The Bergen Resource Centre for International Development is a joint venture organized by the University of Bergen and the Chr. Michelsen Institute. The Resource Centre is a meeting place for researchers, business people, students and others interested in and working with international development and development research, human rights and international law, as well as other global challenges.
11 March SMI-Seminarrekke om handel
Paradokset Palmyra: Beskyttelse og tverrkulturelle meglere mellom imperier
Seminar med Eivind Seland. Read more
11 March Movie and Roundtable in the Resource Centre.
"Crude" - on extractive industries and indigenous land rights.
In different parts of the world, communities denounce the loss (expropriation) or pollution of their land as a result of the onset of projects to exploit natural resources through mining, forest exploitation, Oil drilling and intensive agriculture. Read more
15 March Literary salon
Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. Later in life he helped draft South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitution, and served as a member of the Constitutional Court for fifteen years. Read more
Mon 15 Mar Chr. Michelsen lecture:
Albie Sachs: The Role of Courts in Democratisation and Social Transformation
Albie Sachs, Judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2009), and author of the book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, lectures on the role of courts in democratisation and social transformation. Read more
18 March Juan León: Guatemalan Ambassador to Norway.
Guatemala: Reconstrucción del país posterior al conflicto armado
Guatemala vivió un conflicto armado de 36 años de conflicto armado interno (1960-1996). Durante dicho conflicto se cometieron diversas atrocidades contra la población, violaciones graves y masivas de derechos humanos, muchos de los cuales se encuentran documentados en diversos informes sobre Derechos Humanos. Read more
26 March IMER-seminar
"Gaza in Oslo: Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth"
In winter 2009 thousands of people took to the streets of Oslo to demonstrate against the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Young people of visible minority and Muslim background were central actors in the demonstrations. Read more
9 April IMER/UiBSeminar
Hanna Skartveit: Migrants of consciousness: Diaspora and personal transformation in modern Kabbalism
Hanna Skartveit is a PhD Fellow at IMER/UiB and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen. Her present project deals with notions of consciousness, knowledge and urban life management in the Kabbalah Centre. Read more
28 May IMER/UiBSeminar
Yasemin Soysal: Cosmopolitization of the Nation and Citizen: European Dilemmas
When viewed from the field of education, we encounter a Europe securely embedded in a transnational project, manifesting itself as cosmopolitan, outwardly open and tolerant. Viewed from the field of migration, we observe a Europe that appears uncomfortable with its own diversity, especially with its immigrant diversity, as evidenced by recurrent public and policy debates, and adversarial public opinion. Read more
Events March / April 2010
New books:
New perspectives on liberal peacebuilding
edited by Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver P. Richmond
Peace building, Liberalism, Justice, Case studies, Africa, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Timor-Leste, East Timor, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Cambodia, Central America
The Poorest and hungry - assessments, analyses, and actions : an IFPRI book
edited by Joachim von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Poverty, Social policy, Hunger, Economic policy
Thirst for African oil - Asian national oil companies in Nigeria and Angola : a Chatham House report
Alex Vines ... [et al.].
Oil industry, Foreign investment, Angola, Nigeria, Asia, China