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MORALCHANGE-prosjektet undersøker hvordan endringer i moralske verdier har formet politiske og kulturelle skillelinjer i Skandinavia de siste 50 årene. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i den amerikanske sosialpsykologen Jonathan Haidts studier av moralske verdier. I følge Haidt samler de grunnleggende verdiene seg langs to moralske dimensjoner: universalisme, som vektlegger likhet og global omsorg, og partikularisme, som prioriterer lojalitet til spesifikke fellesskap. Vi hevder at spenningen mellom disse moralske grunnverdiene – og hvordan de har blitt kommunisert av politiske eliter og media – har bidratt til sosialdemokraters tap av terreng, framvekst av populistiske bevegelser og polarisering rundt temaer som innvandring og identitetspolitikk.

Vi spør: Hvordan har moralske verdier uttrykt av politiske eliter og media endret seg over tid? Hvordan henger velgernes moralske verdier sammen med deres politiske preferanser? Og hvordan påvirker moralske verdier polarisering rundt innvandring og identitetspolitikk?

Vår hypotese er at sosialdemokrater og tradisjonelle medier i økende grad har vektlagt universalistiske verdier, noe som har skapt en moralsk avstand til en stor del av velgerne. Denne avstanden har skapt rom for populistiske utfordrere og fremvekst av alternative medier med partikularistisk orientering.

For å undersøke dette, skal vårt flerfaglige forskerteam analysere tiår med stortingstaler, partiprogrammer og mediedekning fra Norge, Sverige og Danmark. Gjennom spørreundersøkelser og eksperimenter undersøker vi også hvordan moralske verdier påvirker holdninger og atferd.

Ved å studere hvordan moralske verdier henger sammen med nye politiske skillelinjer, søker vi å gi en dypere forståelse av hva som driver politisk endring og kulturell turbulens i vår tids demokratier.

MORALCHANGE investigates the role of moral values in driving political reconfiguration in Western democracies. We focus on three interrelated trends: declining social democratic parties, rising populist and anti-establishment movements, and polarization around contested issues such as immigration and identity politics. Our core proposition is that the changing relationship between the institutional supply and popular demand of moral values is key to understanding these developments.

Our project relies on a strongly interdisciplinary setup. We draw on theory from moral psychology and employ machine-learning and computational text analytics alongside qualitative and historically informed text analysis and survey-based research.

Our overarching theoretical approach draws on Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), which provides a rich framework to understand and empirically analyze political and cultural conflict in a contemporary-historical context. The theory posits that morality is a universal human yet culturally variable phenomenon that varies along six foundational values: care, equality, proportionality, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Research on MFT has found that endorsement of these values, or different configurations of them, varies across the political spectrum.

We apply these insights to examine the role of moral values in driving political reconfiguration, focusing on Scandinavia in the period 1975--2025. Specifically, we will study:

(1) the supply side, by analyzing the moral values of political appeals (by social democrats and their national populist challengers) and of news coverage of the immigration issue over a period of 50 years;

(2) the demand side, by tracing the relationship between moral values and political orientation over several decades; and

(3) the impact of moral values on disagreements and polarization around identity politics (the struggle for recognition and rights of historically marginalized communities) in present-day Scandinavia

Moral values and political reconfiguration in Western democracies, 1975–2025

Kunstig intelligens (KI) forandrer økonomien i rekordfart, men vi vet fortsatt ikke helt hvilke konsekvenser det vil få. Vil KI gi oss mer innovasjon, høyere produktivitet og økonomisk vekst? Eller vil det føre til færre jobber, økende ulikhet og mer makt til store selskaper? Politikken vil spille en avgjørende rolle i å styre utviklingen. Myndigheter står overfor et viktig spørsmål: hvordan kan vi sikre at KI gir flest mulig fordeler uten å skape store samfunnsproblemer? Skal politikken først og fremst fremme økonomisk vekst, eller bør den fokusere på å redusere ulikhet og risiko? Å finne riktig balanse er avgjørende, men vi har fortsatt ikke klare svar på hvordan dette kan gjøres best mulig. Dette prosjektet søker å gi svar ved å bruke en ny tilnærming. I stedet for å basere politikk på teori alene, bør vi lære av tidligere erfaringer. Ved å analysere hvordan tidligere KI-relaterte tiltak har påvirket bedrifter og samfunnet, kan vi utforme smartere og mer treffsikre løsninger. Målet er å utvikle politikk som gir størst mulig nytte for samfunnet – både nå og i fremtiden.

There is currently a vivid societal debate and nascent research about the economic effects of artificial intelligence (AI). Some expect to see positive impacts in terms of innovation, productivity and economic growth. Others point to possible economic harms such as technological unemployment, increasing market concentration and exacerbation of income inequalities. 

