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This is a list of all the materials published by academics at University of Oslo in the order they were published with the most recent first.

The 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention

- Melina Antonia Buns

The 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention was the first international environmental convention of its kind. While Nordic cooperation and…

Population movement to and within Norway, 1830-1914

- The Quick Read

From the 1830s to the 1920s about 800,000 Norwegians emigrated, mostly to America. There is less general awareness of the fact that between 100,000…

Painting with boy sitting on hay cart with women and men walking.

Norway: Uncovering Gender and Branding in the Nordics with Eirinn Larsen

- Eirinn Larsen

Listen to a podcast on how gender is used as a tool in branding the Nordics.

Female in thick jumper portrait

The emergence of Nordic environmental cooperation, 1967-1974

- Article

Today the environment is a key policy issue of institutionalised Nordic cooperation. Yet it was only in the late 1960s that the environment emerged on…

A demonstration on 1st May 1 1969 in Oslo. The banner reads 'Nature conservation a necessity of life. Immediate action against poisoning.' Photo: Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv og bibliotek (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)).

Norway: Uncovering Nordic Childhood in an Online World with Elisabeth Staksrud

- Elisabeth Staksrud

Listen to a podcast on the attitude to online risk of caregivers, teachers and children in the Nordics.

Colour head shot of female academic Elisabeth Staksrud.

The Golden Age of social democracy in Norway

- Article

The Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) was in power when the country was transformed into a wealthy society with modern welfare in the decade…

Large, red-brick building, Norwegian Labour Party headquarters is housed in Oslo

The development of the Norwegian welfare state, 1945-1970

- Nation building

The vision of a welfare community that provided the people with social security from ‘cradle to grave’ was largely realised in the period between 1945…

Picture showing five people standing on a line, each of them carrying a sign for one of the Norwegian political parties.

Norway, the West and the Soviet Union, 1944-48

- The Quick Read

The term ’bridge-building’ is often used to describe Norwegian foreign policy from the tail end of the Second World War until Norway's turn to the…

Picture of a globe with Norway highlighted and two arrows going east and west

An introduction to Swedish feminist foreign policy

- Article

Swedish foreign policy has long been engaged in issues relating to gender. This was cemented in 2014 by the launch of its Feminist Foreign Policy…

The cover of the official handbook to Sweden's feminist foreign policy, published by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2019.

The India Foundation: The beginning of Norwegian aid

- Globalisation

The Foundation for Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas, or India Foundation as it was known, marked the beginning of Norwegian international…

Map showing the Kerala state in South East India. The map is black and white.

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Nicola Anne Witcombe