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Hvorfor stemmer flere konservativt?

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Hvorfor stemmer flere konservativt? - Bergen Global
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November 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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📢 Join us this week at the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights Conference – this Saturday November 8 at the University Aula in Bergen or online.

Register here - form.typeform.com/to/bRu1WRfq

#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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📝 New Blog

Over a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran and Pakistan – one of the largest mass deportations in recent history.

Behind the statistics lies a profound human tragedy: the unravelling of decades of community, labour, and shared life.

Read here ➡️ www.cmi.no/publications...
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Hva betyr globale kriser, rask endring og store kutt i bistanden for Norges 🇳🇴 rolle i utviklingspolitikken? Statssekretær Stine Renate Håheim, @norad.no-direktør Gunn Jorid Roset, Ottar Mæstad @cmi.no og Hilde Selbervik (U4) tar diskusjonen ➡️ onsdag 5. nov. 🕦 13:30-14:30 📍 her / zoom 🥐☕ Velkommen!
Fremtidens utviklingspolitikk: Hvordan navigere i en verden med kriser og kutt? - Bergen Global
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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Hvordan klarer politikere å overse vår største utfordring ♻️🌍🍃 og hvor er folks engasjement? Velkommen til frokost m/ Gisle Andersen, Ida Vikøren Andersen (NORCE), Kine Ellingsen (Unge Høyre), Andreas Ormevik @mdg.no og Tom Skauge @naturvernforbundet.no ➡️ fredag 31. okt. 🕦 08:30-09:30 📍 her / zoom 🥐☕
Hvordan få klima og natur tilbake på dagsorden? - Bergen Global
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October 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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📝‘How does my pen become a pen for the cause that I believe in?’

Learn more about Sudanese writer and activist Reem Abbas' journey into activism and human rights advocacy - www.cmi.no/r/zdppi

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From Journalism to Street Activism: Reem Abbas
Reem Abbas’s journey into activism and human rights advocacy is deeply rooted in her personal history. Born in Sudan, h...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Has the fiscal contract’s explanatory power been overstated? The final TaxCapDev conference explores new directions for research on tax, governance, and development.

Join us in Oslo on 21-23 Oct.

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#tax #taxation #governance
Conference: Revisiting the past, looking to the future – Moving beyond the fiscal contract? – TaxCapDev
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October 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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How did Colombia’s Truth Commission confront sexual violence?

A new CMI report by Adriana Rudling explores the Commission’s mandate, findings, and calls for gender justice.

#Colombia #truthcommission #sexualviolence #CRSV

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The Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
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October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Missile strikes in Doha this week threaten Qatar's position as a mediator, but also future attempts to broker a peace deal between Israel and Hamas.

Learn more about Qatar’s unique relationship with the Israel-Palestine conflict below 👇

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Missile diplomacy: The strategic implications of the Doha strike
The views expressed in this text are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CMI.  This Tuesd...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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CMI researcher Eva Johais will lead a groundbreaking project exploring how digital technology enables ordinary people to participate in distant wars.

Read more ➡️ www.cmi.no/news/3497-ne...

#WARS_erc #ERCStG #ConflictResearch

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September 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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We were very pleased to welcome the Minister for International Development Åsmund Grøver Aukrust to CMI today for a focused exchange on how research can inform and strengthen Norwegian development policy.

Read the full story ➡️ www.cmi.no/news/3496-cm...

#research #policy #development
CMI research informing Norwegian development policy
On Tuesday 2 September, the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) welcomed Norway’s Minister of International Development, &A...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Despite the traditional dominance of the global north, nations in the global south, like Ethiopia 🇪🇹, are exerting greater influence over the return process than previously perceived. Welcome to guest lecture by Asnake Kefale of Addis Ababa University ➡️ Tues 9 Sept. 🕦 08:30 - 09:30 📍here / zoom ☕🥐
Norway’s return policies to Ethiopia and global deportation trends - Bergen Global
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August 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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📃 Is temporary asylum eroding refugee protection in Europe?