Public policies will have a crucial role to shape the direction and extent of these effects. However, it is still quite unclear what policies could do to foster the future economic benefits of AI, what they could do to avoid its possible harms, and how they could balance the positive and negative impacts. 

The present project will investigate the trade-off between growth and inequality effects of AI, and analyze how public policies for AI should be designed in order to take this trade-off into account. 

The key novel aspect of the project will be the application of the optimal policy learning (OPL) approach to the study of policies for AI. The main idea of this approach is that optimal policies should be designed by exploiting information about the effects of previous policies on the treated agents, in such a way that new policies will seek to maximize ex-ante the empirical welfare of the target population. In other words, the design of new policies is optimal because it is based upon, and it learns from, the effects of previous policies and the heterogenous characteristics of agents. 

To apply this approach to the study AI policies, the project will develop the following pillars: (1) a conceptual framework of firm heterogeneity and AI, which points out the main factors that affect firms’ adoption of AI and its effects; (2) empirical analysis of how AI and related policies affect different types of firms; (3) analysis of how different policies should be designed in order to maximize empirical welfare, and how these policies can address the trade-off between efficiency and equity effects of AI.

Artificial Intelligence: Growth, Inequalities and Public Policies

Store samfunnsdebatter de seneste årene har påvirket den offentlige samtalen om seksualitet, slik som #metoo-bevegelsen og diskusjoner rundt samtykkelovgivning. Noe som har hatt spesiell betydning for unge, er hvordan seksualiteten endres av digitale medier.

På den positive siden gir digitale medier nye muligheter for å lære om sex og for seksuell samhandling. Samtidig har det også blitt en ny arena for seksuell risiko. Fra et samfunnsståsted er det avgjørende å forstå hvordan dette dilemmaet knyttet til mulighet og risiko påvirker ungdoms seksuelle praksiser og eventuell utsatthet. I DIGISEX spør vi hvordan unge navigerer i et stadig mer komplekst seksuelt landskap.

For å øke vår forståelse av digitale medier som arena for ungdomsseksualitet, vil vi undersøke hvordan unge tar i bruk de nye mulighetene de har fått, samspillet mellom digital og fysisk seksualitet og hvordan digitale medier kan bidra til økt seksuell risiko. Ved å kombinere to eksisterende databaser bestående av høykvalitets kvalitative og kvantitative data om unges seksuelle praksiser er DIGISEX i en unik posisjon til å bidra med ny kunnskap om tematikken.

Prosjektet består av tre arbeidspakker. I den første vil vi undersøke hvordan unge forstår og «gjør» seksualitet i en stadig mer digital verden. I neste arbeidspakke retter vi blikket mot unges egen forståelse av dilemmaet mellom mulighet og risiko knyttet til digital seksualitet, samt den sosiale og kulturelle konteksten de forholder seg til. I den siste arbeidspakken undersøker vi ulike former for seksuell risiko som unge utsettes for, samspillet mellom fysiske og digitale former for risiko og hvordan dette varierer i ulike sosiale grupper.

Det overordnede målet med prosjektet er å øke vår forståelse av dilemmaet digitale medier har skapt for moderne ungdomsseksualitet: som en samtidig arena for mulighet og risiko.

Large-scale societal discussions have changed the sexual landscape recent years, such as the #metoo movement and public debates about consent laws. A shift that particularly has affected youth sexuality is how digital media plays into sexual relations. On a positive note, digital media offers new opportunities for learning about sex and sexual socialization. However, it has also become a new arena for sexual violations. From a societal perspective, it becomes crucial to understand how digital media’s simultaneous potential for opportunity and risk impacts youth sexual practices and the forms and scope of youth sexual violations. To shed light on this new arena for youth sexuality and sexual violations, DIGISEX will investigate how youths incorporate the new opportunities created by digital media in their sexual lives, the interplay between digital and physical sexuality, and whether new practices contribute to increased sexual risk. The study will contribute knowledge on this topic by combining analyses of two existing and high-quality datasets among Norwegian youth containing qualitative and quantitative data on youth digital sexuality and digital sexual violations. We start in WP1 by unpacking how youth conceptualize and perform sexuality in an increasingly digital world. In WP2, we home in on the dilemma between opportunity and risk concerning digital sexuality in the eyes of youths, as well as the socio-cultural context of sexual risk and violations. In WP3, we investigate different types of sexual violations to which youth are exposed, overlaps between physical and digital violations, and social variation in exposure. DIGISEX is led by early-career researcher Lars Roar Frøyland, who have previously documented a capacity of delivering high-quality research. The remaining research team consists of both early career and highly qualified scholars within youth research, sexuality, and sexual violations with strong track records in their respective fields.

