Search for dissertations about: "The United Nations"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 123 swedish dissertations containing the words The United Nations.

2. 16. Armed intervention, pursuing legitimacy and the pragmatic use of legal argument

   Author : Olof Beckman; Raoul Wallenberg institutet för mänskliga rättigheter och humanitär rätt; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; armed intervention; international law; United Nations; public international law; state practise; self-defense; legal argument; human rights; Folkrätt;

   Abstract : This study examines how States use legal arguments in cases of armed intervention and how this usage can influence the development of international law. The objective is to contribute to the understanding of the law on armed intervention by conducting a study of how States actually use legal arguments to justify or condemn armed interventions in actual cases. READ MORE

4. 17. Raising the Costs or Lowering the Bar : International influences on conflict-related sexual violence

   Author : Karin Johansson; Lisa Hultman; Erika Forsberg; Jessica A. Stanton; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conflict-related sexual violence; wartime sexual violence; wartime rape; international intervention; third-party intervention; violence against civilians; peacekeeping; civil war; shaming; condemnation; UN Commission on Human Rights; UN Human Rights Council; UN Universal Periodic Review; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This dissertation contributes to the growing literature on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). More specifically, the four essays it contains advance our understanding of CRSV by shedding light on the intersection between international involvement and CRSV perpetrated by states and rebel groups engaged in civil war. READ MORE

5. 18. Governing Development : The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Policy Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

   Author : Helena Hede Skagerlind; Jonas Tallberg; Kristina Jönsson; Jeffrey Checkel; Mathias Koenig-Archibugi; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Millennium Development Goals; sustainable development; gender equality; human rights; performance indicators; United Nations; Sub-Saharan Africa; Kenya; Ethiopia; economic conditionality; social influence; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in the use of different forms of global performance assessments as a means to influence the behavior of states. Within the area of international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reinforced the practice of development governance through global performance indicators (GPIs) and gained considerable agenda-setting power among the international development community. READ MORE

6. 19. From Idea to Norm : Promoting Conflict Prevention

   Author : Annika Björkdahl; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Polemology; international relations; social constructivism; norm entrepreneur; norm evolution; international norms; Swedish foreign policy; the European Union; conflict prevention; the United Nations; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This study is concerned with tracing the process of how conflict prevention is moving from the realm of ideas to the field of action. Why is it that, despite historical as well as recent evidence of the infeasibility to prevent wars, the idea of conflict prevention has resurfaced to meet the challenge of the new wars of the post-Cold War era? The study investigates whether the growing interest in preventing the outbreak of violent conflicts marks the coming of age of conflict prevention as an international norm able to induce preventive practices. READ MORE

7. 20. We are all the same, but... : Kenyan and Swedish school children's views on children's rights

   Author : Nina Thelander; Solveig Hägglund; Lynn Davies; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Children´s rights; the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; education; participation; non-discrimination; universal; children and childhoods; cultural politics of childhood; Pedagogiskt arbete; Educational Work;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a study on how school children in Kenya and Sweden express their views on children’s rights, in particular rights related to participation, non-discrimination, and education. The overall purpose was to explore the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its claim to be universal and its relevance for children in various school and life contexts. READ MORE