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Key Role in National Strategy Process

Four researchers from the Centre involved in the Norwegian Government’s new strategy on children and youths at risk.
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Legitimacy Challenges

NEW PROJECTS: The Centre has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of legitimacy challenges for democratic governments and the […]
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Unique in a World Context

NEW PUBLICATION: Changes in the Norwegian Child Welfare Act formalize children’s right to “love”.
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The Hidden Proceedings

NEW ARTICLE: Decisions about terminating parental rights to ensure an adoption from care are not accountable, finds new analysis.
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Child Welfare in a Digital World

GUEST RESEARCHER: Matthias Braun is scrutinizing how digital technologies shape and challenge the processes of child welfare.
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Norwegian Child Protection in the Court of Human Rights

GALLERY: Photos from the public event at Litteraturhuset i Bergen.
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Workshop on Child Protection Judgments

GALLERY: Photos from international workshop in Bergen.
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Justifying limitation of freedom

Even though some paternalistic interventions can be morally troubling, they might be legitimate, argues guest researcher Cristan Pérez Muñoz.
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Better child welfare decisions

Child welfare decisions are important, yet fallible. Visiting scholar Rami Benbenishty is researching how to make these decisions better.
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Protection of Child Refugees

INTERVIEW: Dr. Ingi Iusmen is researching the protection of unaccompanied migrant children, and visited the Centre as a guest researcher.
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Research Centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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University of Bergen

Department of Government
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Marit Skivenes

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+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

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Marit.Skivenes@uib.no