Essays about: "Violent Conflict"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 130 essays containing the words Violent Conflict.

  1. 21. From Culture to Behaviour: How Can a Culture of Violence Affect Organized Conflict?

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

    Author : Louis-Alassane Cassaignard-Viaud; [2021]
    Keywords : Culture; Violence; Intrastate Conflict; Factor Analysis; Values; Attitudes; Norms;

    Abstract : The reasons why some countries suffer from high levels of violence are still poorly understood despite the important attention they have received in academia. One of the potential drivers explaining spatial and temporal differences in organised conflict is the culture surrounding violence. READ MORE

  3. 22. Economic sanctions for peace: The non-violent option for whom?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Arita Halili; [2021]
    Keywords : economic sanctions; conflict intensity; non-military international intervention; humanitarian intervention; conflict resolution; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : There is a consensus in previous research that economic sanctions have a low level of effectiveness in reaching objectives. Despite this, economic sanctions are consistently used to reach different international goals. In later years, economic sanctions have become one of the most common actions in response to foreign conflict and terrorism. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Upsurge of Ethno-nationalism and Ethiopia's Fragile Democracy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Tsegaye Bulgan; [2021]
    Keywords : Ethiopia; ethno-nationalism; democracy; ethnicity; democratization;

    Abstract : By exploring the upsurge of the new wave of ethno-nationalism and its effect on institutions of democracy in Ethiopia, this study attempts to contribute to the study of fragile democracy in highly divided states. Methodologically, it is qualitative research where key informant interviews and literature review were employed to collect the needed data. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. : An analysis of the relationship between the use of undercover policingand violent labor conflict.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Constantin Torve; [2021]
    Keywords : Molly Maguires; Pinkertons; criminological history; labor unions; policing; Irish diaspora; migration; Pennsylvania;

    Abstract : This paper evaluates the role of private policing in the patterns of violence that were prevalent in the mining regions of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1860s and 1870s, and which were attributed to an Irish secret society called the “Molly Maguires”. This topic has long been subject to academic and political controversy, and the use of agent provocateur tactics by the Pinkerton agency has been strongly suggested, but never conclusively proven. READ MORE

  6. 25. MEDIATING SERIAL VIOLENCE : NORMATIVITY, DEVIANCE & FRAMING IN THE MCARTHUR MURDERS

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Max Maccarone; [2021]
    Keywords : normativity; deviancy; framing; mediatized violent phenomena; queer phenomenology;

    Abstract : How do the media react in the face of a violent phenomenon involving actors both embraced and marginalized by society? One such phenomena – the McArthur murders – encapsulates this dynamic considering how the media explained the murders to their audiences. McArthur, a white LGBTQ+ man, murdered over a seven-year period specifically targeting male victims of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent associated with the LGBTQ+ community and geographic area in Toronto, Canada. READ MORE