Search for dissertations about: "peace building"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the words peace building.

  2. 16. Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: : Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda

    Author : Jenny Lorentzen; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; norms; practice; discourse; gender; peace building; Mali; Rwanda;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the multiple and often overlapping encounters between ‘global’ and ‘local’ norms, actors, practices, and discourses which take place when norms travel between different socio-political contexts. This is done through a study of how global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are promoted in two war to peace transitions: Mali and Rwanda. READ MORE

  4. 17. Violence Prevention and Conflict Resolution: A Study of Peace Education in Grades 4-6

    Author : Karin Utas Carlsson; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy and didactics; violence prevention; socialization; school children; role-playing; peace education; nonviolence; human relations; culture of peace; Basic human needs; conflict resolution; Pedagogik; didaktik;

    Abstract : The objectives of the study were (1) to contribute to development of a theoretical basis for teaching violence prevention and conflict resolution, connecting the micro (interpersonal and intergroup) and macro (national, international and transnational) levels; and (2) to contribute to development of teaching methods with the aim of giving children skills in handling conflicts constructively. The perspective of the study is a social-psychological one where Human Needs Theory (Burton) plays an important role. READ MORE

  5. 18. When processes collide : leadership, legitimacy and liberation in Palestine

    Author : Philippa Barnes; Patrik Johansson; Malin Eklund Wimelius; Anna Karin Jarstad; Lisa Strömbom; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Leadership; legitimacy; legitimisation; relational; Palestine; liberation; national movement; peace process; state building; statskunskap; political science;

    Abstract : Palestinian national movement leadership has long been intertwined with thecontext of the national movement processes – liberation, peace and statebuilding. Over time, as these processes have not come to fruition, the numerousleadership groups have had to negotiate their relationships with these processesas both the groups and processes increasingly overlap, creating significantobservable points of tension within Palestinian politics. READ MORE

  6. 19. Reconciliation and the Search for a Shared Moral Landscape – An exploration based upon a study of Northern Ireland and South Africa

    Author : Maria Ericson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; global ethics; dialogue; General; reconciliation; systematic and practical Christian theology; systematisk och praktisk ; Kristen teologi allmän; Northern Ireland; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Theology; Teologi; peace building; conflict resolution; justice; ecumenism; forgiveness; South Africa; Truth and Reconciliation Commission;

    Abstract : In Northern Ireland and South Africa obstacles to reconciliation were found in these elements of a “moral landscape”: – Experiences of trauma, separation and inequalities, – Divergent views of the conflict and of “the other”, – Opposing identifications and loyalties, – Norms for interaction, – Contestant interpretations of values such as “peace” and “justice”. This study describes how these obstacles have been addressed in: 1) Efforts, particularly by ecumenical groups, to bridge the Catholic/Protestant divide in Northern Ireland. READ MORE

  7. 20. Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal

    Author : Martin Lundqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; everyday life; audience studies; everyday peace; Nepal; peacebuilding;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to further our understanding of the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal. Building on the ethnographic turn of the everyday peace literature, I treat everyday life as a site of political potentiality as I explore how (if at all) this potentiality is practised in the context of post-war Nepal. READ MORE