Blar i tittel Senter for fredsstudier - Centre for Peace Studies (CPS)

Viser treff 201-220 av 279

    • The quest for autonomy and politicisation of differences in Ethiopia : the case of the Alle ethnic minority 

      Hidoto, Yacob Cheka (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-06-18)
      This thesis explores the quest for autonomy by the Alle ethnic minority and changing relationships in Konso-Dirashe-Alle areas of Southern Ethiopia. It also examines the causes of violent clashes between the Alle peasants and the security forces in 2008. Alle people with many other diverse peoples were incorporated into the Ethiopian empire state in the late 19th century but living without equal ...

    • The Question of Structural Violence on the Saho people of Eritrea, in spite of their important role during the Eritrean Struggle for Independence 

      Esmail, Romodan Abdellah (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-25)
      Abstract The thesis focuses on discovering incidents of the structural violence on the Saho of Eritrea under the Eritrean PFDJ government. It is mainly stressed on the government policies, especially language and land and how the policies undermined the democratic rights of the Saho people. At the same time, it attempts to shed light on the subsequent suppressive attitudes of the government and ...

    • Questioning and assuming identities in a process of transitional justice : the case of Argentina’s found grandchildren 

      Gjerløw, Beate (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-31)
      How do Argentina’s found grandchildren experience knowing the truth about their biological origins, and how does this influence their identity? Their identification, restitution and reconstruction of identity has been and will continue to be closely linked to Argentina’s transitional justice process. We need more knowledge about how victims of political violence experience transitional justice ...

    • Regional Change. How will the rise of China and India shape Afghanistan’s stabilization process? 

      Weltzien, Åsmund; Torjesen, Stina; Stankovic, Tatjana (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2010)
      The brief examines how regional developments in Central/South Asia may affect the stabilization process in Afghanistan. Given that regional security dynamics played an important role in aggravating the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1990s, the report juxtaposes the situation in the 1990s with the present state of affairs. The brief argues that the regional dynamics in 2010 are very different ...

    • The reintegration of female ex-abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army of Northern Uganda : a case of Gulu District 

      Ainebyona, Gerald (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-06-28)
      ABSTRACT This thesis focuses on the reintegration of the female ex-abductees of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The aim of Reintegration is to transform and empower these women and girls so that they can help themselves and have a successful future. For more than two decades, the war between the LRA and the government of Uganda, included violations of human rights, abductions of children into ...

    • Reintegration of Maoists Ex-combatants in Nepal 

      Kandel, Kamal (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-11-15)
      Reintegration of ex-combatants is one of the major processes after the end of armed conflict. This study revolved around the question of social, political and economic challenges and opportunities that ex-combatants in Nepal come across while they remained in cantonment and after their voluntary retirement. The idea of integration has been analyzed along three dimensions; social, political and ...

    • The relevance of governance and social capital to understanding hybrid threats. Assessing a society's vulnerability and susceptibility towards hybrid threats through governance and social capital 

      Kongstad, Christian (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)
      This thesis asks the question: “how can the concepts of governance and social capital contribute to the MCDC-report’s analytical framework to further expose a society’s vulnerabilities and subsequent susceptibility towards hybrid threats”. By using the concepts of hybrid threats (HT) together with governance and social capital (SC) in the aspect of democracy, this thesis looks at the conflict in ...

    • Representations of Sino-African development cooperation : discourse theoretical approach to American and British broadsheet newspapers 

      Bognar, Dorottya (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 ...

    • Rescuing Peacebuilding? Anthropology and Peace Formation 

      Richmond, Oliver (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-25)
      International Relations (IR) and related social science disciplines focusing on peace and conflict studies have enabled a bureaucratic understanding of peacebuilding and a liberal form of peace. This has extended into a neoliberal type of statebuilding. There is now an impressive international architecture for peace, but its engagement with its subjects in everyday contexts has been less impressive. ...

    • Research on China’s One Belt and Road Initiative. From the perspective of geopolitics 

      Yuan, Jing (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-14)
      The Belt and Road Initiative is a cross-border economic belt initiated and led by the Chinese government in 2013. Its scope covers the history of the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road through China, Central Asia, North and West Asia, the Indian Ocean coast, the Mediterranean coast countries and regions. The country and region covered by the initiative are vast, and the impact is therefore enormous. ...

