School of Global Studies / Institutionen för globala studier: Recent submissions
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Remembering and Forgetting after War. Narratives of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in a Bosnian Town
(2010-11-15)This PhD dissertation sets out to deepen our understanding of how people make everyday strategies for living together after mass atrocities, and what role transitional justice may play for these strategies. The aim is to ... -
Framing The Israel/Palestine Conflict in Swedish History School Textbooks
(2010-10-29)The following dissertation has examined the ways in which the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict has been framed in a number of Lower Secondary school Swedish History textbooks as well as in a small number of Social ... -
Threatening and Appropriate Bodies in Nation Building: Paths to the World’s 1st Female Parliamentary Majority in Post-Genocide Rwanda
(2010-04-27)While Rwanda first attracted the world’s attention for the genocide that took place in 1994, 16 years later the country is capturing interest because it now has the highest number of women in its parliament than in any ... -
Latinamerika 2017-2027: En analys av framtida konfliktmönster och regionalt samarbete
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Alternative Developments in the Andean Region 2018-2028
(Göteborgs Universitet, 2008-06) -
Alternative Developments in Central America and the Caribbean 2017-2027
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The Holocaust and Genocide in History and Politics. A Study of the Discrepancy between Human Rights Law and International Politics
(2010-01-28)The focus of the dissertation is on the role of the Holocaust in interpreting genocide in international politics. The Holocaust by becoming one of the main influences on morality and ethics in the post-world war world is ... -
The Regional Powers of Latin America: Brazil and Mexico: an analysis of alternative developments 2017-2027
(University of Gothenburg, 2007-08) -
Latin America and the Regional Powers - a synthesis study
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Equality before Custom - A Study of Property Rights of Previously Disadvantaged Women under Land Reform and Communal Tenure in Post-apartheid South Africa
(2010-01-20)Based on legal primary and secondary sources as well as text based and secondary data, Equality before custom? explores the relationship between statutory law and customary law in relation to previously disadvantaged women’s ... -
Understanding the East Asian Peace: Informal and Formal Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990 - 2008
(2009-11-27)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical study of the post-Cold War East Asian security setting, with the aim of understanding why there is an East Asian peace. The East Asian peace exists in a ... -
Peacebuilding in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Role of Cooperatives in the Restoration of Interpersonal Relationships
(2009-11-25)This thesis is aimed at contributing to the lack of knowledge in the field of peacebuilding from below, notably regarding the mechanisms to be used in order to overcome the painful past between conflicting parties. The ... -
Understanding the Polarization of Responses to Genocidal Violence in Rwanda
(2009-11-25)This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti ... -
Under the Same Shade - Popular Perceptions of Political Change and the Challenges of Consolidating Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania
(2009-11-06)This thesis deals with the question of how people in rural areas have perceived the change of political system from one-party to multi-party during the 1990s in Tanzania. Tanzania has to this date performed three general ... -
Development Intervention on the Ground. Inherent rationales of aid and their encounter with local dynamics in three Cambodian villages
(2009-10-16)The study is motivated by the maintained needs to scrutinise and critically reflect upon interventionist rationales in development assistance, to put development intervention in perspective by regarding it as part of the ... -
Mark är som barn. Genus, fattigdom, och försörjning i Södra Wollo, Etiopien
(2009-09-18)This anthropological study examines the complexity and importance of gender relations for livelihood activities and it looks at the way in which femaleheaded agricultural households in the Ethiopian highlands cope in an ... -
State Policies and Livelihoods. Rwandan Human Settlement Policy. Case Study of Ngera and Nyagahuru Villages
(2009-09-11)Through a case study of two villages of the Southern Province of Rwanda, this thesis explores the effects on Rwanda National Settlement Policy on the livelihoods of the rural population. With today 344 inhabitants per ... -
Each Day Another Disaster : Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
(2009-06-01)This anthropological study examines the ways in which Palestinian camp refugees maintain everyday life in a situation that is characterized by chronic disruption, fear and mistrust. It explores how these refugees make ... -
Just like couscous: Gender, agency and the politics of female circumcision in Cairo
(2009-05-08)This dissertation explores how female gender identity is continually created and re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female circumcision is central. In order to do so, the study inquires ... -
The Privatisation of Security and State Control of Force: Changes, Challenges and the Case of Iraq
(2009-03-12)The thematic focus of this dissertation is the privatisation of security, that is, the increasing use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform security- and military-related tasks traditionally associated with the ...