How do violence and conflict impact individuals, communities and institutions?
Fafo has long experience in researching conflicts and social unrest around the globe. Our research focuses on how people and institutions are affected by, respond to and recover from violence and conflict.
We aim at uncovering the underlying drivers of conflict, who the main actors are on the local, national, regional and global levels, and the conditions under which conflicts are created and sustained.
Our research focuses on the continuum of violence (Bourgois 2004), that is the interlinkage of domestic, structural and political violence. Our research therefore also explores the impact of violence and conflict on health, social relations and political participation.
Research topics vary from the integration of traumatized refugees, human trafficking, torture, as well as an indebt study of civil wars, social unrest and terrorism around the world.
Forskere
Popular demand and government response 2011 to 2012
Gangs as livelihood in a Port-au-Prince ghetto. The Haiti Youth Project
Lessons from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Proceedings of Scholarly Conference on the Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict. Held in Oslo, Norway, 6 – 7 July, 2006
Social Research in Conflict Zones
Landmine Monitor: 1999–2005
The Political Economy of Private Military Companies. Economies of Conflict: Private Sector Activity in Armed Conflict
Assessing the Liability of Business Entities for Grave Violations of International Law
Regulating Economies of Conflict
The Timber Trade and Armed Conflict
The Oil Industry and Armed Conflict
Armed Conflict and the Trade in Rough Diamonds
A Needs Assessment Study
Mette-Louise Johansen, Therese Sandrup and Nerina Weiss
Introduction: The Generative Power of Political EmotionsNazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss
Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspectiveNazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink, Nerina Weiss
Women and WarNerina Weiss
De gode radikale i kampen mot ISLudvig Foghammar, Suyoun Jang, Gulzhan Asylbek Kyzy, Nerina Weiss, Katherine A. Sullivan, Fawzia Gibson-Fall, Rachel Irwin
Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environmentsKathleen M. Jennings
Blue Helmet Havens: Peacekeeping as Bypassing in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo International PeacekeepingKathleen Jennings & Morten Bøås
Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping Economy Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingKathleen M. Jennings
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City: Encounters with the Peacekeeping Economy Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingKathleen M. Jennings
Service, sex, and security: Gendered peacekeeping economies in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Security DialogueKathleen M. Jennings
Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex Tourism International PeacekeepingKathleen M. Jennings
The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critique Conflict, Security and DevelopmentMorten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war Liberia Journal of Modern African StudiesKathleen M. Jennings
The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in Liberia International PeacekeepingMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
‘Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’: Threats or Opportunities? GlobalizationsVictor Adetula
En global utfordring Dagens NæringslivVictor Adetula
The crisis around Lake Chad Africa is a CountryTone Sommerfelt
Yahya Jammeh's tribalism Africa is a CountryTone Sommerfelt
Valget i Gambia: Da Afrikas minste land overrasket en hel verden Afrika.noTone Sommerfelt
Det er mulig å beskytte barn mot krigsdeltakelse Ny TidTone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerant The BrokerMark Taylor
Economies of Violence and PeacebuildingIngunn Bjørkhaug, Kathleen M. Jennings and Morten Bøås
Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in Africa2010
Kathleen M. Jennings
UN peacekeeping economies and local sex industries: connections and implicationsMark Taylor
Regulating Illicit Flows to and From WarsMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
War in the Great Lakes Region and Ugandan Conflict Zones: Micro-regionalisms and Meta-narratives
