Essays about: "intrastate armed conflict"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words intrastate armed conflict.

  1. 1. DEMOCRACY FOR ALL? A Quantitative Study on How Power-sharing Affects Approval of Non-Democratic Governance in African Post-Conflict Societies

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Viktor Johannes Päts; [2023-10-30]
    Keywords : Intrastate conflict; post-conflict power-sharing; Afrobarometer; non-democratic governance; grievances;

    Abstract : Since the Cold War, intrastate conflicts have become more common, and more conflict settlements call for power-sharing. Despite power-sharing being so common as a means of ending civil conflict, academic research indicates that power-sharing could be harmful to democratization. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. High-value non-fuel mineral resources and intrastate armed conflict; a comparative case study of North Kivu in eastern and Tshopo in the northeast in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). : How do high-value non-fuel mineral resources lead to an outbreak of intrastate armed conflict?

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

    Author : Ninyesiga Narice; [2023]
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  5. 4. Weapons on the Weak : The impact of Small Arms and Major Conventional Weapons Imports on the Intentional Targeting of Civilians in Intrastate Conflicts

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

    Author : Alex Aaltola; [2022]
    Keywords : SALW; MCW; OSV; civilians; intrastate conflict;

    Abstract : Academics and practitioners often assume that arms and violence against civilians are positively correlated. Existing research on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and major conventional weapons (MCW) imports, however, find that arms are a weak explanatory factor for intrastate violence. READ MORE

  6. 5. Negotiating the Sacred : Political Settlements and the Termination of Intrastate Armed Religious Conflicts

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

    Author : Noé Petitjean; [2022]
    Keywords : peace duration; religious conflicts; political power sharing; duration analysis;

    Abstract : The involvement of religious dimensions in armed conflict reduces the space for resolution and threatens the durability of peace. Yet, there are empirical cases showing that it is possible to address the challenges posed by religious dimensions. There are various avenues to secure durable peace for conflicts involving religious dimensions. READ MORE