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The Haunting of Ukraine: A Geopolitical Spectacle of Self-Destruction
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis has identified four interweaving causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The first is domestic fragmentation between cultural identities and political models of statehood, internal contradictions which have fused with modern political currents and have thus embedded themselves within competing geopolitical paradigms – the second cause of war. Indeed, this toxic union has cemented Ukraine’s ... -
A Process Tracing Study: The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue’s Persistence and Salience in South Korea–Japan Relations
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines two questions: (1) Why has the ‘comfort women’ issue become so important to South Korean identity? (2) Why do diplomatic tensions between South Korea and Japan over the issue escalate during some periods and not during others? The study develops hypotheses for each question using the Explaining-Outcome Process-Tracing method. The aim has been to craft minimally sufficient ... -
EXPLORING THE LIVELIHOOD COPING MECHANISMS OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS UNDER A PROTRACTED DISPLACEMENT IN KUJE IDP CAMP FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT), NIGERIA.
(Master thesis, 2025)ABSTRACT This thesis is relevant research that explored the livelihood coping mechanisms of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria, a country that has witnessed prolonged displacements due to insurgency, conflict, kidnapping for ransom, banditry, and other factors was chosen for this research. Using a qualitative research approach of Sustainable Livelihood framework, the study explores the ... -
Decolonisation and Polarisation: Exploring Ukraine’s Societal Transformation Post-2014 and 2022 in the Shadow of Colonial logics
(Master thesis, 2025)Throughout several years, Ukraine has been a topic of interest discussed not only in the international arena, but even in daily life. After the events of Euromaidan, and the occupation of Ukrainian territories by the Russian Federation took place in 2014, Ukraine embarked on the path of complete decolonisation from the colonial hierarchy that had existed in the country since the time of the Tsarist ... -
Hindutva in the Breivik Manifesto: A Case Study Inspecting Paradigm Reflexivity in Peace and Conflict Studies
(Master thesis, 2025)Peace and Conflict Studies, as an interdisciplinary field, has long prided itself on normative commitments to justice, nonviolence, and transformation. However, as the field matures, it is imperative to scrutinise the analytical robustness, political implications, and epistemic assumptions of its core paradigms. This kind of reflexivity is especially necessary in the context of hyperconnected ... -
Framing Education, Fuelling Identity: News Media Narratives of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in Tamil Nadu
(Master thesis, 2025)Abstract Peace and conflict can only be understood in relation to the lived realities and identities of communities. Language, as a central feature of identity, brings people together and enriches culture through shared practices. This thesis examines how news media narratives and language politics interact in the context of India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, focusing on Tamil Nadu. Using ... -
A Plus For Peace - Swiss Neutrality and Its Role in the Security Council
(Master thesis, 2025)Switzerland’s neutrality is now more contested than ever. Different discourses about what kind of neutrality might be the right one for Switzerland persist. In my thesis I have made a Critical Discourse Analysis of Swiss Statements on Neutrality during its membership in the Security Council from 2023 to 2024. This allowed me to deepen the understanding of Swiss neutrality in a multilateral context. ... -
An Innovation Narrative threatens Societal Safety: Analyzing Vulnerabilities to Regulatory Capture in the Norwegian approach to AI Governance
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines the vulnerabilities of the Norwegian approach to regulatory capture, where policy is co-opted to serve private profit over public interest, and the societal safety implications that may arise as a result. Drawing on key policy documents for Norwegian AI policy, the analysis highlights several priorities and initiatives involving private actors, with a focus on innovation and ... -
Analysis of Norway’s approach towards violence in close relationships
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-08-16)Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intimate partner homicide (IPH) persist worldwide at an alarming rate. Norway is no exception, despite its high levels of gender equality. Partner murders constitute 25% of the total murders in the country (NOU 2020:17, 52). This proportion increased to almost 30% between the fall of 2021 and the fall of 2022 (Kripos 2023, 26). This thesis analyzes the main ... -
"Gaza Love.... The Beating is What They Prefer": The Correlative Relationship Between Practices of IPV in Nima, Ghana, and the Construction of Gender
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-22)This study attempts to examine, based on the accounts of men, the relationship between their understanding and performativity of gender, particularly masculinity, and the prevalence of IPV in Nima, a boisterous suburb in the heart of Accra, Ghana. The study utilizes Judith Butler’s “Gender as Performativity” theory as well as Lori Heise’s integrated, ecological framework that presents violence as a ... -
