Essays about: "Intrastate Conflict"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words Intrastate Conflict.

  1. 21. The effect of peacekeeping operation on conflict intensity when taking into account foreign state sponsorship : A Discrete-Time Survival Analysis

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

    Author : Emma Nygren; [2021]
    Keywords : Peacekeeping; UN peacekeeping; Peacekeeping success; Peacekeeping effectiveness; External involvement; Sponsorship; Rebel group; Intrastate conflict; Conflict duration; Conflictreducing effects;

    Abstract : The answer to if peacekeeping is successful or not is still debated. The focus has mostly been on internal characteristics of peacekeeping missions. While external factors, have been largely overlooked. This thesis aims to explore the effects external involvement in intrastate conflicts may have on the success of peacekeeping deployment. READ MORE

  3. 22. In the Name of God : The Role of Religion in Rebel Groups' Violence Against Civilians

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

    Author : Amanda Löfström; [2020]
    Keywords : religion; religious armed conflict; violence against civilians; one-sided violence; intrastate armed conflict;

    Abstract : Violence against civilians and religion are two common characteristics in today’s armed conflicts. This study examines the role of religion in rebel group’s use of violence against civilians in intrastate armed conflicts between 1989 and 2015. READ MORE

  4. 23. How the International Community Screws Up: An examination of institutonal statebuilding's effects on the nation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Olle Tolke; [2020]
    Keywords : Sierra Leone; Burundi; institutional; statebuilding; nation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Since the beginning of statebuilding interventions following the end of the Cold War, they have been strictly focused on rebuilding state institutions, wherever they have taken place. As a growing percentage of states that had experienced civil war relapsed into new intrastate conflicts, it started to dawn on researchers that this approach was inadequate. READ MORE

  5. 24. Morals: motivators or obstacles for conflict brutality? : A qualitative analysis of rebel groups in the intrastate conflict of the Syrian Arab Republic

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

    Author : Johanna de Haan; [2019]
    Keywords : moral violence; conflict brutality; instrumental violence; the Islamic State; Jabhat al-Nusra;

    Abstract : This thesis is a comparative, empirically driven, small-n, comparative study that attempts to answer the question: Does morally motivated violence increase the level of conflict brutality? The study argues that higher levels of moral violence will lead to an increase in conflict brutality due to psychological processes that limit restraint. Two rebel groups are studied, the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra li al-Sham in the context of the intrastate conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Rohingya Conflict : An Analysis through the Lens of the Geopolitical Economy of Resources

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Mostakim Bin Motaher; [2019]
    Keywords : Rohingya Conflict; Rohingya Crisis; Geopolitical Economy; Resource War; Rakhine State; Government of Myanmar; Tatmadaw; China; India.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to reveal the underlying reason behind the recent Rohingya conflict. This paper argues that, instead of only focusing on the ethnic and religious view of the Rohingya conflict, the geopolitical economic view of the conflict also needs to be addressed sincerely as the conflict has a long history and occurred in different political and economic conditions. READ MORE