​Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy has inspired numerous non-violent uprisings against dictatorships around the world. Now a film has been made about his incredibly topical work. The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A session.

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The Gender Research Group and the Research Group on Humanitarianism have the pleasure of inviting you to a brownbag seminar with Kristin Scharffscher, UiT. Scharffscher will present her new report (commissioned by Norad) on ‘Making Gender Matter in Humanitarian Operations’ (see enclosure). Senior researcher Cindy Horst (PRIO) will comment on the Dadaab case. The seminar will be chaired by Helga Hernes.

Making Gender Matter in Humanitarian Operations.pdf

​This course is about the application of qualitative methods to the study of civil war. It begins with an overview of the cutting edge in qualitative methods, intentionally casting its epistemological net broadly. We thus assess methods inspired by positivism (case studies, process tracing, counterfactual analysis) and those more interpretative in nature (discourse, ethnography, textual analysis) - the goal being to provide students with a robust set of tools for explaining and understanding the dynamics of civil war. The course also reviews the promise (and pitfalls) of methodological pluralism or so-called mixed methods. Key readings for this first part include work by Andrew Bennett, John Gerring, Ted Hopf, Evan Lieberman, James Mahoney, Jennifer Milliken and Sid Tarrow.