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Making a ’Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006.
(2016-12-12)Abstract Wanninayake, Shantha 2017: Making a ‘Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006. PhD Dissertation in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of ... -
Mark är som barn. Genus, fattigdom, och försörjning i Södra Wollo, Etiopien
(2009-09-18)This anthropological study examines the complexity and importance of gender relations for livelihood activities and it looks at the way in which femaleheaded agricultural households in the Ethiopian highlands cope in an ... -
The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
(2023-06-08)Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ... -
Military Interventions in Internal Wars: The Study of Peace or the Study of War?
(2011-01-21)This thesis sets out to increase our understanding on how to conduct successful military interventions in internal wars, such as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. But, instead of investigating ... -
Monte Carlo simulation of treatment machine Varian Clinac iX
(2010-08-12)This report presents methods and results from the development of a Monte Carlo model of a Varian Clinac iX linear accelerator of nominal energy 6 MV . The simulations are made by the BEAMnrc/EGSnrc Monte Carlo code package ... -
Navigating "the local". Municipal Engagement in Lebanese Local Peacebuilding
(2019-03-13)The last decade or so, there has been an increasing disappointment in and critique towards the way peace is built. As peacebuilding is critiqued for being too shallow, too centralised and neglecting local contexts, “the ... -
Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2022-08-30)This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and ... -
Negotiating Reproduction: Family Size and Fertility Regulation among Shuar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon
(2012-12-13)The focus of this dissertation is situated in the realm of the global reproductive health discourse and its interplay with national politics in Ecuador. It addresses how high fertility rates are perceived as an issue that ... -
Obedience troubled? Exploring meanings of obedience in the post-genocide Rwanda
(2015-09-08)This thesis explores meanings of obedience in and outside the genocide context among different groups of people in Rwanda. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda involved an important number of perpetrators and this ... -
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Ordinary Choices in Extra-ordinary Times. Resistance to the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994
(2018-05-25)This study explores how and why, in their perspectives, persons identified as Hutu resisted genocide targeting the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda in 1994. The violence involved more than one million victims murdered in private ... -
Peacebuilding in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Role of Cooperatives in the Restoration of Interpersonal Relationships
(2009-11-25)This thesis is aimed at contributing to the lack of knowledge in the field of peacebuilding from below, notably regarding the mechanisms to be used in order to overcome the painful past between conflicting parties. The ... -
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Perspectives on Inequality and Social Protection
(2011-09-09)The dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four separate articles. Two of the articles investigate the links between income inequality and two increasingly salient development problems, particularly in Latin ... -
Political Imaginaries Amidst a Peace Deferred. The Politics of Human Rights Activism in the 2016 Colombian Peace Process
(2021-12-17)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 ... -
PRAKTIK & KULTUR: Kulturteoretisk uppsats om Bourdieu och antropologi
(1998)Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att diskutera Pierre Bourdieus sociologiska projekt och framför allt hans tankar om praktik, från ett antropologiskt och kulturteoretiskt perspektiv. Antropologi kommer här att få stå för ...