Essays about: "Lord s Resistance army"
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1. “What can you offer them here that they don’t have in the bush?”: Exploring the impact of targeted sanctions on conflict-related sexual violence
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Targeted sanctions have become increasingly utilized as conflict management tool to safeguard global peace and security. In recent years, there have been a global push to utilize this tool to specifically address conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). READ MORE
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2. Female Former Child Soldiers Perception of Power : Females captured by the LRA's attitudes towards the people in power in the bush and its effects on them as women
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The research aims to understand how female former child soldiers describe the ones who had power over them in the bush of Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to understand how patriarchal beliefs in a society affect vulnerable women. The researcher wishes to enhance the importance of working against patriarchal beliefs and stopping child abductions for the sake of young women’s empowerment. READ MORE
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3. Between Power and Vulnerability: National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Conflict Environments and the Uganda Human Rights Commission
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : In light of declining multilateralism within the field of human rights since the 1990s, National Human Rights Institutions have been presented by the UN as translators capable of vernacularizing and institutionalizing global human rights ideals within the local. Yet, the global proliferation of National Human Rights Institutions sparked by the adoption of the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions implies a top-down spread of these institutions from the global to the local level and makes legitimacy issues intrinsically connected to their creation. READ MORE
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4. Stolen Childhoods: Remembering the Former Child Soldiers Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The prohibition on the use of child soldiers is widely recognized. Still, it is estimated that 60,000 children were abducted and forced to take part in the internal armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. READ MORE
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5. Ethnic fragmentation and political instability in post-colonial Uganda : understanding the contribution of colonial rule to the plights of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : Uganda, along with a number of other African states, is a state struggling with the task of bringing together a vast range of ethnic minority groups into one nation-state decided by geographical borders drawn by colonial masters Britain during imperialism. The effects of these colonial decisions and policies are widely known to having plagued the native population during the course of history. READ MORE
