Essays about: "Linnea Lönnberg"

Found 3 essays containing the words Linnea Lönnberg.

1. 1. The Military Profession in Times of Change : Understanding the Capacities for Handling Military Change among Swedish Officers

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Linnea Lönnberg; [2020]
   Keywords : military profession; military professionalism; military mindset; military change; Swedish Armed Forces;

   Abstract : With the aim to situate the study of military professionalism and its relationship to change firmly in an empirical analysis, this thesis uses the method of grounded theory to study the elements of military professional mindset that impacts on the professional capacity to understand and handle military change. Theoretically the study situates itself in both the study of military professionalism and the study of military change, and challenges previous literature by stating that there are elements of the military profession that makes it adaptable to change. READ MORE

3. 2. The order of the day : Script error in military organisations and violence against civilians

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Linnea Lönnberg; [2019]
   Keywords : organisational scripts; script error; military violence; violence against civilians; mass violence; atrocity; My Lai;

   Abstract : In an attempt to understand the micro-dimensional mechanisms of how some individuals come to perpetrate violence against civilians during wartime, this thesis adopts a theory from organisational psychology. By looking at the military as a professional organisation, violence against civilians perpetrated by state armies during wartime is theorised to be the outcome of a process of script error wherein military scripts of non-combatant immunity fail. READ MORE

4. 3. At the Endpoint of Violence : A comparative study between the genocide in Bosnia Herzegovina and the conflict in Georgian Abkhazia

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

   Author : Linnea Lönnberg; [2018]
   Keywords : genocide; violent escalation; genocidal intent; Bosnia-Hercegovina; Georgia; Abkhazia;

   Abstract : In an attempt to bridge the gap between theories of violent escalation and those of genocide, this paper theorizes genocide to be a strategic choice by leaders in response to a situation which they perceive to lack alternatives. This situation is expected to evolve out of a violent escalation, more precisely civil war. READ MORE