CMI 2011
2011 key publications
afghanistan
sudan
Promoting women’s rights in Afghanistan: The ambiguous footprint of the West
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women’s activism for and against the state
Torunn Wimpelmann in A Liberal Peace?
Liv Tønnessen Disputes over Islamist gender politics are an important gateway to understanding broader political contestation concerning the role of Islam in state and society in Sudan.
Western presence in Afghanistan has an ambiguous effect on the conditions of Afghan women. The intervention set in motion a number of contradictory processes.
special focus on sexual violence DRC International conference Sexual violence: The case of eastern Congo Ingrid Samset in The Peace in Between: Post-war violence and peacebuilding
CMI in collaboration with the University of Bergen invited international scholars to discuss why sexual violence is used in wars. Why does it vary between countries both during and after conflicts?
Sexual violence became widespread in eastern DRC during the civil war from 1998 to 2003, and continued after the war. Sexual violence assumed a strategic function for armed groups in a context where state institutions were weak, and functioned as a bonding mechanism among groups of fighters.
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