Essays about: "gang conflict"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words gang conflict.
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1. Navigating Criminal Violence and Aid : Strategies to Negotiate Humantiarian Access in Guatemala
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Due to the high rates of criminal violence and the alternative authority of Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Guatemala humanitarian access faces multiple barriers in regions under CAG control, often leaving vulnerable populations without necessary humanitarian services. With limited institutional and conceptual frameworks to support negotiating for humanitarian access in these criminally violent contexts the international humanitarian system favors avoiding these contexts altogether to minimize the risk of their operations, but with the trends of violence increasing in the region not addressing the issue of negotiating for humanitarian spaces in these contexts only will result in crises worsening. READ MORE
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2. Father Michael’s Gangsters: An Ethnography of Musical Community After Gang Life
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This qualitative exploratory case study covers Lebanon’s conflicted history that has left itspeople with unfulfilling history education. The purpose was to explore potential stakeholdersand possible factors to motivate participation in Lebanon’s process towards a formal historyeducation. READ MORE
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3. Is peacebuilding a phase? – Analyzing the peacebuilding in El Salvador 30 years after the civil war
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Even if the messiness of peacebuilding has been recognized for some time, peacebuilding has still been viewed as quite linear, meaning there’s a transition from war to peace and that peacebuilding is a phase. Recently, other voices have been raised claiming we need a paradigm shift and to stop seeing peacebuilding as linear and instead see it as a never-ending constantly adapting practice. READ MORE
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4. Who are the Hilltop Youth? : Perception of self vs. Perception of researchers
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : This qualitative study focuses on perceptions of actors within protracted social conflicts and the value of using self-categorization as a tool to increase understanding of conflict actors as a step towards to finding alternative solutions. It compares self-perceptions of the Hilltop Youth, a radical settler group in the West Bank region in the Middle East, to categorizations used in all of the established literature on the group. READ MORE
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5. Reintegration processes of former gang members and former combatants
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : In a world where conflict is common, effective programs for reintegration of the combatants must exist for the post conflict societies. There is also a growing presence not only of gangs, but also of reintegration programs for those that chose to leave said gangs. READ MORE
