ILPI has succeeded, as the only Scandinavian institution leading a consortium, in winning two multi-year global DFID framework agreements in stiff competition with a number of international institutions. Continue reading
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ILPI wins two multi-year global DFID framework agreements
Gro Nystuen participates in debate on Iran
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On Sunday 22 April Gro Nystuen participated in a debate on the situation in Iran. The debate was organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and featured both academic experts and politicians. See nwp.ilpi.org for more on ILPI’s work on nuclear disarmament.
Biotechnology: Challenges and Possibilities for the Sami people.
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On Monday 16 April 2012 Njål Høstmælingen was invited by Sámediggi (the Sami Parliament in Norway) in Karasjok to hold an introduction on challenges and possibilities for the Sami population following the revision of the Norwegian Biotechnology Act. A special attention was on right to privacy and protection of property.
Programme: http://www.sametinget.no/Kalender/Bioteknologi
The joint donor response to corruption in Uganda
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Maja de Vibe has produced a publication for the U4 anti-corruption centre at the Christian Michelsen Institute titled ‘A joint response to corruption in Uganda: Donors beginning to bite?’. The publication looks at the Joint Response to Corruption initiative developed by the international development partners in Uganda. The British Department for International Development (DFID) led an approach that drew on ideas from the OECD DAC Anti-Corruption Task Team, but was tailored to the local context. A year and a half later, the approach has shown some promising results in terms of establishing a common platform for dialogue, improving the design of safeguards against corruption in other donor programmes, and encouraging anti-corruption allies in Uganda.
http://www.u4.no/publications/a-joint-response-to-corruption-in-uganda-donors-beginning-to-bite/
Anne Bergh joins ILPI
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Anne Bergh joins ILPI for a project on protection of minorities funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is on leave from a position as International Director at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and has previously been working inter alia at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Red Cross.
Graff Hugo Comments on Nuclear Security Summit
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ILPI’s Torbjørn Graff Hugo comments on the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in the online edition of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten (read full article, in Norwegian).
- The most important aspect of this conference is that paths are being opened outside the UN-system. [The summit] provides the US with the opportunity to promote the issue they believe is the most critical, namely nuclear terrorism, thus shifting the focus away from the actual possession of nuclear weapons [by the 9 nuclear-armed states].
- [...] this signals a fatique with the consensus-based form of international governance, whereby the least interested state is allowed to set the pace, says Graff Hugo.