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«Modernisation» of the government
30.06.2005
The Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen refers to new research
from Fafo; about the restructuring of the government. At a press
conference today the Norwegian Minister of Modernisation promised
continuous restructuring. The Fafo researchers Espen Løken,
Thomas Lorentzen and Sissel Trygstad carry out the Fafo project,
Den nye staten (The new government). Read interview with Espen Løken in Dagsavisen.Read more about the Fafo project
(in Norwegian) |
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 The
Unemployment Situation in Iraq after the War
28.06.2005
Fafo researcher Pål Sletten presented his paper, The Unemployment
Situation in Iraq after the War, at the international conference
Middle East and North African Economies: Past Perspectives and Future
Challenges, at the Free University of Brussels, June 2.
Read an abstract of his paper
The conference was organized by The
Global Economic Modeling Network (ECOMOD) and The
Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
See also Fafo Imira
web site |
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 New
Fafo-report: In Search of Strategy
28.06.2005
In this new report director Mark Taylor and researcher Kathleen
Jennings, both Fafo, reviews the literature on post-conflict reconstruction,
describes the existing policy consensus, and suggests a peace implementation
framework as a way to structure research on transitions from conflict.Read more |
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Ideas, Power and Multilateral Institutions
27.06.2005
Fafo researcher Morten Bøås is together with SUM's
Research director, Desmond McNeill, editor and author of the book
Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World? (Routledge).
The book is about multilateral institutions' impact on development,
why particular role of ideas are taken up; how they travel within
the system; and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted
or resisted. The book argues that ideas are used, knowingly or unknowingly,
to promote interests or worldviews favoured by powerful states or
institutions.The book is reviewed in International
Studies Review. |
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 Jon
Hanssen-Bauer engaged by the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
(MFA)
22.06.2005
Managing Director of the Fafo Institute for Applied International
Studies Jon Hanssen-Bauer (see picture) has been engaged for one
year from August 1st by the MFA, to assist in the implementation
of their research strategy in the field of peace and reconciliation.
He will advise on how the ministry best can stimulate research of
relevance for that field, on how to strengthen the relevant competence
in Norwegian research institutes, and on how to strengthen cooperation
between such institutes in Norway and abroad. In its meeting on
June 13, the Board of Directors for Fafo AIS constituted Deputy
Managing Director Mark Taylor as Managing Director for the Institute
during Jon's one-year absence |
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Research ethics and conflict zones
17.06.2005
Morten Bøås is Fafo's research coordinator for Africa.
In the Norwegian journal Forskningsetikk (Research ethics)
he is interviewed about ethical challenges for researchers in conflict
zones.You can find the interview here (in Norwegian): Kakaobønner og barnearbeid |
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 More
guest professorships in China
14.06.2005
Fafo Directors Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Jon Pedersen were appointed
guest professors at Nankai University in Tianjin, People's Republic
of China. The appointment is a result of the cooperation between
Fafo and the Nankai University Department in Yunnan, in connection
with the living conditions survey of the Western regions of China.
Wang Yuan and Wang Fenyu, two of the leaders at Fafo's main partner
in China – the National Research Center for Science and Technology
for Development (NRCSTD) – were also appointed guest professors
at the university. Nankai University is considered as one of the
ten best of China's 1,500 universities. More cooperation between
Nankai, NRCSTD, and Fafo is planned.
Picture: Jon Pedersen is appointed by Nankai University's President
Hou Zixin |
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 Training
that works
13.06.2005
Fafo researcher Siri Ytrehus and Ivar Solheim of Norsk regnesentral
have interviewed participants of the private institution AOF's classes
for adults with writing and reading problems, and find that the
classes have been useful in many ways.Read more (in Norwegian) |
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Financing child welfare
08.06.2005
Fafo researchers Hanne Bogen and Anne Huser have evaluated the financing
of child welfare in Oslo.Read more (in Norwegian) |
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Norwegian salmon and EU-jobs
08.06.2005
SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, SINTEF Technology and Society
and Fafo have conducted a study on the extent of employment within
the European Union based on imports of farmed Atlantic salmon, with
special focus on Norwegian salmon.Report, short
version.See also Fafo in the press |
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Alternative models for future national insurance
08.06.2005
Axel W. Pedersen, NOVA, Jon M. Hippe and Tove Midtsundstad, Fafo,
has written this new Fafo paper about the future national insurance.
Fafo got a great deal of attention in Norwegian media for this contribution
to the pension debate.Read Fafo's contribution in this
paper (in Norwegian)See also Fafo in the press,
May 20-24 |
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 Considerable
knowledge transmission from "model schools" to other schools
06.06.2005
"Model schools" are well known and they are often visited
by other schools. This results in an efficient transfer of learning
from school to school. Fafo researchers Anna Hagen and Torgeir Nyen
have evaluated the arrangement of "model schools and companys".Read more (in Norwegian) |
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 The
Norwegian Engineers and Managers Association's survey
01.06.2005
Fafo researchers Sissel Trygstad and Nina M. Kristiansen Skalle
have interviewed the members of the association about the various
levels of the organisation, and the results from the survey you
will find in this new report.Read more (in Norwegian) |