Youth sexuality and sexual risk in a digital era (DIGISEX)

Professor Anne Lindblom ved Universitetet i Innlandet (INN) har mottatt 11 millioner norske kroner fra Norges forskningsråd til det banebrytende forskningsprosjektet Samiske Erfaringer Med Autisme (SEA). Prosjektet er et samarbeid med Samisk Høgskole (SA). Det fireårige prosjektet har fire forskere: professor Lindblom, førsteamanuensis Bente Ovedie Skogvang og høgskolelektor Silje Hokstad fra INN, og førsteamanuensis Ylva Jannok Nutti fra SA. Det vil bli rekruttert en doktorstipendiat. Hovedmålet med SEA-prosjektet er å lære mer om og forstå de levde erfaringene og opplevelsene til autistiske samiske barn og unge samt deres familier siden det ikke er mye kjent om det tidligere. Samene som er urfolk og minoritet i Norge lever fortsatt med konsekvensene av kolonisering som førte til tap av språk og kultur. SEA-prosjektet har som mål å utvikle pedagogiske støttemodeller for autistiske samiske barn, unge og familier som er kulturelt relevante og basert på samiske levemåter og verdier. Det vil være tre studier i SEA-prosjektet med bruk av kreative metoder. Den første studien er med autistiske samiske barn og unge, den andre er med foreldre og storfamilien og fagpersoner som for eksempel lærere. Den tredje studien vil bruke kreative workshops for unge autistiske samer hvor de kan teste ut ulike måter å uttrykke seg på som musikk, kunst eller håndverk. Resultatene vil bli presentert i samfunns- og skolemøter, forskningsartikler, bokkapitler og konferanser. SEA-prosjektet starter i august 2025 og avsluttes i juni 2029.

The Sámi Experiences of Autism (SEA) project addresses the lack of knowledge on Sámi experiences of autism in Norway, focusing on developing culturally relevant, Sámi-specific educational support models for autistic children, youth, families and professionals. The project explores lived experiences, addressing challenges in family and educational contexts while emphasizing Sámi ways of knowing, being, and doing. This groundbreaking initiative employs innovative Indigenous research methodologies, amplifying autistic Sámi voices through photovoice, empathy-based storytelling, and creative workshops, aligning with Sámi oral traditions. The project is structured into five work packages (WPs): project management (WP1), data collection on autistic Sámi children and youth (WP2), family and professional experiences (WP3), creative workshops to amplify youth voices (WP4), and dissemination (WP5). WP2 and WP3 use culturally adapted qualitative methods, including thematic analysis, to understand perspectives and challenges. WP4 integrates Sámi cultural expressions to empower autistic youth, and WP5 ensures findings inform teacher education, professional development, and policy recommendations. SEA emphasizes ethical research in Indigenous contexts, prioritizing Sámi cultural paradigms, and engaging stakeholders such as the Sámi Parliament, Sámi Special Needs Education Support (SEAD), and the Autism Society in Norway. The project aspires to decolonize and indigenize special education, informing global Indigenous autism research. Outcomes will include peer-reviewed articles, Sámi-specific support models, professional training programs, and exhibitions showcasing creative outputs. With a multidisciplinary team of Sámi and Indigenous researchers, SEA advances inclusive, equitable education and challenges colonial assumptions about autism. By bridging knowledge gaps, SEA aligns with the United Nations SDGs, contributing to sustainable, culturally sensitive educational practices.

Sámi Experiences of Autism

Økonomisk ulikhet øker i Norge og andre høyinntektsland, mens innvandring også er med å endre samfunnets demografiske og sosioøkonomiske struktur. I kjølevannet av økende økonomiske og etniske forskjeller, er det bekymringsfullt at ulike dimensjoner av ulikhet blir stadig mer vedvarende på tvers av generasjoner. Å fremskaffe kunnskap om i hvilken grad ulikhet overføres innenfor familier og bredere sosial kontekster, vil kunne si noe om hvilke muligheter man har senere i livet. Til tross for mye forskning på intergenerasjonell mobilitet for utdanning og arbeid, har det vært lite forskning på betydningen av helse i overføringen av sosioøkonomisk status fra foreldre til barn.  
I  HEALTHMOBILITY ønsker vi å studere (1) i hvilken grad helsestatus overføres gjennom generasjoner og sammenhengen mellom helse og sosioøkonomisk mobilitet, (2) den kausale effekten av helseforskjeller tidlig i livet og i ungdomsårene på voksne prestasjoner og sosial ekskludering, (3) i hvilken grad de ovennevnte prosessene varierer mellom barn av innvandrerforeldre og de uten innvandringsbakgrunn, og, (4) hvordan forholdet mellom sosioøkonomisk status og helse har utviklet seg historisk—ved å studere langsiktige trender som strekker seg over mer enn 50 år. Prosjektets bidrag vil være å undersøke betydningen av både foreldre og barns helse som en dimensjon av intergenerasjonell mobilitet, sosial ekskludering, og livsjanser gjennom generasjoner.

