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The United Nations Security Council is the only body that can make a decision to conduct a humanitarian intervention, still we have witnessed genocide in both Rwanda and recently Syria. These two cases highlight a fundamental problem as regards the structure of the Security Council. The five veto countries, have the power to prevent a humanitarian intervention. Because of this inefficiency, the in

This ethnographic case study analyses ecological, socio-cultural and economic practices taking place in a community-based organization (CBO), Organic Technology Extension and Promotion of Initiative Centre (OTEPIC), in rural Trans Nzoia County, Kenya, in order to understand how food sovereignty is promoted for community members and local small scale farmers in the given geographical context. Throu

Water resources management has been reconfigured over time and space; as power over decision-making processes has increasingly been vested from the state and distributed among networks of private and non-governmental actors. Geographical scholarships of environmental governance seek to critically analyse this transformation in order to grasp how decisions are made, and the consequences that entail

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is deemed to be the EU’s most ambitious initiative to date. The EU is often considered to have normative power over partner countries and therefore the concept of Normative Power Europe has been investigated. In order to narrow the scope, democracy promotion was chosen as the primary channel for normative power. The purpose is to investigate how the ENP uses

This master’s thesis examines the norm-critical awareness among children librarians in Swedish public libraries and how the practical everyday work with current literature for children function with this awareness. By adopting a norm-critical approach you have the ability to observe the different types of norms that you can find among us and that effects the way we see the world. Some of these nor

I svenska skolan finns det många elever som har svårt att koncentrera sig på skolarbeten. Det kan bero på inlärnings- och koncentrationssvårigheter. Studier har visat att elever som har fått insatser av teknikstöd blivit hjälpta med skolarbetet. Idag finns det få studier om elevers upplevelser och beskrivningar av teknikstöd. Studiens syfte var att belysa hur elever med inlärnings- och koncentrati

Dupuytrens kontraktur, en ärftlig sjukdom som oftast drabbar män, är en sakta fortskridande bindvävssjukdom som påverkar palmaraponeurosen i handflatorna. Fingrarna fastnar i böjt läge, vanligtvis ringfinger och lillfinger. Aktiviteter som ex tvätta sig i ansiktet, ta på sig handskar eller ta någon i hand blir svåra att utföra. Tills för bara några år sedan fanns det endast operation som behandlin

Bakgrund: Personer med psykisk funktionsnedsättning kan ofta uppleva att de basala behoven inte tillfredsställs, vilket kan påverka personens möjligheter att utföra dagliga aktiviteter. Väl fungerande hjälpmedel i sin vardag underlättar och möjliggör för personen. Ett hjälpmedel som arbetsterapeuterna ofta ordinerar till personer med psykisk funktionsnedsättning är tyngdtäcken. Syfte: Att undersök

The thesis regards the Swedish group deduction rules and whether the rules are compatible with EU law. The rules are analyzed in relation to both primary law, the fundamental freedoms established in the TFEU and secondary law, the Parent-Subsidiary Directive (PSD). The author has established four requirements in the Swedish provisions that could possibly be in breach of EU law, namely; (1) the dir

Gender equality (GE) is one of Sweden’s three thematic prioritizations in foreign aid and have so been since 2007. Gender equality is emphasized as important for development and as a question in which Sweden has added value in promoting. The thesis examines what type of gender equality Sweden promotes in development cooperation with nine African countries and how it has changed in the country and

Issue of study - A high level of organizational consciousness is needed to face the complex challenges in today's world. A growing body of research indicates the relationship between a higher level of organizational consciousness and performance. Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations (2014), has created a five stage framework to describe how organizational forms are related to

