Sub-Saharan Africa

Among other things, DIIS researches mobility, adaptation to climate change, the sustainable use of natural resources, governance and the causes of conflict.

Research and activites

Journal Article

2021

Interventions by the global North since the Cold War

From global integration to fragmentation and delegation
Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert

Webinar

West Africa Perspectives

Online via Zoom

It matters how the dynamics of West Africa are discussed. Join this webinar to understand why, and hear more about appropriate responses to some of the main challenges that the region is facing.
Journal Article

2021

How aid and trade finance conflict

The world needs new rules for global supply chains.
Journal Article

2021

Everyday resistance to European border control in Mali

The role of Malian state officials in shaping borderwork from below
Journal Article

2021

Sierra Leone as Post-Conflict Peacekeeper

Interrogating the peacekeeping literature on why countries provide troops
Journal Article

2021

‘When Migrants Become Messengers’

Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal
Blogpost

6 May 2021

A Year After the Floods In Qardho

What Has Been The Response And How Is The Community Coping?
Previous streamed webinar

5 May 2021

How can we overcome the root causes of piracy?

A conversation with scholars on maritime security
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Web Article

2021

Studying Diaspora Humanitarianism

Some methodological considerations
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Web Article

2021

COVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifeline

Remittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity for digital disruption instead
DIIS Working Paper

2021

Establishing the empirical basis for tracing the development outcomes of agricultural investments

A methodological framework
Photo/illustration by Christian Vium

Webinar

Does more information save migrants’ lives?

Webinar launch of new report about West African migrants’ use of information en route to Europe
Policy Brief

2021

Integrating community development in public procurement of renewable energy generation

Lessons from South Africa
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Webinar

The Tigray armed conflict: the state of play and dilemmas of international intervention

Online via Zoom

This webinar sets out to discuss the latest developments in Tigray as well as the international community’s options for intervention
Interview

2 March 2021

What was behind the killing of the Italian ambassador to DRC?

Peer Schouten on the many factors that may have led up to this tragic event
Forskningsprojekt

23 February 2021

New project on migration management in Africa and the Middle East

How does the EU's migration agenda influence policy-making in Africa and the Middle East?
10 February 2021

DIIS-researcher new editor of Progress in Development Studies

DIIS senior researcher Adam Fejerskov has been appointed new associate editor of Progress in Development Studies.
Report

2021

Herding through insecurity

New report on the militarization of pastoralism in the Central African Republic
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Article

2021

To beat China on tech, learn from it 

The United States needs more than support of traditional allies to outpace China on 5G and other new technologies
Journal Article

2021

‘Pockets of effectiveness’ to tax mining multinationals do exist

Political incentives have to be right - as in Tanzania and Uganda
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

When jihadists broker peace

natural resource conflicts as weapons of war in Mali’s protracted crisis
Working papers etc.

2020

Corruption in the sugar value chain

A major obstacle to Tanzania’s industrialisation
DIIS Working Paper

2020

Renewable energy poses opportunities and challenges in Africa
Book

2020

Governing African Oil and Gas

Boom-Era Political and Institutional Innovation
Book Chapter

2020

The difficulties of diffusing the 2030 agenda

Situated norm engagement and development organisations

Book Chapter

2019

Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in Niger: Death, Profit, and Community

Hans Lucht

Critical insights on irregular migration facilitation: global perspectives. European University Institute

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Journal Article

2019

Contested Norms in Fragmented Institutions

Gender Equality in South Africa’s Development Cooperation

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

Progress in Development Studies, 3

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Journal Article

2019

Muted market signals: politics, petroleum investments and regulatory developments in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Peter Bofin

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

A typology of domestic private land-based investors in Africa

Evidence from Tanzania's Timber Rush

Justin Edward Lusasi, Esbern Friis-Hansen & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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Journal Article

2019

Roadblock politics in Central Africa

Peer Schouten

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 37

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Journal Article

2019

Interface bureaucrats and the everyday remaking of climate interventions

Evidence from climate change adaptation in Zambia

Mikkel Funder & Carol Emma Mweemba

Global Environmental Change, 55

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Journal Article

2019

Challenging prospects for upstream contracting in Tanzania

Peter Bofin & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Oxford Energy Forum, 117

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Working papers etc.

2019

Democratisation in Tanzania: No Elections Without Exemptions

Summary of Working Paper 98 by Ole Therkildsen and Ane Karoline Bak

Ole Therkildsen & Ane Karoline Bak

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Book Chapter

2018

Hybridity and boundary-making

exploring the politics of hybridisation

Helene Maria Kyed

Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development. Routledge
Book Chapter

2018

Separation and Positive Accommodation

Police Reform in Sierra Leone

Peter Albrecht

Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development. Routledge
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Working papers etc.

