Uganda

Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

21/03/2022
Tone Sommerfelt On Her Father’s Unique Anthropological Work

The journal History and Anthropology has dedicated a special section to Norwegian anthropologist Axel Sommerfelt and his previously unpublished paper on ethnic groups and boundaries. The section has been put together by PRIO researcher Tone Sommerfelt – Axel Sommerfelt's daughter – Marek Jakoubek and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

16/12/2020
Young Researcher Talent Funding for Kristian Hoelscher

Kristian Hoelscher has been granted YRT funding from the Research Council of Norway for the three-year project Political Transformation in African Cities (PACE). As project leader, Kristian will collaborate with Sean Fox from the University of Bristol, Jeffrey Paller from the University of San Francisco, Taibat Lawanson from the University of Lagos and Melanie Phillips from UC Berkeley.

Congratulations!

19/12/2019
PRIO Migration Research Update

The latest issue of PRIO Migration Research Update provides an overview of recent news, events, publications, videos and more from the Migration research group.

18/12/2019
Green Curses Project Receives RCN Funding

Congratulations to the team that has secured NORGLOBAL funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Green Curses and Violent Conflicts: The Security Implications of Renewable Energy Sector Development in Africa. The project team consists of project leader Siri Aas Rustad (PRIO), Kendra Dupuy, John Andrew McNeish (NMBU), Stacy VanDeveer (University of Massachusetts Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies), Carl Bruch (Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and Francis Mwesigye.

In his Nobel Peace address in 2018 Dr. Mukwege said: “When you drive your electric car; when you use your smart phone or admire your jewellery, take a minute to reflect on the human cost of manufacturing these objects.”

The new research project “Green Curses and Violent Conflict” will examine the conditions under which increased investment in renewable energy could generate a new set of resource- and energy-related violent conflicts in Africa – a so-called “green curse” – and how to prevent and resolve these conflicts.

18/12/2019
Holding Aid Accountable - Funding for New Project in Place

Little is known about how accountability is understood and practiced by (local and transnational) citizens in comparison to professional humanitarians.

Holding aid accountable: Plural humanitarianism in protracted crisis (AidAccount). This is a 3.5 year project that now has received funding from the NORGLOBAL Programme of the Research Council of Norway.

Congratulations to project leader Cindy Horst, and her team at PRIO: Marta Bivand Erdal, Mohamed Aden Hassan and a Post-Doc position!

04/05/2015
PRIO Researcher with New Book

Øystein H. Rolandsen is co-editor of a new volume highlighting the violent struggles of Eastern African nations from the end of colonialism and throughout the Cold War.

Kendra Dupuy, Júlia Palik & Gudrun Østby (2022)
No right to read: National regulatory restrictions on refugee rights to formal education in low- and middle-income host countries

Journal Article in International Journal of Educational Development

Cyanne Loyle, Dacan Nobert, Nkayimbi Sarah, Acen Susan Oroma & Lino Owor Ogora (2021)
Justice during the War with the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda

PRIO Policy Brief

Haakon Gjerløw & Solomon Negash (2021)
The State of Democracy among Norway’s Partner Countries in Development Policy

Conflict Trends

Siri Aas Rustad, Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Haakon Gjerløw, Francis Mwesigye, Tony Odokonyero & Gudrun Østby (2021)
Maternal Health Care Among Refugees and Host Communities in Northern Uganda: Access, Quality, and Discrimination

Journal Article in Frontiers in Global Women's Health

Primus Che Chi, Patience Bulage & Gudrun Østby (2020)
Equity in aid allocation and distribution: A qualitative study of key stakeholders in Northern Uganda

Journal Article in PLoS ONE

Primus Che Chi & Henrik Urdal (2018)
The Evolving Role of Traditional Birth Attendants in Maternal Health in Post-Conflict Africa: A Qualitative Study of Burundi and Northern Uganda

Journal Article in SAGE Open Medicine