Past events

Korea: Fred eller krig?

Foredrag av Stein Tønnesson, seniorforsker på Institutt for fredsforskning (PRIO) og forfatter av boka Explaining the East Asian Peace (København: NIAS Press, 2017).

Human Rights and Tuberculosis Control Strategies

Presentation by Camilla Gianella, Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI) and Centre on Law and Social Transformation.

From Armed Peace to Urban War: The Involution of Rio’s Pacification Project

Sebastian Saborio (University of Costa Rica) and Tomas Salem (University of Bergen) in conversation with Margit Ystanes (University of Bergen).

Events calendar for 2018 coming up soon!

Check back shortly for more information on upcoming activities.

Happy holidays

Bergen Resource Centre will be closed from Thursday December 21st and opens again Tuesday January 2nd.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Corporate Human Rights Abuses: State or Business Responsibility?

Extractive Industries and Land Rights Issues: The Cases of Nigeria & India. With Nnimmo Bassey (Health of Mother Earth Foundation/Rafto Prize Laureate), Salil Tripathi (Institute for Human Rights & Business), and Namita Wahi (Centre for Policy Research/LawTransform).

Just Faaland – en verdensborger fra Bergen

Boklansering med Jan Isaksen (redaktør), Eirik G. Jansen, Ottar Mæstad, Arne Tostensen, Gunnar Sørbø, Bernt Hagtvet og Rais Saniman.

Kongens gjestfrihet: flyktningers adgang, opphold, utvisning

Paneldebatt med Terje Einarsen (UiB), Jørgen Aall (UiB, Per Erik Gåskjenn (RettAdvokat AS), Sølve Sætre (Bergen kommune) og Kim Lihaug Gabrielsen (Jussformidlingen).

Coup or Conversations? Understanding Current Events in Harare

Svein-Erik Helle (CMI/UiB) in conversation with Elling Tjønneland (CMI) and Victor Chimhutu (UiB/Zimbabwe Yadzoka).

Bergen Lecture 2017

This year’s lecture is given by Professor Douglas N. Husak from the Rutgers University.

Er Kabul trygt for retur?

Med Arne Strand (Forskingsdirektør, CMI og Direktør, U4) i samtale med Torunn Wimpelmann (Forskar, CMI).

Migration-medley 2017

With Benjamin T. White (University of Glasgow), Dallal Stevens (University of Warwick), Martin D. Jones (University of York), Maja Janmyr (UiB) and Sarah Tobin (CMI).

Human Rights Defender: Shackelia Jackson

With Shackelia Jackson, a human right defender from Jamaica. The case of her brother is one of this years six cases of Amnesty’s Write for Rights Campaign/ Skriv for Liv.

Power, Conflict and Development in Contemporary South Africa

Prof. Sithembiso Myeni, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar

Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor, The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

Suing the State for climate change (and holding it to account?)

Catalina Vallejo (LawTransform/University of Los Andes), Catherine Banet (Nordisk Institutt for Sjørett/UiO), Esmeralda Colombo (UiB/Faculty of Law) and Lara Côrtes (LawTransform/CMI).

Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.