2018

Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (2)

The politics of health insurance in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Thabit Jacob

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Working papers etc.

2018

Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (1)

The politics of Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) in Tanzania

Thabit Jacob & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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DIIS Working Paper

2018

State caught in the middle

coal extraction and community struggles in Tanzania

Thabit Jacob

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Working papers etc.

2018

‘Elders among traders’

Market committees and everyday state formation in Mogadishu

Faduma Abukar Mursal

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Journal Article

2018

Street Authorities

Community Policing in Mozambique and Swaziland

Helene Maria Kyed

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 41

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Report

2018

Central African Republic

A Conflict Mapping

Peer Schouten & Fiona Southward

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Report

2018

Evaluation Study: Danish development cooperation with Bolivia, Mozambique, Nepal and Vietnam

An analysis across four country evaluations

Neil Anthony Webster, Ole Winckler Andersen, Adam Moe Fejerskov & Lars Buur

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Web Article

2018

Can India keep pace with China in Africa?

Luke Patey

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Working papers etc.

2018

Entrust we must

The role of 'trust' in Somali economic life

Neil Carrier & Hannah Elliott

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Journal

2018

Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

Progress in Development Studies, volume 18, Issue 2

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Working papers etc.

2018

Perishable state-making

Vegetable trade between self-governance and ethnic entitlement in Jigjiga, Ethiopia

Fana Gebresenbet

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Journal Article

2018

The Interplay of Interventions and Hybridisation in Puntland’s Security Sector

Peter Albrecht

Cooperation and Conflict

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Journal Article

2018

Vulnerable Here or There?

Examining the vulnerability of victims of human trafficking before and after return

Erlend Paasche, May-Len Skilbrei & Sine Plambech

Anti-Trafficking Review, 2018

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Book Chapter

2018

State Police and Tradition in post-war Mozambique

the dilemmas of claiming sovereignty in legal pluralistic contexts

Helene Maria Kyed

The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa. London: Routledge

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Journal Article

2018

Collaboration between meso-level institutions and communities to facilitate climate change adaptation in Ghana

Esbern Friis-Hansen & Mikkel Funder

Climate and development, 11

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Anbefalinger

31 October 2014

Risks and potentials

Danish investments can have both positive and negative consequences for development south of Sahara, says DIIS experts
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13 August 2014

Tanzania’s New Wave Land Reform: a Matter of Institutionalisation

Reform may have a systemic impact, but long-term engagement is required
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Journal article

31 July 2014

State Police resolve witchcraft cases in Mozambique

Why is it necessary for police to deal with invisible powers such as witchcraft and evil spirits?
Resultater

19 November 2013

CCRI at the ZAWAFE 2013 conference in Zambia

Carol Mweemba and Imasiku Nyambe present preliminary findings from the Zambian fieldwork
1 October 2013

Peace and justice promotion in Somaliland

- beyond legalist approaches
12 September 2013

Flexible politics of belonging

New article on Ghanaian diaspora mobilization
28 October 2012

PhD Project: Emerging Transatlantic Migration – West African migrants in Argentina

Ida Marie Vammen, DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies
28 October 2012

Research project: Deportation and emergency return to Ghana from Europe and Libya

Nauja Kleist, DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies
28 October 2012

Research project: From Transit to Settlement? – West African migrants in Morocco

Dorte Thorsen, University of Sussex
Photo/illustration by Cecilie Castor

Livestreaming

Russia's quest for influence in Africa after the 2022 Ukraine invasion

DIIS Auditorium

Why and how is Russia expanding its influence in Africa after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine? And (in what way) has Russia been able to transform its influence into impact on African states' voting behaviour in the UN General Assembly. Those are some of the questions we will address at this seminar.
Livestreaming

Large-scale investments, conflicts and rights in Africa

Auditorium

Natural resource investments and their consequences
Photo/illustration by Peter Albrecht

Livestreaming

Ghanaian stability put to the test

DIIS - Auditorium

The upcoming elections and the consequences of COVID-19
Security technologies in weak states

Auditorium

How security technologies impact state-society relations
Photo/illustration by Peter Tomas Petersen

Webinar

Gender, peace and security

New perspectives on well-known challenges
Livestreaming

Political technologies and disinformation around the globe

Auditorium

Technological challenges to democracy, peace and development
Livestreaming

Humanitarian innovation and localization

Auditorium

Building on local needs, competencies and skills