Search for dissertations about: "causes of war"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words causes of war.
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16. Ambivalent Peace : External Peacebuilding, Threatened Identity and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract : This study expands the enquiry of external efforts to build peace after an ethnic war by investigating the effects these efforts may have on societal security and reconciliation among groups in a host society. To achieve this, a theoretical framework, combining theories on the character of external peacebuilding, and theories on societal security and reconciliation, was devised and applied to the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. READ MORE
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17. Rural development through social capital? An inquest into the linkages between social capital and development in war-torn villages in Sri Lanka
Abstract : This doctoral thesis concerns the potential causal relationship between social capital and rural development in war-torn villages in the north of Sri Lanka. The social capital thesis centers on the notion that social relationships matter to development-related outcomes and reconstruction of war-torn societies. READ MORE
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18. Targeting bacterial infections by using immunomodulatory host defence peptides and proteins
Abstract : Bacterial infections and sepsis are amongst the leading causes of death worldwide. Sepsis is caused by an uncontrolled systemic host response towards an invading pathogen. Due to the engagement of various systems including cellmediated responses, the coagulation and complement cascades, treatment of sepsis remains challenging. READ MORE
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19. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics
Abstract : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. READ MORE
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20. Poverty and health in different contexts : social inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique and 19th century Stockholm
Abstract : Infant and child mortality has declined in many low-income countries. However, in sub Saharan Africa, childhood mortality is still one of the major public health problems, which is worsening as some countries experience new increases in mortality due to HIV/AIDS. READ MORE