Uppsatsen behandlar kommunal delegation och speciellt den myndighetsutövning mot enskild som sker på socialrättens område. Framförallt gäller myndighetsutövningen tvångsomhändertaganden och ansökan om tvångsvård enligt LVU. Uppsatsen består av en deskriptiv del där gällande rätt avseende kommunal delegation utreds. Begrepp som behandlas är bland annat ren verkställighet, beslut, lekmannastyrning, This thesis deals with municipal delegation and in particular the excercise of authority over individuals within the field of social law. Said exercise of authority primarily concerns compulsive preventive detention and applications for compulsory care under LVU. The thesis consists of a descriptive part where the applicable law regarding municipal delegation is investigated. Concepts covered incl

Syftet med studien var att utvärdera Våga Mera, en gruppbehandling för ungdomar med ångestproblematik, samt att samla erfarenheter inför fortsatt utvärdering av Våga Mera. Metod: Nio ungdomar med föräldrar ingick i studien och med hjälp av skattningsformulär skattades ungdomarnas symtom avseende ångest, oro, depression, intolerans för osäkerhet, sociala och emotionella symtom. Mätningar gjordes föThe purpose of the study was to evaluate the group treatment programme ”Våga Mera” for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and to gather information on how to further evaluate ”Våga Mera”. Method: Nine children together with parents were included in the study. The children and their parents evaluated the children´s symtoms before the treatment started, at post-treatment and also after

I dagens informationssamhälle vill medborgarna kunna ta del av så mycket information som möjligt, varför visselblåsning har blivit ett mycket uppmärksammat ämne. Visselblåsare utgör ett viktigt kontrollmoment i samhället som historiskt sett avslöjat uppgifter och skandaler av stort allmänintresse. Denna framställning syftar i en första del till att i ett rättsutvecklingsperspektiv redogöra för de In the age of information people want to get hold of as much information as possible, which is probably why whistleblowing has become such a hot topic. Whistleblowers constitute an important body of control in society which historically has revealed information and scandals of great public interest. The aim of this essay is two-folded. First off the aim is to in a perspective of legislative develo

Bakgrund: Patientsäkerheten är ett satsningsområde både nationellt och internationellt. Befintlig forskning har undersökt skilda aspekter av den intraoperativa patientsäkerheten. Det finns en kunskapslucka beträffande operationssjuksköterskors erfarenheter av detta fenomen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva operationssjuksköterskors uppfattningar av den intraoperativa patientsäkerheten. Metod: En kva

The aim of our study is to understand how milk is represented online, more specifically on the Swedish web. We are interested in how information is being produced and distributed online, and also how networks of information are interconnected. We choose to examine milk because of the current controversies that have flourished online between a Swedish oat milk company and a Swedish milk organisatio

The world's most popular sport, football, has been heavily overlooked for it's potential in development. Recent innovations from famous world bodies such as the United Nations or FIFA have lead to innovations in the field of sports and development. This thesis examines innovations that happened both before and concurrently with these UN and FIFA innovations but in the context of nation-bui

Principen om barnets bästa framhålls i både svensk nationell rätt och i internationella konventioner. Barnets bästa ska vara vägledande i alla beslut som rör barnet, så som barnets boende, umgänge och vårdnad. Vad som är barnets bästa är inte lagstadgat, rangordnat eller uttömt i varken svensk nationell rätt eller i internationell rätt utan barnets bästa anses skilja sig beroende på tid och plats,The principle of “the best interests of the child” is emphasized in both Swedish national law and international conventions, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the European Convention on Human Rights. The principle shall to be used as guidance in all decisions relating to a child and can involve determination regarding the child's residence, visitation regulation or cu

In this study the concept of transboundary protected areas formally called peace parks have been analysed. Peace parks are created for the purpose to foster peace and cooperation between contesting states through conservation efforts in the form of international natural protection areas. The aim of the study is to find factors that can help explain why and how peace parks can be created. The peace

Andelen privatpersoner som väljer att investera i aktier växer för varje år. Därför är det viktigt att öka förståelsen kring vilka faktorer som ligger bakom variationen i individers framgång. Den aktuella studien syftar till att undersöka huruvida personlighet respektive generell intelligens är relaterade till privatsparares ekonomiska framgång i aktiehandel. De 90 aktiesparare som studerades geno