NUPI Policy Brief refers to NUPI's current research and provides a brief summary of the projects in the final stages.

2013

NUPI Policy Brief No. 2
The Civilian Capacities Initiative and Gender-Responsive Peace-building: An Inclusive Approach?
Randi Solhjell

NUPI Policy Brief No. 3
The EEA and Norway Grants as a source of Soft Power
Tom O. Johnsen and Pernille Rieker

NUPI Policy Brief No. 4
UNMISS County Support Bases: Peacekeeping–Peacebuilding Nexus at Work?
Diana Felix da Costa and Cedric de Coning

NUPI Policy Brief No. 5
Afghanistan og Sentral-Asia mot 2014. Oppsummering av prosjekt og anbefalinger
Kristin Fjæastad and Heidi Kjærnet

NUPI Policy Brief No. 6
CIVCAP, Emerging Powers and the Global South: Evidence for a New Phase of Engagement
Cedric de Coning, John Karlsrud and Lotte Vermeij

2012

NUPI Policy Brief No. 1
Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams (OMLT): The Norwegian Army and their Afghan partners  
Vegard Valther Hansen, Helge Lurås and Trine Nikolaisen

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NUPI Policy Brief No. 2
Great Power, Arctic Power: Russia’s engagement in the High North  
Elana Wilson Rowe and Helge Blakkisrud

NUPI Policy Brief No. 2, Rowe, Blakkisrud

NUPI Policy Brief No. 3
Contextualizing peacebuilding activities to local circumstances – Liberian case-study  
Hannah Neumann and Niels Nagelhus Schia

NUPI Policy Brief No. 3, Schia, Neumann

NUPI Policy Brief No. 4
Offering the diagnosis, but lacking the medicine: UN local peacebuilding-peacekeeping nexus in Haiti  
John Karlsrud and Diana Felix da Costa

NUPI Policy Brief No. 4, Karlsrud, da Costa

NUPI Policy Brief No. 5
Casting the net too deep and too wide? UN local peacebuilding-peacekeeping nexus in South Sudan  
John Karlsrud and Diana Felix da Costa

NUPI Policy Brief No. 5, Karlsrud, da Costa

NUPI Policy Brief No. 6
Linking Regional Security and Human Rights in the African Union  
Andreas Øien Stensland, Walter Lotze and Joel Ng 

NUPI Policy Brief No. 6, Stensland et al.

For further readings, please see the report Regional Security and Human Rights Interventions  . 

NUPI Policy Brief No. 7
Linking Regional Security and Human Rights in ASEAN  
Andreas Øien Stensland, Walter Lotze and Joel Ng

NUPI Policy Brief No. 7, Stensland et al.

For further readings, please see the report Regional Security and Human Rights Interventions.
 

NUPI Policy Brief No. 8
Russia - A BRIC Country? 
Geir Flikke 

NUPI Policy Brief No. 9
CIVCAP 2012: Laying Concrete Foundations
Paul Keating and Sharon Wiharta

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 10
Protecting Civilians While Fighting a War in Somalia – Drawing Lessons from Afghanistan
Alexander William Beadle

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 10
Protecting Civilians While Fighting a War in Somalia – Drawing Lessons from Afghanistan  
Alexander William Beadle

NUPI Policy Brief 10, Beadle

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 11
Eurokrisen og EU som et regionalt fredsprosjekt  
Pernille Rieker  

NUPI Policy Brief No. 11_Rieker

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 13
New Dependency Relationships: Offshore, Large Banking Conglomerates and Development  
Ronen Palan

Policy Brief no. 13, Palan

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 12
Belated Courtship?   The Uneasy Partnership between Brazil and the EU  
Nicole de Paula Domingos and Benjamin de Carvalho

NUPI Policy Brief No. 12, Domingo, deCarvalho

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 14
Tackling Tax Havens in the US and EU: A Strategy of Not In My Backyard (NIMBY)  
Duncan Wigan

NUPI Policy Brief No. 14, Wigan

NUPI Policy Brief  No. 15
Emerging Powers and the Responsibility to Protect after Libya  
Ramesh Thakur

NUPI Policy Brief No. 15, Thakur

NUPI Policy Brief No. 16
Inter-cultural dialogue in crises – a comparative study  
Pernille Rieker and Ole Jacob Sending

NUPI Policy Brief No. 16, Rieker, Sending

2011

NUPI Policy Brief No. 1
Ukraine: Precarious Post-electoral Reversals  
Geir Flikke  

NUPI Policy Brief No. 1

NUPI Policy Brief no. 2
Preparing and Mobilizing Civilian Capacity for the Future. Recommendations for Implementing the Guéhenno Report  
Cedric de Coning and John Karlsrud

NUPI Policy Brief no. 2

Accord Policy and Practice Brief
Training to Protect Civilians: Recent Developments and Recommendations  
Gustavo de Carvalho and Andreas Øien Stensland

Nupi Policy Brief no. 3

A stocktaking of Norwegian engagement in security sector reform  
Marina Caparini, Kari-Marie Kjellstad and Trine Nikolaisen

Nupi Policy Brief no. 3

2010

NUPI Policy Brief No. 1
Humanitarian Security Needs in the Field. Addressing the Situation in Darfur
Karoline R. Eckroth

NUPI Policy Brief No. 2
Norway’s Whole-of-Government Approach. Challenges for Engagement with Afghanistan and Other Fragile States
Cedric de Coning, Helge Lurås, Niels Nagelhus Schia & Ståle Ulriksen

NUPI Policy Brief No. 3
An Honourable Exit for MINURCAT?
John Karlsrud and Randi Solhjell

Note de synthèse No. 3
Une sortie honorable pour la MINURCAT?
John Karlsrud et Randi Solhjell

NUPI Policy Brief No. 4
Civilian Capacity in United Nations Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Missions
Cedric de Coning

NUPI Policy Brief No. 5
 The Role of the SRSG in UN Integrated   Missions. Process Facilitator and Multi-stakeholder Mediator  
 Cedric de Coning

NUPI Policy Brief No. 6
 Swat: Main Causes of the Rise of Militancy  
 Khalid Aziz and Helge Lurås

NUPI Policy Brief No. 7
Institutional Constraints to Effective Peacebuilding in Liberia
Morten Skumsrud Andersen

NUPI Policy Brief No. 8
Regional Change. How will the rise of China and India shape Afghanistan’s stabilization process?
Stina Torjesen and Tatjana Stankovic

NUPI Policy Brief No. 9
The Strategic Significance of Afghanistan. A Note of Caution to the NATO Summit
Helge Lurås, Ståle UIriksen and Vegard Valther Hansen

2009

NUPI Policy Brief No. 1
The Protection of Women and Children in Liberia.  
Benjamin de Carvalho and Niels Nagelhus Schia.    

NUPI Policy Brief No. 2
Seeing like a Resolution? UNSC Resolution 1325 and Gender issues in Liberia.  
Niels Nagelhus Schia and Benjamin de Carvalho.

NUPI Policy Brief No. 3
 Why Peacebuilders are “Blind” and “Arrogant” and What to do About it.  
 Ole Jacob Sending

NUPI Policy Brief No. 4
The Tension between UN HQ and the Field in Implementing the Protection of Civilians  
Jon Harald Sand Lie and Benjamin de Carvalho

NUPI Policy Brief No. 5
Challenges to Implementing the Protection of Civilians Agenda  
Benjamin de Carvalho and Jon Harald Sande Lie

NUPI Policy Brief No. 6
Combating Sexual Violence in the DRC. From Resolutions to Practice
Randi Solhjell