Publications

This report provides an introduction to the new human rights commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The author presents the background to its establishment, its objectives, activities ...chevron_right

This report presents the main findings of a desk study of experiences with conflict prevention and resolution in natural resource management, and how these can be applied in development cooperation ...chevron_right

This report explores the effect of international sanctions on Syria with reference to the Assad regime’s human rights abuses from April 2011 onwards. Special attention is paid to the restrictive measu...chevron_right

This literature review summarizes selected theories of institutional change, with a particular emphasis on issues relevant to the Climate Change and Rural Institutions (CCRI) research program. The rev...chevron_right

This working paper reviews the literature on Uganda's tenure systems and their relationship with economic activities, focusing primarily on rural agricultural land. The review shows that tenure insecu...chevron_right

This report presents an introductory study of the dynamics of the conflict potential on the Korean peninsula as part of the regional security complex in Northeast Asia. It aims at elucidating the pote...chevron_right

This report gives an introductory overview of what the current research has so far been able to document about anti-democratic and violence-promoting environments in Denmark that subscribe to Islamist...chevron_right

This report seeks to inform policymakers of the aims, scope and changing dynamics in the complex and evolving defense and security relationship between Kazakhstan and Russia. This relationship is far ...chevron_right

This report argues that Cold War lessons were replaced slowly by at least two kinds of activist foreign policy doctrines. The first embraced military measures with or without broad international suppo...chevron_right

This paper examines how EU initiatives for promoting democracy and political reform in the Arab World have shaped relations of power and subjectivities between the EU and Arab governments over the las...chevron_right

This paper explores the return of young Ghanaian migrants from Libya following the uprising in 2011 and investigates the role that state agencies played in the repatriation and resettlement of returne...chevron_right

This paper demonstrates the importance of politics and power in water governance. To do this, it looks at cases from India, the Mekong and Denmark where actors have sought to translate Integrated Wate...chevron_right

Islamic women’s activism may appear a contradiction in terms to many Western audiences accustomed to presentations of Islam as counterproductive to the promotion of women’s empowerment and the situati...chevron_right

The paper looks at the findings from four case studies of productive sector initiatives in Mozambique to determine why/why not, the level to which and how the Mozambican government supported them. The...chevron_right

In order to understand regional security dynamics after 9/11, which have been greatly accelerated by the Arab Spring and the Iraq war, this paper challenges the often-repeated perception of American h...chevron_right