Noref – Norsk Ressurssenter for Fredsbygging – is a resource centre integrating knowledge and experience to strengthen peacebuilding policy and practice.
Additional Materials from Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre: Working Papers
Title: The Intellectualist movement in Ethiopia, the Muslim Brotherhood and the issue of moderation
Date: March 2015Title: Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic: a different framework
Authors: Wenche Hauge
Date: January 2015Title: The United Nations and a peace process strategy for Syria
Date: December 2014Title: European leverage and a new Israel-Palestine approach
Authors: Lara Friedman
Date: December 2014Title: Sealing a Colombian peace deal: challenges of citizen ratification
Authors: Silke Pfeiffer
Date: November 2014Title: Beyond terror: addressing the Boko Haram challenge in Nigeria
Authors: Kate Meagher
Date: November 2014Title: Boko Haram: origins, challenges and responses
Authors: John Campbell
Date: October 2014Title: Why Mpeketoni matters: al-Shabaab and violence in Kenya
Authors: David Anderson
Date: September 2014Title: Turkey's new focus on Africa: causes and challenges
Authors: Daniela Nascimento, Ali Bilgic
Date: September 2014Title: Russia's development assistance, with a focus on Africa
Authors: Andrey Makarychev, Licínia Simão
Date: September 2014Title: South Africa's response to the Ukrainian crisis
Authors: Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Date: June 2014Title: Indian perspectives on the Ukrainian crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea
Authors: Varun Sahni
Date: June 2014Title: Assessing the responses of the Chinese media and research community to the Ukrainian crisis
Authors: Chris Alden
Date: June 2014Title: "Don't poke the Russian bear": Turkish policy in the Ukrainian crisis
Authors: Balkan Devlen
Date: June 2014Title: Why Brazil has not criticised Russia over Crimea
Authors: Oliver Stuenkel
Date: May 2014Title: The Egyptian conundrum
Authors: Rabab el-Mahdi
Date: May 2014Title: Return to war in South Sudan
Authors: Gunnar M. Sørbø
Date: April 2014Title: A strategy to rescue diplomacy on Syria
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: February 2014Title: The Central African Republic – a history of a collapse foretold?
Authors: Morten Bøås
Date: January 2014Title: The domestic challenges in the Saudi energy market and their regional and geopolitical implications
Authors: Eckart Woertz
Date: November 2013Title: Colombia, the peace process and the political participation of the armed groups
Authors: Felipe Gómez Isa
Date: November 2013Title: Saudi Arabia and the export of religious ideologies
Authors: Laurent Bonnefoy
Date: September 2013Title: Saudi Arabia and the expansion of Salafism
Authors: Laurent Bonnefoy
Date: September 2013Title: Qatar's international relations under Emir Tamim
Authors: David Roberts
Date: September 2013Title: Qatar's human rights record
Authors: Joe Stork, Nicholas McGeehan
Date: September 2013Title: Norwegian non-military collaboration with Afghanistan: A slightly different approach
Authors: Arne Strand
Date: September 2013Title: New markets and partners for Saudi oil exports
Authors: Giacomo Luciani
Date: September 2013Title: MINUSMA: first steps, achievements and challenges
Authors: Isaline Bergamaschi
Date: September 2013Title: Inequalities and organised violence
Authors: David Sogge
Date: September 2013Title: Foreign policy implications of the new emir's succession in Qatar
Authors: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Date: September 2013Title: Arab Spring à l'algérienne
Authors: Derek Lutterbeck, Rachid Tlemçani
Date: September 2013Title: Saudi Aramco as a national development agent: recent shifts
Authors: Steffen Hertog
Date: August 2013Title: Saudi Arabia's domestic sectarian politics
Authors: Madawi al-Rasheed
Date: August 2013Title: Pakistan's 2013 elections: what implications for exclusion and fragility?
Authors: Clare Castillejo
Date: June 2013Title: Israel's internal frontier: the enduring power of ethno-nationalism
Authors: Cathrine Thorleifsson
Date: June 2013Title: "We are one, but we are different": Murle identity and local peacebuilding in Jonglei State, South Sudan
Authors: Diana Felix da Costa
Date: June 2013Title: Yemen's domestic and regional politics
Authors: Bernard Haykel
Date: May 2013Title: Tunisia after Ben Ali: retooling the tools of oppression?
Authors: Derek Lutterbeck
Date: May 2013Title: Brazil in the South Atlantic: growing protagonism and unintended consequences
Authors: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Danilo Marcondes de Souza Neto
Date: May 2013Title: Turkish and Iranian interests and policies in the South Caucasus
Authors: Evanthia Balla
Date: April 2013Title: Security in the South Caucasus: the EU, NATO and Russia
Authors: Maria Raquel Freire
Date: March 2013Title: Russia assumes and exploits the chairmanship of the G20
Authors: Pavel K. Baev
Date: February 2013Title: Qatar's mediation initiatives
Authors: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Date: February 2013Title: Qatar's international role: branding, investment and policy projection
Authors: J. E. Peterson
Date: February 2013Title: Qatar's foreign policy
Authors: Bernard Haykel
Date: February 2013Title: Qatar as a financial investor
Authors: David Roberts
Date: February 2013Title: Bahrain: an overview
Authors: Jane Kinninmont
Date: January 2013Title: United Arab Emirates
Authors: Christopher Davidson
Date: December 2012Title: Turkey's position on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts
Authors: E. Fuat Keyman
Date: December 2012Title: The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation's position on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts
Authors: Ishtiaq Ahmad
Date: December 2012Title: Regional security co-operation in the smaller Gulf states
Authors: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Date: December 2012Title: Overview of the smaller GCC states (Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, UAE) and the effect of the "Arab Spring" uprisings
Date: December 2012Title: Human rights in the smaller Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE
Authors: Joe Stork
Date: December 2012Title: Foreign labour and labour migration in the small GCC states
Authors: Andrew Gardner
Date: December 2012Title: Financial markets in GCC countries: recent crises and structural weaknesses
Authors: Steffen Hertog
Date: December 2012Title: Civilian protection in Russia: legal issues and political interpretations
Authors: Andrey Makarychev
Date: December 2012Title: India's approach to the protection of civilians in armed conflicts
Authors: C. S. R. Murthy
Date: November 2012Title: Governments' and security actors' dynamics in transitions to democracy
Authors: Rut Diamint
Date: November 2012Title: Drugs and the peace process in Colombia
Authors: Ricardo Vargas Meza
Date: November 2012Title: Demobilisation and disarmament in peace processes
Authors: Véronique Dudouet
Date: November 2012Title: The protection of civilians in armed conflict and Brazil's "responsibility while protecting"
Authors: Eduarda Passarelli Hamann
Date: October 2012Title: Promoting women's rights in Afghanistan: a call for less aid and more politics
Authors: Torunn Wimpelmann
Date: October 2012Title: Capacity with responsibility: India's position on the protection of civilians
Authors: Samir Kumar Das
Date: October 2012Title: Afghanistan and the regional powers: history not repeating itself?
