Essays about: "intra-state armed conflict"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words intra-state armed conflict.

  1. 1. Incorporation of Environmental Features into Peacebuilding Initiatives at Three Actor Leadership Levels : A Case Study of Liberia

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Mathilda Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Environmental Peacebuilding; Conflict; Natural resources; Forest resources; Forest resource management; Human needs; Actors in peacebuilding; Community forestry; Liberia;

    Abstract : Environmental change and degradation, and increasing intrastate armed conflict are two pressing challenges of our time. Regions with highest rates of intrastate armed conflict have shown to overlap with regions of highest dependency on natural resources for livelihood provision and survival, where research of interrelatedness between conflict and environmental degradation, the environment-conflict nexus, increased during the 1990s. READ MORE

  3. 2. Fear Ends Where Faith Begins : A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Religion in Armed Conflict on Violence Against Civilians

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Marina Matic; [2022]
    Keywords : religious armed conflict; violence against civilians; one-sided violence; conflict-related sexual violence;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to observe and analyze the effects of religious dimensions in armed conflict on violence against civilians. Focusing on rebel groups in intra-state conflicts, quantitative statistical analysis in form of Ordinary Least Squares multivariate regression, is utilized to examine data onreligious wars, one-sided violence, and conflict-related sexual violence. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Principle of Distinction in Modern Warfare

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Alice Ribbenvik; [2018]
    Keywords : Public international law; international humanitarian law; the principle of distinction; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Distinktionsprincipen är en av de mest fundamentala principerna i internationell humanitär rätt. Distinktionsprincipen grundades i St. Petersburgdeklarationen från 1868 och syftade till att minska det dödliga våldet mot civila i väpnade konflikter. READ MORE

  5. 4. How does the ethnic kinship affect the mode of provided external support in an intra-state armed conflict?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Torgom Piloyan; [2018]
    Keywords : thnic kinship; external support; Nagorno-Karabakh; Armenia; Azerbaijan; South Ossetia; Georgia; Russia; intra-state armed conflict;

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  6. 5. Mapping patterns of meaning: reparation for victims of mass violence in intra-state peace agreements

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Paula Van Aken; [2014]
    Keywords : peace agreement; reparation; victim; meaning-making; thematic analysis; framing theory;

    Abstract : In the aftermath of armed conflict, peace and justice are no longer perceived as contradictory. Scholars and practitioners alike have increasingly argued that societies emerging from periods of conflict or repression need to address legacies of past mass violence and human rights abuses in order to sustain peace. READ MORE