Essays about: "Nobel Peace Prize"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Nobel Peace Prize.

1. 1. From Nobel Peace Prize Winner to War Criminal : A qualitative text analysis of the Abiy Ahmed administration’s discursive patterns of democratic backsliding

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Moa Berming; [2021]
   Keywords : Democratic backsliding; Levitsky and Ziblatt’s model of democratic backsliding; Abiy Ahmed; Ethiopia;

   Abstract : This study examines if the process of democratic backsliding is observable in the discursive patterns of a government that is the driving force of democratic erosion which can be useful when attempting to discern if a government has undemocratic ambitions. The actor analyzed to answer the research question is the government of Ethiopia. READ MORE

3. 2. Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? : A qualitative study on interpreting criteria

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Vanessa Östensen; [2019]
   Keywords : Norwegian Nobel Committee; Nobel Peace Prize; criteria; discourse analysis; peace theorisation; interpretation;

   Abstract : The ability to identify, distinguish and explain discourses in written and spoken language is a greatly important epistemological consideration in modern thinking across humanities and social sciences (Shabani & Dogolsara, 2015). This study aims to decipher how well the original criteria, provided by Alfred Nobel in his testament, remains intact in the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s deliberation process, by studying laureation cases from the past 50 years- revealing discursive themes, trends, patterns and shifts in the committee's interpretation of said criteria. READ MORE

4. 3. Disambiguating the Brussels agreement: A study of ambiguity in the Serbia-Kosovo normalisation process

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Mikael Elmehed; [2016]
   Keywords : negotiations; ambiguity; Kosovo; Serbia; normalisation; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Most studies that discuss the normalisation process between Kosovo and Serbia note that the Brussels agreement from April 2013 was a remarkable achievement. Some opinion-makers even go so far as to suggest that a Nobel Peace Prize is due. READ MORE

5. 4. Investigating a Social Entrepreneurial Business Model in India and its Applicability to Wider Contexts.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Jasmine Hammam; [2016]
   Keywords : Social entrepreneurship; urban slums; portability; cultural context; India;

   Abstract : Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity since Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2006. Pollinate Energy is an Australian social business working to improve the lives of the urban poor in India. READ MORE

6. 5. A Chinese peace prize winner's view on freedom and democracy : An analysis of the problem representation in Liu Xiaobo's view on the Iraq war

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

   Author : Sara-Stina Bergstedt; [2014]
   Keywords : problem representation; Liu Xiaobo; Iraq; freedom; democracy; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : 本论文对诺贝尔和平奖获奖者刘晓波关于伊拉克战争的文章进行深刻分析。 本论文使用 Carol Bacchi 的 What ́s the problem represented to be 理 论解释刘晓波对伊拉克战争的问题表征的含义。结论表示这些文章的问题表 征是“民主和自由的缺失”。这个问题表征导致弱势群体有困难表达自己的 不幸,不满群体的产生,物质资产和人命的损失等。刘晓波的这个表征的后果是限制而不是推广自由和民主,因此不能成为伊拉 克战争的正当理由。.. READ MORE