Essays about: "Northern Syria"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Northern Syria.

  1. 1. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charlotta Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Agonistic peace; Thick recognition; Peacebuilding; Yazidi community; Iraq; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE

  3. 2. It was or it was not in the old days, until it was : – A study of time, tense, and aspect in spoken Arabic narrative

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Tallmyren Ronja; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This study is devoted to Arabic spoken narrative, specifically Syrian Arabic spoken narrative. The focus of this thesis is syntax and narrative. I aim to study how time reference is set in narrative, and what tense and aspect forms are used, as well as some other narrative devices in spoken narratives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Water Scarcity and Development A case study of the Euphrates water shortages and their implications on northern Syria.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Yazan Najy; [2022]
    Keywords : Water Scarcity; Euphrates River; Sustainable Development Goals SDGs ; Northern Syria; Water; Energy and Food Nexus WEF .; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In yet another alarming development in Syria, the waters of the Euphrates River have declined to critically low levels in 2021. The unprecedented low water levels of the Euphrates put nearly 5.5 million Syrians at risk as they depend on the Euphrates basin for drinking water and agricultural production. READ MORE

  5. 4. Syrian Kurds amid Violence : Depictions of Mass Violence against Syrian Kurdistan in Kurdish Media, 2014–2019

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Abdulilah Ibrahim; [2021]
    Keywords : Ideology; Kurds; mass violence; Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK ; Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP ; Rudaw; Firat News Agency.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates depictions in the Kurdish media (Rudaw and Firat News Agency (ANF)) of mass violence perpetrated against Kurdish civilians in northern and northeastern Syria – an area known to Kurds as Rojava – in recent years. Articles from two media organizations were subject to mixed-method text analysis (quantitative and qualitative) to uncover how mass violence was portrayed. READ MORE

  6. 5. War, Peace and Ideologies : Approaching peace in war through Democratic Confederalism and the war in Rojava

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anders Nordhag; [2019]
    Keywords : peace in war; critical peacebuilding; liberal peacebuilding; Rojava; Syria; zones of peace; islands of peace; ideology; Öcalan;

    Abstract : Traditionally, war and peace have been approached as incompatible entities; where war and violence are present, peace has been assumed to be absent. Recent studies of peace in conflict have started to undermine this assumption, since expressions of peace and attempts at building peace have been found among individuals and communities entangled in violent conflicts. READ MORE