Essays about: "Belfast"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word Belfast.
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1. Brilliantly Radical or Radically Violent? : A Poststructural Policy Analysis of the Northern Irish Together: Building a United Community Peacebuilding Strategy
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : With a starting point in the Together: Building a Shared Community strategy (T:BUC) published in 2013 by the Government of Northern Ireland’s Executive Office, this study examines two of the strategy’s Key Priorities: Our Shared Community and Our Safe Community, in order to analyze contemporary peacebuilding efforts carried out by the Northern Irish government. The study is guided by the research question: Why might the strategic aims such as removing all interface barriers by 2023 in the T:BUC fail in their attempts to build peace? To answer this question, the thesis takes a qualitative methodological approach relying on both primary and secondary data and Carol Bacchi’s method of ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be’ approach to poststructural policy analysis. READ MORE
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2. Urban Dialogue
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : The aim of the project is to understand urban constraints through analysis of sites’ deep context and to arrive with a relevant spatial solution. Moreover, we hope that the problems investigated and communicated will be once tackled. The object of analysis is the today image and urban structure of the unappreciated area of Holylands. READ MORE
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3. Civil Religion Iconography : A New Theoretical Perspective Regarding Public Art
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Based on the idea that public art reflects cultural values and is meant, not as many have argued as a means of teaching history, but rather as a means of promoting cultural ideals, public art serves a role in lauding people and behaviors and reflects an important facet in the creation of a national identity and ethos. Further, that in this function of promoting societal norms, public art serves as an iconography of a “civil religion” which tells a story to the citizenry about what a given country admires, reveres and aspires to and promotes a specific moral narrative regarding a country and its people. READ MORE
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4. Continuing peace amidst changing contexts : A Sinn Féin case study on institutional resilience
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The transitioning of armed actors into political parties following a peace accord is not a new phenomenon and the debate for how we can facilitate such a transition is well explored. A grey area of the debate, however, concerns transitioned actors’ long-term commitment to peace, as relapses are known to have occurred on many occasions. READ MORE
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5. Incorporating Risk Communication into Flood Resilience Planning: Challenges and Solutions in Belfast
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Risk communication, the flow of information between decision-makers, risk experts and the public, can be a valuable tool in societal resilience building. Risk communication can be used both to inform the resilience planning process as well as to directly build resilience at all societal scales. READ MORE
