Katedra Socjologii Prawa

Participating partners:

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (WP leader)

Objectives:

1. To ensure the effective execution of the implementation plan, and that project progress unfolds according to planned schedule and budget.
2. To ensure the qualitative oversight of the project administration and finance.
3. To ensure the appropriate execution of contingency plans related to risks.
4. To ensure all technical elements of the project are adequately related.
5. To ensure good liaison of the project with the EC.

Participating partners:

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (WP leader)
• Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Safety
• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Objectives:

1. To ensure academic and methodological coherence and qualitative oversight in research.
2. To coordinate the production of a series of handbooks, each with a regional and case focus on post-conflict COP reflecting the work of regional working groups.
3. To synthesize ‘lessons learnt' and ‘best practices' from across the research WPs.
4. To further develop comparative methodology in the field of COP.
5. To develop linkages between social science research and innovative technological research, within the framework of COP.
6. 6. Producing conclusions on international patterns of post-conflict COP in a comparative perspective.

Participating partners:

• University of Oslo (WP leader)
• Applied Intelligence Analytics

Objectives:

1. To lay out assumptions and limitations vis a vis technology for each regional WP.
2.  To provide general recommendations as to the suitability and use of technological solutions for post-conflict COP, as well as to the management of data and related data integrity issues for each regional WP;
3. To conduct ICT-focused context analyses and develop a tool kit for ICT development for each of the selected postconflict country cases.
4. To propose locally appropriate technological applications, while identifying partners for procurement of any products, systems, or applications the consortium does not have the capacity to contract internally.
5. To cutline a taxonomy of low-end technologies that accommodate community needs and customs alongside a taxonomy of high-end technologies that accommodate institutional needs and resource bases; as both pertain to ethical and sustainable innovation in COP.
6. To coordinate the efforts undertaken within each regional WP to identify, design and develop context-specific ICT solutions for COP; ICT solutions may include knowledge management systems, analytics tools, or community reporting and accountability tools among others.
7. To identify, design, develop and test new, context-specific ICT solutions for COP in four selected country cases.
8. To train relevant end-users (communities, country police, and international police i.e. EU police) in the use of the newly created ICT solutions for COP in pilot projects, taking into account the ICT user specificities of all groups (including age, gender, education level, etc.).
9. To monitor both early adoption of ICT systems as well as their use according to pre-determined indicators, assumptions, limitations, and general learning where uses are completely different than originally anticipated.
10. To synthesize lessons learnt in the processes of development.

Participating partners:

• Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Safety (WP leader)
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Objectives:

1. To establish and coordinate a Police Experts Network tasked with an advising role to the project research.
2. To map existing COP training and education programs in several European countries and from country case police colleges and/or academies, as well as from international and regional organizations tasked with pre-deployment training of police officers departing for field missions to country case areas.
3. To map cultural differences within COP.
4. To deliver corresponding overview reports in the early stage of the research process.
5. To provide country case studies with background information to track backwards possible shortcomings and highlight best practices in existing training and education programs and recommend improvement.
6. To synthesize and disseminate recommendations related to the nature of police-community relations in trust building activities conducted in diverse communities.

Participating partners:

• Ruhr-Universität Bochum (WP leader)
• Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Safety
• Applied Intelligence Analytics

Objectives:

1. To focus on the role and engagement in COP of this specific, ‘tech-savvy' segment of the population between the ages of 15-30.
2. To establish local youth COP forums as pilots to work closely together with local youth networks and youth NGOs.
3. To look at research findings through the lens of the youth in each of the country case studies throughout the life of the project.
4. To synthesize findings on youth participation in COP and provide process-oriented recommendations for greater youth engagement in the recovery phase following conflict.

Participating partners:

Country cases:

• Kenya
• Somalia
• Uganda

Participating partners:

• University of Durham (WP leader)
• Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• Universität Bremen
• Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research

Objectives:

1. To provide a rigorous and scientific assessment of the potential application of ICT to COP in insecure and fragile societies such as those found in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan.
2. To identify what is needed for proactive, equitable and sustainable development-oriented policing in fragile or postconflict societies.
3. To analyze the relationship between public police and local people in specific environments (e.g. urban, remote, coastal), and between police and population sectors (e.g. youth, women, elders, clans, nomads, Christians).
4. To assess the ways in which perceptions of security and justice shift according to environmental or structural factors and the availability of ICT, and to better understand how the demographic background influences feelings of (in)security.
5. To analyze the application of international crime reporting practices to societies characterized by insecurity, illiteracy, conservatism, legal pluralism, displacement, clannism, pastoralism, demographic change or urbanization.
6. To develop techniques and training packages for strengthening and accelerating communication between police and local people in fragile environments, and to proactively raise the awareness and capacity of local police.
7. To disseminate research findings via scholarly publications, policy-relevant briefs and practitioner-oriented presentations, thereby contributing to a potential improvement in both strategic policy making and everyday police work.
8. To understand how local police and local people adapt their heritage and experience to COP, and also how they understand and/ or manage democratic policing values and practices.
9. To explore how the application of ICT to COP might contribute to the average growth rate of Africa's economies.

Country cases:

• Afghanistan
• Pakistan

Participating partners:

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (WP leader)
• Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Safety

Objectives:

1. To describe and compare COP in the context of each country in terms of its origin, character, degree and type of international assistance, institutional grounding, policy and practice.
2. To study the securities and insecurities of local community members, and the ways and degree to which the needs of women, men, minorities, children and youth are being met (or not) and why/why not through COP initiatives in the two countries.
3. To understand administrative, technical and financial gaps in policing which might hinder police performance in meeting the expectations of the community members.
4. To study proposals and identify techniques and technologies that would facilitate the improvement of COP in these countries, as well as generalizable lessons of value to other post-conflict societies.
5. To contribute to the research program's overall cross-cutting themes (youth, gender, technology, education and training) and common research questions to enable a comparative and comprehensive understanding of COP in post-conflict contexts

Country cases:

• Guatemala
• El Salvador
• Nicaragua

Participating partners:

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (WP leader)

Objectives:

1. To analyze the reasons explaining the different development histories and trajectories of the police in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
2. To study the peculiarities of COP programs established in these 3 countries.
3. To analyze the main consequences and benefits brought about by these programs in term of improving community-police and civil-state relations.
4. To establish what constitutes "legitimate" policing in the eyes of the citizenry in these countries.
5. To explain why it has been difficult to sustain COP programs at the national level.
6. To study proposals and identify techniques and technologies that would facilitate the improvement of COP in these countries, as well as generalizable lessons of value to other post-conflict societies.
7. Contribute to the research program's overall cross-cutting themes (e.g. youth, gender), thereby deepening understanding of the security-development nexus.

Country cases:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Kosovo
• Serbia

Participating partners:

• Ruhr-Universität Bochum (WP leader)
• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Objectives:

1. To undertake interviews with official representatives of the police forces and with citizens.
2. To evaluate existing manuals, guidebooks, and other material on COP by international organizations and NGOs.
3. To create a country case network of third parties.
4. To conduct the pre-research design for technology, a technology and capacity assessment and map of the tech landscape for COP.
5. To draft a context- and region specific handbook on COP.
6. To implement this handbook into the study program and curriculum of the national police forces and law enforcement education institutions.

Participating partners:

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences (WP leader)

Objectives:

1. To organize the project dissemination and exploitation plan.
2. To implement foreseen knowledge management and exploitation activities.
3. To implement foreseen technology transfer and dissemination activities.