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One of the interesting courses that SPP’s Global Policy Academy has offered in recent years is a series of seminars for executive students from the BI Norwegian Business School. These courses are part of the master’s degree program that the BI Norwegian Business School has developed in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces.  The program is structured to provide students – most of whom have backgrounds in the police or military – with a more nuanced understanding of the nature and complexity of security conflicts.

“There is an assumption that formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) generates important benefits by, for example, improving peoples’ access to capital and leading to greater government support. This study is an inquiry into whether this has been the case in the Zambian context,” explains public policy doctoral student Agatha Siwale.