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📢 Speaker reveal! Are you joining IHSA for our first Annual Lecture? The lecture on 'War and Humanity' will be given by Khaled Quzmar, general director of the Defense for Children International Palestine. This joint event is co-organised with the War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN) research project based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute CMI and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), as well as the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights. Attend for free online or in person in Bergen, Norway ➡ bit.ly/WarAndHumanity 📅 23 May 2024 ⏰ 15:30 - 18:00 CEST 📍 Online or at Litteraturhuset i Bergen, Norway #IHSAAnnualLecture #IHSA #AnnualLecture2024 #WarAndHumanity #Lecture #HumanitarianStudies #Event | Rodrigo (Rod) Mena | Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings | Palash Kamruzzaman | Munzoul Assal | Susanne Jaspars | Carla Vitantonio (she/ella/elle) | Andrew Cunningham | Antonio De Lauri | Jostein Hole Kobbeltvedt

🌍 "It is crucial to understand how global health volunteering can produce enduring forms of “relational harm.” 🏥CMI's James Wintrup's research in rural #Zambia explores the complex relationship between medical volunteers, local health workers, and patients. ⚕ Working from a position of economic and racial privilege, foreign medical volunteers received praise from many patients and residents. 👩⚕️ However, these positive attitudes strained relations with Zambian health workers who felt that their work and expertise were being undervalued or ignored. 🔗 Read the full article here - www.cmi.no/r/arktj #GlobalHealth #Anthropology #Research #Africa #Healthcare

📣 Excited to share the Department for Evaluation in Norad's evaluation of #Norwegian International #Climate and Forest Initiative Support to Civil Society, which launched today! 🌍 🤝 The evaluation is a collaboration between Norad, CMI and Vista Analyse, exploring to what extent Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation has ensured that the supported projects are interconnected so that they collectively support each other and the various pillars of the initiative, as well as contribute to cross-learning to achieve the goals of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (KOS). 🌳 Congratulations to the team who worked on the evaluation! Read the full report 👉 https://www.cmi.no/r/fswhy #ClimateChange #Norway #ClimateCrisis #Research | Dr David Aled Williams

📢 Would you like to join our team? We are currently seeking a tenure-track post-doctoral researcher or senior researcher with a PhD in development economics, political science (with a development focus), or a related field with advanced quantitative methods skills, particularly in causal inference and randomized controlled trials. For the initial three years, you will play a key role in designing and implementing an impact evaluation that is a central part of a recently funded project on agricultural resilience through climate services. Check this out this great opportunity and apply before May 30 🙌 #jobs #postdoc #researcher #research #development #developmenteconomics #politicalscience #quantitative #methods #climate #agriculture

📊 Despite higher earnings for working women, political involvement didn't rise and community meeting participation dropped. 📉 👉 Discover more on employment and politics in Ethiopia in this new blog post from Lovise Aalen, Espen Villanger, Andreas Kostadam, and @Janneke Pieters. 🔗 http://cmi.no/r/kcrta 🔗 #WomensRights #Ethiopia #research CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Despite their strong humanitarian reputations abroad, Norway and Canada have adopted domestic immigration policies that produce permanently precarious residents. Learn more about Norway and Canada's probationary immigration policies in a new article from Jessica Schultz and Delphine Nakache published in Comparative Migration Studies, as part of the TemPro project. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dNsV4WFB #immigration #humanitarian Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe | Norges forskningsråd

📣 New blog post 📣 All attempts to bring Sudan’s warring generals, Burhan and Hemedti, to the negotiating table have failed. But a new player has emerged: The antiwar coalition Taqaddum. Can they bring much-needed change to Sudan? 🖋 Learn more in our latest blog from Munzoul Assal, professor at the University of Khartoum, and scholar at risk/researcher at CMI. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ehrege_h 🔗 #keepeyesonsudan #sudan #SudanCrisis Rift Valley Institute | Chatham House | CMI — Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation

📚 CMI Researchers Odd-Helge Fjeldstad and Ingrid Hoem Sjursen have been published in the UNDP's Human Development Report 2023/24! Their article, "The Role of Trust and Norms in Tax Compliance in Africa" delves into how understanding of trust and norms helps us understand voluntary compliance. It then explores how this varies across different contexts in Africa. 🌍 👇 Read their article and the full report here 👇 https://lnkd.in/duFp-fmU #research #Africa #tax

We are #hiring! We are seeking a Programme Officer to support the daily operations of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. Your role will be integral to the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the U4 project. ✅Are you looking for a dynamic role where you can contribute to meaningful projects? ✅Do you have a background in project management? ✅Are you a team worker who thrives in a busy environment collaborating with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures? Apply here! 👉 https://www.cmi.no/r/evazm Deadline: Sunday 30 April 2024 #projectmanagement #jobs #research

Learn more about the Cost of Doing Politics in Ghana in our latest brief 👇 🗳️ In Ghana, partisan politics and electoral violence pose significant challenges, particularly under a winner-takes-all electoral system. 🌍Key takeaways: - 95% of parliamentary candidates encounter political violence, predominantly in the form of degrading talk or false rumours. - Physical violence against both men and women is much less common - Surprisingly, a significant amount of political violence is perpetrated by members and leaders of candidates’ own parties - Despite facing risks, women continue to demonstrate resilience in their pursuit of political office. 🔗Dive deeper into the full brief: www.cmi.no/r/ctuyw #Elections #WomensRights #Politcs #TheCostOfDoingPolitics #Ghana