Essays about: "peace processes"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 143 essays containing the words peace processes.

  1. 16. The Digitalisation of Peacebuilding and its Impact on Conflict-Sensitive Communication for Development

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Daniel Seemann; [2023]
    Keywords : Digitalisation; Peacebuilding; Conflict; Communication; Development;

    Abstract : For more or less two decades, the application of information and communication technology (ICT) in the realm of peacebuilding has successfully contributed to the transformation of armed conflicts and, thus, made social change and development in conflictive environments possible where traditional mechanisms reached their limits. However, they can also have the opposite effect as they simultaneously bear the potential to undermine participatory processes, re-enforce exclusion, and disempower those affected by conflict. READ MORE

  3. 17. A Punta de Convite : On the Effect of Community Mediation on Local Reconciliation in Medellín, Colombia

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

    Author : Lucas Tamayo Ruiz; [2023]
    Keywords : Reconciliation; Local Reconciliation; Mediation; Community Mediation; Local Turn; DDR; Medellín.;

    Abstract : While there is an increasing focus within peace and conflict studies on how local contexts affect peacebuilding work, scholars have failed to investigate how local tools might promote local reconciliation processes. Simultaneously, the field of community mediation has exclusively been studied in contexts not directly related to armed conflicts. READ MORE

  4. 18. ”We used to be brothers. What has happened to us?" : A qualitative case study on civilian opposition to international peacebuilding in Mali.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Regina Weckström Breidenstein; [2023]
    Keywords : International Peacebuilding; Civilian Opposition; Mali; Liberal Peace; MINUSMA; Civil War; United Nations; Hybrid Peace; Top-down Peacebuilding; Bottom-up Peacebuilding.;

    Abstract : Abstract The international UN-led peacebuilding mission MINUSMA has been deployed in Mali since 2013 and was initially rather successful. The mission managed to support the government with stabilization and a peace agreement that ended the conflict between the north and the south. READ MORE

  5. 19. Barriers for peace mediators when shifting to an online environment : a case study of the UN in Yemen

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Brian Bruggeman; [2023]
    Keywords : Peace negotiations;

    Abstract : This research focuses on the opportunities and barriers of virtual peace diplomacy,examining the different aspects of this approach and analyzing its potential impact on thepeace process. In an era where conflicts have evolved into new forms of warfare, thecomplexities of mediation have intensified. READ MORE

  6. 20. Successful Social Reintegration in Urban Settings : What does it mean and what explains its variation?

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

    Author : Elina Francesca Rivera; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Reintegration; Urban Settings; Fear; Organized Armed Groups; Ex-combatants; Bogota; Medellin; Paramilitaries;

    Abstract : What does “success” mean for social reintegration of ex-combatants in urban settings? Although reintegration of former fighters has been at the center of academic and policy discourse for achieving peace, limited attention has been paid to unraveling how social reintegration processes occur and how they are impacted in urban contexts. This thesis studies the specific issue of successful social reintegration in urban contexts and asks why it evidences higher levels of success in some urban settings than others. READ MORE