Colombia – a Migration Nation: exploring the experiences of young Colombian migrants
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)Acknowledgements First of all, a big gracias to the participants who shared so openly their personal stories, giving unique insight to an important topic. Thank you to my supervisor Marcela Douglas for enthusiasm and much needed guidance. Thank you to the Center for Peace Studies for giving me the opportunity to meet and get to know so many beautiful people from all over the world, always ... -
Examining the transition of hostility toward Muslims by the Extreme Buddhists Nationalism in Sri Lanka engaged by Social Media
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-13)This thesis explores the complex interplay of historical tensions, socio-political dynamics, and the role of social media platforms in shaping intergroup relations in Sri Lanka, particularly focusing on the hostility directed towards Muslims by the majority Buddhist population. Examining a range of data sources, including interviews with three organizations, discourse analysis, and socio-economic ... -
Social inclusion of refugees: How education contributes to integration. Case study of Open Cultural Center (OCC) in Northern Greece
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-15)This paper seeks to give ethnographic evidence of the role played by informal education when involved with asylum seekers. With the purpose of working “with” the community where the researcher is living, in the following pages I illustrate some situations I lived while working in the NGO called Open Cultural Center in the North of Greece. Knowledge, power, ... -
SØR-VARANGER MUNICIPALITY: Security and trust in limbo following the Ukraine war.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)With Russia`s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the bilateral relationship between Norway and Russia reached a new low. Russia is increasingly described as an existential threat. To protect Norwegian national security, sanctions were imposed, cooperation halted, and surveillance capacities strengthened. These measures significantly affected the Norwegian border community of ... -
Why do some quit while others stay? Disengagement from collective action: People's perspectives from the Sri Lankan Uprising of 2022
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)Sri Lanka as a post-war developing country within a post-colonial context has been the ground for numerous collective action initiatives such as social movements, protests, and civil disobediences while individuals taking part in different capacities including activism and volunteerism. The 2022 Uprising or ‘Aragalaya’ as known in the local language can be identified as a unique people-led collective ... -
Generational Divides in Okinawa: Perspectives on U.S. Military Presence
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)In the southernmost part of Japan, only 750 kilometres away from Taiwan, Okinawa Island holds approximately 70% of the U.S. military installations in Japan. Okinawans’ antipathy towards the U.S. military bases that have continued to exist from the end of WW2 to the present day, as well as base-related incidents and accidents, continue to be serious problems in the region, even more than 50 years ... -
From Empire to Nation? Nationalist Waves and Colonialism in China: A Case Study of Chinese Policies in Xinjiang in Connection to Internal Colonialism
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)The Uyghurs, who are one of the 55 minority groups of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), have for decades experienced strict policies in the region of Xinjiang, in which they are the majority pop- ulation. These policies have focused heavily on encouraged migration of the Chinese ethnic majority, the Han, to Xinjiang where the percentage of the Han in the region rose from 6.2% in 1945 to 39.2% ... -
Exploring the Exceptional Corrections Paradigm: An Analytical Case-Study of the Norwegian Model of Criminal Justice
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-13)The Norwegian model of criminal justice— a facet of the Scandinavian paradigm of alleged exceptionalism, is one of the unique attributes of this Nordic approach to social welfare, with a focus on aspects of normalization and rehabilitation as apparent fundamental principles and guiding philosophies. This study walks the reader through an outsider’s exploration of a case study in Norway, on the premise ... -
Islam and Gender Violence: Exploring Spousal Abuse in Kumasi Zongo
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-10-25)The discourse on gender-based violence has taken a central stage in global advocacy on gender equality, human rights, affirmative action, and other issues pertaining to gender discrimination. Gender-based violence (GBV), or Sexual and Gender-based violence (SGBV) is a harmful act of sexual, physical, psychological, mental, and emotional abuse that is perpetrated against a person’s will. It is usually ... -
Child Labour, Structural Violence and Education Exploring the impacts of psychosocial techniques in child labourers
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-10-31)This thesis investigates the impact of the "Educame Primero" program on working children in post-conflict Colombia. Through a mixed-methods approach from a Peace Perspective, it explores how educational interventions with a focus on play and psychosocial support can influence children's mental health and resilience. Findings reveal that such programs significantly enhance psychological well-being ...
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