Somalia
Reimagining Humanitarianism. Special issue on relational accountability in locally-led crisis response
The special issue examines the transformative potential of centering communitarian practices, including mutual assistance networks, relational support systems, and local accountability frameworks, in order to rethink humanitarian action from the ground up.
Successful PhD Defence by Ebba Tellander
Ebba Tellander defended her PhD successfully on 20 Septeber 2022 at the Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam.
Next Steps toward New Insights on Migration, Development and Policy from MIGNEX
Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.
New Online Exhibition from the TRANSFORM Project
In societies at war or facing severe repression, what motivates individuals to take action for social justice when doing so involves great risk and uncertainty? How do such small but often heroic everyday acts of common people inspire larger transformations? And what is the impact of storytelling about everyday acts that challenge inequalities and injustices in places like Myanmar, Somaliland and Syria?The TRANSFORM research team has grappled with these questions for four years, and you will ...
New Comic on Resistance in Somaliland from PRIO
PRIO is proud to share a five-part comic based on the true story of the Uffo group made in collaboration with PositiveNegatives.
Virtual workshop on education in conflict and exile
Over four sessions in October, 20 academics and practitioners from around the world met virtually to discuss the question of how education can enable refugee individuals and communities to build durable futures whenthere is great uncertainty about where these futures will be? Recognizing theprotracted nature of refugee situations, the latest UNHCR education strategyprioritizes the integration of refugees into the national education systems ofhost countries.
Funding Secured for Project on Artists in Times of War
PRIO's Centre on Culture and Conflict has received funding from the FRIPRO programme of the Research Council of Norway for the 4-year project Inspirational Creative Practice: the Work of Artists in Times of War (INSPIRE).
Holding Aid Accountable - Funding for New Project in Place
Little is known about how accountability is understood and practiced by (local and transnational) citizens in comparison to professional humanitarians.
MIGNEX Team Selects Local Areas for Data Collection
The large PRIO-led project MIGNEX examines migration and development at the local level across Africa and Asia.
New issue of the PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update
Empowering Survivors of Sexual Violence in DR Congo
Successful Kick-off Workshop for the TRANSFORM project
The TRANSFORM project had its kick-off workshop 1-2 June 2017.
PRIO Research to Feature at Conference on Gender Perspectives on Demography and Conflicts
Presenting research results and policy recommendations on population, poverty, women, peace and security
Mohamed Aden Hassan appointed PRIO Global Fellow
Mohamed Aden Hassan has recently been appointed PRIO Global Fellow.
PRIO Leads New Project on Social Transformation in Conflict Settings
The project will focus on how individual deeds, in times of radical uncertainty and flux, inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction a society takes.
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (Issue 2-2016)
DDR through a Gender Lens in Nepal and Myanmar
PRIO Researcher with New Book
Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (Issue 1-2015)
‘Somali Women’s Civic Engagement: Past, Present and Future’
The multi-level determinants of international migration aspirations in 25 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Journal article in World Development
Improving Coordination in Somalia’s Stabilisation: Addressing Resource and Power Competition
PRIO Policy Brief
Building futures through Refugee Education: Aspirations, Navigation, and (Non-)citizenship
PhD thesis
Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2022
PRIO Paper
Transitioning Somalia to Direct Elections: Lessons from Somaliland and Puntland
PRIO Paper
Leveraging local elections to advance Somalia’s transition to a multiparty democratic system
PRIO Policy Brief
Documentation of qualitative data collection
MIGNEX Handbook Chapter
The State of Democracy among Norway’s Partner Countries in Development Policy
Conflict Trends
اتجاهات النزاعات في العالم العربي
Conflict Trends in the Arab World, 1946–2019
Compounding Fragmentation: Security Force Assistance to Fragile States in the Sahel and Horn of Africa
PRIO Paper
Losing the Right to Stay: Revocation of Refugee Permits in Norway
Journal article in Journal of Refugee Studies
Why Al-Shabaab’s attack on US drone base shouldn’t be ignored
Popular article in Open Democracy
Norskhet, Soomaalinimo og forestilte grenser: En studie om unge voksne norsksomalieres hverdagslige samhandlinger i Oslo
Master thesis
Somalia: Nomader, stat og sosialisme
Master thesis
State formation and economic development in post-war Somaliland: the impact of the private sector in an unrecognised state
Journal article in Conflict, Security and Development
Building the Research Capacity of Somali Researchers through Post-graduate Level Social Research Methodology Training
RVI Needs Assessment Report
Strengthening research capacity in Somaliland and Puntland
Popular article in RVI Briefing Series
A Foreign Policy Actor of Importance? The Role of the Somali Diaspora in Shaping Norwegian Policy towards Somalia
Journal article in Foreign Policy Analysis
Making a difference in Mogadishu? Experiences of multi-sited embeddedness among diaspora youth
Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The Role of the International Community in Supporting Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa
Stories from the Past - Inspiring the Future: Acts of Courage in Somali History and Today
The Uffo Struggle for Justice: Creating Historical Comics on Resistance in Somaliland
Conversation with novelist Nadifa Mohamed and activist Adam Matan
Somali Women's Civic and Political Engagement: Past, Present and Future
Somali Women in Diaspora
Revisiting the Politics of State Survival
Somalis in Oslo: Presentation of the Report
Struggles over Emerging States in Africa
Al Shabaab and Kenya's Somali invasion: security, development and humanitarian intervention in eastern Africa
Expanding the search for new ways of working along the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
Building Effective Collaboration for Stability in Somalia
Transitioning Somalia to a Fully Democratic Election System: Learning from Somaliland
Holding Aid Accountable: Relational Humanitarianism in Protracted Crisis (AidAccount)
Inspirational Creative Practice: The Work of Artists after War and Violent Conflict (INSPIRE)
MIGNEX - Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus
To Restore a Hospital as Resistance: Transformative Collective Action in Northern Somalia in the 1980s (PhD)
Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM)
Dimensions of Accountability in Somaliland
Conflict of Interest? 'Business For Peace' as Development Aid in Volatile Environments
Gender in Politics in Somalia: Access and Influence in a Post-Conflict State
Diaspora Return: Implications for Somalia
Turkey in Somalia
The Dynamics of State Failure and Violence
The Role of the Somali Diaspora in Relief, Development and Peacebuilding
Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG)
It’s Time to Open our Eyes to Women’s Involvement in Peace Processes
Norway and Kenya Prepare for Forceful Returns of Somalis
Somalia’s Hope for the Future? The Return of Young Diaspora Somalis
Back in Business? Diaspora Return to Somalia
Humanitarianism and Return
Unlikely Partners: The EU-Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative
A Burden no one Wants to Share: Why do Refugees from the Horn of Africa try to Cross into Europe?
Women and Public Life in the Somali Region
Turkey’s Ambitions in Africa
What Can Somalia’s Federal Member States Learn from Somaliland as They Transition to Multiparty Elections?
Why has the Puntland state of Somalia been unable to conduct a ‘one person one vote’ election for over 24 years?
Using a Comic to Tell the True Story of the Uffo Struggle for Justice in Somaliland
Migrants and COVID-19 in Norway: Five Reflections on Skewed Impacts
Private Security Contractors and the porousness of International Enclaves
Modular Sovereignty and Infrastructural Power: The Elusive Materiality of International Statebuilding
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