Hashtag Wars The #WARS project addresses how the new possibilities of participation affect people and places afar from the warzone. D...

Learn more about the project here - www.cmi.no/projects/317...

We are hiring a Research Assistant to join the ERC Project #WARS.

This is a great opportunity for Master's students looking to get hand's on experience and develop a thesis connected to the project.

Find more information here - www.cmi.no/r/ypyfw

War on Iran, Turmoil in Sudan: Geopolitics at the Red Sea Frontier Sudan is often treated as peripheral to the Middle East, but in geopolitical terms it is anything but. Sudan sits at its strategic cor...

#Sudan is feeling the shockwaves of the war on #Iran. Reliance on Iranian drones, pressure from Gulf states, and rising Red Sea tensions are reshaping the conflict. Our new Sudanese Perspectives blog by @munzoul.bsky.social & Liv Tønnessen offers key insights.

www.cmi.no/publications...

What are the characteristics of China’s development aid? How does it compare with aid from traditional donor countries?

Join @bergenglobal.bsky.social for an event on how #China reshapes global #aid 🙌

📅5 March
🕛12:00–13:00 CET
📍Jekteviksbakken 31

More info 👇
bergenglobal.no/events/china...

Museveni

What do elections mean when change is unlikely?

@bergenglobal.bsky.social is hosting a hybrid event on Uganda’s 2026 elections, succession politics, youth engagement, and state power.

📅14 Jan
🕣08:30–09:30 CET
📍Jekteviksbakken, 31

More info 👇
🔗- bergenglobal.no/events/anoth...

#museveni

📢Call for nominations: Chr. Michelsen Prize 2026

Awarded to researchers under 40, based in Norway, with an outstanding peer-reviewed article within development research from the last 2 years.

Send nominations to epost@chrmichelsenspris.no by 1 Feb 2026.

More info: www.chrmichelsenspris.no

Hvorfor stemmer flere konservativt? - Bergen Global

Hvorfor stemmer flere konservativt?

bergenglobal.no/events/hvorf...

📢 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...

Fremtidens utviklingspolitikk: Hvordan navigere i en verden med kriser og kutt? - Bergen Global

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!

Hvordan få klima og natur tilbake på dagsorden? - Bergen Global

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 🥐☕

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...

📝‘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

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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.

www.taxcapdev.no/event/hold-t...

#tax #taxation #governance

The Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

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

www.cmi.no/publications...

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...

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 👇

www.cmi.no/news/3499-st...

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

CMI research informing Norwegian development policy On Tuesday 2 September, the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) welcomed Norway’s Minister of International Development, &A...

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

Norway’s return policies to Ethiopia and global deportation trends - Bergen Global

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 ☕🥐

📃 Is temporary asylum eroding refugee protection in Europe?

Read more via the link below ⬇️

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

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…

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 👇

vimeo.com/event/531010...

➡️ 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.

👇

📺 vimeo.com/event/531010...

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…

Follow the Bergen Exchanges here - 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

“Be My Guest”: Trust as Economic Capital in Sudanese Displacement | African Arguments Trust as a currency against displacement

africanarguments.org/2025/06/be-m...

📝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

Why property tax reforms fail: Lessons from Tanzania

Read the full insight here 👉 www.cmi.no/r/muqka

📢 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

First CMI Global Fellowships CMI’s first Global Fellowships – two fully funded, three-month academic residencies in Bergen, Norway, for early-career re...

🌍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

The War for Recruits. A masked young man crosses a dangerous street as others crouch for cover.

📢 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