Research in Pakistan and afghanistan

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Research in Pakistan and afghanistan

• Ingrid Nyborg

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Research in Pakistan.

• Partners Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP -
  Baltistan) and Karakorum International University
  (KIU- Gilgit/Baltistan)
• Topics
• REDD Local forest management systems and policy
  mechanisms Case study Northern Areas of
  Pakistan
• High Mountain resource management and climate
  change
• Local adaptation to climate change in the
  Himalayas changing livelihood patterns?
• Mountain resources medicinal plants, forests
  and forest plantations, watershed management,
  glaciers,
• Energy analysis, solar, hydro, biofuel, fuel
  efficient stoves
• See High Altitude Integrated Natural Resource
  Management Program (HAINRM Noragric web pages)

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Research in Pakistan

• Partner CIIT, Abbottabad
• Public-private partnerships in development
• Use of SMS-technology to support small-farmer
  marketing (Telenor and Aga Khan Rural Support
  Program)
• Has this new technology had any impact on small
  farmers? In what ways? Gendered impacts? Winners
  and losers? Ethical issues?

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Research in Pakistan

• Partner Comsats University, Abbottabad (CIIT)
• Sustainable water, sanitation, health and
  development
• Interdisciplinary MSc program, 23 students
• Participatory approaches to technology
  development, links to health and development
• Possibility to focus on post-earthquake,
  post-conflict areas

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Research in Pakistan and Afghansitan

• Partners CIIT, Abbotabad Norwegian Police
  College
• Human security in post-conflict contexts
• Security-development nexus, competing discourses
  (military, police, humanitarian, development)
• Post-war/conflict development and security reform
• Livelihood security and peace-building
• Livelihoods and livelihood revival in
  post-conflict contexts
• Gender issues in post-conflict contexts (UN
  resolution 1325)
• IDPs, Afghan refugees
• Can link with the Conflict, Human Security and
  Development Cluster (CHSD).