Essays about: "post-conflict environments"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words post-conflict environments.

  1. 1. Between Power and Vulnerability: National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Conflict Environments and the Uganda Human Rights Commission

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Magdalena Ruiz Liard Krysa; [2022]
    Keywords : National Human Rights Institutions; post-conflict environments; effectiveness; vernacularization; global and local; Uganda; Uganda Human Rights Commission; expert interviews.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In light of declining multilateralism within the field of human rights since the 1990s, National Human Rights Institutions have been presented by the UN as translators capable of vernacularizing and institutionalizing global human rights ideals within the local. Yet, the global proliferation of National Human Rights Institutions sparked by the adoption of the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions implies a top-down spread of these institutions from the global to the local level and makes legitimacy issues intrinsically connected to their creation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Impact Evaluation in Post-conflict Environments : A Critical Appraisal of Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Rania Walid; [2021]
    Keywords : Impact evaluation; Randomised Control Trial RCT ; post-conflict settings; challenges; rigorous implementation.;

    Abstract : Impact evaluations in development interventions has been growing in recent years. The increasing demand for evidence-based outcomes has led to a debate of what methodology is best to evaluate the impact of development interventions. Accordingly, Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) has been labeled as a gold standard for impact evaluations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Financing peace : Examining the effects of economic decentralization within territorial power sharing arrangements

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

    Author : Gulnar Mammadova; [2016]
    Keywords : territorial power sharing; regional autonomy; economic decentralization;

    Abstract : The empirical evidence and the academic literature point to the opposed directions on the capability of the territorial arrangements to extenuate conflict in ethnically divided and civil war-worn countries. Little is known about the diverse capacities of the territorial power sharing arrangements in diminishing violence in the post-conflict societies. READ MORE

  5. 4. Knowledge and Networks

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Catarina Drott; Amanda Norder; [2015]
    Keywords : Knowledge sharing; Knowledge creation; Social networks; Mistrust; Capacity Development training programme;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the influence of social networks on knowledge sharing and knowledge creation, in one of SIDAs' (Swedish International Development cooperation Agency) capacity development training programmes - namely the ITP1325. This programme aims at empowering women in post-conflict environments and was examined through a qualitative study. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Missing Link Revisited: Peace building from integration to impact in post-conflict Liberia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Erik Holmgren; [2009]
    Keywords : Comprehensive intervention; UN; Liberia; Process-tracing; Peace-building; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In contemporary conflict environments, security and development are inextricably linked. This has spawned the development of the comprehensive approach to peace support operations. But there is a deficit of studies validating that integration and coherence will lead to positive outcomes and higher degrees of effectiveness. READ MORE