Essays about: "polemology"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word polemology.
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1. Women's Struggle in Finding Truth - A comparative study of the South African TRC and Rwandan Gacacas
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The role of women in post-conflict countries in Africa has always been less prioritised when working for reconciliation. Our aim in this thesis is to compare how the gacacas in Rwanda and TRC´s in South Africa treated the suffering of, and justice for women and what healing processes were put in place to help them. READ MORE
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2. Inside the giant's mind: A discourse analytical perspective for discerning characteristics of an agent of power
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The essay deals with how one can predict a state's behaviour through discourse analysis. It argues that while actors must have a real capacity for action, their re-spective discourse must also house a conceptualization of that capacity in order for an actor to be expected to make decisions to employ said action. READ MORE
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3. Crossing the bridge: Moving towards ethnic reconciliation in Kosovo
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The wounds from the bloody conflict over Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia are still very much unhealed in the Newborn state. This thesis purpose is to examine why there has been a failure to establish a base for reconciliation between the two largest ethnic communities in Kosovo, the Kosovo Albanians and the Kosovo Serbs. READ MORE
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4. Understanding Asymmetric Warfare - The plight of the strong: Actors, Dynamics and Strategy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Asymmetric warfare has gradually become a common occurrence in an increasingly interconnected world, as the interactions between militarily unequal adversaries grow ever more frequent. Because the strong do not always emerge victorious, which we presume they would, the following question is warranted: how can asymmetric warfare be understood? In other words: how are we to understand the processes which enable weak actors to win against vastly superior adversaries. READ MORE
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5. UNHCR - A possible conflict inhibiter? A Field Study Conducted in Rwanda April-June 2007
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Its been long known that militia groups all over the word use refugee camps as recruitment sites, but not much research has been conducted on the subject. Not until recently when Achvarina and Reich presented their new theory linking the level of security in the camps with the prevalence of recruitment. READ MORE
