Essays about: "peace resistance"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 32 essays containing the words peace resistance.

  1. 11. Peace at the expense of traditional family values? : A descriptive frame analysis of the concept gender within the anti-gender campaign against the Colombian peace accord

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Louise Tegneborg; [2019]
    Keywords : gender; peace agreement; peace resistance; gender resistance; plebiscite;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to examine and describe the framing of the concept gender within the Colombian anti-gender campaign against the peace accord between FARC-EP and the government of Colombia. By implementing a frame analysis of gender, this study examines how actors within the resistance movement framed the concept of gender, and how they linked it to the resistance of the peace accord. READ MORE

  3. 12. The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran at 40. A discourse analyis

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Siavosh Bigonah; [2019]
    Keywords : Islamic Republic of Iran; discourse analysis; foreign policy; dialogue; security networking; peace; resistance;

    Abstract : Detta examensarbete utgår från det outredda faktum att den Islamiska republiken Iran (IRI) har kunnat driva fram sin agenda för självständighet och suveränitet från imperialistiskt och kolonialt ärvda dominansstrukturer. Denna agenda som är baserad på en militant diskurs om motstånd och fred har möjliggjort för IRI att exponentiellt vinna regionalt och internationellt inflytande trots sin brist på militär och ekonomisk hård makt. READ MORE

  4. 13. WAR AND FAITH - COPING STRATEGIES AMONG CHRISTIANS SURVIVING ISIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Beatrice Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : Strategies; survival; resilience; resistance; health; religion; faith; identity; peace; altruism; activism; Christianity; Assyrian; Chaldean; Syriac; sense of coherence; coping; northern Iraq; Mosul; Nineveh; Erbil; war; genocide; terrorism; ISIS; extremism; nationalism;

    Abstract : During the last decades, the Christian population of Iraq is estimated to have decreased from about 1.5 million people to about 120,000. READ MORE

  5. 14. Gastronomy as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land

    University essay from

    Author : Ulrica Söderlind; [2019]
    Keywords : Gastronomy; The Holy Land; peace; conflict; religion; interfaith relations; resistance; food; beverage; education; sacred order;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study within the international master program “Religion in Peace and Conflict” at the department of theology at Uppsala University. The study should be seen as a microstudy over the role gastronomy plays as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land. READ MORE

  6. 15. SSR and Democracy in Tunisia and Egypt : Understanding Security Sector Reform following Nonviolent Resistance

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

    Author : Sanna Lind; [2019]
    Keywords : Democratization; Security Sector Reform; Nonviolent Resistance; Regime Change;

    Abstract : In this study I explore how security sector reform affects the likelihood of democratization after a nonviolent resistance campaign in order to better understand the role of core security services during regime changes and the mechanisms of SSR. By using literature on nonviolence resistance, security sector reform, and by borrowing the concept ofspoilersfrom policy and peace-making literature, I hypothesise that SSR will likely increase the ability of core security actors to manage security problems in the transition after a nonviolent resistance campaign, as well as reduce spoiler capabilities among core security actors, thereby increasing the probability of democratization. READ MORE