Essays about: "Democratic Republic of Congo"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 81 essays containing the words Democratic Republic of Congo.

1. 6. Power in the Age of the Green Energy Transition: Multinational Corporations, the State, and Cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Wilma Arvidsson; [2023]
   Keywords : cobalt; Democratic Republic of Congo; Glencore; multinational corporations; green energy transition; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the power balance between states and multinational corporations, and how the green energy transition impacts this balance, a connection commonly overlooked by researchers. I have sought to remedy this gap by conducting a qualitative case study of the relationship between the Democratic Republic of Congo, which holds the majority of global cobalt reserves, and major cobalt producer Glencore. READ MORE

3. 7. Interventions to prevent Gender-Based Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo : A driving force for the empowerment of women and girls?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Celine Brixander; [2023]
   Keywords : empowerment; gender-based violence; Democractic Republic of Congo;

   Abstract : Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a widespread international public health and human rights issue that disproportionately affects women and girls. In humanitarian crises all forms of GBV are exacerbated, and especially during conflict where GBV in some settings affects 70 per cent of women. READ MORE

4. 8. “It’s like my blood, like my oxygen” : Life in a Kimbanguist community in Stockholm

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Marco Tenti; [2023]
   Keywords : Kimbanguism – Community – Religion – Transnationalism - Ritual;

   Abstract : The aim of this work is to discuss the religious life of the Kimbanguist community in Stockholm; more specifically, it analyses the ways in which religion (in particular Kimbanguism) allows the members of a small religious community, originated by migration, to maintain sense of belonging and to give meaning to their experiences. In order to do this, I focus on the concept of community to define the ways in which a group of people, embedded in a much wider social field, can be defined with this analytical term: community emerges as a social group whose members share a specific inventory of symbols; symbols include representations and narratives, but also practices, artifacts and images. READ MORE

5. 9. High-value non-fuel mineral resources and intrastate armed conflict; a comparative case study of North Kivu in eastern and Tshopo in the northeast in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). : How do high-value non-fuel mineral resources lead to an outbreak of intrastate armed conflict?

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

   Author : Ninyesiga Narice; [2023]
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6. 10. Selective justice within the International Criminal Court and global inequalities

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Janette Pamela Vihinen; [2023]
   Keywords : International Criminal Court; selective justice; human rights; Rule of law; Third World Approaches to International Law methodology; African Union; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : African states have recently claimed that international law is transforming into a new form of colonialism and a hegemonic power masquerading as the international rule of law. The International Criminal Court's bias against the Third World African states in correlation to the human right to a fair trial is investigated. READ MORE