Essays about: "UN soldiers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words UN soldiers.

  1. 1. Children in Conflict: Assessing the Impact of UN Targeted Sanctions on Rebel Groups' Recruitment of Child Soldiers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Rebecka Backryd; [2024]
    Keywords : UN targeted sanctions; child soldiers;

    Abstract : Sanctions are becoming an increasingly utilised tool for peacemaking and consequently, it is of importance to analyse its possible consequences. This paper aims to analyse the possible covariation between UN-targeted sanctions and the recruitment of children by rebel groups. READ MORE

  3. 2. ¿Quién dió la orden? Mediations for social change, affects and digital media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Gisselle Vanessa Martín Chocontá; [2023]
    Keywords : Mediations; affects; digital media; social change; connective action; collective action; meaning-making; social movements; political agency; Twitter.; Mediaciones; afectos; medios digitales; cambio social; acción conectiva; acción colectiva; producción de sentido; movimientos sociales; agencia política; Twitter.;

    Abstract : In 2019,  Movice and CT created a mural that depicts faces of  high-ranking military officers who were in command when more than 6.000 civilians were killed by soldiers and were presented as guerilla members. READ MORE

  4. 3. Mali-tarisation of the Swedish 'peace-nation' narrative? : A narrative analysis of Swedish peacekeeping in the peace support operation in Mali

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Moa Peldán Carlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : MINUSMA; Mali; militarisation; militarism; robust peacekeeping; critical military studies; Sweden; UN peacekeeping; peace support operations; narratives;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I explore everyday militarisation in UN peace operations by studying how Sweden's s 'peace nation' narrative is possibly militarised by participating in the robust peacekeeping operation in Mali. The aim is to increase understanding around how militarisation occurs in modern peace operations, domains that are meant to be peaceful but are becoming increasingly war-like. READ MORE

  5. 4. Human Rights Policy Implementation on the Social Reintegration of Former Girls-Soldiers : The Case of Angola

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Tiago Soares Bedin; [2020]
    Keywords : Child Soldiers; Girls Soldiers; DDR Program; Social Reintegration; Human Rights; Former combatants in Angola.;

    Abstract : Angola is a country that faced 27 years of conflict, from 2002 facing its peaceful moments. The situation with former girls soldiers during this process is not appropriately addressed, and this brings reflection on both human rights and development structure. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Experience of a Soldier : An Interview Study with Swedish Soldiers’ Serving in MINUSMA

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Karolina Magnusson; [2019]
    Keywords : Peacekeeping; Swedish Soldiers; MINUSMA; Internal Factors; External Factors;

    Abstract : Since the first peacekeeping operation in 1948, the global security environment has changed and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali - MINUSMA - established in 2013, has come to represent the emerging practice of deploying peacekeeping operations to asymmetric conflicts. Where there are on-going counter-terrorist operations, and no peace to keep. READ MORE