Essays about: "minority conflict"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words minority conflict.
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1. Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education for poor children and demoting inequalities. READ MORE
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2. Intergroup contact beyond borders and trauma : A case study of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : This thesis contributes to the literature on intergroup contact by exploring the long-term impact of grassroots efforts on members of majority and minority groups involved in an intractable conflict. In such circumstances, the conflict parties’ existential survival is perceived to be at stake, which results in salient group boundaries magnified by competing memories of collective trauma. READ MORE
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3. Conducting interreligious peacebuilding in sectarian societies: Experiences from Lebanon
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Interreligious peacebuilding is one of the oldest methods used in peacebuilding around the world, as religion is often one key factor in war and used both to fuel conflicts or to promote peace and co-existence. However, the use of interreligious dialogue in post-conflict societies is still not fully understood and researcher has still not encapsulated its different components. READ MORE
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4. The Implications of Social Theory of Fear on the Alawi Section in the Syria Civil conflict
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : This research question is whether the social and political fear was used in the Syrian case to mobilize the Alawi minority and how. Therefore, this research is deductive research directed toward testing how applicable is the social theory of fear in the Syrian conflict. READ MORE
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5. Estonian-Russian Identities in the Conflict Zone : Postcolonial Readings of Andrei Ivanov’s “Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces”
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Slaviska språkAbstract : This thesis examines the changing identities of the Estonian Russophone minority based on the literary works of Estonian Russophone writers. It analyses Andrei Ivanov’s short novel Untermensch: the part of me that is torn to pieces applying the concepts of Baltic postcolonial identities and hybridity. READ MORE
