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  1. 1. Spatial Stories of Peace. The case of the Greater Gola Landscape.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Nicholas Eklund; [2024]
    Keywords : spatial theory; Liberia; Sierra Leone; environmental peacebuilding; conservation; case study; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis follows the interdisciplinary tradition that exists in global studies by performing a spatial analysis of the imaginary of peace(s) and conservation as a practice of peace(s) and thus contributing to the fields of environmental peacebuilding, peace- and conflict studies, and geography. The thesis has its theoretical starting point in environmental peacebuilding and is drawing and building on spatial theory as a way of understanding the construction of peace(s) in the context of the Greater Gola Landscape, straddling the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia. READ MORE

  2. 2. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charlotta Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Agonistic peace; Thick recognition; Peacebuilding; Yazidi community; Iraq; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE

  3. 3. How democratic backsliding impacts security and development in El Salvador

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Joel Claesson; Mohammed Alizadeh; [2024]
    Keywords : Security and Development nexus; Democratic backsliding; Democracy; Development;

    Abstract : The security and development nexus outlines the interdependence between security and development, this theoretical framework has been used in peacebuilding efforts around the world and the idea of the concept is that both security and development reinforce each other, more security is expected to create more development and vice versa. If a society is riddled with poverty and economic despair, insecurity will follow as a result, and likewise an economy will not be able to grow and flourish if a secure environment is not applied. READ MORE

  4. 4. 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

  5. 5. From Policy to Practice : Addressing the Challenges of Women Refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Johan Diez; [2023]
    Keywords : Peace and Conflict Studies; Refugee Policy; UNHCR; UN Women; Peace; and Security Agenda; Bidibidi Refugee Settlement; Yumbe District; Uganda Refugee Policy; Local Action Plan; National Action Plan; Ethnography; Applied Social Sciences; Case Study; Constructivism; Document Analysis; Thematic Analysis; Interviews; Women in Development; Women and Development; Gender and Development; Women in Forced Migration; Decentralization; Negative Peace; Positive Peace; Situational Peace; Cultural Violence; Structural Violence; Direct Violence; Positive Peacebuilding; Feminist Peace Theory;

    Abstract : This applied social sciences case study examines the efficiency of the ‘Yumbe Local Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security’ in addressing the perceived and experienced adversities of women refugees in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda. This is done by collecting data from the Bidibidi settlement through interviews and discussions with the refugee and host population, as well as with relevant organizations and governmental actors. READ MORE