Essays about: "Johan Galtung"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words Johan Galtung.

1. 1. Reevaluating the Notion of Peace : Do Our Current Measurements Truly Reflect Peace?

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Sanna Besic; [2024]
   Keywords : Peace Measuring; Peace Studies; Peace Conceptualisation; Peace Measurements; Violence; Direct Violence; Structural Violence; Cultural Violence;

   Abstract : There is an ongoing theme within the field of peace conceptualisation to create and to add to the meaning of peace. This has caused a fragmented field with over 130 conceptualisations. As we move forward, it isthus necessary to review whether the methods utilised to measure peace are suitable in the ever changing contexts of today. READ MORE

3. 2. Fighting fire with fire? : An exploration of the relationship between nonviolence and sustainability

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Johansson Vodusek; [2023]
   Keywords : Nonviolence; Sustainability; Development; Agenda 2030; Sustainable Development Goals; Galtung; Ecocentrism; Gandhi; structural violence; cultural violence; peace; future generations; conflicts; global warming; globalization; knowledge; cooperation and environment;

   Abstract : This study aims at exploring the connections between nonviolence and sustainability in two cases. The relationship between nonviolence and sustainability is identified and discussed in light of the theories on nonviolence of Johan Galtung and theories of the ethical framework of ecocentrism. READ MORE

4. 3. Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Mária Dominika Vanková; [2023]
   Keywords : religious peace-building; friendship; dialogue; poverty-alleviation; Salesians of Don Bosco; Catholicism; Buddhism; Cambodia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education for poor children and demoting inequalities. READ MORE

5. 4. The Time was Ripe: Women’s Movements’ Break-throughs in the Colombian Peace Agreement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Ellen Birging; Elin Hansson Huber; [2023]
   Keywords : Colombia; gender inclusion; peace agreement; positive peace; hegemonic masculinity; ripeness; women’s mobilization.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In 2016 a historic peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC) was signed, putting an end to a conflict that lasted over 50 years. This agreement was the world’s very first gender-inclusive peace accord, meaning that they included women in the peace process and recognized how they are particularly subjected to war and conflict. READ MORE

6. 5. Does violence against land equal violence towards its people? : Understanding Sámi perspective of the land-use conflict in Gállok through Galtung´s violence triangle

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Lumi Hultkrantz; [2022]
   Keywords : Sámi people; Gállok; Indigenous people; settler colonialism; Galtung´s three dimensions of violence; colonialism; green transition;

   Abstract : Abstract Sápmi, located in the North of Fennoscandia, including Finland, Sweden, Norway and parts of Russia, is the home of the majority of the indigenous Sámi people. With a high amount of natural resources in the shape of minerals, forests, and energy extraction, Sápmi is a place of a dispute between different actors such as the Nordic governments, corporations, locals, and Europe’s only indigenous people, the Sámis. READ MORE