Essays about: "Sami Parliament"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Sami Parliament.

1. 1. Fighting fire with fire? : An exploration of the relationship between nonviolence and sustainability

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Johansson Vodusek; [2023]
   Keywords : Nonviolence; Sustainability; Development; Agenda 2030; Sustainable Development Goals; Galtung; Ecocentrism; Gandhi; structural violence; cultural violence; peace; future generations; conflicts; global warming; globalization; knowledge; cooperation and environment;

   Abstract : This study aims at exploring the connections between nonviolence and sustainability in two cases. The relationship between nonviolence and sustainability is identified and discussed in light of the theories on nonviolence of Johan Galtung and theories of the ethical framework of ecocentrism. READ MORE

3. 2. A Critical Discourse Analysis on Finland's Rejection of The Reform of Sámi Parliament Act : A Critical Postcolonial Perspective

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Inka Ala-Iso; [2023]
   Keywords : The Sámi Parliament Act; Postcolonialism; Settler Colonialism; Finland; Sámi;

   Abstract : Finland is recognized as a country with high human rights standards including the rights of the indigenous people that are protected by various declarations, conventions, and international human rights laws. Finland first enacted a Sámi Parliament Act in 1995 and has most recently in 2019 received criticism from the UN Human Rights Committee for not guaranteeing the rights for the legally recognized indigenous Sámi people living within Finland’s borders. READ MORE

4. 3. The future of the Sámi people in a developing modern world : A qualitative comparison of Sweden and Norway´s handling of Sámi land use and self-determination

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

   Author : Felicia Arvidsson; Andrea Fröberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Indigenous peoples; Indigenous rights; Sámi people; Norway; Sweden; Land use; Self-determination; Minorities; Sustainability; Climate change; Human rights;

   Abstract : Indigenous peoples are living all over the world. In Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, live the last indigenous peoples of Europe, the Sámi people. Just like many other indigenous peoples in the world they need to find a way to coexist with the majority population in their home state. READ MORE

5. 4. Sápmi, Sweden's Smörgåsbord? On Human Rights, Rights of Nature and Extractivism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Stella Terjung; [2022]
   Keywords : Rights of Nature – Extractivism – Human Rights – Decolonisation – Ontologies – Self-determination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In North Sweden, Sámi activists are resisting the proposed Gállok mine, disapproving of their land being treated as a 'smörgåsbord' and countering the assumption of modernity that dichotomises the human and the nonhuman. Against this backdrop, this thesis looks at some of the unprecedented challenges the rapid extension of globalisation poses to the human and nonhuman world. READ MORE

6. 5. Sweden, Norway, and Sovereignty : A comparative work of the ideals of sovereignty between Norway and Sweden and how their respective perspectives can explain differences in Sámi rights.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Karl-Peder Sundström; [2021]
   Keywords : Sámi parliament; Sovereignty; Internal Sovereignty; External Sovereignty; Founding Document; Law Proposition; Sweden; and Norway.;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore how different versions of sovereignty manifestthemselves in the central founding documents relating to the Sámi parliament in bothNorway and Sweden. This analysis of the different approaches to sovereignty could beused to give an explanation to the differences between the Sámi parliaments in Norwayand Sweden. READ MORE