Essays about: "political security in africa"

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  1. 16. Destructive Conflicts Generating Reconstructive Empowerment of Women and Opportunities for Peace?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Julia Savic; [2021]
    Keywords : WPS; Post-Conflict; Peacebuilding; sub-Saharan Africa; Economic Empowerment; Socioeconomic Development; Rwanda; Burundi; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Conflicts are destructive for humans and societies, but are openings for rebuilding a more inclusive and sustainable society presented in the aftermath of conflict? This paper contributes to the growing research field and examines the link between conflict and window of opportunity for development, through a gender lens. Further, this study seeks to understand how conflict affected women’s socioeconomic situation in Rwanda and Burundi. READ MORE

  3. 17. Non-Governmental Organizations Contribution to Sustainable Development in West Africa

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Leonor Lidge; [2020]
    Keywords : West Africa; independent media; non-governmental organizations; sustainable development;

    Abstract : This study examines the role of non-governmental organizations contributing to sustainable development by addressing the violence during periods of an election in West Africa. More specifically, it highlights the role non-governmental organizations have as service-providers and facilitators in between journalists and the police in West Africa. READ MORE

  4. 18. Europe’s Twin Continent Retroliberalism in EU Development Policy targeting Africa – a Narrative Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Frederik Söndergaard; [2020]
    Keywords : Development Policy; European Union; Africa; European External Action Service; Ontological Security; Narrative; Identity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study analyses the constitutive power of narratives in relation to a retroliberal paradigm shift in EU development policy by focusing on blended finance targeting sub-Saharan Africa. This study builds on the claims of Mawdsley (2015) that a reconfiguration of global development policy has challenged the North ontologically, which have been accompanied with the emergence of retroliberalism. READ MORE

  5. 19. The Road to (In)security: India’s Perception of Insecurity Towards the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Ludvig Landberg; [2019-09-30]
    Keywords : Infrastructure; Techno-Politics; Securitization; China-Pakistan Economic Corridor; South Asia;

    Abstract : Infrastructural techno-political regimes are growing all over the world. One such regime, the Chinese One Belt One Road project (OBOR) is planned to have transnational connections to over 65 countries, in Africa, Asia, and Europe. OBOR’s flagship project is the US$62 billion China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). READ MORE

  6. 20. THE LINK BETWEEN ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION AND CORRUPTION REVISED Ethnic voting in Africa

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Håkan Bernhardsson; [2019-08-08]
    Keywords : ethnic fractionalization; corruption; ethnic voting;

    Abstract : This thesis revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption in Africa. An earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic favoritism. READ MORE