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“HEAR ME OUT!” - JUVENILE JUSTICE, PEACE and THE CHILD’S RIGHT TO BE HEARD IN ROMANIA AND NORWAY
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-29)“If you want peace, work for justice.” – Pope Paul VI This paper explores how the children’s right to be heard is implemented in the criminal proceedings in Romania and Norway. The judicial practices in the two countries are analysed in relation to four elements identified in the literature as relevant to the child’s right to be heard- space, voice, audience and influence. The two juvenile ... -
Home away from home: A visual participatory project exploring what young people with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds communicate about their everyday lives in London.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)This thesis concerns the ways in which young people with refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds navigate new places, negotiating conflict and creating paths to peace in London. Those with the most proximate experiences of migration are often excluded from peacebuilding processes. Coloniality entangled into the praxis of peace and conflict fashions a dogma in which Global North understandings of peace ... -
Homesteading in the Arctic: The Logic Behind, and Prospects for, Russia’s ’Hectare in the Arctic’ Program
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)Moscow launched its “Hectare in the Arctic” program in summer 2021, allowing Russian nationals to obtain a free hectare of land in the country’s northern regions. This plan is the latest attempt to address the chronic problem of outmigration and to attract new settlers to the Russian Arctic. Yet, multiple obstacles stand in the way of making the scheme a viable demographic solution. The primary ... -
Hot tensions in a cold region: territory and peace in the European Arctic
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-15)This thesis focuses on relations between territorial issues and peace in the European Arctic. The objective of this research is to examine region‘s political decision makers‘ views and reflections on state of peace in the European Arctic and how it is influenced by territorial disputes. It utilizes a conceptual framework based on theory of zones of peace. The results of qualitative research indicate ... -
How Corruption Affects Vulnerability to Radicalization into Violent Extremism: Examining the Case of Kosovo’s Foreign Fighters
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-10-31)This thesis seeks to examine how corruption affects the vulnerability to radicalization into violent extremism by examining the process of radicalization, what makes individuals vulnerable to this process, and how these vulnerabilities are affected by corruption. The assumptions made are further examined through the case of Kosovo. Findings made in this thesis suggest that while corruption is not ... -
How does imagery matter for activists dissemination of their ideas and political mobilization? A case study of the exposure of the fur industry in Norway.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-02)Imagery can be a powerful tool to raise awareness in a society, with research showing that imagery can realize both social and political change. Media plays an important role by setting the agenda of what is important, and the media can therefore have a significant role for activists when disseminating their images. This study aims to determine and analyse the effect imagery can have on a society ... -
How Peacekeepers Succeed: Investigating the Dynamics of UN Peacekeeping Missions
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)By sending peacekeeping and observer missions to the world’s troubled spots over the past seventy years, the United Nations (UN) has devoted its attention and resources to promoting living standards and human rights throughout the world. Despite this, the peacekeeping missions often fail to establish peace in a turbulent region. What dynamics play into the strategy of the peacekeepers? How can a ... -
Human rights and the development of a twenty-first century peace architecture: unintended consequences?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-16)The ‘long peace’ of the last twenty-five years has linked various forms of intervention—from development to peacebuilding and humanitarian intervention—with human rights. This ‘interventionary system/order’ model has premised its legitimate authority on expanded versions of human rights, connected to liberal frameworks of democracy, rule of law, and capitalism in order to connect peace more closely ... -
“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 ... -
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. ... -
The identity conflict of the Csango minority from Romania
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2006)<p>In the eastern province of Romania, also called Moldavia, lives a minority group of nearly a quarter of a million people named Csangoes, designated by the religious allegiance to the Roman-Catholic Church, and the use of Hungarian language as mother tongue by approximatively 60 000 people. The common literature of the last period has launched the idea that the Csangoes represent a mysterious ... -
Identity, stability, Hybrid Threats and Disinformation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-01)The following article examines the relevance of gender and intersectional analyses to better understanding hybrid threats, in particular those that are increasingly targeting civilian environments. The authors first present relevant concepts including hybrid threats and warfare, resilience, disinformation, civilian agency, and intersectionality as a method. Thereafter they discuss how disinformation ... -
“If I write I must tell the truth as I know it” - Gender, Conflict, and Nationalism in Women's Memoirs of the Easter Rising
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)The Easter Rising was a pivotal moment in the fight for Irish independence and retains a potent place in Irish Republican mythology. Memory of the Rising has frequently centered the men, particularly those who were executed in its aftermath and so became Republican martyrs. This thesis explores Republican women’s memories of the Rising, through analysis of four memoirs of the period. I identify six ... -
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 ... -
The Impact of Al-Shabab terrorist attacks in Kenya
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-12-04)As the world becomes more technologically advanced, terrorism has risen as a major setback to the advancement of the human race. Kenya, specifically, has been hard hit by terrorist attacks during the past twenty years or so. In 1998, Kenya experienced its first major terrorist hit when the US Embassy was bombed, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries. The next significant attack took place in ... -
Impact of the oil and gas industry on human security : relation between the national and the human : case study: the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-08-04)The oil and gas industry plays significant role in the economy and politics of the Russian Federation. Economic development is treated as providing national security. Therefore the oil and gas industry makes an important national interest. Arguments concerning national security issues are crucial in decision-making process. However, the people living together with industrial activities may have ... -
Implementation of restorative justice in Ukraine
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-04)ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to investigate the process of restorative justice implementation in Ukraine. The research provides an analysis of the current situation and evaluates the necessity of support of restorative justice practice by the State (i.e. by legislation, law enforcement and conventional justice systems). To achieve objectives of the study methods of qualitative ... -
Indigenous Workers in Guatemala City and the Mayan Movement : Exploring the Representation of Ethnic and Labour Demands
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Inequality, perceptions of identity and conflict. Inferences from the Black Cat Track, Papua New Guinea
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-15)This thesis considers how violent conflict can be explained and studied, the type of evidence that suggests causes of conflict, who is gets involved and why. Interest is in what causes the cleavages between adversaries and the extent to which differences might be real or perceived. A case study, from the Black Cat Track in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and involving a violent attack on ... -
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 ...
