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Norway views security as comprehensive to include political, economic, social and environmental elements. Norway’s environmental security priorities deal with the implications from worsening climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of forests; as well as, the protection of the Barents Sea. Achieving nuclear safety is another area of priority that Norway is dealing with in cooperation with Russia.
Promoting peace, reconciliation and development are three intrinsic elements in Norway’s foreign and development cooperation policies. Norway has recently developed a Strategic Framework for Peacebuilding, a framework that aims to ‘build competence in the foreign service concerning the use of development co-operation for peacebuilding purposes’ . Norway is also leading the world in its ODA share of GNI
Information
- Author(s)
- Johannah Bernstein with Steven Schindler and Laura Leland
- Publisher
- IES
- Place published
- Brussels
- Date / journal vol no.
- 2006
- Pages
- 4
