Essays about: "mining conflict"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 40 essays containing the words mining conflict.
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11. How Activist Claims Can Help Explain Intensity of Violence in Environmental Conflicts : Evidence from Colombia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Why do activists in some environmental incompatibilities experience a high intensity of violence, while protesters in other environmental conflicts do not? To answer the query, this thesis presents a novel theoretical argument where it is stated that the type of legal claim posed by activists impacts the intensity of violence that they receive. Due to a ‘relational citizenship’-mechanism, activist claims that are similar to secessionist demands are suggested to negatively provoke state elites’ security provision, with the consequence of a higher intensity of violence, ceteris paribus. READ MORE
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12. The Impact of Country-Specific Contextual Factors on the Outcome of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act Regulating Conflict Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : The conflict mineral crisis has been ongoing in the DRC for nearly two decades, with armed groups and increased military presence have played on the tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold to fund a brutal war across the eastern region of the country. Recent international efforts to tackle such illicit trade in conflict minerals has focused on requiring relevant stakeholders involved in the mineral sourcing from the DRC to adhere to due diligence processes on their supply chains in an attempt to identify conflict-sourced minerals. READ MORE
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13. The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. : An analysis of the relationship between the use of undercover policingand violent labor conflict.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This paper evaluates the role of private policing in the patterns of violence that were prevalent in the mining regions of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1860s and 1870s, and which were attributed to an Irish secret society called the “Molly Maguires”. This topic has long been subject to academic and political controversy, and the use of agent provocateur tactics by the Pinkerton agency has been strongly suggested, but never conclusively proven. READ MORE
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14. Connecting the dots - mapping the use of conservation records for quantification and research
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdAbstract : This study addresses the potential use of information from conservation records for research and quantification purposes. The aim of this study is to map out the information types and documentation methods in Swedish museum databases. And to explain how the structure and the quality of data entry enable or obstruct scalability of information. READ MORE
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15. Landscapes of change and resistance : a case study of the mineral industry’s establishment in south-east Skåne
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : This paper studies the struggles over the landscape that emerge in south-east Skåne due to the exploration permission which was given to ScandiVanadium in 2018. It also examines how this permission has a background in trends of a green transition in the mineral industry. READ MORE
