Written by Stig Jarle Hansen. Whilst the world closely watched the debacle in Afghanistan, equally important events in Tunisia fell under the radar. Ironically, the dissolution of the Tunisian parliament enhances […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. Whilst we wait for the Taliban to meet international human rights standards, it would be wrong to withhold humanitarian assistance as the harsh […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. 20 years after Western troops invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Kabul has fallen. The speed of the Taliban’s […]
Written by Noé Mendoza, PhD Fellow at Noragric. Protected by the jungle canopy, crickets and frogs emit a gnawing chorus. There’s a moment in the early hours of the morning when […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Gry Synnevåg Following an eight-month period of shuttle diplomacy and challenging negotiation, the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace agreement in February 2020. The […]
Written by Morten Jerven, Department of International Environment and Development Studies I am very happy to announce that the database on taxation for African countries that covers the whole 20th […]
As the Ethiopian government controversially opens the country to genetically modified crops, now is the time for newly unshackled civil society voices to lead the debate, says Noragric PhD Fellow […]
Written by Paul Beaumont, PhD Fellow, Noragric. The corona crisis is not the beginning of the apocalypse but a symptom – we have been in the apocalypse for a while now. […]
Although this argument is directed at Norway, the same criticisms also apply to any country where PISA international rankings have influenced education policy – Paul Beaumont, PhD Fellow, Noragric At […]
Well, if everything happens for a reason, then the crooked ‘P’ is representative of this conference Tomohiro Harada spent almost 2 long weeks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) […]