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 New book: Hot Topic – Cold Comfort
6 February 2012
Fafo-researcher and professor Gumdund Hernes has written the report Hot Topic – Cold Comfort. Climate Change and Attitude Change for the Top-level Research Initiative, published at Nordforsk. Hernes presents seven pivotal events that together have prompted the majority of us to see the world as small and vulnerable. Among these are the bombing of Hiroshima, the first photograph of the whole of the planet Earth by astronauts on board the Apollo 8, and global climate change. – Some of these events happened suddenly, while others take place gradually over time. What they have in common is that they have been perceived as so dramatic that we have been willing to abandon our old ways of thinking as a result of them. And that is not something that happens easily! It is not until we are confronted with something that comes as a shock that we are prepared to change our opinions – and even then not until our friends and those around us have also done so, Hernes points out.
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 New book chapter: CSDP: The Strategic Perspective
February 2012
Fafo-researcher Per M. Norheim-Martinsen has together with Professor Sven Biscop, Director of the Europe in the World Programme at the Egmont Royal Institute of International Relations, written a chapter in the book Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy: Theory in Action. The book is edited by Xymena Kurowska and Fabian Breuer and published in the Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. In their chapter “CSDP: The Strategic Perspective”, the authors assess three core elements of a strategic perspective: official strategy, strategic actorness, and strategic culture. They show that current EU strategy falls short of a fully-fledged strategy, because it lacks a clear indication of common objectives. Nevertheless, the EU has been very active through its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), witness the 23 operations carried out so far. Looking at strategic culture helps appreciate how this sense of strategic actorness has been achieved, as acting European has become a source of strategic identity for the EU and an objective in itself.
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 New article: Older workers: a suitable case for circles
25 January 2012
Fafo-researcher Anne Inga Hilsen has together with Richard Ennals written the article "Older workers: a suitable case for circles" in AI & Society, vol. 24, nr. 1 2012. The article considers relations between the generations, with particular attention given to older workers, who also face the pressures of responsibilities to both parents and children. The situations in Norway and the UK are compared. The case is made for support structures, such as senior quality circles, at the threshold between employment and retirement.
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 Commentary: West Bank and Gaza Strip - Going for reconciliation or drifting apart?
15 January 2012
In this commentary at Maan News Agency Fafo-researcher Akram Atallah discusses the political system which Hamas and Fatah are building in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and how reconciliation between the two main political parties has become very complicated due to the geographic divide and the lacking peace negotiations with Israel. Until now, the reconciliation talks have touched issues on which it is possible to reach an understanding such as the future of the PLO and the holding of elections. However, the parties have shunned more complicated topics such as the location of the Palestinian government, the police and security forces and how to bring peace to the various Fatah and Hamas bodies on the ground.
The commentary is written in Arabic: West Bank and Gaza Strip - Going for reconciliation or drifting apart? |
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