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?
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...
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 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 🥐☕
📝‘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
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 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
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
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...
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...
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
🌍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
📢 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
"No Race, No Tribe" The December revolution's struggle for an inclusive national identity. Protestors waving Sudanese flags.
📢 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
