This thesis illustrates the profound impact of refugee regimes and asylum policy within the broader context of European Union rules and regulations. Further underpinning the social framework of Malta within the confines ...
Since the early 1990s, southern Mexico has suffered several significant instances of civil
unrest, protest and violent military/civilian clashes, which profoundly affect the lives of
local peoples and threaten national ...
This thesis explores civil society advocacy on behalf of reproductive rights in Malta. It analyzes how civil society actors are promoting women’s reproductive rights, what factors are undermining the process, and what ...
This pilot study explores civilian and military understanding of the procedures, role, and necessity of civil-military cooperation. It identifies obstacles to cooperation and divergent views between civilian humanitarian ...
Kosovo has become a unique case of trans-Atlantic peacebuilding efforts, a
nascent sovereign state that remains under the legal protectorate of the United Nations
with a diminishing contingent of international peacekeepers ...
As the scourge of maritime piracy manifested itself in the mid-2000s off the Horn of Africa, the international community demanded a viable response. The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia was formed in 2008 ...
This thesis is presented as a preliminary and explorative endeavor about the role Information and Communication Technologies have, or may have, in the field of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution. Even if this field ...
This thesis examines areas of convergence between the principles and methods of community organizing practice and diplomatic negotiations through comparative textual analysis of the literature in both fields, interviews ...
Since the 1990s the PKK and the Chechen separatists have been branded as terrorist organizations by the international community. As a result, these groups have challenged the conception of terrorist organizations. This is ...
This thesis serves as a comparative case study of legal secularism in France and England
to determine if legal secularism and its conflicts with Muslim family law generate
structural violence against Muslim women. This ...
This thesis examines the conditions leading to the collaboration between the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts in Chiang Mai, Thailand through what is known as “Peaceful Homeland Network: PHN” during high tension of political ...
This thesis examines far right discourse in Europe and in Norway, and the increasing stigmatization and antagonism aimed at Muslim immigrants. The focus of this thesis is on Norway. Written a year after the terrorist acts ...
This dissertation starts from an interest in protracted environmental conflict in the United States
and takes the stance with respect to environmental conflict (1) that a threat to a resource very quickly
becomes experienced ...
This research is a comparative study of professional practice related to two schools of thought in the field of nonviolent conflict intervention: conflict resolution and conflict transformation. The research relies upon a ...
Research focusing on conflict resolution education (CRE) programs has
established causal links between academic achievement and students who have received
conflict resolution training in school. Conflict resolution ...
This study examines the determinants of chronic poverty which is at the root of conflict in
Nigeria. Violent conflict, most of which emanates from the northern region, is a defining
feature of Nigeria dating back to its ...
This thesis describes the initial two weeks of the 2011 Libyan uprising. Through a
detailed case study of this period, a narrative timeline is produced that includes
significant events and descriptions of the actions ...
The increased use of private military company (PMC) contractors brings to light
important questions of the possible dangers and advantages of their use. While many
researchers have debated the topic when it comes to ...
This thesis explores homelessness in Washington D.C. Drawing from eight
months of ethnographic fieldwork, I consider experiences of homelessness in the
changing urban space of Washington D.C., contextualizing these within ...