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Return of the Groβraum and the Proper Security Crisis of Rising Arctic Tension. Special Online Issue, 46 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (Special Issue), 47-68 (2025).
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2025)This article adopts a spatial approach to understanding geopolitical events in the Arctic. It is sensitive to emerging securityscapes that cannot disentangle from broader global implications of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. A melting Arctic is reshaping the liner boundaries that define membership within its historically closed circumpolar polity; however, the international legal challenges ... -
The Nile River Dispute Between Egypt and Ethiopia: A Study of Resource Management, Legal Challenges, and the Politics of Survival in an Anarchic International System
(Master thesis, 2025)Egypt is currently facing increasing water scarcity, primarily due to its dependence on the Nile River and its rapidly growing population. Historically, Egypt managed to control the Nile through several treaties established during colonial times, which went largely unchallenged. Ethiopia is now contesting this control through the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. This thesis ... -
An intersectional analysis of Economic Violence against Indigenous Women in Chittagong Hill Tracts
(Master thesis, 2025)This paper examines the fundamental causes of economic violence directed towards Indigenous women living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. The research examines how the indigenous women of CHT face challenges such as restricted financial control and decision-making authority along with effects on their mental health. Indigenous women in CHT face multiple economic and social ... -
Solidarity for Whom? Tracing the Commodification of Asylum within the EU’s International Protection Framework
(Master thesis, 2025)Solidarity remains a contentious issue within the EU’s international protection framework. This became particularly evident during 2015–2016, when over one million irregular crossings at the Union’s external borders exposed significant weaknesses within the CEAS and triggered debates among Member States over where refugee responsibility should lie. In 2024, the EU adopted the New Pact on Migration ... -
Sanctions at the Gateway: The Unseen Human Rights Costs of U.S. Policy in Iran
(Master thesis, 2025)In Iran, practicing digital rights involves contending with layers of regulation and constraint. Alongside domestic measures that influence online practices, another force compounds the pressures faced by Internet users, which is U.S. sanctions. This thesis investigates how U.S. sanctions affect Internet freedoms in Iran in interaction with existing regulatory dynamics. Originally, these sanctions ... -
Filling the human rights implementation gap: Role of NGOs in securing reproductive rights for Ukrainian refugees in Poland
(Master thesis, 2025)In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland became a major host country for Ukrainian refugees. While the Polish state implemented a range of support measures, access to reproductive rights was notably absent from its crisis response, creating a significant gap in protection and service provision. This thesis examines how non-governmental organisations in Poland have responded to ... -
FIXING THE BROKEN GLASS: INITIATIVES FOR RECONCILIATION AND SOCIAL COHESION IN THE GAMBIA
(Master thesis, 2025)This study explores the reconciliation and social cohesion mechanisms in The Gambia by exploring the role of religious leaders and civil society actors in promoting reconciliation and social cohesion. Through in-depth interviews, this research aimed to understand the role religious leaders and civil society actors play in reconciling people and to explore the local initiatives that support their ... -
“When I look at her I don’t see anything other than my daughter” Australian fathers and their trans young people
(Master thesis, 2025)Parental gender affirmation and advocacy are central to protecting the rights and wellbeing of trans young people (TYP). However, the current academic literature provides little information about the experiences and actions of their fathers. Available academic references point largely to a distant or obstructive role, with minimal discussion and analysis of the structural factors that might be ... -
Making sense of Extinction Rebellion Indonesia activism through a performative perspective on rights claiming
(Master thesis, 2025)One of the most common ways to shed light on injustice is through rights claiming. This study examines how Extinction Rebellion Indonesia frames its claims and mobilises strategies to contest dominant discourses and construct new political subjects. In doing so, it highlights the performative dimensions of rights claiming, that is, a dimension that is concerned with not only what is said or demanded ... -
From Recognition to Transformation: Strengthening GenderBased Violence Reparations through DecolonialIntersectionality in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis critically examines the reparation practices of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in cases of gender-based violence, through the analysis of two emblematic cases: Cotton Field v. Mexico (2009) and Manuela et al. v. El Salvador (2021). The study aims to assess the advances and limitations of the Court’s reparation model, particularly regarding its capacity to address the ... -
A Just Transition? Human Rights, Justice and Renewable Energy in UK Parliamentary Debate.
