Activities: CHSD
WebmasterCluster: Conflict, Human Security and Development (CHSD).
- Research and thematic areas
- Ongoing projects
- Planned activities
- Completed projects
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RESEARCH AND THEMATIC AREAS:
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- Human security in conflict/post conflict, war/post war situations
- Conflict/post conflict institutional building
- Human security and human rights
- Health and conflict
- Livelihood security and revival in conflict and post-conflict contexts, resettlement and reintegration
- Resource conflicts, negotiations and human security
- Seed systems and security in conflict/post-conflict and post-disaster situations
- Reconciliation and peace building processes
- Women in post-conflict contexts with reference to UN resolution 1325; gender based violence in conflict post/conflict areas
- Competing discourses and relations between humanitarian, development, military and civil actors in conflict/post-conflict zones
- Securitization of development: humanitarian and development interventions in a securitized environment (emergency aid and protection, service delivery, long term development)
- Impact of protracted emergencies on development
- Post-flood recovery in Pakistan: A study of transitios from crisis to sustainable development
ONGOING PROJECTS
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Title: Gender and Human Security in Post-Conflict Pakistan: Policy implications of local gendered perceptions of security and development (2011 - 2013)
Partners: Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Pakistan
Noragric contact: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg (Project leader, Noragric), Dr. Bahadar Nawab (Project leader, CIIT, Abbottabad, Pakistan), Ingvild Jacobsen (PhD fellow), Kashif Saeed Khan (PhD fellow)
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
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Title: Contested Powers: Towards a Political Anthropology of Energy in Latin America (2010-2012)
Partners: NUPI, NIBR, CMI, UiB, Centre for Postgraduate Studies of Development and the Environment- CIDES/UMSA Bolivia, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Study (IVIC), Institute for the Study of Society, Population and Nature in Brasilia, Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO) Guatemala, University of Aberdeen.
Noragric contact: Dr. John Andrew McNeish
Funded by: Research Council of Norway, Latin America Programme
Title: Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Africa (2011 - 2014)
Partners: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, Wageningen University, Netherlands, International Water Management Institute, South Africa, University of Zimbabwe, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania.
Noragric contact: Dr. Lyla Mehta
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
Title: Post-war Livelihood and Environment Studies (2008-2012)
Partners: Noragric - Juba University, South Sudan
Noragric contact: Dr. Trygve Berg
Funded by: SIU/ NUCOOP programme
Title: Gender dimensions of post-war resettlement, reintegration and livelihood revival in South Sudan (2008 – 2012)
Partners: Centre of Peace and Development Studies, University of Juba, South Sudan.
Noragric contacts: Dr. Darley Kjosavik and Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam
Funded by: SIU / NUCOOP programme.
Title: United Nations and War Economy (- 2012)
Partners: Hamar University, Mogadishu.
Noragric contact: Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen, Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam and Dr. Darley Kjosavik
Funded by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Title: Qatars International peace making effort (2012)
Partners: NUPI
Noragric contact: Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen
Funded by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Title: Land Rights and Agrarian Change in Rural South Africa. (- 2012)
Partners: University of Oslo (Norwegian Centre of Human Rights) and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South Africa
Noragric contact: Prof. Bill Derman
Funded by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Title: Origins and survival of maize and sorghum genetic resources in the Sobat corridor of the Upper Nile in the Sudan. (- 2012)
Partners: Juba University, South Sudan
Noragric contact: Dr. Trygve Berg
Funded by: SIU/ NUCOOP Programme
Title: Large land deals in Africa: Gendered processes of tenure insecurity, resource capture and collective action (2010-2012)
Noragric contact: Poul Wisborg (associate member of CHSD)
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
Title: The Land Question, Livelihoods, Internal Conflicts and International State building in South Sudan (2012 – 2013)
Partners: Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Noragric contact: Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam
Funded by: Japan International Cooperation Agency
Title: In the Shadow of a Conflict: Impacts of Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and Development in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia (2007-2012)
Partners: Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South Africa
Noragric contact: Prof. Bill Derman
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
Title: Between Security and Development: Exploring Human Security in Afghanistan (pilot project until 1 July 2012)
Partners: Norwegian Police University College (PHS)
Noragric contact: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg, Jaisankhar Ganapathy/Norwegian Police University College
