Search for dissertations about: "human rights armed"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words human rights armed.

2. 1. 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. 2. Freedom of expression in armed conflict : The silence between spaces

   Author : Sally Alexandra Longworth; Ola Engdahl; Inger Österdahl; Pål Wrange; Marko Milanovic; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; armed conflict; occupation; freedom of expression; freedom of opinion; access to information; journalists; internet; social media; coercion; no quarter; threats; terrorism; censorship; hate speech; incitement to violence; propaganda; disinformation; misinformation; rättsvetenskap med inriktning mot folkrätt; Legal Science; specialisation Public International Law;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) in regards to the right to freedom of expression in armed conflict. Freedom of expression is a touchstone of other human rights and a cornerstone of democracy. READ MORE

5. 3. Political Imaginaries Amidst a Peace Deferred. The Politics of Human Rights Activism in the 2016 Colombian Peace Process

   Author : Richard Georgi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human rights; peace and conflict; Colombia; activism; civil society; deconstructionist philosophy; post-structuralism; political theory; discourse theory; protest movements;

   Abstract : The Colombian government and the FARC-EP envisioned to make history when they sealed the 2016 Peace Agreement, ending one of the longest standing armed confrontations in human history, and promised the cessation of protracted violence. In post-accord Colombia, however, this promise has been eclipsed by political polarization, serious setbacks in the implementation process, and the surge of violence against human rights defenders. READ MORE

6. 4. The Life and Times of Targeted Killing

   Author : Markus Gunneflo; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Targeted killing; assassination; international law; constitutional law; human rights; law of armed conflict; law of occupation; history; politics; Roberto Esposito; Walter Benjamin; Carl Schmitt; sovereignty; community; immunity;

   Abstract : Against the background of the ongoing shift in the perception of the legality and legitimacy of extraterritorial lethal force in counterterrorism, this thesis analyses the emergence of so-called “targeted killing” in the history of Israel and the US, as well as in international law. It finds that the relationship between targeted killing and law, particularly international law, is not a straightforward case of more or less determinate and legally binding norms being applied to state measures adopted in situations of insecurity (in this case, those of the second Intifada and 9/11) but rather one of a much longer and mutually productive relationship. READ MORE

7. 5. Defining rape : emerging obligations for states under international law?

   Author : Maria Eriksson; Joakim Nergelius; Ola Engdahl; Helen Durham; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Prohibition of rape; definition of rape; women s rights; armed conflict; state obligations; fragmentation; humanisation; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK; Juridik; Law;

   Abstract : The prevalence of rape and its widespread impunity, whether committed during armed conflict or peacetime, has been firmly condemned by the UN and its prohibition has been consistently recognised in international law. This development, however, is a rather novel endeavour. READ MORE