(Master thesis, 2025)The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems is necessary to mitigate climate catastrophe. However, a failure to centre justice within national policymaking processes could lead to a transition that entrenches inequalities and perpetuates human rights abuses. This thesis examines how human rights and justice are showing up in UK parliamentary debates on the renewable energy ... -
Striving for Decent and Formal Work Opportunities: How Young People Navigate Employment in Bujumbura
(Master thesis, 2025)This research explores how young people currently in higher education or with completed university degrees in Bujumbura, Burundi, experience and navigate access to decent and formal employment. Despite formal education being widely viewed as a pathway to personal development, social status, and decent work, many young Burundians face structural, and social barriers that prevent them from translating ... -
Mellomlederes handlingsrom i et stadig mer profesjonelt byråkrati
(Master thesis, 2025)Mellomlederes evne og mulighet til å utøve lederskap er en viktig nøkkel til virksomheters suksess. Det som var gårsdagens riktige nøkkel, passer ikke nødvendigvis i dag. Samfunnet utvikles, teknologien går videre og trender treffer og går videre. Nye krav og muligheter formes. Midt i dette står byråkratiet i sin nokså faste form, men med et mer og mer påtvunget behov for endring. For offentlig ... -
Oversettelse av bærekraftige løsninger i offentlig sektor
(Master thesis, 2025)Oppgaven benytter Røviks oversettelsesteori, som ser på hvordan ideer og praksiser overføres og tilpasses nye kontekster. Teorien skiller mellom tre oversettelsesmoduser: kopiering, modifisering og omvandling. Translatørkompetanse, eller evnen til å effektivt oversette og tilpasse ideer, er også sentral. I studien benyttes det en kvalitativ tilnærming, med individuelle intervjuer av fem informanter ... -
Fragile! Please Handle with Care: Collective Care and Rehearsal of A Rights-Fulfilled Life among Feminist Activists Working for Human Rights in Indonesia
(Master thesis, 2025)This study takes a constructivist and ethnographic approach to examine collective care among feminist activists working for human rights in Indonesia. Thirteen activists were engaged in in-depth conversations. Leveraging the theories of practice and care, the study found that collective care emerges as a counter-culture practice against the tyranny of carelessness, which is rooted in capitalism, ... -
Flying in Greenland: Pilot, Weather, and Perceptual Experience, An Anthropology of Human Factors
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines preceptions of an environment defined as hostile - the ‘perceiving’ that is not limited to cognitive aspects. It is a thesis about the ways in which we see the world, not as determined, but with awareness that our experiences affect what we bring to what is in front of us, before our eyes. But it is also about the physical structure of the eye, in that we have deficiencies. In ... -
“Assessing Accountability Mechanisms for Conflict-related Sexual Violence (CRSV) within Transitional Justice Processes in South Sudan and Ethiopia: A Comparative Analysis”
(Master thesis, 2025)Abstract This study critically examines the mainstreaming of CRSV into transitional justice mechanisms in Ethiopia and South Sudan. This research utilises a comparative approach in analysing how domestic and hybrid prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, and traditional justice approaches address CRSV and the needs of its survivors. The study employs a transitional justice theoretical framework ... -
Nevrodivergente stedskonstruksjoner
(Master thesis, 2025)Dette masterprosjektet tar sikte på å belyse nevrodivergentes sensoriske- og kroppslige erfaringer av Tromsø. Inspirert av et fenomenologisk stedsperspektiv, undersøkes det hvilke steder Tromsø utgjør for mennesker med sensoriske variasjoner, og hva det betyr for opplevelsen av-, og følelsen til Tromsø. Problemstillingen for masterprosjektet er: Hvilke stedskonstruksjoner av Tromsø kommer til syne ... -
The Long and Winding Polar Silk Road: Explaining China’s Limited Success in Policy Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arctic
(Master thesis, 2025)China developed the elusive ‘Polar Silk Road’ policy around 2017. The Polar Silk Road connects China’s Arctic policy with the global Belt and Road Initiative, and aims to increase Chinese activity within shipping, infrastructure construction and resource development in the Arctic region. In the eight years that have passed since, the policy has produced remarkably few concrete results. This thesis ... -
Youth spaces of care and art at Tvibit
(Master thesis, 2025)This research addresses the gap in research on youth arts spaces with a specific focus on their role as social infrastructure through a case study of the youth house Tvibit in Tromsø, Norway. Youth and staff everyday experiences of Tvibit and informal arts learning were explored through semi-structured interviews, observations, and a zine workshop to understand how Tvibit’s public space acts as a ...
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