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The ambition of this thesis is to discuss state – making from an historical point of view. The aim is also to point out the historical lineages in the world. This has been done by comparing the state – making of today in Afghanistan with the state – making in medieval Europe. Charles Tilly’s four stages of state – making has been applied and the result is that Afghanistan’s state – making is divid
Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning som behandlar tre nationers kommunikationsarbete inför kommande nationsobligatoriets fall. Nationerna är Göteborgs Nation, Östgöta Nation och Malmö Nation. Vår studie behandlar huruvida respektive nation använder sig av och kommer att använda sig av intern och extern kommunikation för att behålla och rekrytera medlemmar efter obligatoriets fall samt vilken i
The essays purpose is to highlight the complexity of illicit weapons and it´s usage during conflicts that can be argued as just. The criteria’s of Jus in Bellum and Jus ad Bellum from the Just War theory is used to examine if conflicts containing illicit weapons can be argued as just. Apart from the theories view on what is just the illicit arms trade and the UN: s efforts to combat the arms trade
Many minority groups are subjected to discrimination in today’s society. The reasons behind this unfair treatment are often based upon morally irrelevant grounds. These grounds are in most cases shared by all the members of the minority group. The focal points of this essay are in the court cases that concern affirmative action at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Lund University
Titel: ” Jag märker att människor som kanske inte skulle ha pratat med mig annars gör det nu.” En kvalitativ undersökning om bloggars betydelse för individen efter dess ankomst i människors vardag Institution: Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds universitet Kurs: MKVA21:4, B-uppsats Författare: Marie-Louise Nilsson och Sandra Nilsson. Handledare: Veselinka Möllerström Problemomr
Civil-military cooperation is nowadays a core function in peace support operations (PSOs). This is a result of changes in the global political context, in part due to such things as the end of the Cold War, and the increased number of intrastate conflicts. Furthermore, the introduction of the concept of human security has had an impact on which grounds PSOs are initiated. The new context in which
The development of the constitution of Zimbabwe reflects many aspects of the political turmoil currently troubling the country. The constitution as an institution can therefore be analyzed in a perspective of historical institutionalism where the theory of path dependency provides an understanding of the choices made by different political actors throughout Zimbabwe’s independent history. The adop
The garment industry is one of the most vulnerable sectors in the world, with bad working conditions. Low wages and not allowed union organizing is every day for most workers, especially in Bangladesh. The workers are considered to living on a minimum wage, which does not cover the basic needs for workers and their family; therefore we need to talk about a living wage. This study is to examine ab
Kommunikationschefen Johan af Donner som arbetat på Röda Korset blir häktad, misstänkt för att ha stulit flera miljoner kronor från Röda Korset. Detta är starten till en hetsig nyhetsrapportering, där Röda Korset granskas in i minsta detalj av journalister. Vi har lagt vikt i att kritiskt granska journalisters utförande av artiklarna som publicerades. Vi har gått ner i artiklar och lyft fram detal
Vi har genom kvalitativ metod undersökt huruvida bloggen, i vårt fall tre kvinnliga bloggar, agerar som en arena för genuskonstruktion och om detta kan härledas till en diskussion om bloggen som utmanande och skapande faktor av genusmönster, kvinnoideal och kvinnlig identitet. Vi har genom ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt använt oss av innehållsanalys på tre av de största kvinnliga bloggarna i de
This thesis examines the complex humanitarian intervention (HI) situation involving the African Union (AU) and Zimbabwe. It attempts to 1) analyze why there has been no intervention regarding the atrocities caused by Operation Murambatsvina 2005; 2) conduct an explorative study on different reasons that work to prevent an intervention to occur in Zimbabwe. These reasons consist of contradictions w
The purpose of this essay is to give an image of the importance of humanitarian demining, it's difficulties and to what extent GPS can be a tool for this. A human rights perspective is used towards this through the entire work for what IMAS gives the parameters. GPS is a tool among others in the humanitarian demining process. GPS can be a tool in humanitarian demining especially in mapping min
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how trade affects human rights. By assuming that the liberalisation of trade affects the economic growth positively, its enforcement mechanism of human rights is somewhat doubtful. By examining a not yet official copy of a free trade agreement recently signed between the human rights-promoter the European Union, and the infamous human rights-violator Colomb
This paper takes on the some of the problems surrounding threats from pandemic flu, more specific the tendencies of a threat to escalate or being made deliberately exaggerated. Former American president Eisenhower explained the constant ongoing wars with a theory of a military industrial complex. Fuelling conflicts with personal interest, foremost economic gain. With the same theory, although broa
The purpose of this essay is to examine whether Sweden acts under the realist theory or the liberal theory in the fight against terrorism by using the deportation of the Egyptians as a case. By analyzing conventions and Sweden’s foreign policy in relation of the deportation, the answers will reveal if human rights have been given a secondary role in Sweden’s actions against terrorism. The theories
En kvalitativ studie av Disneyfilmen Prinsessan och Grodan skriven av Josephine Rapp, Jonna Nordheim och Viann Jalal, enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap på Lunds universitet. Disneys fantastiska och magiska värld kan vid en första anblick te sig oproblematisk och fulländad. Vid en närmre titt och metodisk undersökning finner vi dock ett annat svar. De budskap Disney sänder ut i sin
En uppsats om identitet och genus i bloggosfären
This paper is a qualitative case study of the Normative Power Europe theory and Neo-realism, which will be applied to the case of EUFOR´s intervention in Chad and the Central African Republic. The paper seeks to find if European military interventions can be explained with a normative approach. The paper outlines the key elements in these two theoretical perspectives and uses them to analyze the c
”All that glitters…” är ett examensarbete författat vid Enheten för Medie- och Kommunikationsvetenskap av Darina Nilsson och Emma Vig. Mediernas stereotyper har stor inverkan på människan, och särskilt på minoritetsgrupper i samhället som i högre grad än andra porträtteras på ett stereotypt sätt. Denna uppsats analyserar framställningen av manliga homosexuella karaktärer (Stanford Blatch, Marc St.
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the socio-economic development plans for Haiti after the earthquake of 2010, made by the government of Haiti and the International Community. The analysis will be carried out through the use of a key document- the Action Plan, and will be examined by the use of two theoretical frameworks. By using the two theories, they give an overview on what can be done w
