Essays about: "Democratic Peace Theory"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 36 essays containing the words Democratic Peace Theory.

  1. 16. Participatory communication for a culture of peace in a post-conflict context

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

    Author : Hanna Sjödin; [2020]
    Keywords : Communication for development; participatory communication; civic engagement; social change; culture of peace; peace building; post-conflict; culture in communication; Abkhazia; Georgia;

    Abstract : This study aims at researching how a sustainable culture of peace can be built through civic engagement in the Abkhaz-Georgian post-conflict context. It does so by learning from locally based NGOs, working for a culture of peace in areas affected by the Abkhaz-Georgian armed conflict which occurred 1993 to 1994. READ MORE

  3. 17. Determinants of violence and escalation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Nilsson Qvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Militarized interstate disputes; civil-military relations; praetorianism; conflict behavior; conflict decision-making.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Democratic peace theory, or DPT, has in recent academic studies had its explanatory power and validity questioned and examined. One of the contenders against DPT is civil-military relations. READ MORE

  4. 18. Framing Kurdish Female Fighters : A qualitative content analysis of media representations of female fighters of Kobane in Arabic, Kurdish and Russian Media

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Fereshteh Mohammadi; [2019]
    Keywords : Kurdish female fighters; Kobane; IS; Arabic media; Kurdish media; Russian media; media framing; orientalism; feminist theory on militarization and war; war and peace journalism theory;

    Abstract : With the uprising of the Arab Spring in Syria in 2011, a myriad of news articles covering Syrian people' protests were published in the international media. However, it was after the Islamic State’s (IS) attacks on Syria and accordingly, Rojava region ​– the ​Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, de facto Autonomous Region ​– in 2014, that the region became the attention center of the international media. READ MORE

  5. 19. Communication in conflict and peace - Reviewing peace theory in the frames of a network society

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

    Author : Julie Arnfred Bojesen; [2019]
    Keywords : peace; conflict; communication power; Network society;

    Abstract : The digital revolution has changed how we interact and organize ourselves, how wars are fought and how peace is restored. The nature of conflicts has changed, and so should the theories with which we try to understand conflicts. Communication is power, and understanding power relations in the information era is fundamental to address peacebuilding. READ MORE

  6. 20. Day Zero: the role of social movements inthe face of Cape Town’s water crisis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Roberto Andrés Peñaloza Lanza; Laura Daniela Alzaté González; [2019]
    Keywords : Water crisis; social movements; peace and development; South Africa; Cape Town.;

    Abstract : In 2017 and 2018, the city of Cape Town, in South Africa, suffered one of the most severewater crises ever seen, becoming the first big city to face a realistic scenario of a "DayZero", the day in which the dams reach a water storage level unable to provide waterservices to other than critical services. In the wake of this emergency, severalorganisations and movements started to organise themselves to mitigate the effects ofthe drought and find a solution. READ MORE