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Thursday 26 January 2012
The terrorist acts did not create more fear
Few Norwegians feared new attacks in the aftermath of 22 July. – The terror attacks have not created a fearful society, says Dag Wollebæk.
Monday 12 December 2011
Commercialised Norwegian civil society more volatile
Processes of increased commercialisation and individualisation in the Norwegian civil society may lead to a decline in volunteering and weakened democratic governance.
Friday 02 September 2011
Civic engagement in Norway after 22 July atrocities
Young people between the ages 16 and 24 have become more engaged after the terror attacks on 22 July. – The current mobilisation may lead to increased political participation in the future, says Guro Ødegård at the Centre for Research on Voluntary Sector and Civil Society.
Friday 04 March 2011
Call for papers: The voluntary sector in the Nordic countries
To a parallel session at the conference The voluntary sector in the Nordic countries - Change agents and contract partners? the Centre for Research on Voluntary Sector and Civil Society invites papers from researchers and PhD students on the changing role of the voluntary sector as part of civil society in the Nordic countries. Papers may be presented in Scandinavian languages as well as in English. Submission deadline is 31 March 2011
Thursday 03 March 2011
Conference: The voluntary sector in the Nordic countries - Change agents and contract partners?
The Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector invites researchers to the conference The voluntary sector in the Nordic countries - Change agents and contract partners? on 18-20 May 2011 in Bergen.
Tuesday 23 November 2010
New form of civic engagement amongst youths
Younger generations are moving away from classic forms of civic engagement towards more project-targeted episodic participation, concludes Timo Lochocki in a new report published by the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector.
Friday 22 October 2010
Bernard Enjolras member of Scientific Committee
The 3rd International Research Conference on Social Economy of CIRIEC will take place in Valladolid (Spain) from 6 to 8 April 2011. Centre Leader, Bernard Enjolras will with Eoger Spear be members of the cientific Committee of the Third International Research Conference on Social Economy of CIRIEC.
Friday 09 July 2010
China looks to the Nordic countries
Chinese translations of articles by Karl Henrik Sivesind, Per Selle, Grete Brochmann and others are included in an anthology on the Nordic welfare state, recently published by Fudan University Press.
Monday 26 April 2010
Article in book edited by ISF researchers wins award
Thomas Janoski has won the Emerald Outstanding Author Contribution Award 2010 for the article "The Spirit of the Civil Sphere: Activating Static Conceptions of Volunteerism and Citizenship" published in Comparative Social Research vol. 26, Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
Wednesday 06 January 2010
Civil Society in Comparative Perspective
A new book edited by Bernard Enjolras and Karl Henrik Sivesind compares different civil society regimes and discusses the democratic role of civil society in activating citizens’ participation.
Monday 09 February 2009
Bernard Enjolras appointed new Editor of Voluntas
Bernard Enjolras, Research Director at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) and Director of the newly formed Norwegian Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector, has recently been appointed as the new editor of Voluntas, effective as of 1 January 2010.
Call for papers: Comparative studies of Civil Society
The editors of Comparative Social Research invites scholars to submit papers to the 2009 edition of CSR. This volume has the theme "Comparative studies of Civil Society".
Monday 08 September 2008
The emergence of a new post-national model of citizenship
EU policy-making and governance are likely to foster a post-national European civil society with multi-level citizenship participation, Bernard Enjolas writes in the latest issue of Citizenship studies.
Welcome to the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector
The Centre is a partnership between the Institute for Social Research (ISF) and the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies. This website is the Centre’s knowledge base where researchers, representatives of voluntary organisations and other interested people can discuss and find useful literature and information about the subject.