Economic inequality is on the rise in Norway and other high-income countries, while large-scale immigration is also changing the demographic and socioeconomic structure of these societies. In the wake of widening economic disparities and ethnic inequality, there is growing concern among social scientists and policy makers that various dimensions of inequality are becoming increasingly persistent across generations. Knowing to what extent inequality is perpetuated within families and within broader social contexts is crucial since most would agree that opportunities in life should not be determined by which family a child is born into. Despite a vast literature on intergenerational mobility and children’s prospects for moving up the socioeconomic ladder, there is little research on the intergenerational transmission of health status and its role in the transmission of socioeconomic status from parents to children. This is unfortunate, as health is increasingly acknowledged as an essential part of individuals’ human capital, with important consequences for individuals outcomes in education and the labor market. 
In HEALTHMOBILITY we aim to study to what extent (1) health status is passed down through generations and its relation to socioeconomic mobility, (2) the causal impact of early-life health disparities on adult attainments, (3) to what extent these processes vary between children of immigrant and native parents, and (4) how the relationship between socioeconomic status and health status have evolved historically. Our aim is to unpack how mechanisms related to intergenerational transmission of health inequality contributes to socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in educational and labor market attainments. We will use Norwegian data from population-wide administrative registers and large-scale surveys, with detailed information on health service use, self-reported measures of health, and key socioeconomic and demographic characteristics to address these issues

Socioeconomic and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Intergenerational Mobility (HEALTHMOBILITY)

This project offers increased understanding of arctic Indigenous cosmologies as a form of environmental knowledge and traces their significance for communities in times of environmental crisis. With a special focus on traditional Sámi cosmologies and Sámi contemporary art, the goal is to explore and trace the appearance of human and non-human protagonists within Indigenous stories, especially about the starry polar night skies. By reappearing each night, these more-than-human figures became haunting entities which provided abstract nature-human relationships with a concrete, sensual and alluring form. Today, Sámi artists refer to these haunting figures to draw attention to their troubled cultural history and the present reality of climate-affected regions. The integration of traditional, recurring ghostly figures from Sámi storytelling – that migrate between the celestial and the earthly, as well as the human and the non-human – stresses the urgency of changing the way humans relate to nature. What is more, these fascinating, haunting and visionary figures provoke speculative futures, in which nature is regarded as a non-human subject. As this concept is becoming increasingly crucial in eco-philosophical debates and policy decisions on environmental justice, this project aims to show that Sámi cosmologies – especially when mediated through art – can play a vital role in changing humans’ perspective on nature.  In recent years, contemporary art has been called upon to give a sensual form to the abstract systematic connections of climate change; the extent of the current crisis is difficult for people to grasp. As a consequence, art is gaining a central role within our societies; it stands at the threshold between sciences, politics and culture. This project deals with art that is engaged in the severe environmental changes of this planet and that stands on the threshold between communicating urgency and being more than a mere messenger of environmental research.

Sámicosmologies: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge Cultures and Practices of Star-Gazing

DARKLAX er den første tverrfaglige og transnasjonale rekonstruksjonen av lakseoppdrettets historie i Chile. Vi forsøker å forklare hvordan et avsidesliggende og fattig sted sør i Chile ble et globalt knutepunkt for eksperimentering med sosiale, miljømessige, vitenskapelige og diskursive teknologier som har formet verden det siste femti år. Vi spør hvordan forsøkene på å gjøre oppdrettslaks til en handelsvare søkte å løse et utall utfordringer, fra å diversifisere kaloriinntaket til å forhindre overfiske, og til syvende og sist skapte nye problemer som er kjernen i det antropocene. Et sentralt spørsmål vi stiller, er hvilken rolle begrepet «bærekraft» og praksisene som er knyttet til det, spiller i denne prosessen.
DARKLAX er et historisk prosjekt som arbeider med en rekke ulike innfallsvinkler, fra marinbiologi for å forklare laksens liv i og utenfor oppdrettsanleggene, til antropologi og historiefortelling for å forstå hvordan mennesker opplever forholdet til en natur som er mer enn menneskelig. Like viktig er det at vi ser på lakseoppdrett som et iboende transnasjonalt objekt som omfatter norsk teknologi, brasiliansk soya, japanske forbruksmønstre eller argentinske miljøendringer som definerende trekk ved næringen. Som studieobjekt er ikke lakseoppdrett en nisje eller en anomali: I dag er akvakultur den raskest voksende sektoren innen matproduksjon. Den omsetter for rundt 300 milliarder dollar og sysselsetter tjue millioner mennesker på verdensbasis. Oppdrettsfisk står i dag for halvparten av verdens matproduksjon, et tall som bare forventes å øke, noe som i sin tur vil øke dagens miljøutfordringer.
I sentrum for disse endringene står Norge, den største produsenten av oppdrettslaks og den største investoren i Chile. DARKLAX undersøker hvordan Norge har endret seg underveis. Vi analyserer spesielt hvordan ekspansjonen i Chile gjenspeiler Norges større påvirkning på verdensbasis, i den globale økonomien og i utnyttelsen av naturressurser utenfor landets grenser.

