Essays about: "Civil Rights Movement"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words Civil Rights Movement.
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1. The Human Rights Regime Political Framework
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This text aims to identify the political framework of the human rights regime and compare the regime's historical and current political framework. This question is essential and deserves research as it explains how the regime has developed its policies and advocacy over its history and elucidates the reasons behind several of the most damaging and contentious challenges the human rights advocacy has faced over the last few years. READ MORE
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2. Breaking the Chains : The Relation between Race, Religion & Violence in Malcolm X’s Pursuit of Black Liberation
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : This essay aims to explore the complex interplay between race, religion, and violence as depicted in The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley. Through an exploration of Frantz Fanon's theories regarding recognition and violence, alongside James H. Cone’s concept of Black theology, the essay establishes a foundation for the analysis. READ MORE
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3. The shadow pandemic : a feminist institutional perspective on civil society's work on gender-based violence in post COVID -19 South Africa
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokratiAbstract : This field study is a thematic and feminist institutionalist analysis on how the civil society and grassroot activists in Gauteng province, South Africa, has been affected and mitigated during and after the COVID -19 pandemic in their work against gender-based violence. The data consist of five semi structured interviews with primary sources, divided in the two sub-groups of activists and formal NGO representatives. READ MORE
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4. WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED : How International Actors Bolster Women’s Movements’ Push for Strong Gender Provisions
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Gender provisions have the overarching goal of enhancing gender equality, however few peace agreements include strong gender provisions. The presence of strong gender provisions in ceasefire agreements has crucial implications in the immediate and post-conflict phase in improving women’s situation. READ MORE
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5. Prefigurative politics as applied to the climate crisis : A game theoretical assessment
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In this paper, I make use of the game-theoretical concepts of cartel theory and coordination theory via salience and Schelling points in order to assess the viability of prefigurative politics when used by group actors to address the particular case of the climate crisis. I show that prefigurative politics as a strategy faces significant systematic disadvantages when used by social movements attempting to address climate change as compared to when it is used by social movements focused on other causes. READ MORE