Search for dissertations about: "democracy in india"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words democracy in india.

  2. 1. Democracy and violent separatism in India : Kashmir in a comparative perspective

    Author : Sten Widmalm; Axel Hadenius; Subrata Mitra; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Violent Separatism; Democracy; Ethnicity; Nationalism; India; Kashmir; Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracyand the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980s. Usingnew empirical material collected mainly in India and Pakistan, it is argued thatit is a mistake to see an ethnic factor as the main cause of the conflict in Jammuand Kashmir. READ MORE

  4. 2. The law of the land contested: Bauxite mining in tribal, central India in an age of economic reform

    Author : Patrik Oskarsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the contestation over a bauxite mining project in the State of Andhra Pradesh which includes a number of factors that may be seen as producing conflicts over both the physical environment and equitable, inclusive development for very vulnerable people. A key issue at stake is an alternative use of land in the constitutionally protected Scheduled Areas for mining rather than low intensity cultivation and extraction of forest products. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Child's Right to Participation – Reality or Rhetoric?

    Author : Rebecca Stern; Maja Eriksson; Anna Singer; Eva Brems; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International law; Folkrätt; Public International Law; Folkrätt;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the child’s right to participation in theory and practice within the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights instruments.Article 12 of the Convention establishes the right of the child to express views and to have those views respected and properly taken into consideration. READ MORE