The explosive development of the salmon farming industry in Chile, buttressed by massive Norwegian investment, has been hailed as an enormous success. Today, Norway produces 1,600,000 tons of farmed salmon annually, while Chile produces 695,000 tons; at any given moment, there is more biomass of farmed salmon than the rest of farmed animals combined in each country. Huge economic, social, and environmental benefits characterize this “Blue Revolution” that brings cheap, healthy protein to a booming world population: at least that is how it has appeared on the surface. 
However, recent research reveals a darker side to Chilean salmon farming and the role of Norway as its largest investor and inspiration. So-called sustainable practices turn out to decimate nature; local and indigenous populations protest problematic business practices; and the fish itself suffers disease and worse. The explosive development of salmon farming in Chile has turned out to be an unchecked experiment in an open-air laboratory, with catastrophic consequences whose full effects need to be studied. 
DARKLAX's main research question is threefold: 
1) What are transformations associated with the growth of the salmon farming industry in Chile since the 1970s?;
2) How do these transformations provide insights into the future of salmon farming and into the relation between human and larger-than-human nature at large?; and 
3) What is the role of Norway in this history?
In pursuing this question, DARKLAX develops the first socio-environmental history of Chilean salmon farming from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. It tests a bold hypothesis: that the rise and fall of salmon farming in Chile is both defined by and advances new arguments for three central characteristics of the Anthropocene era: 
1) the breakdown of the relation between technology and nature; 
2) the collapse of the concept of “sustainability”; and 
3) the absolutely global effects of localized biocommodification.

The Dark Side of Sustainability: Norway and the Rise and Fall of Salmon Farming in Chile. A transnational history of the future (1970-2030)

RURALEX addresses the cumulative crisis of environmental expertise across rural Europe and investigates how this relates to broader processes of societal disenfranchisement. In recent years, many rural parts of Europe have struggled with the local effects of large demographic and associated ecological changes, including human out-migration and the abandonment of traditional forms of agriculture and other nature-based livelihoods. These shifts have led to significant losses in what we refer to as “environmental expertise”: loss of knowledge of the land, loss of important traditional practices, loss of tacit expertise about local environments, loss of cultural knowhow. This crisis is at once intangible and deeply impactful. RURALEX will address those profound changes in socio-ecological knowledges and practices, held by both scientific “experts” and lay persons, through long-term ethnographic engagement and deep mapping tools that will be developed collaboratively by the project partners. The project will determine what is being lost and its impact, how these changes take place, and what processes might be put in motion to ensure that local knowledge is adequately valued at the policy-making level. To do so the project draws on multispecies perspectives grounded in anthropology, history, literary, cultural and sound studies, and the environmental humanities. 

RURALEX is a consortium of six universities in Finland, Estonia, Romania, the UK, and Spain, beside Norway, and comparative and collaborative methods will be employed throughout the project.

Knowledge in Crisis: The Dynamics of Environmental Expertise amidst Rural Change

Fostering Linguistic Capital: A Roadmap for Reversing the Diversity Crisis and Activating Societal Benefits in Europe

