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Decree 546 and Female Imprisonment in Colombia: Considering the Impact of Empty Policy on Institutional Trust
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-11-26)What happens to institutional trust when fundamental human rights are not respected by the laws meant to protect them? The social and political environment spurred by the Covid 19 pandemic proved difficult for policymakers and the public alike, but perhaps those with the least agency fared the worst, prisoners. This thesis theorizes the concept of loss of institutional trust as a consequence ... -
The Dagbon chieftaincy conflict in Northern Ghana: analyzing the role of the Committee of Eminent Chiefs to the restoration of peace in Dagbon.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-11-15)This study focuses on the Dagbon chieftaincy succession dispute between the Andani and the Abudu royal gates in the Northern Region of Ghana. The chieftaincy succession dispute between these two royal gates has existed since 1953. After what appeared to be unchecked rivalry even before Ghana attained political independence, the conflict festered and saw the murder of the overlord King of Dagbon Ya ... -
An analysis of social media as an instrument of social change: a case of the EndSARS protest
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-11-14)The EndSARS protest movement took place in Nigeria from the 8th to the 20th of October 2020. The protest movement had clear objectives and goals, and utilized digital media, technology, and networks to coordinate and organize. Its extensive use of digital tools was not witnessed before in the history of social movements in Nigeria. Recognizing this, I conducted a media analysis of the protest to ... -
I love freedom! - The Role of Art in Social Movements: Women's Strike Protests in Poland 2020
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-12)Thesis refers to the fields of art, social science, and politics and the role of artworks in social movements. It emphasizes the meaning and power of art in social movements. Using the concepts of structural violence, protest art, artivism, and transformative power of art as theoretical background as well as multimodal discourse analysis as methodology, it provides answers to research questions. ... -
Image of Russia in Norway and vice versa: cross-pollination
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2017-11-01)The present thesis project examines the concept of country image, namely the country image of Russia in Norway and vice versa. Modern world society is inclined to globalization and undistorted usage of information. In such conditions, majority have a common vision of the country image concept, but the structure of country image itself is unsystematized and occasionally undisclosed. Such a versatile ... -
An Exploratory Research on the Role of Social Capital to Urban Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs). Challenges and adaptability process of Conflict-induced IDPs from the Anglophone regions of Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-08-16)Understanding the role of social capital in the adaptability process of Urban IDPs, is of great importance, in targeting the specific needs and challenges of Urban IDPs. Addressing these needs and challenges can help reduce the prospects of other civil crisis, that can result because of an increase in the urban population, unequal distribution of economic and social opportunities, and high crimes ... -
The Polarization of the French society: a study of the Yellow Vests movement
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)On November 17th, 2018, French people, wearing a yellow security vest, came together in the streets of the big cities and on the roundabouts of the country towns. This movement stood out as particularly violent, on the part of the Yellow Vests, especially in Paris, and by severe repression on the part of the government. What was then called the Yellow Vests movement highlighted Social Polarization, ... -
War is for American (super)men: Narratives of conflict and gender in the Captain America franchise
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-01)The way conflict and gender are discursively constructed is influenced, in part, by media representations. An influential entertainment complex like the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) can, therefore, play a major role in the way conflict, gender, and their intersection are understood. This thesis explores Marvel’s representations of those topics in the Captain America franchise by analyzing the ... -
Print Media in a post-conflictual society: A discourse analysis of the development in Northern Ireland
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)The aim of the thesis is to explore how newspapers behave in a post-conflictual society. The thesis applies discourse analysis to two cases in modern day Northern Ireland. The first case being the reopening of Stormont in the spring of 2007. The second case is the youth riots of 2021. Through analyzing these cases I gain an understanding of how the media behaves in such a society. -
Biopolitics and Human Agency of North Korean border crossers: The Ethics of Coexistence, Mobility-Identity-Security Analysis (MISA), and Risk Analysis (RA)
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)This thesis discusses mobility, identity, and security (MIS), risk to life, emancipatory everyday peace in the context of biopolitics and human agency of North Korean border crossers. It begins with providing a new concept of human agency comprised of ability and answerability laid on the ground of the ethics of coexistence. Next, the thesis provides prevalent definitions of three identity groups ... -
