Master's theses in peace and conflict transformation: Nye registreringer
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Gender-based violence versus Human Security: Cases from South Sudan
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-09-02)This thesis is based on the concept of gender-based violence (GBV), violence that mostly targets women due to socially constructed perceptions about their gender. The context that has been chosen is South Sudan and the analysis has been carried out on the background of a document study of the Transitional Constitution and the customary court system in South Sudan. GBV is a highly prevalent threat ... -
Political Opinion and National Identity: Dilemma of the Sahrawi Ethnic Unity after 38 Years of Diaspora
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-08-15)Western Sahara has been called “the last colony” of Africa. The territory was colonized by Spain in 1884. During the pan-Maghreb liberation period in the 1950s, the local population, Sahrawi people also joined the resistance against colonial powers. However, when Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania obtained own independence as nation-state, the “Maghrebian dream” ended. Western Sahara has not ... -
Am I Norwegian Yet? Government and Grassroots Approaches to Integration: The Introduction Act and the Tea Time Campaign
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-01)This thesis examines different approaches and methods used for the integration of immigrants in Norway. The study compares two different cases. The first is the government‟s main tool of integration, the introduction program for newly arriving refugees. The second is an initiative from a civil society non-governmental organization, The Norwegian Center against Racism, call the Tea Time campaign. The ... -
Sacrifice and devotion among women in the Communist Party of Peru
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010)In 2001 ended a 21 years long violent conflict between the Peruvian state and the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP). During the violent period were hundreds of women and men imprisoned for affiliation to the PCP. The PCP had a significant number of women participating in the violence, these women were present in all levels of the party. The PCP represented a higher level of female political participation ... -
Is It Always the Economic Stupid?: Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and Petroviolence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-13)Economics narratives concluded that the availability of natural resources propels conflict and underdevelopment instead of stability and progress in resource-rich states; that the drive and duration of conflict in resource-rich states rest on three premises: Financing – appropriation of natural resources by the rebel or militia groups, Recruitment – opportunity to induce fighting power and thirdly ... -
Functionings and Failures: Challenges to Human Security as a Local Capability
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-01)This thesis focusses on the perspectives of community level actors in Liberia regarding their efforts to pursue locally valued human security objectives. It utilizes a theoretical framework based on human security, the capabilities approach, and the Copenhagen school of securitization to evaluate local actor agency and how that agency is impacted by imbalanced power relations with national and ... -
Cod Peace - Peace, Crises, and the Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-16)The thesis uses a peace-studies perspective to examine the relationship between crises, peace-values, and the Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission. It uses crises as focal points to shed light on values, and to explore alternatives. The thesis has triangular data collection at its empiric basis, and uses 4 qualitative interviews along with Commission protocols, to better understand the ... -
Building Houses into Homes: Essential Networks and Informal Living in Cape Town, South Africa
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-01)This study explores the potential assets of informal living as a consequence of historical spatial planning and urbanization in Cape Town South Africa. Micro realities of informal living are illustrated against a backdrop of wider socio-political policies that effectively produce informal settlements through arguably flawed housing delivery systems. Qualitative interviews conducted across a small ... -
The USSR/Russia, Norway and international co-operation on environmental matters in the Arctic, 1984-1996
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-14)This thesis examines the USSR, Norway and international cooperation on environmental matters in the Arctic (1984-1996). During the Cold War, the region attracted much attention from of the main adversaries. It was a playground for strategic planners and a laboratory for the improvement of military technology. But at the same time these territories were also – at least potentially – a source for ... -
Isn’t it too early to drop out of school? A study of girls’ education in the Chepang community of Nepal
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-01)This thesis examines the problem of girls’ illiteracy in one of the poorest and most disadvantaged indigenous communities of Nepal – the Chepang community. The problem of education in this community is very serious, since a significant portion of its members have never been to school and can neither read nor write. The vast majority of uneducated Chepangs are women. The aim of the thesis is to find ... -
Toy Gun instead of Doll: Politicization of Children's Literature in the Declining Public Sphere of Iran (1963- 1979)
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-05-13)Abstract The present research is an attempt to shed light on the process of politicization of children’s literature in the shaky public realm of Iran during a historical period between 1963 and 1979. The main purpose has been to show how under the pressure of the absolutist regime of Pahlavi many suppressed conflicts have not had any spaces and realms to be manifested and discussed in public or ... -
A MOVE TOWARDS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN ETHIOPIA: ACCOMMODATING CUSTOMARY DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-01)Restorative justice is an alternative way of thinking about crime and justice which views crime as a violation of a relationship among victims, offenders and community instead of putting a state as a sole victim, and has the objective of “putting right” or “healing” the wrong and to restore the broken relationship in the community. Unlike the restorative justice perspective, the Ethiopian criminal ... -
The Moral Geographies of Political Violence: Using GIS to Map and Explain Public Opinion on Political Violence
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-06-02)Conflict research is generally focused on explaining those people that engage in violence. This thesis suggests that we also study ordinary civilians and their opinions and support for violence. Such a civilian-centered research focus is necessary because implicit in much of conflict research there are some underlying assumptions, moral judgments, and geographic ideas about violence-supporters. These ... -
“I don't owe anyone anything”. Draft-avoidance in contemporary Russia
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-01-16)This thesis examines draft-avoidance in the context of contemporary Russia. The objective of the research is to shed light on army-avoiders' views and reflections, not only for a better understanding of the issue of the conscription crisis, but also to provide insights into the transition from the Soviet to the Russian era and how young men negotiate and relate to processes of social change. To meet ... -
From lofty rhetorics to workable politics? The case of federalism in post-war Nepal
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-02-15)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 ... -
Life without a husband : enforced disappearance and female livelihoods in Western Nepal
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-06-05)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. ... -
Stereotypes among and about Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans : a case study of the Isla Calero conflict
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-08-06)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 ... -
Democratic backlash in the post-Soviet era : the case of democratization and a backlash in Russia
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-08-12)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. -
“They say they work in a sustainable way, but I don't really know” : building relationships between companies and their host communities, through CSR activities in Guatemala
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-08-28)In this thesis the relationship between corporations and their host communities through CSR programs has been the main focus. First it is stated that companies have been contributing to conflicts such as human rights abuses and ecological damage, through their main focus on profit and increasing shareholder value. Many of the business operations and direct foreign investments worldwide take place ... -
Representations of Sino-African development cooperation : discourse theoretical approach to American and British broadsheet newspapers
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-07-30)With the growing influence of the People’s Republic of China in Africa, the question arises: how do the advanced industrialised countries with established interests on the continent see the evolving Sino-African economic and foreign aid relations. This thesis aims at revealing the discourses present in American and British broadsheet newspapers on the topic and analysing the relationship between ...