The FOSTERLANG project aims to have a transformative effect on how minoritised languages are protected, used and promoted in Europe in the context of the competitive societal dynamic between dominant and non-dominant languages. This will be achieved by developing evidence-based diagnostics of the minority-language condition and by suggesting strategic and technologically informed initiatives to protect and enhance their socio-economic position. The project consortium brings the cross-cultural, multidisciplinary expertise of 14 participating organisations in an ambitious partnership of intellectual enquiry on key societal aspects of protecting the EU linguistic diversity. Its members combine strengths and expertise in sociolinguistics, social anthropology, education and pedagogy, language planning, digital innovation, computer science, public policy and language revitalisation. The partners will work in tandem to develop a new societal and institutional dispensation by which minoritised language communities will catalyse their contested linguistic capital to counteract the socio-political and economic forces which continue to undermine a sustainable future for Europe’s linguistic minorities and migrants. The work packages are centred on fostering linguistic capital not only from the perspective of protecting Europe’s multicultural diversity, but also to indicate how linguistic capital can enhance other components of human capital, such as economic, demographic and health-related well-being. The project aligns with strategic priorities of EU and the Horizon Europe programme in fostering societal coherence of different linguistic communities living in their shared spaces. The major outcome will be a Linguistic Capital Road Map which will set out a substantive set of recommendations for the short, medium and long-term on effective and meaningful strategies for fostering Europe’s linguistic capital and for safeguarding grassroots multilingualism.

Social media in armed conflict: The case of Myanmar

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I 2018-21 samarbeidet Institutt for fredsforskning (PRIO) med Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) om å overvåke sosiale medier i Myanmar, intervjue brukere av sosiale medier, bygge en database om væpnet konflikt og analysere bruk av sosiale medier i væpnet konflikt.

Våre funn: Funn 1 er at Myanmars ikke-statlige væpnede grupper først og fremst har brukt sosiale medier til kommunikasjon med sitt eget grunnplan. Facebook har gitt dem en kostnadseffektiv plattform for å fremstå som statslignende institusjoner med flagg, parader, politi, helse og utdanningstilbud. Noen grupper har også brukt digitale medier til ekstern propaganda og til kommando-funksjoner i aktiv kamp. Sympatisører med ulike konfliktparter bruker Facebook til å spre hat og trusler.

Funn 2 er at Myanmars militære (Tatmadaw) har mislykkes med å prege opinionen gjennom sosiale medier. Generalene oppdaget raskt hvor nyttig Facebook var og fikk mange følgere. Men da Facebook, etter hærens overgrep mot rohingya, lukket ned et stort antall militærkontrollerte konti i 2018, ble Tatmadaw's bruk av Facebook svekket. Etter militærkuppet 1. februar 2021 prøvde kuppmakerne å undertrykke sosiale medier gjennom forbud og nedstenging av internettet. Protestbevegelsen lærte seg da å bruke VPN og kryptert kommunikasjon og lyktes med å beholde sin dominans i sosiale medier. Militærstyret har få maktmidler mot Facebook fordi selskapet styrer sin digitale tilstedeværelse fra Singapore. De fleste Tatmadaw-sympatisører har tydd til Telegram og VKontakte for kommunikasjon seg imellom.

Funn 3 fra et doktorgradsprosjekt bygd på intervjuer med sivilsamfunnsorganisasjoner, er at sosiale medier har skapt nye muligheter i kampen mot seksuell og kjønnsbasert vold. Høy synlighet i sosiale medier gjør det lettere å vekke en aktiv opinion, og anonymitet på nettet øker muligheten for å støtte dem som har vært utsatt for kjønnsbasert vold. Imidlertid har statlig sensur og trakassering av aktivister begrenset deres bruk av sosiale medier.

Funn 4 er at Facebook er blitt en mektig, uavhengig aktør i Myanmars væpnede konflikter. At plattformen fikk en så fremtredende rolle i hatkampanjen mot rohingya 2016-17 var et sjokk for selskapet. Etter å ha stengt ned militær-kontrollerte konti i 2018, ekskluderte Facebook også fire ikke-statlige grupper fra plattformen og investerte i større kapasitet for å fjerne innhold som ble ansett for å stride mot selskapets fellesskapsverdier. Etter militærkuppet fjernet Facebook et antall nye militærkontrollerte konti, men holdt plattformen åpen for protestbevegelsen.

Produkter: Vår viktigste akademiske publikasjon er 'Pretending to be States: The Use of Facebook by Armed Groups in Myanmar,' Journal of Contemporary Asia (4 May 2021), som per 21. januar 2022 hadde 3652 visninger. Andre viktige produkter (med finansiering fra flere kilder), er MIPS' konfliktdatabase: Township-based Conflict Monitoring System (TCMS); MIPS månedlige Peace & Security Briefs; ukentlige Security Briefs og årsrapporter for 2018, 2019 og 2020-21 (med forord av Stein Tønnesson). 

