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The time of the humanitarian diplomat
July 6, 2021 — Written by Antonio De Lauri (Research Professor, Chr. Michelsen Institute) and Salla Turunen (Doctoral Researcher, CMI)
Humanitarian biometrics in Yemen: The complex politics of humanitarian technology
June 30, 2021 — Written by Maria-Louise Clausen (Danish Institute of International Studies) and Bruno Oliveira Martins (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
When the storm subsides: What happened to grassroots initiatives assisting refugees?
May 31, 2021 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
The datafication of refugee protection in and beyond the Middle East: A case for digital refugee lawyering
May 20, 2021 — Written by Mirjam Twigt (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo)
Vaccine nationalism and vaccine diplomacy: Vaccine distribution and the global south
April 20, 2021 — Written by Stein Sundstøl Eriksen (Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Looking for the humanitarian backbone at the top of the United Nations
April 13, 2021 — Written by Professor Mukesh Kapila (University of Manchester)
Collateral damage in Court
March 22, 2021 — Written by Astri Suhrke (Associated Research Professor, CMI)
72 Million Children Are at Risk for Sexual Violence in Conflict. What Can Be Done?
March 8, 2021 — Written by Robert U. Nagel, Ragnhild Nordås, Gudrun Østby, Siri Camilla Aas Rustad and Andreas Forø Tollefsen (PRIO).
The politics of refugee relief: UNRWA and the ongoing funding crisis
January 28, 2021 — Written by Kjersti G. Berg, CMI, and Jørgen Jensehaugen, PRIO
Refugee Legal Aid in Humanitarian Operations
December 14, 2020 — Written by Nora Milch Johnsen (Norwegian Centre for Human Rights)
The Coldest Cold Chain: Chilling Effects of Covid-19 Vaccines
November 27, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Gyöngyi Kovács (Hanken School of Economics) & Tina Comes (TU Delft)
WFP Logistics – Delivering on the promise (WFP Nobel Series, 6)
November 17, 2020 — Written by Gyöngyi Kovács (Hanken School of Economics)
Close your eyes and picture “a humanitarian”. What do you see?
November 10, 2020 — Written by Salla Turunen (CMI)
The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize. Does food aid boost peace? (WFP Nobel Series, 5)
November 5, 2020 — Written by Ida Rudolfsen (PRIO) & Halvard Buhaug (PRIO)
Peace continues to elude the Nobel Prize (WFP Nobel Series, 4)
October 27, 2020 — Written by Mukesh Kapila (University of Manchester)
The Humanitarian Antaeus: Overcoming the Power Asymmetry between Humanitarians and Armed Groups in Frontline Negotiations
October 21, 2020 — Written by Salla Turunen (CMI)
WFP wins the Nobel! Is this an opportunity to enhance protection? (WFP Nobel Series, 3)
October 19, 2020 — Written by Norah Niland (United Against Inhumanity)
TikTok and the War on Data: Great Power Rivalry and Digital Body Counts
October 15, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) & Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University)
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can’t build peace on its own (WFP Nobel Series, 2)
October 13, 2020 — Written by Susanne Jaspars (SOAS)
A Nobel for the WFP: A non-political Peace Prize for humanitarian multilateralism? (WFP Nobel Series, 1)
October 12, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Larissa Fast (University of Manchester), Adèle Garnier (Macquarie University), Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
Red Lines and Grey Zones: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations and the need for a research agenda
October 2, 2020 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO) & Kristina Roepstorff (University of Magdeburg)
From Moria to the UN Security Council: Norwegian Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Ambitions
October 1, 2020 — Written by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO), Jørgen Jensehaugen (PRIO) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
Moria’s male refugees need help just as much as anyone else
September 22, 2020 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (ISS)
The dramatic effects of covid-19 on everyday life in Gadarif
September 21, 2020 — Written by Hussein Sulieman (University of Gadarif)
Fighting racism and decolonizing humanitarian studies: toward mindful scholarship
August 18, 2020 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (ISS)
Israeli annexation plan will spark catastrophe for besieged Palestinians: the world must act
August 14, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Mohammed Alkahlout
The Politics of Humanitarian Aid to Myanmar
August 4, 2020 — Written by Marte Nilsen (PRIO)
In a critical moment for Yemen, donor fatigue can have disastrous consequences
June 12, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Belal Abdo
COVID-19 could kill off Muslim charities in the West that fail to adapt
June 4, 2020 — Written by Ghassan Elkahlout & Omar Gamal
Ramadan and Social Responsibility During Coronavirus
June 3, 2020 — Written by Kaja Borchgrevink (PRIO), Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO) & Gina Lende (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society)
Peace in Afghanistan? Watch the militias
May 28, 2020 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI) and Antonio De Lauri (CMI)
“Is Mediterranean Search and Rescue a pull factor?” Or is that an irrelevant question?
