Essays about: "Yazidi community"

Found 4 essays containing the words Yazidi community.

  1. 1. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charlotta Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Agonistic peace; Thick recognition; Peacebuilding; Yazidi community; Iraq; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE

  3. 2. Keeping the Promise of International Criminal Justice - prosecuting and adjudicating gender-based mass atrocity crimes in “non-territorial” States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Kaikkonen; [2021]
    Keywords : International criminal law; Gender-based violence; Gender-based crimes; Crimes against humanity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Konflikt är en grogrund för könsbaserat våld. Tidigare diskriminerande strukturer förstärks och mynnar ut i våld inom ramen för konflikten. I komplexa kontexter präglade av religiösa, etniska och/eller politiska slitningar förstärks vissa individers utsatthet. READ MORE

  4. 3. Terrorism and Genocide : The Islamic State and the Case of Yazidis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Jenni Porkka; [2017]
    Keywords : Genocide; Terrorism; ISIS; Yazidis;

    Abstract : The Yazidi religious minority was a subject to extreme violence perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2014. This thesis argues that the violence was genocidal in nature and aimed to destroy the Yazidi group as such. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sexual violence as a weapon of war: the case of ISIS in Syria and Iraq

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Sali Bitar; [2015]
    Keywords : ISIS; IS; ISIL; Sexual violence; Gender; Strategic rape; Feminism; NSA; Conflict; war; Political science; Rape; Rape in conflict; Sexual violence in conflict; religion; ISIS; IS; ISIL; sexuellt våld; genus; strategisk våldtäkt; Konflikt; Krig; Statsvetenskap; Våldtäkt; Våldtäkt i konflikt; Religion;

    Abstract : This thesis set out to research why ISIS combatants use sexual violence when they target the Yazidi community in particular. The aims have been to provide an understanding of why ISIS target Yazidi women and girls with sexual violence and develop a better understanding of both groups and thus hopefully provide assistance that is contextually adapted to the needs of Yazidi women and girls who have been targeted by ISIS. READ MORE