Virkninger: Prosjektet har bidratt til fremveksten av et faktabasert, uavhengig akademisk forskningsmiljø ved MIPS i Yangon. Foreløpig har MIPS overlevd kuppet og landets tiltakende borgerkrig, men instituttet står under konstant overvåkning og har mistet sin offentlige lisens. I 2021 var det ikke mulig å utgi noen årsrapport for 2020, men en samlerapport for 2020-21 ble publisert 10. feb 2022. Journalister, influensere, bedriftsledere, politikere og embetsmenn, etniske minoritetsledere, sivilsamfunnsaktivister og diplomater har gjort bruk av våre data og analyser. Det har i noen grad begrenset mulighetene for løgn og overdrivelser i et polarisert politisk miljø. I Norge har prosjektet bidratt til at PRIO har kunnet delta i debatt om Myanmar og til å forsøke (uten hell) å advare Telenor mot å selge sitt Myanmar-selskap til kjøpere som villig følger militærregimets pålegg. 

Utsikter: Prosjektet ble utformet i 2017 i en tid med intellektuell fortvilelse over fordrivelsen av rohingya, over at fredsprosessen var gått i stå og over en skjult, intens maktkamp mellom den sivile og militære delen av regjeringsapparatet. Samtidig var vi fascinert av den digitale revolusjonen som ble utløst i 2014 da statsmonopolet på telekom ble opphevet. Det førte til tøff konferanse mellom fire selskaper om å bygge tårn, legge fiber og tilby rimelige tjenester på smarttelefoner. I sosiale medier var det lite konkurranse: Facebook dominerte.

Etter militærkuppet er fremtiden uviss for så vel Facebook som MIPSs. Landets digitale fremtid står på spill.  Mange intellektuelle, forskere og aktivister har søkt tilflukt i utlandet. Foreløpig kan de kommunisere med venner og familie i Myanmar både på Facebook og ved hjelp av Signal og andre krypterte applikasjoner. Vi vet ikke hvor lenge det vil vare.

The impact of ICT and social media on conflict is a new and fertile field of research. Myanmar is an ideal case for studying causal links between ICT and conflict since: a) The country has many armed groups who have recently got access to social media, b) Some of them fight while others have signed ceasefire agreements, and c) There has been an explosion in the use of social media since 2013. Suddenly, Facebook has become the dominant means of communication in a country with few landlines, and where only a tiny minority has ever used e-mail. The project explores the ways by which the new social media have shaped conflict dynamics, thus either driving conflict or helping create peace. We interview representatives of the country's ethnic armed groups and of the national army. We monitor their use of social media, and we have designed a web-based application to collect data about clashes and violent incidents, including gender-based and other violence against civilians. The project is led by senior research fellow Stein Tønnesson (PRIO) in cooperation with a research team led by Dr Min Zaw Oo at the Myanmar Institute of Peace and Security (MIPS). The project includes a PhD at PRIO, focussing on gender. The method is mainly inductive, with the aim to establish various ways by which social media have affected armed conflict behaviour and the country's peace process. We ask questions about how and for what purposes social media are used, about interaction between commanders, officers and troops and about the way the ethnic armed groups interact with the civilian population in areas under their control. Emphasis is given to the impact of social media on the prevalence of armed fighting, measured in incidents and fatalities, and we seek to draw lessons about how social media may contribute to peace. Our empirical research is used as a basis for contributing to existing theory about conflict duration and termination.

The 27th Organic Winter Meeting will take place January 12th-15th 2012 at Thon Hotel
Skeikampen. This conference is the national meeting in organic chemistry in
Norway, and it is held under the umbrella of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the
Norwegia n Chemical Society.
Since the initiation of the conference, we have each year invited 3-4 foreign chemists,
internationally recognized in their fields of research. Due to financial support from the
Norwegian Research Council over the years it has been pos sible to maintain this tradition
without having to charge a considerable conference fee. This has been absolutely instrumental
to keep up the numbers of participants in times with little money at Norwegian universities for
conference participation.

Organisk Kjemisk Vintermøte, Skeikampen 12.-15. januar 2012

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is one of the key processes in natural gas conversion. Enormous efforts have been devoted to increase C5+ selectivity.  However, a detailed understanding of elementary steps leading to chain growth is still missing. The project a ddresses identification of important factors controlling chain growth in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, through detailed study of steady-state transient kinetic analysis of elementary steps on Co and Co alloy surfaces. The catalyst will be synthesized in a co ntrolled manner, and characterized in detail to determine the properties. Transient responses of C2-C7 will be analyzed and modeled and the kinetic parameters responsible for chain growth will be correlated to the electronic properties of Co and Co alloy  surfaces.

