Essays about: "Conscription"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word Conscription.

1. 1. Collaboration And Rescue : The role of the Jashes during the Anfal campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan 1988

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Wirya Kurdyar; [2023]
   Keywords : Collaboration; Rescue; The Anfal Campaign; Jash; Kurdistan; Iraq;

   Abstract : The utilisation of collaboration and collaborationism as a strategy to address the Kurdish question in Iraq and the involvement of the collaborators in the perpetration of mass violence and genocide is a subject that has not been thoroughly investigated.  The objective of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations that drove a specific subset of the Kurdish population to engage in collaboration and collaborationism with the Iraqi regime. READ MORE

3. 2. The Overachievers : Female Recruits’ Everyday Experiences of Gender Norms in the Swedish Armed Forces

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Selma Riemer; [2023]
   Keywords : Female conscripts; Swedish Armed Forces; Women and military culture; Gender norms and expectations;

   Abstract : The Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) have been making internal efforts to enrol more women through changes in legislation and mandatory conscription, since the adoption of Resolution 1325 in the Swedish Parliament at the turn of the century. Since the alterations, an upward trend of female recruits as well as women making careers and reaching high ranking positions, has been identified. READ MORE

4. 3. What impacts one's willingness to defend? A study of the influence of military training in Sweden

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Aron Björk; [2023]
   Keywords : Conscription; Military training; Willingness to defend;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the effect of military training on one's willingness to defend by answering the question: How does military training influence the likelihood of people expressing (or having) a willingness to defend one's country? Using difference-in-differences and IV approaches within a linear probability model framework, it exploits two exogenous variations in conscription policy on new survey data in Sweden. First, conscription has almost exclusively covered men, leaving two distinct groups. READ MORE

5. 4. Institutional Change, the Judiciary, and Military Service in South Korea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Thomas Artaiz; [2022]
   Keywords : Conscription; Institutional change; Judicial review; Supreme court; Constitutional court; South Korea; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In 2018 the South Korean Supreme Court declared the Military Service Act unconstitutional and mandated that the National Assembly implement an alternative service for those who object to military service for moral or religious reasons. This ruling is a reversal from previous cases dealing with the same issue. READ MORE

6. 5. CONSCRIPTION WITH CONSEQUENCES? Exploring the Effects of Military Personnel Supply Method Choice on Civil War Onset

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Victor Hasslöf; [2021]
   Keywords : Civil War; Civil War Onset; Conscription; Military Policy; Voluntary Service; Quantitative; War; Military Personnel; Military Manpower; Military Manpower Studies; Cause Of Civil War; Conflict; Conscription With Consequences; Inbördeskrig; Värnplikt; Orsak; Militärpolicy;

   Abstract : Positing that the characteristics of a state’s military has an effect on civil war outbreak likelihood, this thesis examines a hitherto unexplored relationship —that between military personnel supply method and civil war onset. Based on earlier research on the two phenomena separate from each other, a theory linking conscription to an increased probability of civil war onset compared to voluntary service was developed and an hypothesis derived. READ MORE