Essays about: "Peace Conceptualisation"

Found 5 essays containing the words Peace Conceptualisation.

  1. 1. Reevaluating the Notion of Peace : Do Our Current Measurements Truly Reflect Peace?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Sanna Besic; [2024]
    Keywords : Peace Measuring; Peace Studies; Peace Conceptualisation; Peace Measurements; Violence; Direct Violence; Structural Violence; Cultural Violence;

    Abstract : There is an ongoing theme within the field of peace conceptualisation to create and to add to the meaning of peace. This has caused a fragmented field with over 130 conceptualisations. As we move forward, it isthus necessary to review whether the methods utilised to measure peace are suitable in the ever changing contexts of today. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (truth): Recognising sexual terrorism within the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Justine Sophie Mc Gahan; [2023]
    Keywords : Women Peace and Security; Sexual Terrorism; Conflict Related Sexual Violence; Security Council Resolution; Feminist Legal Theory; International Human Rights Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis will be an attempt to look beyond this relatively new conceptualisation of CRSV committed in the context of terrorism, so called ‘sexual terrorism’, to determine what are its implications for the development of the WPS agenda. Answering the research question ‘What are the consequences of the increased linking of CT and WPS, in particularly with regards to the consideration of sexual terrorism, on prevention from and prosecution of CRSV committed by terrorist organisations and on the development of the WPS framework?’ If this thesis put forward that recognising of the nexus of CRSV and Terrorism in international policy through its inclusion within the WPS framework could be a real step forward for accountability and is a recognition of the harm suffered by the victims, it will underline that potential developments should be nuanced due to the risk of co-optation of the WPS framework for reasons of increasing securitisation and pursuance of national interests. READ MORE

  3. 3. Raw Data for Peace and Security - The Extraction and Mining of People's Behaviour

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Yannick Deller; [2020]
    Keywords : UN Global Pulse; Peace and Security; Instrumentarianism; Big Data and Artificial Intelligence; Social Control;

    Abstract : In 2015, the United Nations Global Pulse launched an experimentation process assessing the viability of big data and artificial intelligence analysis to support peace and security. The proposition of using such analysis, and thereby creating early warning systems based on real-time monitoring, warrants a critical assessment. READ MORE

  4. 4. Tracing Varieties of Peace : A case study on three approaches to peace in a frozen conflict

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johanna Kolli; [2020]
    Keywords : Varieties of Peace; three approaches to studying peace; frozen conflicts; Abkhazia;

    Abstract : Scholars in the peace and conflict field oftentimes argue that peace is somewhat underconceptualised. The Varieties of Peace network has made a substantial effort in furthering the conceptualisation of peace by creating a comprehensive framework, theorising peace as three different approaches: situational, relational and ideational. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Democratic Definition in Bosnia and Herzegovina : A thesis about democratic definition: perspectives and perception

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Åsa Dalberg; [2019]
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    Abstract : The Democratic Definition in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a modest contribution to the vast research field concerning different democratic conceptualisations. With the presupposition that the term ‘democracy’ is defined differently across populations as a result of the specific environments existing in each country, this paper aims to identify whether the political system of socialistic Yugoslavia influenced its citizens and their democratic conceptualisation. READ MORE