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 Translating Unocal: The expanding web of liability for business entities implicated in international crimes
March 2010
Fafo deputy managing director Mark B. Taylor have together with Robert C. Thompson and Anita Ramasastry published the article “Translating Unocal: The Expanding Web of Liability for Business Entities Implicated in International Crimes”, Transnational Corporate Responsibility for the 21st Century, in The George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 4.  Read more |
 Darfur and Arab Public Opinion: Strategies for Engagement
8 March 2010
Debate about Darfur in the Arab world is characterised by ignorance and distrust of the West. The Western parameters
for the debate, which have centred on the concepts of 'responsibility to protect' and 'international justice',
fail to engage Arab public opinion. Instead, policy makers ought to facilitate the flow of credible information,
emphasise the Islamic identity of Darfur, and attend to regional development and security. Most importantly,
Arab attitudes to Darfur point to the urgent need for fundamental US and EU policy shifts in the Middle East and
North Africa. This is the subject of the paper Darfur and Arab Public Opinion: Strategies for Engagement by Fafo-researcher Jacob Høigilt, published by FRIDE and financed by The Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref).
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 Raising extremists? Islamism and education in the Palestinian Territories
3 March 2010
Islamic private schools are part of the national fabric of Palestinian society and represent a grass-roots movement that is not about assuming power over the state or recruiting ‘Islamic militants’. Instead, their function is to assert the role of Islam in contributing to Palestinian national development, a function that may or may not be politicised but is neither dramatic nor sinister. In fact, they may be seen as important contributions to building a viable civil society in Palestine. However, the struggle between Fatah and Hamas for political power, along with international counterterrorism measures, has seriously affected a number of Islamic charities and the schools they run. The result is economic problems and a weakening of these institutions in Palestinian society. Based on empirical study of local Islamic private schools in the West Bank and Gaza, Fafo-resaercher Jacob Høigilt's report Raising extremist? analyses their activities and relation to Islamism. This fills a gap in literature about Islamic movements, where education is often mentioned, but seldom taken seriously or studied in detail.
Read more about the report Raising extremist?
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 Working hours and part-time work in the Nordic countries
18 February 2010
Fafo-researcher Kristine Nergaard has written the chapter "Mobility in and out of part-time work" in the report Labour Market Mobility in Nordic Welfare States, published by The Nordic Council of Ministers. The focus of Nergaard's chapter is on working hours and part-time work in the Nordic countries.
Download the report at Norden |
 Noref Seminar with Pierre Schori and Blanca Antonini
March 2010
The Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref) invites to a seminar with the Swedish diplomat Pierre Schori and Professor Blanca Antonini on Thursday 18 March. The seminar will present the main findings and conclusions from the research study Security Council resolutions under Chapter VII, published by the Spanish think-tank Fride in September 2009.
Venue: Noref, Fafo annex in Borggt. 2B, Oslo, 11.30-13.00.
More information and registration |
Haiti Youth Survey 2009 / Enquête sur la Jeunesse d'Haïti 2009
12 February 2010
The Haiti Youth Survey is a national survey of close to 2,000 households implemented by Fafo in collaboration with Institut Haïtien de l’Enfance. Fafo-researcher Henriette Lunde has recently published a French edition of the tabulation report. An analysis report based on the survey is to follow this spring, together with a qualitative study on youth and migration.
Download French edition, Enquête sur la Jeunesse d'Haïti 2009
Download English edition, Haiti Youth Survey 2009 |
 Prostitution policy regimes in Europe
1 February 2010
Fafo-researcher May-Len Skilbrei will together with Isabel Crowhurst,
University of London, and Joyce Outshoorn, Universiteit Leiden, arrange a workshop on European prostitution policy regimes. The intention is to make a comparative exploration of nine countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and the UK. The workshop takes place in London 15-17 September and is financed by the European Science Foundation.
Exploring And Comparing Prostitution Policy Regimes In Europe |
 Fafo breakfast seminar on Syria 17th February
February 2010
Syria is widely regarded as governed by the Alawis since Hafez Al-Asad came to power in 1970. But is it true? What characterize relations between the Alawite community and the Syrian state? How well has the regime integrated the Alawi coastal region into the Syrian nation state? These are the questions presented by Professor Fabrice Balanche (pictured) at Orient and Mediterranean Institute, University of Lyon, while Fafo-researcher Kjetil Selvik comments. The seminar will be in English
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Senior Social Science Researcher with survey competence
February 2010
Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies is seeking a Senior Researcher/Statistician with an interest in applied social research in developing countries, or countries characterized by transition economies or conflict.
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 Film screening and debate at Fafo: Europe or Die Trying
February 2010
Fafo is hosting this event in cooperation with the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film festival at
Thursday 4 February 15-17. From the point of departure of the BBC documentary, issues on illegal or irregular migration to Europe wil be debated.
Migrants in contemporary European politics and the media |
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22 January 2010
In a new paper Fafo-researcher Laura Mitchell examines Syrian youth participation at home, in the university and in their surrounding communities. She finds that at home, over 70% participate frequently or most of the time in decision-making processes about their own lives. However, 80% of Syrian youth seldom, if ever, participate in extra-curricular activities. Low social trust, combined with the closeness of youth organizations to the state and the lack of a civic ethos or environment in the university, were stated as key deterring factors.
Download the Fafo-paper Youth engagement in Syria
Read more about the Fafo-paper Youth engagement in Syria |
 State crisis in Yemen
22 January 2010
Calls for increased Western military support to Yemen to prevent the spread of terrorism are alarming. The cause of Yemen’s political crisis is not the rise of al-Qaeda, but a gradual erosion of state authority. Fafo-researcher Kjetil Selvik warns that propping up President Saleh’s repressive regime could deepen the country’s crisis.
Read more about and download Selvik's article State crisis in Yemen (published by Noref) |
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18 January 2010
Fafo-researcher Morten Bøås has together with Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo, edited a collection of four volumes that traces the evolution and contemporary state of International Development through the articles that have defined the field and its history. The selection reveals the elements of continuity and change in this evolution and emphasizes the dynamic interplay between intellectual theoretical advances, political developments and development practice.
International development can be ordered from Sage |
Haiti Youth Survey 2009
15 January 2010
The Haiti Youth Survey is a national survey of close to 2,000 households implemented by Fafo in collaboration with Institut Haïtien de l’Enfance. Fafo-researcher Henriette Lunde presented a new tabulation report today at a brekafast seminar on the earthquake in Haiti.
Read more about the report Haiti Youth Survey 2009
Download the report Haiti Youth Survey 2009
Read more about the seminar on the earthquake (text in Norwegian) |
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5 January 2010
The tax reform that came into effect in 1992 represents the most wide-reaching reform of the tax system in Norwegian history. The reform lowered the tax rates for both individuals and businesses drastically, cut down a whole forest of deduction schemes, and established new governing principles for tax policy. This instance of fundamental policy change is the subject of the paper The updating of social democratic tax policy written by Johan Christensen. Download the paper |
Migration experiences of young Angolans in transnational families in Portugal
4 January 2010
Fafo-researcher Cecilie Øien has published the article “Relative tension: the migration experiences of young Angolans in transnational families in Portugal” in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Volume 3 Issue 1 2010. This is a special issue on family dynamics in transnational African migration to Europe. Øien focuses on families in which care work for growing children is shared between kin living in different geographical locations. Read abstract here |
