Ikke-statslige væbnede aktører

Staters monopol på legitim vold udfordres i stigende grad af lokale vagtværn, militser, kriminelle netværk og oprørshære. Hvad betyder det for den lokale, nationale og globale politiske orden, og hvad skal der til for at bringe gruppernes vilje og evne til vold under demokratisk kontrol?

Forskning og aktiviteter

  • Security guard watching Somalian refugees
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Countries affected by violent conflict and state fragility receive extremely low climate change funding, thus leaving behind populations considered most vulnerable to climate change. How can this paradox be addressed and what role can the UN play?
  • Summit of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    How will the Gaza war change the Middle East and how will a future Middle East look like? What impact will it have on perceptions of the rules-based world order?
  • Muslim militant in sunset
    DIIS Auditorium
    Why have we never seen peace negotiations with current or former affiliates of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State? And what could we expect to happen if such a strategy was in fact pursued?
  • Soldater i Vestafrika
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar sheds light on the myriad challenges shaping West Africa and discusses the recent political upheavals, the growing influence of Russia, and the complex web of migration patterns intersecting the region and beyond
  • Myanmar people waiting outside prison
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar discusses what it means for people in Myanmar to ‘live with crisis’ in the context of escalating and intersecting forms of crisis
  • Ministry of Livestock, Somaliland
    DIIS Auditorium
    A retrospective seminar with and for senior researcher Finn Stepputat
  • Helene Maria Kyed and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen share MyClimate research findings at Folkemødet in Denmark
    Research findings
    Helene Maria Kyed shares MyClimate research findings at Folkemødet in Denmark
  • Trade makes states book cover
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    The control of trade and transport is key to statemaking. A new book suggests that this, rather than the control of people and territory, can make or unmake state projects in areas like Somalia. This seminar introduces the ideas behind the book
  • book confronting the Caliphate
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Occupying a square to prevent the Sharia-judge from amputating a teenager’s hand, spraying forbidden graffiti at public buildings, secretly listening to nonreligious music at home, or shouting anti-jihadist slogans with hundreds of others at a public protest: these are only a few examples of a much larger range of nonviolent resistance behavior displayed by civilians who have lived under the repressive rule of jihadists
  • Drought in Somalia Dead animal because of climate change
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations
  • Tank i en skov i Ukraine
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    In late 2022, the UN General Assembly is expected to adopt a set of guiding principles for the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict (PERAC). This webinar will present and discuss the principles as well as the problems relating to their implementation. We have invited three organizations to identify key issues in moving this agenda forward
  • Nuclear disarmament demonstration
    Livestreaming
    Five prominent international experts offer their reflections on the threat of nuclear war and the prospects of nuclear arms reductions
  • Diis book cover road block politics with picture of military stopping truck for check
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Book launch and reception on new book by Peer Schouten
  • jihadisme
    Auditoriet
    Seminaret vil forsøge at give en bred indsigt i hvad Taleban-bevægelsen i Afghanistan stod for i sine tidlige år, og hvad den i dag udgøres af
  • Mali, Irish Defence Force
    Nyt forskningsprojekt
    I et nyt forskningsprojekt skal forskere fra DIIS undersøge, hvad der sker, når EU laver civile indsatser og træner og opruster hæren i en række meget ustabile lande i den afrikanske Sahel-region
  • Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Rally by Michael Evans
    Livestreaming
    DIIS Auditorium
    Book talk on human rights, democracy promotion, and U.S. interventionism in the late Cold War
  • bog af lars erslev oprør og alliancer mellemøsten efter det arabiske forår
    Livestreaming
    Auditoriet - DIIS
    Kom til boglancering for seniorforsker Lars Erslev Andersens nye bog og bliv klogere på, hvor Mellemøsten er på vej hen
  • west africa
    Webinar
    Online via Zoom
    It matters how the dynamics of West Africa are discussed. Join this webinar to understand why, and hear more about appropriate responses to some of the main challenges that the region is facing.
  • Photo
    Webinar
    This webinar launches the publication “Religion, Conflict and Global Society – A Festschrift Celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer” edited by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Isak Svensson. Some of the distinguished contributors and Mark Juergensmeyer will address the themes that the book takes up, such as conceptual debates on secularism, cosmic war, and the globalization of Global Studies.
  • How can we overcome the root causes of piracy?
    Previous streamed webinar
    A conversation with scholars on maritime security
  • Rome, Funeral of the Italian diplomat in the, Congo, Luca Attanasio. Photo: Sipa USA/Alamy Live News
    Interview
    Peer Schouten on the many factors that may have led up to this tragic event
  • Everyday Justice in Myanmar - webinar
    Webinar
    9 October 2020, hosted by the London School of Economics
  • Pexels. Jens Mahnke.
    PhD Defense on 24 Sept.: Becoming a Foreign Fighter. The Ethics and Agency of Fighting Jihad
  • Pexels. Jens Mahnke.
    Comparing violent religious movements, the book will contribute to the debate on religion and violence
  • Pexels. Jens Mahnke.
    A new research project will address the expanding dynamics behind Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in order to develop a new approach to containment

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