Essays about: "Graduate School"

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1. 1. Prevalent Discord. Exploring and estimating the prevalence of the type of user disagreement on news media Facebook posts discussing the Colombian peace process (2020-2022)

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Luis Felipe Villota Macias; [2024]
   Keywords : Agonistic peace; antagonism; big data analytics; binary logistic regression; computational content analysis; Colombia; Colombian peace process; discord; Facebook; machine learning; peace process; public opinion and sentiment; social media; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is dedicated to exploring and understanding public reactions within negotiated peace settlements based on social media data. Concretely, to modeling public opinion and sentiment within the context of the Colombian peace process using a curated dataset of N= ~1. READ MORE

3. 2. Spatial Stories of Peace. The case of the Greater Gola Landscape.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Nicholas Eklund; [2024]
   Keywords : spatial theory; Liberia; Sierra Leone; environmental peacebuilding; conservation; case study; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis follows the interdisciplinary tradition that exists in global studies by performing a spatial analysis of the imaginary of peace(s) and conservation as a practice of peace(s) and thus contributing to the fields of environmental peacebuilding, peace- and conflict studies, and geography. The thesis has its theoretical starting point in environmental peacebuilding and is drawing and building on spatial theory as a way of understanding the construction of peace(s) in the context of the Greater Gola Landscape, straddling the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia. READ MORE

4. 3. The Loss and Damage fund: An investigation of discourse and power under the UNFCCC

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Olivia Östlin; [2024]
   Keywords : loss and damage; the UNFCCC; critical discourse analysis; political ecology; climate justice; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : At the international climate negotiations at COP27, parties reached the historic agreement to establish a fund to provide assistance to countries in responding to costs associated with climate change, the loss and damage fund. The decision is a result of many years of struggle for the recognition of loss and damage under the UNFCCC which have long been opposed by post-industrial countries. READ MORE

5. 4. Reclaiming the Past and the Present: The Presentation and Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Cultural Institutions

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Vendula Pokorná; [2024]
   Keywords : Social Anthropology; Cultural Institutions; Exhibition Narrative; Exhibition Atmosphere; Respect; Sámi People; Roma People; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Cultural institutions such as museums and art galleries are important agents in educating the broader public on matters where current awareness is missing, inadequate or inaccurate. In this study, I focus on one such matter, which is the knowledge regarding ethnic minorities, their history, traditions, and current challenges. READ MORE

6. 5. Were the most important election pledges fulfilled? An empirical investigation of the Swedish government’s pledge fulfillment after the 2014 parliamentary election

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Ida Steineck Nilsson; [2024]
   Keywords : Election pledges; pledge fulfillment; the mandate model; promissory representation; Swedish politics; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis provides an account of the pledge-making and eventual pledge fulfilment of the Swedish government of 2014, which consisted of the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party. It is grounded in the theoretical approaches of the mandate model of representation and promissory representation. READ MORE