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Biopolitics and Human Agency of North Korean border crossers: The Ethics of Coexistence, Mobility-Identity-Security Analysis (MISA), and Risk Analysis (RA)
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)This thesis discusses mobility, identity, and security (MIS), risk to life, emancipatory everyday peace in the context of biopolitics and human agency of North Korean border crossers. It begins with providing a new concept of human agency comprised of ability and answerability laid on the ground of the ethics of coexistence. Next, the thesis provides prevalent definitions of three identity groups ... -
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: A Case Study of Faith-Based Organizations in Isiolo County, Kenya
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)Generally conflict prone, Isiolo County currently grapples with radicalization and recruitment into violent extremism by violent extremist organizations such as Al Shabab and Al Qaida. As part of a wider response to violent extremism and terrorism in Kenya, civil society organizations in Isiolo implement preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE) programs with the aid of local and international ... -
The influence of illicit wildlife trafficking in security matters. The case of illicit trafficking of elephant ivory and rhino horn in Africa.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)Threatened wildlife is being poached at an alarming rate to feed the global illicit wildlife trafficking (IWT). Poachers and armed non-state actors – including rebel forces such as the Lord's Resistance Army – are targeting elephants and rhinos across Africa in order to meet growing global demand. This thesis places a particular emphasis on the worldwide security implications of the IWT in a time ... -
Latvia in the Baltic Freedom Way Through Singing Revolutions Towards the Restoration of Independence from the Soviet Russian Empire
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)The aim of this master's thesis research paper has been to reflect on the conceptual and theoretical framework of peace studies and practice research through examining the context behind the late 1980s Baltic states independence movements also known as "The Baltic Freedom Way" and "Singing Revolutions". The chosen and compiled conceptual and theoretical framework representing selected peace studies ... -
SPACE, AGENCY AND SUFFERING: Unveiling the experiences of non-Western women in asylum reception centres in Northern Norway
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-18)The experiences of women in asylum reception centres remain largely unheard. Few researchers have been focusing on the lived experiences of women in asylum accommodations. Even fewer have investigated the interaction between spatial conditions of asylum accommodation and women’s agency in Northern Norway. This thesis involves an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to explore the interaction ... -
Vietnam – A general study of the triangulation toward change: social movements, economic development, and political changeover. An overview on the Vietnamese political development between internal movements and external constraints
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-14)The 1986 Economic Reform (Doi Moi) can be considered a watershed in Vietnamese history. The resulting development has also had a notable impact on society, where a more solid economic base has enabled the development of the middle class, a necessary condition for the growth of civil society. While the political system still defends a collectivist model, economic liberalism is bringing the Vietnamese ... -
A study of manifestations of political polarization as structural violence. A case study of Ghana’s 2020 Election
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-03)This research will use the case of Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020 to illustrate how polarization manifests in the power struggle and is fueled by structural violence in the constitutional and institutional arrangements towards elections. Ghana is often considered a model of African democracy with a track record of peaceful elections, regular changes of power since its return ... -
The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-10-28)The historiography of the “Anglophone Problem” has drawn a lot of ink from Cameroonian historians, lawyers, politicians, and scholars. This is because an Anglophone in the Cameroonian context is not necessarily a Cameroonian who speaks or writes English, or who is imbibed with the Anglo-Saxon culture. Cameroonians are confronted with who an Anglophone is, what is the Anglophone problem, the origin ... -
Peacekeeper Training on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Adding a gendered perspective
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-08-15)The United Nations (UN) promote gender equality and the fight against sexual violence on a global scale. Highlighting gender (in)equality and its effect on people are fundamental elements in promoting equality between sex and gender, regardless of the hierarchy, environment and social background. When addressing gender equality, it is essential to understand that the UNs gender mainstreaming agenda ... -
Climate Change, Human Displacement and the Potentiality of Conflict: The Case of Bangladesh
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-16)The impacts of climate change are damaging many aspects of human environment and increasing the vulnerabilities of millions of people in different parts of the world. Among different consequences of climate change, human displacement caused by natural disaster, both sudden and gradual, is one of the most obvious scenario in recent times. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world ... -
