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Bridging adaptation action and research: Key insights from peer-to-peer learning across the Adaptation Research Alliance
Introduction Launched at CoP26, the Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a global collaborative effort that seeks to mobilise increased investment and capacity for action-oriented research for...
New study challenges the win-win myth in cross-sector partnerships for refugees
The ideal of creating shared value in cross-sector partnerships often benefits business more than aid agencies and beneficiaries. Partnerships between humanitarian aid organizations and for-profit...
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Affective borderwork - Governance of unwanted migration to Europe through emotions
Ida Marie Savio Vammen & Katrine Syppli Kohl In recent years, migrants and local populations in the so-called origin countries have been exposed to a wide range of risk-awareness and...
Security professionals are changing how humanitarian organisations operate
Since the mid-2000s the number of security professionals working for humanitarian organisations has increased significantly. This has important consequences for how humanitarian aid is delivered. ...
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Infrastructure for Peacebuilding: The role of infrastructure in tackling the underlying drivers of fragility (September 2020)
Introduction The global agenda on conflict and peacebuilding has drastically changed over the past fifty years. If the twentieth century agenda was dominated by conflicts between national states,...
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Peacekeeping in the shadow of Covid-19 era
Short-term responses and long-term consequences Richard Gowan & Louise Riis Andersen Recommendations UN leaders and member states should: Sustain and where necessary boost funding for UN operations...
Climate change adaptation and development: Past trends and ways forward for Danish development cooperation
Climate change has a severe impact on the livelihoods and economies of developing countries and will constrain achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on virtually all fronts. While efforts...
Action needed for peacekeeping in distress: Small states can take small but important steps to improve UN peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping is in need of change. Missions struggle to fulfil ambitious mandates in hostile environments. To improve performance and regain global trust, the UN needs tangible support and...
Armed non-state actors need to be included in pragmatic peacebuilding
Lise Philipsen RECOMMENDATIONS International peace operations should: Build diplomatic skills to interact with ANSAs who provide security locally and consider what role they can play in building...
Cattle: the new frontier of conflict and climate change in Africa?
DIIS researcher briefs UN stakeholders on contested linkages Picture a grazing cow - could anything appear more peaceful and soothing? It is difficult to imagine, but cattle seems to sit at the...
Aid agencies need to address global norms on gender equality
Second part of Special Issue with findings from DIIS research project Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Adam Moe Fejerskov & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde How do development organisations understand, work with and...
Beyond the headlines of human trafficking
Italy, Sicily, was recently centre of attention when 26 drowned Nigerian women were buried in their attempt to reach Europe. Two of the women were identified; two were pregnant. In this article DIIS...
The difficulties of disrupting development aid through technology
New technologies such as blockchain (as used in e.g. Bitcoin) are here to disrupt all industries, and are now aiming at development cooperation. Before Christmas, the Danish development agency Danida...
The European powers and the Sahel-Maghreb Crisis
In this new DIIS report senior researcher at DIIS, Rasmus Alenius Boserup and Research Director at Sciences Po, Luis Martinez, analyse how European policy-makers have recently come to perceive the...
Engineering peace? The power of infrastructure in peacebuilding
Do roads literally lead to peace? While seemingly a strange question to ask, today's peacebuilders certainly seem to think so. After decades of focus on questions of governance, today, instead,...
Robust Peacekeeping, UN Bureaucracy and the Primacy of Politics
New article in International Affairs discusses the future of UN peace operations Increasingly, UN peacekeepers are deployed to places where there is no peace to keep. This challenges and undermines...
Armed groups are here to stay: It’s time for pragmatic international engagement
Armed non-state actors are significant players in most conflicts. The international community is often forced to engage with them in order to secure humanitarian aid for civilians or to end armed...
How climate resettlement can work for communities: Climate change and Planned Relocation
Planned Relocation is a growing issue on the climate displacement agenda. In a number of countries, governments plan to resettle entire communities impacted by climate change. Guidelines for this...
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DIIS policy brief October 2017: When armed groups provide public services; from the power of guns to civilian acceptance
As key players in contemporary conflicts, many armed non-state actors provide services to civilians in order to win legitimacy in their areas of control. Sometimes the civilian population comes to...