Fundamental understanding of the controlling factor for the C5+ selectivity for Co/CNF catalysts in Fischer Tropsch synthesis

Fundamental study down to the atomic level is crucial for improving our understanding of catalysts and enhancing our ability for their rational design. The present project deals with exploring advanced TEM techniques such as aberration corrected microscop y and environmental TEM for imaging of composition and bonding. Elemental and valence sensitive imaging of Co nanoparticles and Pt based core-shell structured nanoparticles will be obtained by STEM combined electron diffraction and electron energy loss sp ectroscopy. The strain of the nanoparticles will be studied as a function of particle size and different supports in terms of catalytic performance in different reactions. The thickness and uniformity of the shell of core-shell structured nanoparticles wi ll be studied by atomic imaging. The interface between core and shell layers will be studied by aberration corrected microscopy. The project will enhance the cooperation with world leading groups at DTU and Lehigh University.

Fundamental understanding of catalyst nanoparticles by atomic scale chemical imaging

Aminophosphonates are interesting compounds due to their analogy with amino acids and their derived peptides. They could interfere in biological mechanisms through their hydroxyphosphonyl group approximating the enzymatic reactive tetrahedral intermediate . We aim at creating a new basis for the investigation of aminophosphonates as amino acid mimics. In the research focus is the practical, efficient and enantioselective methodologies for the synthesis of aminophosphonates. Chiral ammonium salts that are p hase-transfer catalysts will be evaluated in preparation of such aminophosphonates. Phosphapeptides will be prepared by incorporating an aminophosphonate residue in short peptides, and will be studied using NMR together with computational chemistry as too ls to gain insight into changes in their conformations, dynamics and type of aggregates.

Design and synthesis of chiral aminophosphonates: from biomimetic catalysis to phosphapeptides

Gold catalysis of organic reactions has  become a rapidly expanding field in recent years after being neglected by organic chemists for a long time. Gold catalysts react in very selective ways and may give access to highly complex molecules. The present p roject describes the continued investigations of our recently discovered new gold catalysed mono- and tandem cyclisation reactions, covering mechanistic studies and modified substrates, such as vinylesters/-amides, indoles, alkynesulfoxides, as well as st eroselective gold catalysed reactions.

NHC (N-Heterocyclic Carbene) compounds are electron-rich N,N-disubstituted imidazol-2-ylidenes developed the last decade due to their attractive properties. In particular, they play a favourable role in transition m etal catalyzed reactions, replacing the traditional phosphine ligands. We will design and prepare a number of new chiral NHC ligands, based on suitable approaches for such syntheses. The ability of the new NHC ligands to afford chiral induction in organoc atalytic transformations will be studied.

A collaboration with a research group at the University of Hamburg and SINTEF Biotechnology, Trondheim, has been established.

Gold catalysis and new chiral NHC compounds.

The Catalysis Symposium of the Norwegian Chemical Society's Catalysis Section is the sole meeting point encompassing the complete catalysis community in Norway. It is organized on a near-annual basis, basically leaving out only those years in which anothe r important catalysis conference, organized in one of the Nordic countries, may take the role as national meeting point. The 2010 symposium will be organized by the Bergen group. A compact two-days meeting at the end of November (29-30 Nov.) is planned, w ith both lectures and meals taking place at Grand Hotel Terminus, in the city center. Plenary lectures will be given by two international leaders in the field (Profs. Gadi Rothenberg and N.N.). Between 50 and 60 participants from the Norwegian catalysis r esearch groups are expected to attend the symposium.

Plenary lecturers at Katalysesymposiet 2010

As outlined in the application for IUPAC Sponsorship (see attached Project description) the conference programme will give a broad and thorough overview of the current trends in organic synthesis. To secure the quality of the programme an outstanding Inte rnational Advisory Board has been appointed (see attached document entitled "Committees"; some members have been listed as Partners). The committe has been very active in the planning of the scientific programme, which is almost complete (see attached doc ument entitled "Plenary and Invited Speakers").

Due to the current trends in organic synthesis there will be a significant focus on synthetic methodology based on catalysis and catalytic processes. Topics like homogenous catalysis, chiral ligands, and or ganocatalysis will be extensively covered as will be organometallic chemistry, natural product synthesis, bioorgnaic chemistry, and various aspects of medicinal chemistry. Since organic synthesis is very important for the development in many other fields  of science, several conference topics will be of interest to scientists working in other scientific disciplines such as pharmaceutical chemistry, material science, and nanotechnology.

The IUPAC ICOS meetings constitute the top world series in organic syn thesis and it is therefore a requirement to have a good geographic distribution among the plenary and invited lecturers. This has been achieved; it is indeed noteworthy that lecturers will be delivered by outstanding scientists from at least 20 countries.  This number is expected to increase when the short presentations for the parallell sessions (see attached document entitled "Congress Programme Overview") have been selected.

The ICOS meeting has gained significant backing from the Norwegian organic-syn thesis community through the Working Party on Organic Chemistry in the Norwegian Chemical Society. Many of the members have agreed to join the National Committee and the Local Committee for the meeting.

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