May 14, 2020 — Written by Pål Nesse (Norwegian Refugee Council)
Search and Rescue: A necessary presence in the Mediterranean as long as people are drowning
— Written by Kyrre Lind (MSF Norway)
The duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea
— Written by Erik Røsæg (University of Oslo)
The “pull factor”: How it became a central premise in European discussions about cross-Mediterranean migration
— Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
The controversial lifesavers: NGO search and rescue in the Mediterranean
— Written by Katja Franko (UiO) & Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
Afghanistan’s Corona Threat Contagion Knows No Borders
May 8, 2020 — Written by Birgitte Lange (Save the Children Norway) & Kristian Berg Harpviken (PRIO)
The COVID-19 Resettlement Freeze: Towards a Permanent Suspension?
May 7, 2020 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Macquarie University), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) & Amanda Cellini (UiO)
Context matters – Why Africa should tailor its own measures to fight COVID-19
May 6, 2020 — Written by Nina Wilén (Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations & Lund University)
Digital dead body management: A new issue for human rights research
May 5, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
The “real” transformation of migrant smuggling in the time of COVID-19
April 24, 2020 — Written by Gabriella Sanchez (European University Institute) & Luigi Achilli (European University Institute)
Humanitarian Wearables and the Future of Aid in the Global Data Economy
April 20, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
“We are all fragile, but we are not all equally fragile”: Humanitarian operations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
April 8, 2020 — Written by Andrea Silkoset (PRIO)
There must be something I can ‘help with’
March 5, 2020 — Written by Salla Turunen (CMI)
Governing global health emergencies: the role of criminalization
March 2, 2020 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo)
The end of protection? Cessation and the ‘return turn’ in refugee law
February 10, 2020 — Written by Jessica Schultz (University of Bergen/CMI)
SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East
January 24, 2020 — Written by Kjersti Berg (CMI) and Are John Knudsen (CMI)
The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and Refugee Protection in Latin America
December 12, 2019 — Written by Liliana Lyra Jubilut (Universidade Católica de Santos), Marcia Vera Espinoza (Queen Mary University of London) & Gabriela Mezzanotti (University of South-Eastern Norway)
Who are the Civilians in South Sudan?
December 4, 2019 — Written by Nicki Kindersley (University of Cambridge) & Øystein Rolandsen (PRIO)
Humanitarian governance and localization: What kind of world is being imagined and produced?
November 28, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo) & Dennis Dijkzeul (Ruhr University Bochum)
The Weaponization of Killer Trucks: Vehicular Terror and Vehicular Crypts
November 19, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
New Directions in Humanitarian Governance: Technology, Juridification and Criminalization
November 11, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo) & Dennis Dijkzeul (Ruhr University Bochum)
Protecting children’s digital bodies through rights
November 1, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO)
R.I.P., Europe
October 11, 2019 — Written by Antonio De Lauri (CMI)
Preventing the Work of Rescue Vessels in the Mediterranean Will Not Save More Migrants
October 3, 2019 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
What Can Data Governance Learn from Humanitarians?
September 9, 2019 — Written by Sean Martin McDonald (Digital Public, FrontlineSMS, Duke Center on Law & Technology, Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab)
Europe’s new border guards
August 14, 2019 — Written by Gunnar M. Sørbø (CMI)
It’s Time for Flying to Become the New Smoking
June 25, 2019 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst (Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam and PRIO Global Fellow)
Safeguarding: good intentions, difficult process
May 24, 2019 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
Penal Humanitarianism: Jus Puniendi in the International? (Part VI)
May 23, 2019 — Written by Teresa Degenhardt, Queen’s University Belfast
Penal Humanitarianism: The fight against impunity for sexual violence in conflict (Part V)
— Written by Kjersti Lohne, University of Oslo, & Anette Bringedal Houge, Norwegian Red Cross
Penal Humanitarianism: Projecting European Penal Power Beyond Europe (Part IV)
— Written by Eva Magdalena Stambøl, Doctoral Researcher, Aalborg University
Penal Humanitarianism: Moral Discomfort at the Border (Part III)
May 22, 2019 — Written by Katja Franko, University of Oslo, & Helene O.I. Gundhus, University of Oslo.
