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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Private security companies and political order in Congo: a history of extraversion
(2014-05-12)This PhD dissertation explores how private security companies co-constitute political order in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a case through which broader questions regarding the relationship between security governance ... -
The Privatisation of Security and State Control of Force: Changes, Challenges and the Case of Iraq
(2009-03-12)The thematic focus of this dissertation is the privatisation of security, that is, the increasing use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform security- and military-related tasks traditionally associated with the ... -
(Re)Inventing the Armed Forces: A Governmentality Analysis of Swedish Military Marketing and Outreach in the Era of Voluntarism
(2019-10-03)In 2010, Sweden abandoned its century-old military conscription in favour of an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) was now exposed to competition over labour, and soldiering was no longer a duty ... -
Regional citizenship regimes: Comparing ECOWAS and ASEAN
(2023-03-28)This thesis investigates the relationship between citizenship and regional organisations in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Specifically, it ... -
Remembering and Forgetting after War. Narratives of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in a Bosnian Town
(2010-11-15)This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of how people make everyday strategies for living together after mass atrocities, and what role transitional justice may play for these strategies. The aim is to ... -
Resistance to Reforms: settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda
(2014-08-26)In this thesis I explore the phenomenon of resistance to settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda. The aim of the thesis is to understand how farmers experience the implementation of settlement and ... -
ROLES OF WOMEN DURING ARMED CONFLICT
(2016-10-28)Sri Lanka has been ravaged by the long-running civil war held between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. The conflict cost thousands of lives, internal displacements and property damage. The results of the war thus ... -
Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya
(2022-11-23)This Ph.D. thesis accounts for the changing political relations between different actors in northern Kenya through a focus on controversies emerging from the securing of the LAPS-SET mega project. Through the controversies, ... -
Settler-Colonial Assemblages and the Making of the Israeli Frontier: Palestinian experiences of (in)security, surveillance and carceral geographies
(2020-02-06)This dissertation examines the operations of contemporary Israeli security machinery as it unfolds in the course of expanding the Israeli colonial frontier over Palestinian rural areas of the occupied West Bank. Since the ... -
State building in post conflict Rwanda: Citizen participation in local conflict mitigation
(2014-11-13)The aim of this PhD dissertation is to understand state building at the local-level by focusing on citizen participation in local conflict mitigation. The involvement of ordinary people in conflict mitigation is motivated ... -
State Policies and Livelihoods. Rwandan Human Settlement Policy. Case Study of Ngera and Nyagahuru Villages
(2009-09-11)Through a case study of two villages of the Southern Province of Rwanda, this thesis explores the effects on Rwanda National Settlement Policy on the livelihoods of the rural population. With today 344 inhabitants per ... -
The Art of Enacting the Impossible: A Conceptual, Empirical and Methodological Exploration of Constructive Resistance by the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
(2018-09-27)The Kurdish movement in Turkey has since 2005 been trying to establish democratic autonomy, an overarching proposition for the reconstruction of the society from the bottom up, based on ideals of radical democracy, women’s ... -
The Biopolitics of Water: Technology, Subjectivity and Lifestyle in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
(2015-01-19)Water issues have for a long time been of central political concern in South Africa due to the scarcity of the resource. During the apartheid era, the distribution of water was deeply intertwined with a nationalist and ... -
The Egyptian Uprising of 2011: Tracing the Role of the Cairo-Based Political Opposition
(2017-05-16)It is the aim of this study to understand the mobilization process leading up to and the diffusion of collective contentious behavior during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011. Using process tracing and focusing on the role of ... -
The Elders and the Hills. Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q’eqchi’ Maya in Chisec, Guatemala
(2015-08-20)This thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in the municipality of Chisec in the depart-ment of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Within the context of post-war Maya cultural emergence and the recent introduction of non-indigenous ...