Essays about: "democratic confederalism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words democratic confederalism.

  1. 1. PERFORMING NEW FEMININITIES : Representations of YPJ female Kurdish fighters in the British news and in pro-Kurdish online media platforms.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : STAVROULA TERZIDOU; [2023]
    Keywords : Kurdish women; YPJ; media; liberation struggle; identity; performativity; militarism; Democratic Confederalism;

    Abstract : The Syrian civil war has been one of the most complex armed confrontations in modern era. In thiscontext, the military participation of Kurdish female fighters of the YPJ Units has received globalmedia coverage. READ MORE

  3. 2. Westernization in Rojava; Infatuation with the West

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Chaton Smedra Chamoun; [2022-11-03]
    Keywords : Rojava; Northeastern Syria; Democratic Confederalism; West; Westernized; Westernness.;

    Abstract : The Kurdish-led Rojava Project in northeastern Syria has gained international attention for its pioneering work on equality, community coexistence, and direct democracy through the implementation of Democratic Confederalism, which is a non-state political system. Although Rojava has only existed for approximately ten years at the time of writing, there is already a body of research on the subject. READ MORE

  4. 3. Imagining the Commune - Democratic confederalist approaches to law and conflict resolution

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Miran Kakaee; [2020-04-14]
    Keywords : Legal plurism; regulations of social relations; restorative justice; democratic confederalism; self-administration;

    Abstract : In the midst of an ongoing civil war, the people of North and East Syria have been building society based on the ideas of direct-democratic and decentralized self-administration. Differently put, they have embraced the principles and ideas of democratic confederalism, which is the political ideology developed by PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. READ MORE

  5. 4. War, Peace and Ideologies : Approaching peace in war through Democratic Confederalism and the war in Rojava

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anders Nordhag; [2019]
    Keywords : peace in war; critical peacebuilding; liberal peacebuilding; Rojava; Syria; zones of peace; islands of peace; ideology; Öcalan;

    Abstract : Traditionally, war and peace have been approached as incompatible entities; where war and violence are present, peace has been assumed to be absent. Recent studies of peace in conflict have started to undermine this assumption, since expressions of peace and attempts at building peace have been found among individuals and communities entangled in violent conflicts. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Shiny Light in Smoky Sky: The experiment of Rojava with democracy

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ayyoub Jamali; [2018]
    Keywords : Rojava; PKK; Democratic confederalism; Gender equality; YPJ;

    Abstract : With a population of around 40 million people, Kurds are considered the largest nation without an independent state. Indeed, since the geographical division of Kurdistan in 1923, Kurds have been the victims of various forms of discrimination and oppression by the nation states of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. READ MORE