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New project about the European crisis

May 2013
The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million through "Europe in Transition" to the interdisciplinary project "European Strains". The five-year project will focus on the interaction between politics, economic development, and social change, with the aim of understanding the current crisis in Europe and its institutional responses. Together with leading international researchers in the field, such as Guglielmo Meardi, Maarten Keune, Torsten Schulten and Stein Evju, University of Oslo, Fafo researchers will contribute to a modul titled "Multilevel governance of European labour markets: National and European responses". Read more Europe in Transition European Strains (Norwegian only)

The New Middle East Blog: What made the ousting of Mubarak possible?

May 2013
Two years have passed since the ousting of Mubarak. Since then, many analysts have cast a retrospective glance back to the dramatic 18 days and shared their understanding of what the decisive push factors were – what was it that led to Mubarak actually stepping down? Read Fafo-researcher Mona Abdel-Fadil's reflections on 'the internet factor' in the Egyptian anti-Mubarak uprisings on The New Middle East Blog

New book chapter on Liberia

May 2013
Fafo Senior researcher Morten Bøås has together with Samantha Gowran Farrier written the chapter "Liberia: Security sector reform" in Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding. The book is edited by David Chandler and Timothy D. Sisk. In their chapter Bøås and Farrier discuss the peacebuilding operation after the Liberian civil war ended in 2003. Read more about the book at Routledge

New article: The Malian crisis

May 2013
Fafo Senior researcher Morten Bøås has together with professor Mats Utas at the Nordic Africa Institute published a new article on the Malian crisis. – Northern Mali has been in the hands of armed Salafist forces for a year, but it has not yet become another 'Afghanistan', according to the authors. If the international response to the crisis in the country is too heavy-handed, it is however a risk that the conflict is pushed in the same direction. The article is originally published in the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs 2/2013. Read the article at NAI Forum

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