de Coning participated at seminar on NATO's Strategic Concept
Research Fellow Cedric de Coning participated at NATO's seminar on the new Strategic Concept, "“NATO’s New Strategic Concept – Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management”, in Helsinki 4 March 2010.
MoreUN peacebuilding architecture
Project examining the future role of the UN peacebuilding architecture emphasizes the need for more ambitious targets over the next five years.
MoreBuild-up of Afghan security forces ill advised
A well-functioning government is a prerequisite for any successful counter-insurgency strategy and good governance is unlikely to be established in Afghanistan any time soon. As a consequence, the plans for the build-up of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) must be adjusted, writes Helge Lurås.
MoreThe unit does applied research, policy analysis, concept development and assistance on multinational and multidimensional peace support and stability operations and related themes.
The department works with both civilian and military partners in national and international settings. We seek to address most aspects of peace support operations from intervention to long term peace building and security sector reform. The department may also do evaluations and assessments of ongoing national and international projects and operations.
The department consists of five programs with a permanent staff of ten researchers, advisers and military fellows at NUPI, with another three in Bosnia. Another ten to fifteen associated researchers from other units at NUPI and elsewhere are involved in projects at the department. Such arrangements provide both a broad pool of professional expertise as well as operational flexibility.
AfPak - NOREF Policy Briefs
Four policy briefs from NUPI’s Afghanistan and Pakistan Programme to inform Norwegian and international policy makers on the challenges ahead in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region as a whole. More
R2P and the prevention of mass atrocities
This project aims to investigate and operationalise the preventive aspect of the responsibility to protect (R2P), as formulated in the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. More
Global Strategies in Local Communities. Interference vs Interaction?
The project seeks to identify where the UN and the international community could further develop or refine their approaches to addressing sexual and gender-based violence in Liberia. More
The Hybridization of Peace Operations in Africa and the Protection of Civilians: Towards Coherent Doctrines?
This project will investigate how the ongoing UN/AU hybrid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the current operational restraints of African forces pose challenges to the emerging doctrine of integrated UN missions, as well as the practical challenges encountered at the doctrinal level in terms of standardizing two different rationales (AU and UN) into a common doctrine. More
The Protection of Civilians and the Coordination of Efforts: Challenges from a Field Perspective
The aim of the study is to consolidate the knowledge available on the practice and training towards an efficient protection of civilians in peace operations by civilians and police personnel. More
Coherence and Coordination of Peacebuilding in Africa – A case study from UNMIL (United Nations Mission to Liberia)
The overarching purpose of this project is to investigate how UN missions can work coherently and coordinate a complexity of considerations. More
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). The Evolution of Peace Operations in Africa: Trajectories and Trends, Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 1-2, February 2010 . BRILL.p. 6-26.
- Stamnes, Eli (2010). Values, Context and Hybridity: How can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?. NUPI Working Paper: . 33 pages. The authors of the liberal peace critique literature argue that local ownership should mean taking the recipient societies’(rather than simply governments’ and elites’) understanding of the problems and solutions as the starting point of peacebuilding.
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). Clarity, Coherence and Context: Three Priorities for Sustainable Peacebuilding. NUPI Working Paper: . 31 pages. This paper will focus on three challenges that should inform the 2010 Review of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, namely: (1) developing the UN peacebuilding concept and operational model; (2) significantly stepping-up efforts to improve system-wide coherence; and (3) seriously implementing the principle of local ownership.
- Solhjell, Randi (2010). Gendering the Security Sector: Protecting Civilians Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. NUPI Working Paper: 769. 28 pages. This report seeks to identify three core elements of ‘gendering’ the security sector reform approaches in the Democratic republic of Congo.
- de Coning, Cedric H., Niels Nagelhus Schia, Helge Lurås, Ståle Ulriksen (2009). Norway's Whole-of-Government Approach and its Engagement with Afghanistan. Oslo, NUPI. 52 pages. Security in Practice no. 8. This Report conclude that Norway lacks a comprehensive strategy for engaging in fragile states in general, as well as a whole-of-government strategy for any particular country, including Afghanistan.
- Bokhari, Laila (2009). Min bror, terroristen, i Samtiden, nr. 4 . Oslo, Aschehoug.p. 80-93. Hvordan er Pakistan blitt jihadismens høyborg, og hvorfor produserer og tiltrekker landet seg stadig unge menn som vil sloss?
- Solhjell, Randi (2009). Rebels without a cause? Perpetrator perspectives on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Saarbrücken, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. 64 pages. The level of sexual violence in the eastern DRC has received significant media attention. However, there is little knowledge on what is causing this violence. This book will contribute to this debate by offering different explanatory perspectives using secondary literature and primary data.
- Lurås, Helge (2009). Norge i Afghanistan – bakgrunn, retorikk, fortsettelse. NUPI Working Paper: 768. 35 pages. Situasjonen i Afghanistan forverres. Samtidig revurderer USA sin strategi. Utsiktene til å lykkes i Afghanistan er små. Faren for tap av norske liv kan bli større. Det avkrever en åpen debatt om interesser, målsettinger og virkemidler.
- de Coning, Cedric H., Paul Romita (2009). Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Operations. New York, International Peace Institute. 24 pages. IPI Report. This Report highlight the theoretical and methodological challenges and institutional issues related to M&E processes, and offer several recommendations for fostering best practices and more effective monitoring and evaluation techniques.
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus, Benjamin de Carvalho (2009). Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Liberia, in Conflict Trends Issue 3 . Durban,ACCORD.p. 26-33. This article addresses the implementation of gender perspectives in post-conflict reconstruction efforts through two cases, namely the broader conceptual implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution 1325 and the construction of physical units for the protection of women and children adjacent to Liberian National Police (LNP) stations throughout Liberia.