Authors: Stina Torjesen
Date: October 2012Title: Towards 2014 and beyond: NATO, Afghanistan and the "Heart of Asia"
Authors: Astri Suhrke
Date: September 2012Title: Continuity and flexibility advised: The case for Norway's future engagement with Faryab and Afghanistan
Authors: Helge Lurås
Date: September 2012Title: Jerusalem, Netanyahu and the two-state solution
Authors: Daniel Seidemann
Date: August 2012Title: "Chronic violence": toward a new approach to 21st-century violence
Authors: Tani Marilena Adams
Date: August 2012Title: Transitional justice in Egypt: one step forward, two steps back
Authors: Judy Barsalou
Date: June 2012Title: The concept of "rising powers"
Authors: Pinar Tank
Date: June 2012Title: Arab Muslim women after the uprisings: the encounter between the liberalisation of Islamist politics and the feminisation of Islamic interpretation
Authors: Aitemad Muhanna
Date: June 2012Title: Youth integration and job creation in the Middle East
Authors: Jad Chaaban
Date: May 2012Title: The media and freedom of expression in the Arab world
Authors: Jean-Paul Marthoz
Date: May 2012Title: How the West can get on the right side of history in the re-awakening Arab world
Authors: David Gardner
Date: May 2012Title: Economies of violence and peacebuilding: towards policy coherence
Authors: Mark B. Taylor
Date: May 2012Title: Demographic challenges and opportunities ahead in Middle East and North Africa: "Arab Spring" or "Islamic winter"?
Authors: Youssef Courbage
Date: May 2012Title: Regional implications of the conflict in Syria: a view from Israel
Authors: Yossi (Joseph) Alpher
Date: April 2012Title: Prospects for youth-led movements for political change in Pakistan
Authors: Michael Kugelman
Date: January 2012Title: Adapting Norwegian Civilian Capacity for the Future: Implications of the Guéhenno Report
Authors: John Karlsrud
Date: November 2011Title: The nature of a friendship: making sense of Sino-Pakistani relations
Authors: Marco Mezzera
Date: September 2011Title: Taking Stock: Madrasa Reform in Pakistan
Authors: Kaja Borchgrevink, Kristian Berg Harpviken
Date: July 2011Title: Fragile states: a fluid concept for peacebuilding and statebuilding
Authors: Fernanda Faria
Date: July 2011Title: Measuring peacebuilding: challenges, tools, actions
Authors: Svein Erik Stave
Date: May 2011Title: Coping with a failing Pakistan
Authors: Stephen P. Cohen
Date: February 2011Title: Pakistan: dealing with peace in the tribal areas?
Authors: Laila Bokhari
Date: November 2010Title: International responses to Pakistan's water crisis: opportunities and challenges
Authors: Michael Kugelman
Date: November 2010Title: Norway's political test in Faryab, Afghanistan: how to lead?
Authors: Ståle Ulriksen
Date: July 2010Title: Egypt and the Darfur conflict
Authors: Jacob Høigilt, Øystein H. Rolandsen
Date: July 2010Title: UN peacekeeping in the Congo: when is the job done?
Authors: Ingrid Samset
Date: June 2010Title: Fixing Afghanistan: what role for China?
Authors: Stina Torjesen
Date: June 2010Title: Drawing the lines: the Norwegian debate on civilian-military relations in Afghanistan
Authors: Arne Strand
Date: June 2010Title: Never mind the gap: Turkish-Armenian relations past the crossroads
Authors: Einar Wigen
Date: May 2010Title: Norway's strategic challenges in Afghanistan: how to make a difference?
Authors: Ståle Ulriksen
Date: April 2010Title: Afghanistan's religious landscape: politicising the sacred
Authors: Kaja Borchgrevink, Kristian Berg Harpviken
Date: March 2010Title: Why is violence escalating in Southern Sudan?
Authors: Øystein H. Rolandsen
Date: February 2010Title: Build-up of Afghan security forces ill advised
Authors: Helge Lurås
Date: January 2010Title: Water challenges in Central-South Asia
Authors: Michael Renner
Date: December 2009Title: Haiti: the challenge of ending the transition to democracy
Authors: Tone Faret, Eduardo Colindres
Date: December 2009Title: Central Asia: Living in Afghanistan's shadow
Authors: Martha Brill Olcott
Date: November 2009Title: Challenges of Pakistan's Governance System
Authors: Marco Mezzera
Date: October 2009