Essays about: "Ex-Combatants"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Ex-Combatants.
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1. Coexisting With the Enemy : A Qualitative Study of Women's Negative Attitudes Towards Peacebuilding
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Gender inequality has during the past decades become an increasingly studied topic in the field of peace and conflict. However, there are still many gaps to fill. READ MORE
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2. Agents of Peace or Tension: Analysing Political Elites’ Electoral Rhetoric : A Qualitative Analysis of Campaign Rhetoric in the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : How do some political elites, in unstable democracies with communal divisions, use ethnic, religious, and tribal affiliations for a rhetoric of polarisation and/or reconciliation when running for office? This thesis applies a framing analysis to explore how political elites employ these affiliations in speech acts, mainly political rallies, to construct narratives of polarisation and reconciliation during election campaigns. The theoretical framework is constructed by previous research on “Big Men” politics and the rhetoric used by ex-combatants turned politicians within a context embossed with electoral violence and division. READ MORE
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3. Successful Social Reintegration in Urban Settings : What does it mean and what explains its variation?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : What does “success” mean for social reintegration of ex-combatants in urban settings? Although reintegration of former fighters has been at the center of academic and policy discourse for achieving peace, limited attention has been paid to unraveling how social reintegration processes occur and how they are impacted in urban contexts. This thesis studies the specific issue of successful social reintegration in urban contexts and asks why it evidences higher levels of success in some urban settings than others. READ MORE
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4. Towards a more coherent approach to peacebuilding : Mine action paving the way for ex-combatant reintegration in the case of Colombia
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : There is a growing awareness among researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners regarding the importance of increased coordination among numerous post-conflict peacebuilding processes and the consequent need for conceptual clarity as a precondition for coordinated, holistic peacebuilding interventions. Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), and Mine Action are among the very first entry points in post-conflict reconstruction, however, despite sharing similarities they form part of distinct communities of practice, and the nexus between the two remains widely unaddressed academically and in practice. READ MORE
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5. Ex-Combatants in a State of Flux : Understanding remobilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : .... READ MORE
