Essays about: "Kyrgyzstan"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the word Kyrgyzstan.

  1. 11. Women or victims?: An analysis of National Action Plans in response to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Lisa Malmborg; [2016-02-01]
    Keywords : Human rights; Women’s rights; Gender; National Action Plans; SCR 1325; Human Security; Korea; Iraq; Nigeria; Macedonia; Kyrgyzstan;

    Abstract : Conflict affects and engages men and women in different ways. United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security draws attention to the disproportionate impact on women during and after conflict. The resolution, adopted in 2000, calls for equal participation and full involvement. READ MORE

  3. 12. Gendered Ethnicity : On the Discursive Limits of National Identity

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Lisa Skoog; [2016]
    Keywords : identity; nationalism; gender; discourse; Kyrgyzstan; ethnicity; conflict; Central Asia;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a feminist perspective on the inter-ethnic conflict between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan. The empirical data for the analysis consists of reports describing the conflict and from interviews conducted in the region in the spring of 2016. READ MORE

  4. 13. Nuts for Education

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Maja Sköld; [2015]
    Keywords : challenges of educational investments; participatory development; education policy; human capital theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to add to the understanding of how context specific factors may lead to challenges for parents to make investments in their children's education. This was done by conducting a case study in the rural village of Kyzyl Unkur, Kyrgyzstan. READ MORE

  5. 14. Community Based Tourism in Arslanbob and Sary-Moghul, Kyrgyzstan: An Alternative to Labour-Migration?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Ernst-Armin Tönisson; Yasmin Yassin; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This research studies the perceptions of Community Based Tourism (CBT) workers towards labour-migration in the two mountainous southern Kyrgyz villages of Sary Moghul and Arslanbob. The qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews from 28 CBT workers and four key stakeholders reveal four Ideal Types of labour-migration amongst the CBT workers: i) CBT workers who wish to labour-migrate but have yet to have done so; ii) CBT workers who have labour-migrated and returned; iii) CBT workers who are circulatory labour-migrants; and finally iv) CBT workers who have never labour-migrated and currently have no motivation to do so. READ MORE

  6. 15. Towards a brighter future for institutionalised children? A case study of de-institutionalisation of childcare in Kyrgyzstan.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Anna-Lena Nordin; [2015]
    Keywords : child protection.; childcare system reform; alternative care; residential childcare; Institutional childcare; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Institutional care for children, so called orphanages, are still the most common type of alternative care for children deprived of parental care in Kyrgyzstan. The number of children who enter residential care in Kyrgyzstan has increased in recent years – this despite international attention of the need to move away from institutional childcare towards a range of family-based services. READ MORE