Penal Humanitarianism: Sovereign power and migration (Part II)
— Written by Mary Bosworth, Director, Border Criminologies
Penal Humanitarianism: Introducing a new blog series (Part I)
May 21, 2019 — Written by Kjersti Lohne, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oslo
Understanding the ‘internal protection alternative’ (Part II)
May 10, 2019 — Written by Jessica Schultz, Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Understanding the ‘internal protection alternative’ (Part I)
April 9, 2019
Do you speak humanitarian?
March 20, 2019 — Written by Simon Reid-Henry, Associate Professor in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London & PRIO affiliate
What Shapes Which Migration Flows We Study?
July 2, 2018
Aid Agencies Can’t Police Themselves. It’s Time for a Change
April 10, 2018 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst, Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam and PRIO Global Fellow
New Mapping of Children Affected by Armed Conflict
February 28, 2018 — Written by Gudrun Østby (PRIO), Karim Bahgat (PRIO), Kendra Dupuy (PRIO), Siri Camilla Aas Rustad (PRIO), Håvard Strand (PRIO/University of Oslo), Tore Wig (University of Oslo)
From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation
December 22, 2017 — Written by Sean Martin McDonald (FrontlineSMS), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University)
End impunity! Reducing conflict-related sexual violence to a problem of law
December 19, 2017 — Written by Anette Bringedal Houge (UiO), Kjersti Lohne (UiO)
Humanitarian experimentation
November 29, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University), Sean Martin McDonald (FrontlineSMS)
Unpacking the Myth of ICT’s Protective Effect in Mass Atrocity Response
September 27, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Nathaniel A. Raymond (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative)
Building a Sociology of Law for the Humanitarian Field
August 20, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Kjersti Lohne (UiO)
Nordic welfare humanitarianism at Nordic Branding Kick-Off Conference (June 12-13 2017)
August 3, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Amanda Cellini (PRIO)
The myth of ICT’s protective effect in mass atrocity response
June 16, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), Nathaniel A. Raymond (HHI)
Response to Alexander Betts and Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
May 22, 2017 — Written by Cecilia M. Bailliet (UiO)
For too many refugees, life passes while waiting for return
May 19, 2017 — Written by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO)
Introductory Post: A series of reflections on Refuge
May 18, 2017 — Written by Amanda Cellini (PRIO)
A double message about safety and security for field research: “Protection is crucial” and “Don’t overdo it”
May 2, 2017 — Written by Dorothea Hilhorst
Reform of the rape law in Sudan: Lip service to the International Criminal Court
April 10, 2017 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)
An Incomplete Picture of the Humanitarian Crisis in the Lake Chad Region
April 2, 2017 — Written by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (IRD, CEPED)
UiO: Nordic conference: The Nordic model of global humanitarianism: contestations and contextualisations
March 31, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO) and Johan Strang (University of Helsinki)
A review of humanitarian issues in 2016
March 8, 2017 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
With Orwell to the West Bank
February 28, 2017 — Written by Marte Heian-Engdal (PRIO)
The Whimper, Not Bang, of Humanitarian Drones
February 15, 2017 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
No-Man’s Land
January 20, 2017 — Written by Marte Heian-Engdal (PRIO)
Resettlement in contemporary Norway – lessons from a discourse analysis of the Norwegian debate on the Syrian refugee crisis
December 1, 2016 — Written by Linn Marie Reklev
The evolution of Danish Refugee Resettlement Policy, 1978-2016
November 24, 2016 — Written by Katrine Syppli Kohl (SFI)
Swedish cultural orientation programs and the notion of the “passive refugee”
November 16, 2016 — Written by Mehek Muftee (Jönköping University)
Give Us Your Phone and We May Grant You Asylum
October 18, 2016 — Written by Rocco Bellanova (PRIO), Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO), and Raphaël Gellert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Most Importantly a Nobel for the Colombian People and the Victims of the Civil War
October 7, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
The future of refugee resettlement: Will the September summits make any difference?
