Essays about: "essay of national unity"

Found 5 essays containing the words essay of national unity.

  1. 1. Thomas Hobbes' ideology and today's populist parties on the right

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Laura Conciatori; [2021]
    Keywords : State of war; natural status; Thomas Hobbes; Leviathan; populist parties; Sweden Democrats; Vox; Jobbik.;

    Abstract : Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to analyze how populist parties argue for state authority in a way that resembles Thomas Hobbes’s arguments in Leviathan. Moreover, the essay analyzes the characteristics of human nature studied by Thomas Hobbes connecting it to the importance of the National State. READ MORE

  2. 2. A case study on the government’s exercise of power during the reconciliation process in Rwanda

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Christopher Westerlind; [2016]
    Keywords : Rwanda; Reconciliation; Power; Three-dimensional power; Steven Lukes;

    Abstract : Rwanda experienced one of the most horrendous atrocities in our modern history in the summer of 1994 when a genocide occurred within the country, and in the aftermath the nation had to deal with this history and rebuild its society. This essay examines the reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda with the aim of investigating potential power mechanisms during this process. READ MORE

  3. 3. Cultural Integration in the European Union - and the future of Sweden's past in Europe

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Natali Isaksson; [2014]
    Keywords : Cultural integration; identity politics; EU; The European Heritage Label; the Swedish self-image; Europeanisation; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Cultural integration has been recognized as an inevitable feature in the making of a coherent European Union, and for further approval of systematic integration. The initial cultural policy of the Union was based on normative assumptions and essentialist views on a European civilization. READ MORE

  4. 4. Reconciliation through the Gacaca Tribunals in Rwanda “A reconstruction of knowledge on ‘ethnic identities’ in Rwandan societies towards the achievement of sustainable reconciliation

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

    Author : Samuel Owiredu; [2009]
    Keywords : Attitude; Constructivist Peacebuilding; Reconciliation; Transitional Justice; Sustainable Reconciliation; Conflict; Tribunal ; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Imagining how contemporary conflicts have divided societies in the recent times put one in a position to think of possibilities that will improve the activities of reconciliation initiatives for a lasting peaceful coexistence in the aftermath of conflicts. In Rwanda series of conflicts have emerged since the end of colonial rule till the genocide in 1994 calling for a necessary transitional justice system that will administer justice for the injustices that occurred and promote reconciliation and national unity. READ MORE

  5. 5. Our vulnerable position

    University essay from Ädellab/Metallformgivning

    Author : Hannah Joris; [2009]
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    Abstract : Today outer –often opposing- influences are endless; varying from contact with group features such as cultural, economical, national distinctions to differences in individual religious beliefs, sexual behavior, political views, ecological consciousness, etc. … Being confronted with this otherness leads to a crumbling, an unsettling notion of the known, the established values which throughout time were thought to have become one’s own; leading to confusion and resulting in the questioning of the self. READ MORE