    • Researching Ethnicity and Ethnic Politics Using a Single Case Study Method 

      Woldeselassie, Zerihun A (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      This case is a study on ethnic politics in Ethiopia, using an interpretive methodology in the present context of the growing importance of ethnicity in politics across the globe. It primarily focuses on the ways in which a single case study on ethnicity and politics could be empirically performed. The case helps to understand the advantages and challenges of a single case study method in researching ...

    • Responsibility under International Law for Human Rights Violations Committed by the Personnel of United Nations Peace Support Operations: Sexual Exploitation and Abuses of Children and Women. 

      Doust Mohammadi, Sepideh (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-01)
      A considerable amount of cases of sexual exploitation and abuse of children and women committed by the personnel of United Nations peace support operations have been brought to the attention of the public, especially in recent years. As multiple actors are involved in United Nations peace support operations, i.a. the United Nations itself and Troop Contributing States, the question of attribution ...

    • Rhetoric, rationalities and realities in a Norwegian peace studies programme : knowledge and competences : a discourse analytical approach 

      Sørensen, Unni (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-10-30)
      This thesis presents an account of an empirical study of discourse of knowledge underlying a Master Programme of Peace and Conflict Transformation (MPCT programme) at the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) the University of Tromsø. The study applies a multidisciplinary framework for discourse analysis which draws on the fields of pedagogy, peace studies, phronetic social science, and epistemology connected ...

    • Risk-taking in unauthorised migration 

      Hernández Carretero, María (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-06-09)
      This thesis addresses the dynamics of high-risk unauthorised migration. First, it explores how new routes develop in relation to policies that seek to curtail unauthorised migration. Second, it analyses how aspiring migrants justify taking certain risks to migrate by negotiating risk information in relation to their life circumstances and considering the symbolic value of specific forms of migration. ...

    • The role of international student exchange in cross-cultural understanding 

      Fomicheva, Olga (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-12)
      The research studies changes in attitudes of Russian students who spent half a year studying at one of the universities in Northern Norway. The research attempts to answer the question “How does the international educational exchange contribute to cross-cultural understanding and peace?” Theory of intergroup contact serves as a theoretical basis of the analysis. The main hypothesis of contact theory ...

    • Role of the host society in the integration process. Willkommenskultur in Germany 

      Pogacar, Ana (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)
      Year 2015 was denoted with a huge influx of migrants and refugees in Europe, the event is known as a “refugee crisis”. This has made asylum policies one of the top issues on the political agenda and in public sphere. The countries have taken diverse approaches towards the crisis. Germany´s positive reaction towards refugees has been labelled a “Willkommenskultur”. The political level has eventually ...

    • THE ROLE OF WORK AND THE SENSE OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM AMONG REFUGEE WOMEN WITH FAMILIES IN TROMSØ, NORWAY 

      Ofosuhene, Adjoa Korankyiwa (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-14)
      The thesis reflects on the discussions surrounding refugee participation in work. Furthermore, the thesis seeks to find out the experiences of refugee women after five years of work participation. Focusing on their personal empowerment, relationship with children, changing ideals about femininities across transnational spaces, and creation of social networks, the thesis explores how these factors ...

    • Sacrifice and devotion among women in the Communist Party of Peru 

      Gausvik, Kjersti (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 ...

    • Sámi Yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat: An Ethnographic Study of Music as a Medium for Activism 

      Aluola, Philip (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)
      Sámi yoik and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat are the subjects of this thesis, which examines music as a form of activism through an ethnographic lens. The study's primary focus is an anthropological examination of Sámi music performances and oral histories. The Sámi are an indigenous people that live in northern Fennoscandia, which includes Norway, Finland, Sweden, and the Russian Kola Peninsula. The Federal ...

    • Scientific inquiry and the causes of civil war : the feasibility thesis and beyond 

      Rhea, Randolph Wallace (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05-16)
      This Master's Thesis uses Collier, Hoeffler, and Rohner's (2009) Feasibility Thesis as a field for a thorough inquiry into the question of how we can best study the causes of civil war. We advocate a pluralist research strategy, with set-theoretic (especially fuzzy-set) methods as a key component, as the most promising strategy for the study of the causes of civil war.