September 28, 2016 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Brazilian Peacekeeping: Challenges and Potentials in Turbulent Landscapes at Home and Internationally
September 26, 2016 — Written by Eric Cezne (University of Groningen), Eduarda Hamann (Igarapé Institute)
Refugee resettlement as humanitarian governance: The need for a critical research agenda
September 13, 2016 — Written by Adèle Garnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO), and Liliana Lyra Jubilut (Universidade Católica de Santos, Brazil)
Introductory Post: Nordic Resettlement Series
September 12, 2016 — Written by Amanda Cellini (PRIO)
Survey: Most humanitarians favour the use of drones in disaster zones
September 8, 2016 — Written by Denise Soesilo (Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD))
Reflections on World Humanitarian Day: Old stakes and new challenges for humanitarian aid workers
August 19, 2016 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
Building Humanitarian Studies: High scores for the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies in external review of HUMPOL
August 8, 2016 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO/UiO)
What is the role of law in bringing imaginative and imaginary peace to Colombia?
July 4, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO)
Durable Solutions: Five Implementation Challenges and Possible Pathways for Improvement
June 16, 2016 — Written by André de Lima Madureira (MSc Human Rights, LSE, UK) and Liliana Jubilut (Professor, Unisantos, Brazil)
How Can Innovation Deliver Humanitarian Outcomes? Challenges and Approaches for Humanitarian Innovation Policy
June 2, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO), Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO) and Brita Fladvad Nielsen (NTNU)
Against the Merger of Humanitarianism with Development and Security
May 31, 2016 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)
The humanitarian quest for accountability: Examining the role of UNHCR
May 23, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/PRIO) and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen)
Brought Up to Be a War Criminal
May 18, 2016 — Written by Kjersti Lohne (PRIO) and Anette Bringedal Houge (IKRS, UiO)
Insecurity in the Humanitarian Cyberspace: A Call for Innovation
May 10, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/ PRIO)
Protection of Civilians (PoC): What did we learn?
May 6, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (UiO/ PRIO)
Why the Veto Powers All Support Protection of Civilians (And Why They Often Fail to Agree on It)
April 29, 2016 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO) and Simon Reid-Henry (PRIO)
Tailoring Protection of Civilians to State Capacity: The Role of Regional Human Rights Protection Measures
April 14, 2016 — Written by Julieta Lemaitre (Universidad de Los Andes) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
The GovLab Selected Readings on Data and Humanitarian Response
April 5, 2016 — Written by Prianka Srinivasan and Stefaan G. Verhulst
Futureproofing Humanitarianism for Permanent Emergencies: Unpacking the Promise of Cooperation
March 16, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Is The War on Drugs a Humanitarian Crisis?
March 8, 2016 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO)
The humanitarian–development nexus in Northern Uganda
January 27, 2016 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)
An academic New Year’s resolution for Colombia: understanding continued gendered violence as a threat to positive peace
December 11, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Attacks on Humanitarian Aid Workers: Five New Findings
December 4, 2015 — Written by Jason Miklian (PRIO), Håvard Mokleiv Nygård (PRIO) and Kristian Hoelscher (PRIO)
The Brazilian aid paradox
December 1, 2015 — Written by Torkjell Leira (University of Oslo) and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (PRIO)
A strange silence in Kabul
October 6, 2015 — Written by Torunn Wimpelmann (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Expanding and improving the quality of girls’ education in Afghanistan
September 1, 2015 — Written by Arne Strand (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Killing the ‘Robots-don’t-Rape’ Argument
August 31, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kjersti Lohne (University of Oslo)
From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Transition from Humanitarian Crisis through Law Reform?
June 16, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO), Julieta Lemaitre (Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá)
Political Violence and Humanitarian Technology
May 5, 2015 — Written by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Women’s Right to Abortion after Rape in Sudan
April 29, 2015 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)
Emergency Exit for the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
April 10, 2015 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)
Beyond Sexual Violence: Gendered Political Insecurity as a Threat to Peace
April 9, 2015 — Written by Julieta Lemaitre (Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá), Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Evaluating Ebola: the politics of the military response narrative
March 16, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
PoC as a concept for UN peacekeeping
February 26, 2015 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI) and Benjamin de Carvalho (NUPI)
Conundrums in the Embrace of the Private Sector
February 24, 2015 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
UN at War
February 13, 2015 — Written by John Karlsrud (NUPI)
Fighting the War with the Ebola Drone
December 3, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Do they really care? Protection of Civilians and the Veto Powers in the UN Security Council
November 18, 2014 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén, PRIO
Humanitarian innovation, humanitarian renewal?
