How do violence and conflict impact individuals, communities and institutions? Fafo has long experience in researching conflicts and social unrest around the globe. Our research focuses on how people and institutions are affected by, respond to and recover from violence and conflict.
We aim at uncovering the underlying drivers of conflict, who the main actors are on the local, national, regional and global levels, and the conditions under which conflicts are created and sustained.
Our research focuses on the continuum of violence (Bourgois 2004), that is the interlinkage of domestic, structural and political violence. Our research therefore also explores the impact of violence and conflict on health, social relations and political participation.
Research topics vary from the integration of traumatized refugees, human trafficking, torture, as well as an indebt study of civil wars, social unrest and terrorism around the world.
Mette-Louise Johansen, Therese Sandrup and Nerina Weiss
Introduction: The Generative Power of Political Emotions | 2018 | Sammendrag / AbstractNazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss
Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective | 2018 | Sammendrag og pdf / Abstract and PDFNerina Weiss
De gode radikale i kampen mot IS | 2017Ludvig Foghammar, Suyoun Jang, Gulzhan Asylbek Kyzy, Nerina Weiss, Katherine A. Sullivan, Fawzia Gibson-Fall, Rachel Irwin
Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environments | 2016 | Sammendrag / AbstractKathleen M. Jennings
Blue Helmet Havens: Peacekeeping as Bypassing in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the CongoKathleen Jennings & Morten Bøås
Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping EconomyKathleen M. Jennings
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City: Encounters with the Peacekeeping EconomyKathleen M. Jennings
Service, sex, and security: Gendered peacekeeping economies in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the CongoKathleen M. Jennings
Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex TourismKathleen M. Jennings
The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critiqueMorten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war LiberiaKathleen M. Jennings
The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in LiberiaMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
‘Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’: Threats or Opportunities?Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerantMark Taylor
A Rock in Hard Places: Conflict Zones and the Illicit Trade in Uranium | 2014Mark Taylor
Conflict trade: regulating illicit flows to and from war | 2013Mark Taylor
Economies of Violence and Peacebuilding | 2012Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Kathleen M. Jennings and Morten Bøås
Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in AfricaMark Taylor
Regulating Illicit Flows to and From Wars | 2013 Companies in Conflict SituationsMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
War in the Great Lakes Region and Ugandan Conflict Zones: Micro-regionalisms and Meta-narratives | 2008 Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-border Micro-regionalisms in Africa