Conflict and security
- Compensation or restitution of land rights in the Colombian peacemaking process: economic efficiency vs. society building?
- H. Wiig / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2009
- The purpose of this study is to explore how restitution of land for people who had their land confiscated during civil conflicts entered and affected the peacemaking process, using Colombia as a ca...
- Closing the gender land gap: the effects of land-titling for women in Peru
- D.O. Fuentes;H. Wiig / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2009
- This report explores Peruvian land formalisation law, arguing that it is gender neutral. The paper examines land ownership in Peru from a gender perspective, and introduces the following findings:...
- Demand-driven governance: an analysis of the interventions of international aid agencies
- D. Jordhus-Lier;M. Haug;H. Regmi / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2009
- This working paper reviews demand-driven governance as a set of principles which have characterised aid and development interventions in certain post-conflict contexts, using Nepal as a case stud...
- Minicipal international co-operation: Kristiansand (Norway) and Walvis Bay (Namibia)
- J. Holm-Hansen / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2008
- Commissioned by the Norwegian Association for Local and Regional Authorities (KS), this report evaluates the Municipal International Co-operation (MIC) between Walvis Bay, Namibia and Kristiansand, No...
- Norwegian land tools relevant to Africa
- H. Onsrud (ed);E. Busch (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2007
- This book is a result of a workshop on Norwegian land tools relevant to Africa presented by the Centre for Property Rights and Development of the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. The works...
- Promoting respect for the collective rights of the Q’eqchi’population
- H. Wiig / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2008
- The tension between indigenous groups and the mining industry in Guatemala is in general high, and in the Eastern district of El Estor there have been several violent episodes between Q’eqchi Ma...
- In the judiciary you are lost without contacts: informal practices in the judiciary of East, Central and Southeast Europe
- A.B. Grødeland;A. Aasland / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2006
- Informal judicial practices, which give rise to corruption, were common in East, Central and Southeast Europe under communist rule. This study seeks to assess the extent to which the scope for...
- The legitimacy and effectiveness of global environment
- I. Balberg (ed);H. Hofstad (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2007
- This working paper contains reports on the creation of more effective and legitimate multi-governance arrangements in various policy domains from the 8. Nordic Environmental Social Science Research Co...
- Authority, responsibility and justice in environmental politics
- I. Balberg (ed);H. Hofstad (ed) / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2007
- This working paper contains seven papers presented at the 8.Nordic Environmental Social Science Research conference held in Oslo in June 2007. The conference looked into how the international commu...
- The tsunami aid delivery system and humanitarian priciples
- M. Haug / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2007
- This report analyses the delivery of tsunami aid in Sri Lanka through international non-governmental organisations and the interface between the international aid delivery system and Sri Lankan gov...
