Essays about: "Complicity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the word Complicity.
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1. The Paradoxical Nature of Sovereignty as Symbolic Form : The International Community’s Complicity in Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in West Papua
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : Since West Papua’s integration into Indonesia in 1969, the Free West Papua Movement has been engaged in a struggle for independence from Indonesia. The indigenous people of the territory have endured murder, rape, and many other abuses. This thesis provides an account of Indonesia’s control over West Papua through a settler-colonial lens. READ MORE
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2. Complicity and Conflict Minerals: How did and could the European Union respond to its complicity in third countries in the case of the Conflict Minerals Regulation?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : For many years, the European Union has been aware that its trade with so-called “conflict minerals” has indirectly contributed to conflict and human rights abuses in third countries. In 2014, as a response to this contribution, the European Commission proposed a regulation aiming to control the products containing the minerals that enter the internal market. READ MORE
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3. Business Operations in Armed Conflicts : An analysis of the criminal responsibilities of business executives operating in high-risk contexts
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : The involvement of multinational corporations, international traders, transporters, processors, and retailers has a crucial significance in high-risk contexts there is a wide range of commercial activities that can make economic actors criminally responsible for gross violations of international humanitarian law and human rights: this includes the sale of weaponry, pillaging or commercial transactions unrelated to war. Allowing companies and their managers to shield themselves is harmful to the development of international law. READ MORE
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4. A feminist critical discourse analysis of Sida’s gender ideology
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknikAbstract : This study offers a feminist critical discourse analysis of how Sida’s discourses can be viewed as consolidating a gender ideology and power asymmetries in gendered social orders. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) offer the theoretical and methodological framework to the investigation of gender ideology in Sida’s discourses. READ MORE
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5. Criminal Complicity or Business as Usual: A Study on Mens Rea Requirements for Corporate Complicity in War Crimes
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This thesis examines the levels of mens rea required for corporate actors to be held liable for complicity in war crimes committed by States in non- international armed conflicts. The notion that corporations acting in conflict- torn areas can affect negatively upon the state of conflicts and in some cases even contribute to the commission of war crimes by other actors is becoming increasingly accepted. READ MORE