Funded by: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Refleks Programme
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Title: Nigerian Trade Union’s Role in the Niger Delta Conflict (2011 - 2015)
PhD fellow: Camilla Houeland
Funded by: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Supervisors: Dr. John Andrew McNeish and Prof. Pål Vedeld
Title: Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Poverty Reduction among Pakistani Muslims: Religion, Gender and Development (2011 - 2015)
PhD fellow: Kaja Borchgrevink
Funded by: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Supervisor: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg
Title: Technology of Rule and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Study in political economy (2010 - 2014)
PhD fellow: Yesthila Wondemeneh Bekele
Funded by: Institutional collaboration between UMB and Hawassa University
Supervisors: Dr. Darley Kjosavik and Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam
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Title: The social and cultural roles of gender in rural livelihood and development. A study of North West Pakistan (2011 - 2014)
PhD fellow: Noor Elahi
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
Supervisor: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg
Title: Exploring Gender-Based Insecurities in Relation to Livelihoods and Changing Class Relations in Post-Militancy, Post-Flood Swat (2011 - 2014)
PhD fellow: Abda Khalid
Funded by: Research Council of Norway
Supervisor: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg
Title: Development and National security: post 9/11 process and development politics of the United States in Mali (2010 - 2014)
PhD fellow: Shai Divon
Funded by: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Supervisor: Prof. Bill Derman, Dr. Cassandra Bergstrøm and Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen
Title: Womens' security in a post-conflict context (2010 - 2014)
PhD fellow: Ingvild Jacobsen
Funded by: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Supervisors: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg and Prof. Shaheen Sardar Ali, University of Warwick
Title: The role and the impact of Somali Diaspora in conflicts, peace and state buildings, and reconstructing of Somalia (2010 - 2013)
PhD fellow: Mohamed Gaas
Funded by:
Supervisor: Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen
Title: Green Mining, Displacement and the Maoist conflict in India (2010 - 2013)
PhD fellow: Jason Miklian
Funded by: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Supervisor: Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen
Title: Development discourses, security and livelihood realities in Pakistan’s North Western territories (2009 – 2013)
PhD fellow: Kashif Saeed Khan
Funded by: Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
Supervisors: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg, Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam and Dr. Darley Kjosavik
Title: Health effects of civil war (2006 – 2012)
PhD fellow: Christin Marsh Ormhaug (Norway)
Funded by: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Supervisors: Espen Sjaastad, Henrik Urdal (NUPI), Håvard Hegre (PRIO), Ingrid Nyborg
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PLANNED ACTIVITIES
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- Launch academic debates/seminars/workshops.
- Collaborate with relevant partner institutions in Norway working in related areas ( i.e. NUPI, PRIO and CMI) and invite them to participate in some of the cluster meetings and activities
- Formulate research proposals under the cluster themes and explore opportunities for funding
- Generate and nurture research network
- Provide a forum for sharing of in-progress research papers
- Writing a book (possibly titled with the same name as the cluster?)
- Making the projects and activities of the cluster visible on the cluster web-pages
COMPLETED PROJECTS
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Title: Rural Development in NWFP, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post conflict contexts (2011)
Partners: Noragric and Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Pakistan
Noragric contact: Dr. Ingrid Nyborg
Title: Resettlement of Returnees, Resource Conflicts and Livelihood Building in South Sudan: An assessment of the institutions and their capacities at the local level in Eastern Equatoria (2009-2010).
Partners: Noragric - Juba University, South Sudan
Noragric contact: Prof. N. Shanmugaratnam
Title: Origins and survival of maize and sorghum genetic resources in the Sobat corridor of the Upper Nile in the Sudan.
Partners: Noragric - Juba University, South Sudan
Noragric contact: Dr. Trygve Berg
Title: Land Rights and Agrarian Change in Rural South Africa.
Partners: University of Oslo (Norwegian Centre of Human Rights) and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South Africa.
Noragric contact: Prof. Bill Derman
Title: Rural development in NWFP, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post conflict contexts
Noragric contact: Ingrid Nyborg
Financed by: NORAD (2010)
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Title: Consequences of civil war for maternal and child health in sub-Saharan AFrica (2006 - 2012)
Partners: Noragric - International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo
PhD candidate: Christin Marsh Ormhaug
Funded by:
Supervisors:
Published: 11.10.10
Updated: 26.07.12
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