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• From lofty rhetorics to workable politics? The case of federalism in post-war Nepal

  Limbu, Laxmi (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-Feb-2013)

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  This thesis investigates federalism (state restructuring) through the empirical analysis of the views held on federalism by a few members of the major political parties in Nepal. A decade long conflict was ended when Comprehensive Peace Accord was agreed in 2006. The terms of CPA and the interim constitution became a source of political argument for Nepal’s leaders; controlled and over represented by High Caste backgrounds in different state mechanisms. The issue of democratic restructuring (defining/categorizing the federal model) was hotly contested and debated, and it resulted in the dissolution of historic CA where members from various backgrounds were represented. The dissolution has concluded in constitutional and political dead lock in Nepal. This study examines the views of a few important political actors on this issue, along with their policies on Natural Resource Management and tax with the help of in-depth interviews and an investigation of their parties’ manifestos and in context of research literature. Through the course of this research, I found that Nepalese political institutions and leaders have to soul searching practice in order to establish a suitable inclusive democracy. However, discussing federalism (state restructuring) and power decentralization is a bipolar issue. Social change is an inevitable process, but culture, tradition, history and identity cannot be denied. Such can be reconciled with democratic inclusive nation building – forming one common identity with national solidarity and secularism that is connected with state sovereignty. The current demand for group right and self-rule among ethnicity base federal units may trigger conflict and overlooks the democratic rights to equal participation. The right to participation and decision-making is the right of any individual and community or group according to the theory of democracy. While advocating for groups rights from ethnic organizations and activist, would exclude the right to participation of non-ethnic minorities. In other word, their right to participation would be hindered. Such advocacy would worsen the situation for people who have been living together for a long time in the same communities, VDC and watersheds. Therefore group rights have to be balanced with individual citizenship rights in order to build up a strong sense of nationalism that keeps sovereignty intact.

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  http://hdl.handle.net/10037/5078

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• The impact of ethnicity on student relations in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

  Asmamaw, Anteneh Tadesse (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 15-Nov-2012)

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  This study was designed to assess the impacts of ethnicity on the relation of students from different ethnic background and to suggest possible strategies for managing student conflicts in Bahir-Dar University. Particularly, the study aims to examine inter-ethnic relations among Amhara, Oromo and Tigray students; as these groups are frequently involved in conflicts. The findings showed that the current ethnic tension among students in Ethiopian higher education institutions is a continuation of a fiasco which traces back to the 1960s and 70s Ethiopian student movement. However, what makes today’s student generation different from the student generation of the past is that the former generation stood united in promoting public causes such as ‘Meret le arashu’(Land to the Tiller), basic human rights and democratic values amid their differences on some other issues. Unfortunately, these days the trend has been changed, let alone students to be united and stand for public causes, they barley agree among themselves.The findings depicted that ethnocentric attitude is the main source of conflict among Amhara, Tigray and Oromo students in Bahir-Dar University. Besides, the results indicated that the political division along ethnic lines has been exacerbated after the onset of ethnic federalism in 1991.

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  http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4783

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• Life without a husband : enforced disappearance and female livelihoods in Western Nepal

  Sangroula, Anjana (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 05-Jun-2012)

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  This study focuses on the livelihoods of women, whose husbands disappeared during the civil war (1996-2006) in Nepal. It is about the strategies adopted by the women for daily basic needs in absence of their husbands. Being uneducated and rural dwellers, the informants are mostly living on agriculture and other rural activities. Assets especially land, plays a significant role in rural livelihoods. But, access to and control of assets and productive rural resources are mediated by local cultures and gender ideologies. Men were previously the ‘main breadwinners’ in family households and women mere dependents. However in absence of men/husbands, women/wives assumed additional responsibilities such as cultivating and maintaining farms, and obtaining loans-to ensure the viability of their households. The study shows that women are now the exclusive ‘bread-winners’ and ‘decision-makers’ in the new female-headed households in the Bardia district of Western Nepal. Moreover, the findings show how adversity had mobilised women consciously or unconsciously to challenge cultural values, thereby re-ordering a gender roles. Women have been shown to raise their voices in the public arena to demand information about the whereabouts of their husbands-whose absence had undermined the socio-economic security of family households.

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  http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4781

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• Stereotypes among and about Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans : a case study of the Isla Calero conflict

  Natvig, Anne (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 06-Aug-2012)

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  Through different qualitative approaches this thesis analyses the (re)creation of stereotypes among and about Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans in the context of the Isla Calero conflict which began in 2010. The findings are based on questionnaires, interviews and observations conducted in Costa Rica and Nicaragua in late 2011. An analysis of news items produced in both countries during the first month of the conflict also sheds light on the use of stereotypes in these societies. Although both countries claimed to want peace and reconciliation, the discourses employed during the time of research have contributed to a deeper division between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The countries competed over the representation as peaceful, while stereotyping the other as conflict seeking. Through emphasising difference and not similarities, myths about the other were (re)created within both societies. Further, the discourses in the two countries largely ignore the points of view of the other. This constructs a hegemony of representation and stereotyping within each country that (re)creates the boundaries between Us and an Other. Also, through mythologizing historical events, national stereotypes are naturalised within the societies, creating perceptions of difference as inevitable facts.

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  http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4619

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• Democratic backlash in the post-Soviet era : the case of democratization and a backlash in Russia

  Solhaug, Teodor (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 12-Aug-2012)

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  Abstract:	When scholars around the world talk about the russian democratization, some of them talk about a russian backlash. What this tesis is trying to answer is: What is meant by this, what is the main explanations and how do the different explanations together create a understanding of the russian backlash.
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