Search for dissertations about: "Civilians"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the word Civilians.

2. 6. Guns and Governance : Local Elites and Rebel Governance in Côte d'Ivoire

   Author : Sebastian van Baalen; Kristine Höglund; Johan Brosché; Scott Straus; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil war; rebel governance; rebel groups; responsiveness; local elites; clientelism; civil resistance; Côte d Ivoire; Odienné; Vavoua; Man; Forces Nouvelles; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : Close to one billion people live in conflict zones around the world, many of them in areas under rebel influence. Research on civil war shows that rebels often engage in governing localities under their control by creating institutions and practices intended to shape the social, political, and economic life of civilians. READ MORE

4. 7. Neutrality in Internal Armed Conflicts : Experiences at the Grassroots Level in Colombia

   Author : Pedro Enrique Valenzuela Grueso; Peter Wallensteen; Christopher Mitchell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; neutrality; internal armed conflict; peace communities; Colombia; Peace and conflict research; Freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : Civilians in situations of armed conflict are not exclusively victims or fence-sitters, but engage in a wide array of strategies along the spectrum from passivity to activity. Nevertheless, the privileged focus on eliteled processes has neglected peacebuilding efforts at the grassroots level, despite their increased saliency in internal armed conflicts and their potential impact on their regulation and/or transformation. READ MORE

5. 8. Memories of traumatic events among swedish police officers

   Author : Ingemar Karlsson; Sven Å Christianson; Pekka Santtila; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trauma; Memory; Police officers; Eyewitnesses; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Police officers run a risk of exposure to extremely stressful and traumatic situations in their work. Such situations may involve anything from being the first to arrive at the scene of a traffic accident to investigations of brutal murders or acute threat situations in which they themselves are forced to use force. READ MORE

6. 9. Group membership and eyewitness testimony

   Author : Torun Lindholm; Jerry Shaw; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Eyewitness testimony; group membership; intergroup biases; memory performance; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The present thesis includes four empirical studies that explore whether eyewitness accounts of a violent crime may be affected by factors related to the group membership of witness, perpetrator, and victim.Study 1 investigates how an immigrant and a Swedish perpetrator of a simulated, violent robbery are evaluated and remembered by immigrant and Swedish witnesses. READ MORE

7. 10. Knowing and Seeing the Combatant. War, Counterinsurgency and Targeting in International Law

   Author : Amin Parsa; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public international law; the principle of distinction; targeting; the international law of targeting; counterinsurgency; US Army; technologies of visualisation; knowledge-vision; military uniform; disposition matrix; war; folkrätt; riktat dödande; krigets lagar; distinktionsprincipen; militär uniform; gerillabekämpning;

   Abstract : Knowing and Seeing the Combatant investigates how does the US counterinsurgent forces make distinction between civilians and combatants during targeting practices? This dissertation is specifically focused on the visual dynamics of the contemporary targeting and as such argues that the insurgent's withdrawal from the obligation of visual self-identification as targets by not wearing military uniform reveals a complicated logic of target-ability in the laws of armed conflict (LOAC).Focusing on the legal, political and visual functions of the military uniform, this dissertation argues that LOAC legitimises lethal violence by reliance on a particular conception of human target that can be summarised as a nexus of ‘knowledge – contribution to adversarial militarised willpower – and Vision – material modes of visibility and invisibility’. READ MORE