Essays about: "wartime"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 47 essays containing the word wartime.

1. 21. Beyond Bullets and Ballots : A theoretical inquiry on sexualised election violence

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Miriam van Baalen; [2019]
   Keywords : Sexual violence; election-related violence; wartime; peacetime; women; gender and politics;

   Abstract : How can we understand sexual violence in electoral conflict? This study probes into this question through critically examining, structuring and assessing the status of election-related violence literature. Scholars within the interdisciplinary field that explores conflict-related sexual violence have given rise to important debates and insights on the dynamics and drivers of the prevalence of sexual violence in war, yet, such developments have remained absent in understandings of election-related violence. READ MORE

3. 22. Using Machine Learning to Predict Employee Resignation in the Swedish Armed Forces

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Amanda Foley; [2019]
   Keywords : conscription; machine learning; employee turnover; employee retention; random forest; Swedish Armed Forces;

   Abstract : Since the Swedish government reinstated conscription in 2017, the Swedish Armed Forces are once again able to meet the wartime staffing requirements. In addition to the increase in employees the Swedish Armed Forces have been able to shift focus from external recruiting to internal human resource management. READ MORE

4. 23. The order of the day : Script error in military organisations and violence against civilians

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Linnea Lönnberg; [2019]
   Keywords : organisational scripts; script error; military violence; violence against civilians; mass violence; atrocity; My Lai;

   Abstract : In an attempt to understand the micro-dimensional mechanisms of how some individuals come to perpetrate violence against civilians during wartime, this thesis adopts a theory from organisational psychology. By looking at the military as a professional organisation, violence against civilians perpetrated by state armies during wartime is theorised to be the outcome of a process of script error wherein military scripts of non-combatant immunity fail. READ MORE

5. 24. LIVE TO LEARN ANOTHER DAY

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Robin Leijding; [2019]
   Keywords : Militära lärande organisationer; organisatoriskt lärande; anpassning; organizational forgetting;

   Abstract : Studies have shown that there are several advantages to armed forces in having a well-developed learning organization. Scholars mainly argue two things on the subject, firstly, the military organization with the stronger organizational learning capability will win contemporary wars and conflicts. READ MORE

6. 25. Rebels in rule: the wartime origins of tolerance

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Aron Linnell Zyto; [2018]
   Keywords : rebel governance; rebel groups; ANC; ZANU-PF; South Africa; Zimbabwe;

   Abstract : This comparative study analyzes two rebel groups that ended their respective civil wars through negotiations and came to power in the first post-war elections. The two cases being the African National Congress in South Africa and the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front in Zimbabwe. READ MORE