World Quarterly by Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte
PowerPoint presentation from the seminar on May 5, 2008 is now available.
New book on Mozambique edited by Lars Buur, Helene Maria Kyed, and Terezinha da Silva
15 April 2008 | Afrika-kommissionen og international udviklingsbistand
Lars Engberg-Pedersen i P1 Morgen den 15. april 2008
7 April 2008 | Trænger udviklingsbistanden til en grundlæggende reform?
Højdepunkter fra en konference om NGOer, civilsamfund og udviklingsbistand.
International interdisciplinary research conference in Trondheim, Norway, 13-14 May 2008.
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