Papers by Jon Harald Sande Lie
Social Anthropology, 2020
Drawing on a semi-autoethnography of a development project in northern Ethiopia, this article eng... more Drawing on a semi-autoethnography of a development project in northern Ethiopia, this article engages the role and power of indicators in the development sector. It both demonstrates and questions the power usually ascribed indicators when seen as an authoritative bureaucratic tool, while also showing how actors-and I was one of them-at various levels of the aid chain merely perform compliance with the indicators as a way to manage new and externally imposed demands. As the indicators 'travel' from the top, through the aid chain's multiple nodes, to the level of beneficiaries, they convey policy priorities top-down, but are seemingly complied with bottom-up, demonstrating both their formative power and the scope for brokerage and manipulation of externally imposed policies. Interestingly, this form of brokerage and reactivity from below are also enabled and orchestrated by the top, i.e. by the same actors who conveyed the indicators, to maintain and reproduce aid relations.
Journal of development studies, Mar 4, 2024
Critical African studies, Jun 8, 2022
Internasjonal Politikk, Jul 22, 2007
Artikkelen beskriver én sosialantropologisk tilnærming til nasjonale interesser, og argumenterer ... more Artikkelen beskriver én sosialantropologisk tilnærming til nasjonale interesser, og argumenterer for at en analyse av interessentens intensjoner og policyinstrukser i beste fall er halvveis: en analyse av nasjonale interesser bør inkludere et praksisfokus til hvordan ulike interesser ...
NUPI Policy Brief, 2022
In their basic and caricature forms, development aid and humanitarian assistance highlight import... more In their basic and caricature forms, development aid and humanitarian assistance highlight important differences that materialize in attitudinal, institutional, and funding obstacles in the implementation of the humanitarian-development nexus. While the nexus is implemented in order to respond to new types of crises characterised by the protracted nature of the conflicts, cooperation across the aisle has proved hard to achieve in practice. However, policymakers and practitioners have different perspectives on the nexus, and
NUPI Policy Brief, 2022
The localisation agenda resurfaced with the Covid 19-pandemic among development and humanitarian ... more The localisation agenda resurfaced with the Covid 19-pandemic among development and humanitarian actors. Aid localisation refers to providing aid through local, grassroots institutions without the use of intermediaries, which involves a shift in power over policy and financial issue to local actors. This agenda is far from new to international aid, as illustrated by previous initiatives to boost local participation and ownership due to concerns over ethics and aid effectiveness. Now, however, localisation gained momentum as a practical and pragmatic solution to overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic situation. Despite its logical justifications, challenges persist in implementing the localisation agenda, such as issues of power, policymaking, and bureaucratic flexibility.
Internasjonal Politikk, 2004
Berghahn Books, Oct 24, 2022
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
The successful implementation of the Protection of Civilians (PoC) agenda still depends on whethe... more The successful implementation of the Protection of Civilians (PoC) agenda still depends on whether the UN will be able to overcome a number of challenges at headquarters, in peacekeeping missions and in terms of addressing the conceptual meaning and interpretations of PoC. While ...
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
The policy brief is a deliverable from the project “Protection of Civilians. From Principles to P... more The policy brief is a deliverable from the project “Protection of Civilians. From Principles to Practice”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. This project is associated with the collaborative Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) – www.humanitarianstudies.no
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Papers by Jon Harald Sande Lie