Projects All Research Topics: Unitsnull - nullWomen on the BenchTransitional Justice and Legal EmpowermentBergen ExchangesPeople2024ProjectsAutocratization Dynamics (Intpart) 67 projects currently registered: Time frame Title 2023 - 2024Gender Trouble: Glocalization of gender politics and challenges for public health and democracy2022 - 2026Autocratization Dynamics: Innovations in Research-Embedded Learning2021 - 2027Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct)2021 - 2021Assessing the role of women in the Supreme and Constitutional Courts in Latin America2021 - 2025Truth Commissions and Sexual Violence: African and Latin American Experiences2020 - 2025Legitimacy Challenges2020 - 2023Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami and the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority in Norway (TRUCOM)2019 - 2023Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments2019 - 2022Rethinking democracy & law2018 - 2023LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law2018The Scandinavian rights revolution: Individual rights, civil society mobilization and democratic change.2017 - 2017Legitimacy and Fallibility in Child Welfare Services: A Cross-Country Study of DecisionMaking2017The Pro Bono Group2017 - 2019Political Fragmentation and Judicial Independence: An empirical study of Unconstitutional Actions in Paraguay 1995-20152017 - 2019IBA Anti-Corruption Committee: Structured Criminal Settlements Sub-committee Towards Global Standards in Structured Criminal Settlements for Corruption Offences Project2017 - 2022Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States2016 - 2019WAIT – Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration2016 - 2017Expert Witnesses Assessments of Child Welfare Removals of New-Borns2016 - 2017Influence and Legitimacy: Civil Society Organizations and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child2016 - 2017Teachers as Street-Level Bureaucrats. An Analysis of Mandated Reporting and Professional Discretion2016 - 2022Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers2014 - 2017Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions’ Recommendations2014 - 2017Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America2014 - 2020Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles2014 - 2016Democratizing Indian Democracy? Social Movements and the State in India: Towards a New Research Agenda2013 - 2016Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery2013The Mexican Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy2013 - 2019Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India’s Federal System2012 - 2016Legitimacy and Fallibility in Child Welfare Services2011 - 2012Drivers of Justice: The Dynamics of Accountability Mechanisms in Transitions from Violent Conflict2011 - 2020Juridification and Social Citizenship2011 - 2015Regulating Religion: Secularism and Religious Freedom in the Global Era2010 - 2015Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience2010 - 2010A Way Out of Violent Conflict? The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding2010 - 2012Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor2009 - 2010Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America: Violations, Politics and Prosecution2009 - 2011Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism2008 - 2016Manipulating Courts in New Democracies. Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina2008 - 2012Litigating the Right to Health2007 - 2010Transitional Justice, Violence and Reconciliation2004 - 2005The role of courts and civil society in safeguarding women’s human rights in Bangladesh2003 - 2006Gender (in)justice – Pakistan2003 - 2005Aid to judicial reform2003 - 2008Accountability functions of courts2003 - 2005The Political Role of the South African Courts2002 - 2010Democratization and the JudiciaryA Postmaterialist Explanation for Homophobia in Africa: Multilevel Analysis of Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in 33 African CountriesBreaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in AfricaChild Protection and Human Rights – Making professional judgements2019Cyber operations as “use of force” and “armed attack” under the UN CharterDiscretion and the Child’s Best Interest in Child ProtectionElevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water?Exploring Community Policing as Social Innovation. Democratic Governance, social needs, social change, and implementation challenges. The cases of Badalona and Pamplona (Spain)Law, Democracy and WelfareMeasuring Child Rights in NorwayMindful Justice: Aligning Police Practices and State AccountabilityNew Policies, Old Attitudes? – Discrimination against Roma in NorwayPluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights RegimesProtecting child rights and public safetyProviding ‘international protection’ to refugees – UNCHR’s mandate lost in interpretation?Recognized but not Protected? The Human Right to Safe Drinking Water & Protection of Foreign Investments in Water UtilitiesRiverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of RiversSafeguarding borders or safeguarding queersSuing the State for climate changeThe Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions: A Cross-Country AnalysisWartime sexual violence against men in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) and Rwanda (1994)Water & Power: Has the elevation of the right to water to an independent human right strengthened opportunities for those that have their rights violated in India?