Essays about: "Öcalan"

Found 5 essays containing the word Öcalan.

  1. 1. Imagining the Commune - Democratic confederalist approaches to law and conflict resolution

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Miran Kakaee; [2020-04-14]
    Keywords : Legal plurism; regulations of social relations; restorative justice; democratic confederalism; self-administration;

    Abstract : In the midst of an ongoing civil war, the people of North and East Syria have been building society based on the ideas of direct-democratic and decentralized self-administration. Differently put, they have embraced the principles and ideas of democratic confederalism, which is the political ideology developed by PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. READ MORE

  3. 2. War, Peace and Ideologies : Approaching peace in war through Democratic Confederalism and the war in Rojava

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anders Nordhag; [2019]
    Keywords : peace in war; critical peacebuilding; liberal peacebuilding; Rojava; Syria; zones of peace; islands of peace; ideology; Öcalan;

    Abstract : Traditionally, war and peace have been approached as incompatible entities; where war and violence are present, peace has been assumed to be absent. Recent studies of peace in conflict have started to undermine this assumption, since expressions of peace and attempts at building peace have been found among individuals and communities entangled in violent conflicts. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Rojava Revolution: Kurdish women’s reclaim of citizenship in a stateless context

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Sanna Ghotbi; [2016-09-28]
    Keywords : Rojava; Kurdish women’s movement; reclaiming citizenship; gender justice;

    Abstract : The Kurds have historically been subjected to structural forms of oppression such as being denied the right to land, their language, culture, political participation or even a passport and social security number. Within this process the Kurdish women’s marginalisation has been doubled as they have been subjected to patriarchal laws, restricting their rights. READ MORE

  5. 4. Kurdish minority rights: What’s the problem represented to be?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Anna Hagberg; Antonia Horodinca; Simone Hedelund; Ida Hillerup; [2013]
    Keywords : kurd; kurdish; human rights; policy; PKK; Öcalan;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate statements made by the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (the PKK), Abdullah Öcalan. The selection of material and scope were motivated by a rhetorical shift of strategy of the historically violent PKK, proposing cooperation as a solution to the suppression of the Kurdish minority within the Turkish nation-state. READ MORE

  6. 5. The right to life in Europe : Its beginning and end

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

    Author : Lina Tolliner; [2010]
    Keywords : human rights; the right to life; the European Convention on Human Rights; ECHR;

    Abstract : The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) was adopted in 1950. One of the most important rights established therein is the right to life, which can be found in article 2. READ MORE