Essays about: "conflicto"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the word conflicto.

  1. 6. Peace in the peaks? Changes in water and land distribution in Colombia’s southern highlands during the Post-Peace Agreement phase

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Laura Betancur Alarcón; [2019]
    Keywords : Colombia; highlands; peace agreement; armed conflict; water; political ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Governance of environmental resources plays a key role in enhancing or hindering progress towards peace in post-conflict societies. Two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia, new dynamics on natural resource and land-use are leading to environmental harm in some regions. READ MORE

  3. 7. “Hope is passion for what is possible”: A Case Study of the Development Program with a Territorial-based Focus (DPTF) in Tolima, Colombia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Emma Johansson Jensen; [2019]
    Keywords : DPTF; peace agreement; participatory development; power; PDET; acuerdo de paz; desarrollo participativo; poder; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study is a qualitative case analysis based on fieldwork and multiple semi-structured interviews in Tolima, Colombia. It investigates the community level of the Development Program with a Territorial-based Focus (DPTF) in the south of the department. READ MORE

  4. 8. Degrowth : a movement or a vision? Identifying barriers and potentials for a powerful agent of change for the socio-ecological transformation in Barcelona

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Sara Fromm; [2018]
    Keywords : degrowth; social movements; real utopias; Barcelona; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Our current economic system is inherently unsustainable. The ‘growth fetishism’ not only is the dominant paradigm of our economies, but goes way deeper into our understanding of how well-being is defined and can be improved. The concept of ‘degrowth’ tries to question this hegemony. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Adelaida Caballero; [2015]
    Keywords : self-making; lateral struggles; Equatorial Guinea; politics of the belly; the practice of everyday life; existential anthropology; creativity; agency; narrativity; display; enunciative procedures; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; postcolonial states; suicides; Mamí Watá; construcción del yo; conflictos laterales; Guinea Ecuatorial; política del vientre; la práctica de la vida cotidiana; antropología existencial; creatividad; agencia; narratividad; display; procedimientos enunciativos; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; estudios poscoloniales; suicidios; Mamí Watá;

    Abstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE

  6. 10. Prospects and Pitfalls in the Pursuit of Peace

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Samuel Hallin Veres; [2015]
    Keywords : peace process; conflict; development; inequality; Colombia; FARC; positive peace; Galtung; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis presented an in-depth qualitative case study of the peace process between the Colombian state and the FARC guerrilla from 2012 and onwards. The purpose of it was to problematize the peace process by investigating the prospects and pitfalls of negotiating peace within a neoliberal development model, by asking what reasons there are to believe that the process will lead to peace, contrasting past experiences. READ MORE