Essays about: "Violent Conflict"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 130 essays containing the words Violent Conflict.

1. 16. Gender-responsive peacebuilding in a changing climate : A qualitative content analysis of strengths and weaknesses in National Action Plans.

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

   Author : Amanda Jangbrand; [2022]
   Keywords : climate change; gender; WPS Agenda; qualitative content analysis; vulnerabilities and capacities;

   Abstract : Climate change can exacerbate violent conflict, create risks to human security, and prevent conflict recovery and peacebuilding in different contexts. Climate change nor conflict is rarely fair and have been argued to have different impacts on gender. READ MORE

3. 17. Resisting Corporations : Violent and Nonviolent Conflict in the context of Natural Resource Extraction

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

   Author : Jakob Faller; [2022]
   Keywords : civil resistance; nonviolent resistance; violent resistance; natural resource extraction; oil; multination corporations; MOSOP; MEND; U’wa; ELN;

   Abstract : Corporations in the resource extraction industry are frequently criticized and their operations opposed by local communities demanding more benefits, compensation for negative consecuences or oppose resource extraction altogether. Research has focused extensively on nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns that target state and quasi-state actors attempting regime change or self-determination. READ MORE

4. 18. The Effect of Natural Resource Shocks on Violence, Crime, and Drug Cartels Presence in Mexico

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Miriam Cavazos Hernandez; Balasurya Sivakumar; [2022]
   Keywords : Natural Resources; Conflict; Mexico; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : We examine the effect of natural resource shocks on violence by drug cartels at the municipality level in rural Mexico from 2003 to 2017. For this, we use an Instrumental Variable setup by instrumenting our main explanatory variable vegetation density with rainfall. READ MORE

5. 19. Conflict in Central Asia - A Soviet Affair

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hugo Axelsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Soviet Union; Central Asia; relative deprivation; state coercion; historical legacies; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : After the fall of the Soviet Union, two prominent Islamic groups, the IMU in Uzbekistan and the IRPT in Tajikistan, took to arms against their governments. To explain the contexts of these movements, this thesis utilises historical legacy theory to establish a continuity between the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, which together with relative deprivation theory can explain why violent religious conflicts arose in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the collapse of the USSR. READ MORE

6. 20. Social Identity Recategorization: Comparing National Reconciliation Initiatives in Burundi and Rwanda

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

   Author : Cathinca Verwey; [2021]
   Keywords : post-conflict; reconciliation; social identity recategorization; Rwanda; Burund;

   Abstract : After the cessation of violent conflict, societies have to undergo several changes to re-establish asense of harmony and repair the broken intergroup relationships. These changes can be summarized as the process of reconciliation. READ MORE