Date: Friday 24 August Time: 14:30 – 15:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Water is an increasingly scarce resource with pressures from growing populations and industrial developments depleting and polluting water resources, and with changes in the climate exacerbating the situation. Some of the world’s largest cities- including Sao Paulo, […]
Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 2018
Time: 20. – 24. August 2018 Main venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. For other venues, please see the program. Open to the public. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a week of public seminars, project workshops and social events – and a PhD course on Effects of Lawfare. We invite academics, students and practitioners from all […]
Michael Lipsky is well known in the field of public administration for his book on street-level bureaucracy (1980), in which he claims that state employees should be seen as part of the policy-making community and as exercisers of political power. In this lecture, Lipsky will draw on ideas and concerns he has with the way the field of public administration is developing, and share some of his newer thoughts and reflections on dimensions of street level bureaucracy.
The lecture is organized by the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
Time: 14.15-15.45 Join us for a book presentation of the newly published book The Impossible Imperative with author Jill Duerr Berrcik. The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stories that highlight the work, written by child welfare staff on the front […]
Bergen Literature House, Østre Skostredet Time: 18:00-21:00 At this final event of the 2017 Bergen Exchanges, professor in political science Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen, will present the ambitious goals for a new research agenda on child protection. A key question is how to secure the quality and legitimacy of the intrusive and extremely difficult […]
Time: 12:30 – 13:20 Results from book project edited by Malcolm Langford, Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig on implementation of the rights of the child in Norway. A special focus is on the rights of migrant children. On paper, the rights of migrant children seem well protected in Norway and elsewhere but in practice their […]
Child Marriage Laws in Africa
Child marriage features high on the international agenda both as a human rights violation and because of its negative effects on sustainable economic development. The issue is critical within the debates on gendered violence, girls’ education and women’s participation in the work force. What are the drivers of child marriage law reform in Africa and […]
Centre of Law & Social Transformation is pleased to invite you to participate to the seminar under Child Rights Unit with John Fluke. Date: 15.05.2017 Adress: Christiesgate 17, seminarrom 3 etg. Time: 15.15 – 17.00 John Fluke is associate Director at the Kempe Center for the Prevention of Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of […]