This paper examines the fundamental causes of economic violence directed towards Indigenous women living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. The research examines how the indigenous women of CHT face challenges such as restricted financial control and decision-making authority along with effects on their mental health. Indigenous women in CHT face multiple economic and social ...

In Iran, practicing digital rights involves contending with layers of regulation and constraint. Alongside domestic measures that influence online practices, another force compounds the pressures faced by Internet users, which is U.S. sanctions. This thesis investigates how U.S. sanctions affect Internet freedoms in Iran in interaction with existing regulatory dynamics. Originally, these sanctions ...

This study explores the reconciliation and social cohesion mechanisms in The Gambia by exploring the role of religious leaders and civil society actors in promoting reconciliation and social cohesion. Through in-depth interviews, this research aimed to understand the role religious leaders and civil society actors play in reconciling people and to explore the local initiatives that support their ...

One of the most common ways to shed light on injustice is through rights claiming. This study examines how Extinction Rebellion Indonesia frames its claims and mobilises strategies to contest dominant discourses and construct new political subjects. In doing so, it highlights the performative dimensions of rights claiming, that is, a dimension that is concerned with not only what is said or demanded ...

The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems is necessary to mitigate climate catastrophe. However, a failure to centre justice within national policymaking processes could lead to a transition that entrenches inequalities and perpetuates human rights abuses. This thesis examines how human rights and justice are showing up in UK parliamentary debates on the renewable energy ...

Mellomlederes evne og mulighet til å utøve lederskap er en viktig nøkkel til virksomheters suksess. Det som var gårsdagens riktige nøkkel, passer ikke nødvendigvis i dag. Samfunnet utvikles, teknologien går videre og trender treffer og går videre. Nye krav og muligheter formes. Midt i dette står byråkratiet i sin nokså faste form, men med et mer og mer påtvunget behov for endring. For offentlig ...

This study takes a constructivist and ethnographic approach to examine collective care among feminist activists working for human rights in Indonesia. Thirteen activists were engaged in in-depth conversations. Leveraging the theories of practice and care, the study found that collective care emerges as a counter-culture practice against the tyranny of carelessness, which is rooted in capitalism, ...

Abstract This study critically examines the mainstreaming of CRSV into transitional justice mechanisms in Ethiopia and South Sudan. This research utilises a comparative approach in analysing how domestic and hybrid prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, and traditional justice approaches address CRSV and the needs of its survivors. The study employs a transitional justice theoretical framework ...

China developed the elusive ‘Polar Silk Road’ policy around 2017. The Polar Silk Road connects China’s Arctic policy with the global Belt and Road Initiative, and aims to increase Chinese activity within shipping, infrastructure construction and resource development in the Arctic region. In the eight years that have passed since, the policy has produced remarkably few concrete results. This thesis ...

Denne oppgaven har som analytisk mål å avdekke mulige doktrinær påvirkning fra USA blant regjeringene i Norge, Danmark og Sverige i en tiårsperiode etter starten av den globale krig mot terrorisme, og hva som kan forklare en slik påvirkning. Med utgangspunkt i det beskrevne analytiske målet Følgende problemstilling er formulert for å besvare spørsmålene: «Hvilke element av Bush-doktrinen finnes i ...