Essays about: "insurgency"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 essays containing the word insurgency.

  1. 1. AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE IMPACTS OF INSECURITY ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY BORNO STATE)

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Author : Ezeoka Ifeanyi; [2023]
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    Abstract : Since the resurgence of the Boko Haram insurgents in 2009 in Nigeria, Boko Haram has been a formidable and persistent threat to Nigeria to contend. The country has suffered mass killings, displacement of people, kidnapping,abduction, and various attacks on Nigerians. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Guns for Hire: Private Military Companies in Nigeria and Mozambique

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Olof Hjorth; [2023]
    Keywords : PMCs; Mercenaries; Nigeria; Mozambique; State capacity; Insurgency; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This case study investigates the involvement of private military companies (PMCs) in two African conflicts. Nigeria and Mozambique hired PMCs in 2014 and 2019 respectively to combat internal insurgencies. The paper aims to answer why these countries hired PMCs and if the PMCs were successful in combating the insurgencies. READ MORE

  4. 3. "30 million women rejected me" - a narrative analysis of perpetrators of gendered mass murders

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Tova Wedding; [2022]
    Keywords : mass murder; misogyny; narrative criminology; hegemonic masculinity; homosociality; male entitlement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how perpetrators of misogynistic mass murder utilise narrative and storytelling to make meaning of their violent acts towards women. This thesis is hereby an attempt to understand gendered mass violence, and its narrative resources that precede and promote such actions, as part of a wider, misogynist culture centered on a denial of the existence of patriarchal societies and oppression of women. READ MORE

  5. 4. Between Power and Vulnerability: National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Conflict Environments and the Uganda Human Rights Commission

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Magdalena Ruiz Liard Krysa; [2022]
    Keywords : National Human Rights Institutions; post-conflict environments; effectiveness; vernacularization; global and local; Uganda; Uganda Human Rights Commission; expert interviews.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In light of declining multilateralism within the field of human rights since the 1990s, National Human Rights Institutions have been presented by the UN as translators capable of vernacularizing and institutionalizing global human rights ideals within the local. Yet, the global proliferation of National Human Rights Institutions sparked by the adoption of the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions implies a top-down spread of these institutions from the global to the local level and makes legitimacy issues intrinsically connected to their creation. READ MORE

  6. 5. Conceptual confusion in the grey zone between crime and war : A comparative case study of three Mexican drug trafficking organisations and how to conceptualise these

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Sandra Jansson; [2022]
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    Abstract : This thesis conducts three case studies on drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) in Mexico, namely Los Zetas, Caballeros Templarios and Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. The purpose of this study is to conduct an empirical test of to which extent the concepts DTOs, terrorism and insurgency correctly describe these DTOs. READ MORE