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.
Researchers
Popular demand and government response 2011 to 2012
Gangs as livelihood in a Port-au-Prince ghetto. The Haiti Youth Project
Lessons from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
Proceedings of Scholarly Conference on the Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict. Held in Oslo, Norway, 6 – 7 July, 2006
Social Research in Conflict Zones
Landmine Monitor: 1999–2005
The Political Economy of Private Military Companies. Economies of Conflict: Private Sector Activity in Armed Conflict
Assessing the Liability of Business Entities for Grave Violations of International Law
Regulating Economies of Conflict
The Timber Trade and Armed Conflict
The Oil Industry and Armed Conflict
Armed Conflict and the Trade in Rough Diamonds
A Needs Assessment Study
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 CongoInternational Peacekeeping | 2016
Kathleen Jennings & Morten Bøås
Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping EconomyJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding | 2015 | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/current
Kathleen M. Jennings
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City: Encounters with the Peacekeeping EconomyJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding | 2015 | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/current
Kathleen M. Jennings
Service, sex, and security: Gendered peacekeeping economies in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the CongoSecurity Dialogue | 2014 | External link
Kathleen M. Jennings
Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex TourismInternational Peacekeeping | 2010 | External link
Kathleen M. Jennings
The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critiqueConflict, Security and Development | 2009 | External link
Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war LiberiaJournal of Modern African Studies | 2008 | External link
Kathleen M. Jennings
The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in LiberiaInternational Peacekeeping | 2007 | External link
Morten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
‘Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’: Threats or Opportunities?Globalizations | 2007 | External link
Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerantThe Broker | 2015 | The Broker Online
Mark 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 Africa2010 | 2010 | Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors’ support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in Africa
Mark 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
