Essays about: "violent protests"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words violent protests.

  1. 1. In the Shadow of Monumentum... The War on Statues

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Anna Fernsten Nilén; [2023]
    Keywords : Public Monuments; Affective Economy; Iconoclasm; Cultural Memory; Statue Trashing; Black Life Matter; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In the Shadow of Monumentum... the War on Statues explores the last decade's violent protests on colonisation and institutional racism leading to the vandalisation, defacing and in some cases removal or toppling of public monuments. READ MORE

  3. 2. Protesting After War : Investigating the long-term effect of insurgent violence on protest dynamics in Colombia

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

    Author : Alma Estrada Metell; [2022]
    Keywords : Protests; institutional trust; militarization; local war legacies; post- war violence;

    Abstract : In order to break the cycle of violence in war-ridden societies, nonviolent mechanisms to deal with conflicts has to be established. One such mechanism is protests, which when performed peacefully can be a powerful tool for political change. READ MORE

  4. 3. Responsibility to Protect, Eurasianism, or Russkiy Mir? : A study examining which of the conceptual framings ‘Responsibility to Protect’, ‘Eurasianism’, and ‘Russkiy Mir’ has been the most prominent in Russia’s legitimation of its intervention in Kazakhstan, January 2022

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Pauline Lövgren; [2022]
    Keywords : Russia; Kazakhstan; CSTO; R2P; Eurasianism; Russkiy Mir;

    Abstract : In January 2022, violent protests and clashes broke out in Kazakhstan and the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation decided to intervene. Although Russia tends to be a strong defender of Westphalian sovereignty and a frequent critic of interventions carried out by the West, this was not the first time Russia intervened in another country. READ MORE

  5. 4. Protests in Europe: Is violence the answer? : A comparative case study on protest violence and success in democracies

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

    Author : Catrin Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Protests; Protest violence; Democracy; Europe; Concession;

    Abstract : This thesis has empirically investigated the relationship between violent protest and concession in democracies. Previous research has focused on maximalist movements that aim to overthrow sitting governments using violent methods. READ MORE

  6. 5. Police violence and the state: The negotiation of the boundaries between legitimated and illegitimate police violence in the context of the gilets jaunes protests

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Merle Emrich; [2022]
    Keywords : police violence; protest movements; protest policing; gilets jaunes; loi anticasseurs; loi sécurité globale; France; Walter Benjamin; Hannah Arendt; discourse; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The French gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protest movement, sparked by a planned carbon fuel tax in 2018 is marked by numerous injuries and mutilations of protesters by police, and characterised by a shift towards a more confrontational protest policing strategy. Viewing protest policing and police violence as interlinked with political processes, this thesis explores the question of how the boundaries between sanctioned and unsanctioned police violence are (re-)negotiated in the intersections of law (enforcement) and politics in the specific context of the gilets jaunes movement. READ MORE