Everyday Peace in the Ecovillage: Unity and Strength through Diversity
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-31)Abstract: Peace and conflict studies can benefit from studying small, ordinary, peaceful communities, in contrast to focusing on outlier events of violence, conflict and war. As a peace from below approach, the ecovillage model offers insights on how ordinary people innovate new ways to build and sustain peace within a microcosm of society, focusing intensely on the local. The aim of this research ... -
Learning Norwegian in Norwegian to become Norwegian? A study on the monolingual strategy for refugees learning Norwegian at Voksenopplæringen and how it affects their prospects for integration into society.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-18)Refugees in Norway are the group that experiences discrimination and social exclusion the most. The main reason of discrimination and unsuccessful integration is insufficient language skills. Even though, that they are provided with up to 3000 hours of language learning within an Introduction program that is specially designed for them to help them to reconstruct their lives in Norway, there is only ... -
The United States Securitization Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: A study of Post-truth governmentality from January - May 2020
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-03-31)This academic study uses the method of multimodal critical discourse analysis and semi- structured interviews to examine the power dynamics, through linguistic practice, of the Trump Administration concerning their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using governmentality, securitization theory, and post-truth politics, I investigate seven actors’ COVID-19 discourse from January to May 2020. I implement ... -
The 12th Man in the Old Firm Rivalry: Understanding Soccer Fan Violence and Football Fan Rivalry
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2020-06-01)The purpose of this study is to present and explain some of the factors that reinforce and intensify soccer fan violence in the context of the Old firm fan rivalry. This study explored the Old Firm fan rivalry as a case study because it is the oldest fan rivalry in football history and is regarded as one of the most intense, fiercely contested and violent rivalry in football. Further, the study ... -
The identity conflict of the Csango minority from Romania
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2006)<p>In the eastern province of Romania, also called Moldavia, lives a minority group of nearly a quarter of a million people named Csangoes, designated by the religious allegiance to the Roman-Catholic Church, and the use of Hungarian language as mother tongue by approximatively 60 000 people. The common literature of the last period has launched the idea that the Csangoes represent a mysterious ... -
A Study of Recurring Inter-group Conflict in Ethiopia: The Case of Guji and Gedeo, 2018
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-11-01)In April of 2018 violent conflict broke out between the Guji and Gedeo ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia, after 20 years of apparent stability. It is well established that many conflicts recur over time. This study aims to better understand why the Guji and Gedeo ethnic groups got into violent conflict again in 2018, after 20 years of relative stability. The key objectives are to shed light on what ... -
Prevention of Violent Extremism’s (PVE) ‘mission creep’ into the Peacebuilding Dispositif: A Case Study of PBF Funded Peacebuilding Projects in Kyrgyzstan
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-02)This thesis explores the shift of focus in peacebuilding projects that has been funded by UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) in Kyrgyzstan. After the ethnic violence in 2010, UN was invited to perform peacebuilding in the country. This was funded through the PBF, a branch of the so- called UN Peacebuilding Architecture. However, in 2017 the peacebuilding projects shifted focus and started doing Prevention ... -
The Causes Radicalising the Youth in South-Eastern Turkey. A Critical Approach
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-01)There are various causal and contributing factors for radicalisation, depending on the unique perceptions of each individual, society, or region. This thesis seeks to find out causal factors radicalising the young population in south-eastern Turkey, through semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation. Radicalisation is being handled critically in this thesis. It is not always supposed ... -
Did the UN miss with the Protection of Civilians in South Sudan? Exploring perspectives and perceptions of the UN protecting policies for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-31)The aim of this thesis is to explore the different perceptions and perspectives regarding the UN’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) policy and the use of the policy in the ongoing peace operation in South Sudan. As the UN is utilizing the PoC policy in the majority of their ongoing peace operations, there is bound to be different perspectives and perceptions of the policy from civilians in the host ... -
Group identity in Hong Kong; simply ‘black’ or ‘white’? Narratives of Hong Kong citizens among two generations during the 2019 summer protests
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-02)During the summer of 2019, the largest protests in Hong Kong’s history occurred. The Be Water protests were related to a proposed extradition law, they were also connected to pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong. In the protests, a lot of the slogans referred to a Hong Kong identity separate from a Chinese identity. The two identities seemed to be seen as two contrasting identities and dichotomy, ...
