📢 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

📝 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...

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

@erc.europa.eu

📃 Is temporary asylum eroding refugee protection in Europe?

Read more via the link below ⬇️

www.cmi.no/news/3495-te...

➡️ 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 👇

📺 vimeo.com/event/531010...

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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📺 vimeo.com/event/531010...

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

📝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

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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

Great visit from the Tanzania Revenue Authority and Norwegian Tax Authority to CMI this week – sharing lessons on tax compliance, trust, and the digital economy. 🤝📊

Learn more about our work in Tanzania via the link below 👇

#DigitalEconomy #Tanzania #Tax #Research #Norway #Bergen

🌍 Proud to join global voices in Oslo marking 25 years of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace & Security this week.

Women’s voices must remain central to peace and security. #WPS #GenderEquality

Lots of events at @bergenglobal.bsky.social this week!

➡️Trump, anti-gender politics and academic freedom
➡️How do we responsibly regulate AI?
➡️The humanitarian impact of war on South Sudan
➡️What drives Russia’s violence against Ukraine?

#Trump #Russia #Ukraine #AI #Sudan #academicfreedom

📰 New Brief - Forced Displacement in Sudan 📰

Critical stories from those fleeing Khartoum and the massive challenges they have to overcome to get to safety.

Read the full brief here - www.cmi.no/r/biwpx

#Sudan #Displacement #HumanitarianCrisis #ForcedMigration #Research #KeepEyesOnSudan