Read more via the link below ⬇️

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August 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Another great day of events yesterday at #BeEx2025 with @lawtransform.bsky.social

Join us at Kulturhuset in Bergen as Bergen Exchanges continue today, or join us online via the link below 👇

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BeEx2025 – Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 18-22 August
Join scholars, activists, legal professionals, and artists from around the world at the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, a five-day international conference exploring the…
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August 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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➡️ More from #BeEx2025

Another timely and engaging roundtable on the challenges faced by academics as the space for dissent shrinks, especially when speaking out against genocide and repression.

You can re-watch this event and all of today's panels via the link below 👇

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August 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Great session on truth commissions and sexual violence moderated by CMI's Elin Skaar. Exploring how commissions have addressed (or failed) sexual violence in different contexts and its implications.

➡️ Follow this and future events at #BeEx2025 via the link below.

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August 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The Bergen Exchanges 2025 have begun!

This week there will be a full schedule of events on democracy, autocratisation, and resistance at Kulturhuset in Bergen.

👉 All events are free and open all - come and join us!

⬇️ You can also watch along online via the link below!

#BeEx2025
August 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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📝New blog from the Sudan War series from Abdelmageed Yahya and Mari Norbakk

➡️ How Sudanese entrepreneurs are monetising social ties to survive and thrive in Cairo’s informal economy

👇Read the full blog via the link in comments

#KeepEyesOnSudan
June 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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📢 New CMI Insight: Why property tax reforms fail?

🌍 Lessons from #Tanzania

❓What's going wrong?

1️⃣ Misalignment with broader public sector reforms
2️⃣ Poor implementation
3️⃣ Weak administrative systems
4️⃣ Limited taxpayer engagement
5️⃣ No long-term strategy

📖 Read the full insight below 👇

#Tax
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🌍This year we welcomed our first two Global Fellows to CMI 🌍

⬇️Read more about Olga and Sourav's experiences via the link below:

👉 www.cmi.no/r/global-fellows
First CMI Global Fellowships
CMI’s first Global Fellowships – two fully funded, three-month academic residencies in Bergen, Norway, for early-career re...
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June 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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📢 New from our Sudanese Perspectives blog:

➡️ Taharqa Elnour explores how donor agendas and NGO frameworks reshaped Sudan’s post-2019 transition, and how the resistance committees are reclaiming the narrative.

Read the full blog here - www.cmi.no/r/cnxax

#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan
The War for Recruits. A masked young man crosses a dangerous street as others crouch for cover.
June 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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📢 Two great events at Bergen Global next week!

The reception of Ukrainian refugees in Europe
📅Monday 26 May - 15:00

The impact of EU external migration policies on West Africa
📅Tuesday 27 May - 09:00

👇More information about both events via the link below

#Ukraine #Refugees #Migration #Africa #EU
May 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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📢 New post in our Sudanese Perspectives blog

➡️ During the December revolution, Sudan’s youth took a united stand against racism. The war has fractured that unity, reigniting ethnic tensions.

Can the revolution’s vision still hold?

👉 www.cmi.no/r/gvfic

#Sudan #Youth #KeepEyesOnSudan #EndRacism
"No Race, No Tribe" The December revolution's struggle for an inclusive national identity. Protestors waving Sudanese flags.
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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📢 Consultancy opportunity on corruption risks in climate financing in Kenya 🇰🇪

We're looking for consultants to work on identifying and analysing corruption vulnerabilities within climate finance mechanisms in #Kenya.

See terms of reference 👉 www.u4.no/call-for-con...

Apply by 26 May 2024.
Call for consultant
May 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📣 Consultancy opportunity on anti-corruption and climate funds. Please re-share!

We are seeking consultants to contribute to a project assessing corruption vulnerabilities in multilateral climate funds.

See terms of reference 👉 www.u4.no/call-for-con...

Apply by 20 May 2025.
Card. Call for consultant
May 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM