Essays about: "state responsible for violence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words state responsible for violence.
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1. Responsibility to Protect and International Law - The Case of the Rohingya
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Rohingya-muslimerna i Myanmar har utsatts för diskriminering och förtryck i många decennier. Sedan 2012 har våldet i Myanmar eskalerat till vad många menar är folkmord. De påstådda brotten har fått uppmärksamhet i det internationella samfundet och särskilt inom området internationella mänskliga rättigheter. READ MORE
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2. Conflict untangled : the political, social and economic factors behind the Central African Republic ethno-religious conflict
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this paper is to identify the underlying factors of the conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR) that started in 2013. It is argued that political factors played an important role in the coup d'état that ousted President Francois Bozize - the event that marked the start of the civil war. READ MORE
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3. Resisting abandonment: An ethnography of oil workers' resistance to political violence and capital accumulation in rural Colombia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Colombia is the worst country to be a trade unionist in the world. Approximately 3,000 workers have been assassinated in the last 30 years, the state, paramilitary organizations and some multinationals being responsible for most of the murders. READ MORE
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4. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE
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5. Female Maquila Workers in Nicaragua - How can the State Enhance the Women’s Human Security?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis explores the insecurities of female maquila workers in Nicaragua in order to derive policy implications for the Nicaraguan state. These workers are deeply embedded in gendered and neoliberal structures of the global political economy. READ MORE