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: A Case Study of Faith-Based Organizations in Isiolo County, Kenya
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)Generally conflict prone, Isiolo County currently grapples with radicalization and recruitment into violent extremism by violent extremist organizations such as Al Shabab and Al Qaida. As part of a wider response to violent extremism and terrorism in Kenya, civil society organizations in Isiolo implement preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE) programs with the aid of local and international ... -
The influence of illicit wildlife trafficking in security matters. The case of illicit trafficking of elephant ivory and rhino horn in Africa.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)Threatened wildlife is being poached at an alarming rate to feed the global illicit wildlife trafficking (IWT). Poachers and armed non-state actors – including rebel forces such as the Lord's Resistance Army – are targeting elephants and rhinos across Africa in order to meet growing global demand. This thesis places a particular emphasis on the worldwide security implications of the IWT in a time ... -
Latvia in the Baltic Freedom Way Through Singing Revolutions Towards the Restoration of Independence from the Soviet Russian Empire
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)The aim of this master's thesis research paper has been to reflect on the conceptual and theoretical framework of peace studies and practice research through examining the context behind the late 1980s Baltic states independence movements also known as "The Baltic Freedom Way" and "Singing Revolutions". The chosen and compiled conceptual and theoretical framework representing selected peace studies ... -
SPACE, AGENCY AND SUFFERING: Unveiling the experiences of non-Western women in asylum reception centres in Northern Norway
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-18)The experiences of women in asylum reception centres remain largely unheard. Few researchers have been focusing on the lived experiences of women in asylum accommodations. Even fewer have investigated the interaction between spatial conditions of asylum accommodation and women’s agency in Northern Norway. This thesis involves an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to explore the interaction ... -
Vietnam – A general study of the triangulation toward change: social movements, economic development, and political changeover. An overview on the Vietnamese political development between internal movements and external constraints
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-14)The 1986 Economic Reform (Doi Moi) can be considered a watershed in Vietnamese history. The resulting development has also had a notable impact on society, where a more solid economic base has enabled the development of the middle class, a necessary condition for the growth of civil society. While the political system still defends a collectivist model, economic liberalism is bringing the Vietnamese ... -
A study of manifestations of political polarization as structural violence. A case study of Ghana’s 2020 Election
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-03)This research will use the case of Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020 to illustrate how polarization manifests in the power struggle and is fueled by structural violence in the constitutional and institutional arrangements towards elections. Ghana is often considered a model of African democracy with a track record of peaceful elections, regular changes of power since its return ... -
The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-10-28)The historiography of the “Anglophone Problem” has drawn a lot of ink from Cameroonian historians, lawyers, politicians, and scholars. This is because an Anglophone in the Cameroonian context is not necessarily a Cameroonian who speaks or writes English, or who is imbibed with the Anglo-Saxon culture. Cameroonians are confronted with who an Anglophone is, what is the Anglophone problem, the origin ... -
Peacekeeper Training on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Adding a gendered perspective
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-08-15)The United Nations (UN) promote gender equality and the fight against sexual violence on a global scale. Highlighting gender (in)equality and its effect on people are fundamental elements in promoting equality between sex and gender, regardless of the hierarchy, environment and social background. When addressing gender equality, it is essential to understand that the UNs gender mainstreaming agenda ... -
Climate Change, Human Displacement and the Potentiality of Conflict: The Case of Bangladesh
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-16)The impacts of climate change are damaging many aspects of human environment and increasing the vulnerabilities of millions of people in different parts of the world. Among different consequences of climate change, human displacement caused by natural disaster, both sudden and gradual, is one of the most obvious scenario in recent times. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world ... -
Everyday Peace in the Ecovillage: Unity and Strength through Diversity
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-31)Abstract: Peace and conflict studies can benefit from studying small, ordinary, peaceful communities, in contrast to focusing on outlier events of violence, conflict and war. As a peace from below approach, the ecovillage model offers insights on how ordinary people innovate new ways to build and sustain peace within a microcosm of society, focusing intensely on the local. The aim of this research ...
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