CMI Bergen is hiring a tenure-track researcher to play a key role in designing and implementing an impact evaluation that is a central part of the project “Agricultural Resilience though Climate Services”.
Apply and become our colleague in beautiful Bergen!
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The 'Wellbeing, Women and Work in Ethiopia' (3WE) project has produced a good practice guide that collects insights from research findings and stakeholder consultations to suggest how Ethiopia's horticulture and apparel firms can improve worker wellbeing👉shorturl.at/cFHN5

Read the blog post about our paper in Journal of Politics - on female jobs in Ethiopian factories as politically disempowering
CMI Bergen Norges forskningsråd jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/many-jobs-are-…

Very proud of this paper and very happy to work with this dreamteam of co-authors!

Come and work with me as a PostDoc on my project “Representing the Future in an Aging Europe” funded by Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse. Please share and feel free to reach out with any questions.

Another reason to be proud of my good colleague Pauline Lemaire cmi.no/news/3258-chr-…

NEW BRIEF | UNDERSTANDING THE FANO INSURGENCY IN #ETHIOPIA ’S AMHARA REGION

Atrsaw Necho & Yared Debebe explore the Fano and detail their geography-based groupings, key personalities and community relations, including with the diaspora.

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🎧 We’re listening to: Ethiopia on the brink. This special episode of the always-excellent The Global Story BBC World Service highlights the need for urgent action to avoid famine with Kalkidan Yibeltal - ቃልኪዳን ይበልጣል James Landale and Gabriel Gatehouse #IBTRecommends bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Deadline for nominations today! rafto.no/en/rafto-prize…

Food and Agriculture Organization food award to Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed ignores the plight of millions of food insecure people in the country and the govt's use of starvation as a weapon of war during the two year armed conflict in #Tigray hrw.org/news/2024/01/3…

Our findings on female factory jobs in Ethiopia, in pol.sci. top Journal of Politics: employment is politically disempowering. Andreas Kotsadam, Janneke Pieters, Espen Villanger, Norges forskningsråd, CMI Bergen journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Agree with Biruk Terrefe, what a line up for #Ethiopia and #Rwanda interested!

#Sudan : Alleged ethnic cleansing and the world’s largest internal displacement crisis

#KeepEyesOnSudan
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📢 Call for Papers 📚
Present your paper during our workshop “Legacies of #CivilWars : Former armed actors’ #politicalparticipation and impact” in Basel 🇨🇭 (May 22-24)📝 Submit abstracts by Jan 11 to [email protected] & [email protected] 👇politicsafterwar.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/paw-sw…

Why can't youth majorities in Africa's autocracies just protest and demand democratic change?
Marjoke Oosterom, PhD. at Institute of Development Studies and I (@cmi_no) summarise our research in The Conversation Africa, explaining why it is not that easy.
#Ethiopia , #Mozambique , #Uganda , #Zimbabwe

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Absolutely absurd. Jeffrey Sachs lecturing within the frame of Abiy Ahmed's propaganda machinery.

Congrats to Dr. Pauline Lemaire for a brilliant PhD defense - and for a great committee of examiners!

Hvorfor sloss eritreere i Bergen? Velkommen til samtale om det eritreiske regimet, diasporaen og flyktningspionasje med Lovise Aalen, Kjetil Tronvoll og Fitwi Wolday ➡️ torsdag 23 nov. ⏰ 19:00 📍 LitthusBergen 👉bergenglobal.no/events/hvorfor…

Together with an international consortium lead by Lovise Aalen of CMI Bergen, Mariëlle Wijermars received €3 million in funding from the Horizon Europe🇪🇺 funding scheme for the project ‘ARM: The long arm of authoritarian states’💯