October 5, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Estranged violence in Tegucigalpa
September 29, 2014 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)
The humanitarian triad
September 17, 2014 — Written by Raymond Apthorpe (Royal Anthropological Institute, London)
Is it acceptable to lie for a good cause?
September 9, 2014 — Written by Henrik Urdal (PRIO)
A Humanitarian Technology Policy Agenda for 2016
August 14, 2014 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO), Christopher Wilson (The Engine Room), John Karlsrud (NUPI)
The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone: Giving Content to an Emerging Concept
June 30, 2014 — Written by Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
The Humanitarian–Development Nexus: Lessons from Northern Uganda
May 19, 2014 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)
Female Empowerment in DR Congo
April 1, 2014 — Written by Gudrun Østby (PRIO)
Impunity and the conflation of rape and adultery in Sudan’s Criminal Act
March 10, 2014 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)
Syria’s humanitarian crisis
February 8, 2014 — Written by Are J. Knudsen (CMI)
No prospects of cooling down: why the crisis in South Sudan must be solved immediately
December 21, 2013 — Written by Øystein H. Rolandsen (PRIO)
Sexual Violence: Monopoly of victimhood?
December 18, 2013 — Written by Åse Roti Dahl (Communication Adviser, CMI)
ICCM – The Annual Gathering of a Global Digital Village
December 3, 2013 — Written by Guro Åsveen
Somali Repatriation Pact: Insufficient Progress
November 19, 2013 — Written by Anab Nur (Researcher, The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies)
The promise and perils of ‘disaster drones’
November 1, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Kjersti Lohne (UiO)
Reforming the Security Council: the question that won’t go away
October 22, 2013 — Written by Simon Reid-Henry (PRIO)
UNHCR – A Humanitarian Organization with a Mandate to Protect Civilians in Refugee Camps
October 15, 2013 — Written by Maja Janmyr (Research Fellow, University of Bergen)
Killer Robots: the Future of War?
September 25, 2013 — Written by Maral Mirshahi (PRIO) and Agnieszka Cybulska (Norwegian Centre for Human Rights)
Land of Confusion – Protection of Women and Children in Liberia
September 17, 2013 — Written by Benjamin de Carvalho (NUPI) and Niels Nagelhus Schia (NUPI)
Humanitarian challenges in Syria
September 2, 2013 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)
Jus Post Bellum
August 22, 2013 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI)
Mali: Humanitarian Challenges and Fragile Security, What Role for the UN?
August 15, 2013 — Written by Maria Gabrielsen Jumpert (PRIO), John Karlsrud (NUPI) and Kristin B. Sandvik (PRIO)
Protection: From deeds to words?
June 20, 2013 — Written by Ole Jacob Sending (NUPI)
PoC: Protection clusters and the formation of ambiguity- the view from Bor and beyond
May 13, 2013 — Written by Jon Harald Sande Lie (NUPI)
PoC: The Politics of Counting Rape in Darfur
April 21, 2013 — Written by Liv Tønnessen (CMI)
Somalia from Humanitarian Crisis to Struggling Statehood
April 5, 2013 — Written by Cindy Horst (PRIO) and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
Urban Humanitarianism: Accessing informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
April 3, 2013 — Written by Joakim Hertzberg Ulstein (NUPI)
PoC: Where the Price for Mobilizing Protection Laws is Your Life – the Plight of Colombia’s Women IDP Leaders
March 21, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO) and Julieta Lemaitre (Universidad de los Andes Law School, Bogotá)
PoC: Protection, displacement and return to Somalia – Whose responsibility, whose rights?
March 11, 2013 — Written by Cindy Horst (PRIO)
Humanitarianism and Weapons: Should a ban on nuclear weapons rely on humanitarian principles?
March 6, 2013 — Written by Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO)
PoC: How the Security Council in 1999 came to consider protection of civilians in armed conflict
March 1, 2013 — Written by Astri Suhrke (CMI)
The Unspoken in Kabul: What does the future hold for humanitarian actors?
February 22, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)
A Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies?
February 18, 2013 — Written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (PRIO)