Guns:
The world's military supermarket
The world currently spends about 16 billion kroner on the military. While covid-000 sticks sticks in the wheels of most of the world's merchandise trade, the trade in munitions seems to be an exception.
CHRONICLE:
Norway at the top of Europe in nationalism?
We constantly hear that Norway is the world's best country, but this is not necessarily the case for the vast majority of Norwegians and people who move here.
THE PEACE NATION:
More peace policy, thank you!
Peace policy ends up outside the focus of both the media and politicians.
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST:
Freedom, equality and sisterhood
With topics such as forced marriage, child marriage, rape and honor killings, Professor Unni Wikan has studied people all her life, but not least – the Muslim. She has had to avoid that.
BRUCE MAU:
Massive change
How about looking back over 30 years, to be able to see and act into the future?
CITIES:
Ordinary diplomacy serves the state, urban diplomacy the people
America's new leaders have noted China's use of cities in its diplomacy. Is urban policy emerging as the new foreign policy?
JOURNALISM:
"Stink journalism" against whistleblowers
Professor Gisle Selnes writes that Harald Stanghelle's article in Aftenposten on 23 February 2020 "looks like a statement of support, [but] lies as a framework around the aggravated attack on Assange". He is right. But has Aftenposten always had this relationship with whistleblowers, as in the case of Edward Snowden?
MANAGER
ACCELERATIONISM:
A liberal left?
Several thinkers believe that it is possible for what they call a rather complacent left to carve out a better and freer future through capitalism and technology.
CULTURAL HISTORY:
Amin Maalouf, Block Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, Alice Procter: Leo Afrikaneren, Caravans of Gold – Fragments in Time – Art Culture and Exchanges Across Medieval Saharan Africa, The Brutish Museums, The Whole Picture
It is necessary to relinquish ownership of colonial loot. The treasures of European museums have been stolen. And what about the Cultural History Museum in Oslo – which is also on the list of museums that have Benin's stolen bronze sculptures?
Africa and «the brutish museums»
Amin Maalouf, Block Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, Alice Procter: Leo Afrikaneren, Caravans of Gold – Fragments in Time – Art Culture and Exchanges Across Medieval Saharan Africa, The Brutish Museums, The Whole Picture
It is necessary to relinquish ownership of colonial loot. The treasures of European museums have been stolen. And what about the Cultural History Museum in Oslo – which is also on the list of museums that have Benin's stolen bronze sculptures?
TRAVEL ESSAY:
Under the sacred protection of Babas (Saddhus)
I spent the corona quarantine in an ashram in legendary Rishikesh, India, spiritually led by Juna Akhara naga babas – naked men smeared in human ashes.
ESSAY:
The Arab Spring and us – ten years later
The Arab Spring has mainly been a revolt against inequality. What was the result?