Position available: Managing Director at
The Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
5 June 2008
The Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre facilitates the integration of analytical and other forms of knowledge and expertise to peacebuilding activities and promotes the interchange of operational and scientific knowledge and expertise in the development of peacebuilding policy and practice. The centre is founded and financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and operated by Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies and the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs. The Centre will be operational by fall 2008 and they are searching for a Managing Director.  Read more about the position |
 CSR in two countries:
Brazil and Norway
28 May 2008
In a new report Fafo's research director Sissel Trygstad (pictured) outlines how various social groups in Norway define Corporate Social Responsibility, while Marta Assumpção, José Álvaro Moisés and Teresa Sacchet at the Center for Public Policy Research – NUPPs, University of São Paulo, conduct a similar study in Brazil. As shown in the report, CSR in Brazil and Norway have different meanings, and work in different ways. Read more and download the report |
Visiting fellow at Fafo: Mr Milinda Moragoda
27 May 2008
Sri Lanka's Minister of Tourism, Mr Milinda Moragoda, will be a visiting senior fellow at Fafo. The Minister will make periodic visits to Fafo this year for writing and engaging with Norwegian researchers on issues of international development and peace. In addition to his responsibilities in Sri Lanka, Minister Moragoda is presently a member of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which will release its report next month. He was also elected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Minister Moragoda has an extensive experience from business, government, politics, diplomacy, media and academia and heads several foundations. See www.milinda.org |
 Palestinian Refugees from
the Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp
27 May 2008
In this new paper Fafo researcher Åge Tiltnes (pictured) describes the characteristics of displaced Palestinian refugees from
the Nahr El-Bared refugee camp. Key features are housing conditions, social relations, education and employment. When relevant he also draws on additional sources, including Fafo’s 2006 labour force survey of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Read more and download the paper |
 Red Flags guide and web site
26 May 2008
International Alert and Fafo launched the Red Flags guide and web site 23 May at a seminar in London. The guide and the web site will inform companies about the risks they face when operating in areas where serious human rights abuses occur.
See www.redflags.info
See also article in The Lawyer by Fafo deputy managing director Mark Taylor: Companies should obey the law in lawless lands |
 The Nordic Model: Solutions for Continental Europe’s Problems?
19 May 2008
A common view among critics of the large EU countries’ social policy and labor market institutions is that the economic inefficiency and social inequity they ascribe to those institutions can be remedied by transforming them in the direction of the Nordic social model. The purpose of a conference at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 9-10 was to subject this view to critical scrutiny. Fafo research director Jon Erik Dølvik (pictured) presented his paper The Negotiated Nordic Labour Markets: From Bust to Boom. The conference was arranged by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Research Council of Norway, Fafo and the Inequality and Social Policy Program at Kennedy School of Government in which Fafo participates. Papers presented at the conference can be downloaded from here |
 Lectures on conceptualisations of trafficking
May 2008
Fafo and the Rokkan Centre are hosting lectures with Professor Julia O'Connell Davidson and Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic on constructions of victimhood in the trafficking debate on May 22 10.00-12.30. The lectures take place at Fafo in Borggata 2B. For further information, please contact May-Len Skilbrei (pictured). Read more about the lecturers here |
 Rights discourse, trade unions and the changing nature of work in South Africa
May 2008
Norwegian Centre of Human Rights and Fafo invites to a seminar at Fafo, Borggata 2B, Wednesday May 14th 14.30 -16.00 with Jan Theron, University of Cape Town. Theron was the General Secretary of Food and Canning Workers Union (FCWU) between 1976 and 1986. FCWU was the first of the emergent trade unions to have a truly non-racial membership.
Fafo's labour and South Africa expert Line Eldring (pictured) will comment on Theron's speech. The seminar is open to the public and free of charge. Please register by e-mail to jsl@fafo.no before May 13th. The seminar will be conducted in English. Read more here |
