Essays about: "Nineveh"

Found 2 essays containing the word Nineveh.

  1. 1. WAR AND FAITH - COPING STRATEGIES AMONG CHRISTIANS SURVIVING ISIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Beatrice Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : Strategies; survival; resilience; resistance; health; religion; faith; identity; peace; altruism; activism; Christianity; Assyrian; Chaldean; Syriac; sense of coherence; coping; northern Iraq; Mosul; Nineveh; Erbil; war; genocide; terrorism; ISIS; extremism; nationalism;

    Abstract : During the last decades, the Christian population of Iraq is estimated to have decreased from about 1.5 million people to about 120,000. READ MORE

  3. 2. Assyrian Identity Politicization: A study concerning Assyrian identity politics in the context of the conflict in Syria and Iraq 2012-2017

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anton Jönsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Politicization; Mobilization; Islamic State IS ; Nineveh Plains; Khabur River Valley; Nineveh Plain Protection Units NPU ; Syriac Military Council MFS ; Khabour Guards; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis is a single-case study of Assyrian identity politicization in the context of the conflict in Iraq and Syria from 2012 to 2017. The thesis investigates to what extent and in which manner that a politicization of Assyrian identity can be said to have occurred by reviewing empirical data concerning the events of the period and analyzing statements from three Assyrian militias. READ MORE