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On the 8th of May 2007 a local power-sharing goverment consisting of Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was formed in Northern Ireland. The aim of this dissertation is to explore why the DUP, who in the past have opposed all forms of power-sharing decided to form a goverment and take active part in a power-sharing agreement. The study is based on a consociational theoretical framewo

Why participate? Many studies focus on explaning non-participation in politics. The political parties are loosing members and the particiaption of young people are given extra attention. This thesis is about young people who do participate in party politics. The question is how they experience their participation and how they feel that they can have a politcal influence by being a member of the yo

Waste is an inescapable product of economic activity. As we now face a world economy, the waste problem is also increasingly an international one and needs to be handled as such. This thesis investigates what type of economic processes that have received attention from the international community for their role in waste creation, but focuses primarily what type of processes that have been ignored.

Anonymous job applications as a method to further diversity on the labour market is widely discussed. The method aims to promote an equal selection procedure, where the employer can only judge on merits and experience. We are with this study on the other hand interested in seeing how this specific method of employment has been implemented. We have chosen to perform a small qualitative case study,

The current trend in democracy assistance approaches has made the core of democracy essential to study. Democracy today must grow from within?yet supported from the outside. International donor agencies and donor recipients call for ?homegrown? strategies. The question that arises is how this correlates to the theories of liberal democracy. The overall important principal of democracy is to genera

What compelled me to write this essay was the ongoing debate about DAMP/ADHD between mainly Eva Kärfve and Christopher Gillberg. The purpose of the essay was to ascertain whether there was a similar debate about Asperger Syndrome. My focus was on the causes of the syndrome, how Asperger Syndrome relates to high-functioning autism, how the causes of the syndrome are portrayed by the practitioners t

This thesis investigates the obstacles for women's political participation in ethnically diverse present-day Bolivia, taking into account the intersecting identities of class and ethnicity. Postcolonial feminism has been criticising the way feminism treats women as a category encompassing differences within the category, and thereby ignoring significant factors affecting the social positioning

Denna text koncentrerar sig kring familjerepresentation samt tillhörande genus- och identitetsaspekter, med utgångspunkt i spansk och dansk melodramproduktion under perioden 1999-2004. Genom att med hjälp av närläsningar undersöka filmernas familjebilder, samt aktörerna och deras drivkrafter vill vi granska huruvida dessa fiktioner kan betraktas som symptomatiska för den kultur som de producerats

I denna uppsats kan man ta del av varför allt fler unga tjejer förskrivs antidepressiva mediciner och varför tjejer överhuvud taget får mer depressioner än killar. Man kan läsa bakomliggande fakta om antidepressiva mediciner och depressioner, de sociala faktorerna till varför unga drabbas av depressioner samt identitetens betydelse. Slutsatsen av denna uppsats är att också killar drabbas av depres

This study analyzes academic narratives about modernity and secularism in Turkey between 1980 and 2007 using the concepts historical orientation, narratives of modernity and landscape of modernity formulated by the German theoretician Jörn Rüsen and developed by Swedish historian Martin Wiklund.

The question about humanitarian intervention in Darfur poses many great obstacles. The essay explores the various factors, such as the legal, moral and political aspects of humanitarian intervention. The main purpose of the study is not to understand the current conflict in Darfur but to explain and comprehend why no state action has been taken towards the government of Sudan to stop a humanitaria

As a consequence of the Rose Revolution in November 2003 a new, energetic government entered office in Post-Soviet Georgia. This thesis takes the case of recent Georgian defence reforms to analyse the problematic sides of reforming a weak state. The theoretical starting point is Kalevi J. Holsti's conclusion in State,War and the State of War: that legitimacy is the most decisive factor for why

In the Darfur region, located in the West of Sudan, there is a conflict between rebel groups and the government-supported Janjaweed militia. The fighting?s, which started in 2003, has caused the loss of at least 200 000 human life and more than 2 million people have fled their homes. The conflict has been described as a? prolonged Rwanda?. The genocide in Rwanda in 1994 was a well organized and ma

Jag har valt att skriva om migrationen i USA mellan 1900 och 1950, detta eftersom dessa årtal var då migrationen var som störst och den har också gått till historien som bokstavligt talat just en folkrörelse. Det har pågått en jämn ström av in- och utflyttning från södern men jag tänker fokusera på den migration som skedde mellan 1900 och 1950. Det som är intressant med migrationen är att den fö

Abstract Uppsatsen syftar till att belysa korrelationen mellan åtnjutandet av mänskliga rättigheter, individens identitetsformande och grundläggande mänskliga behov utifrån ett beteendevetenskapligt perspektiv. Min forskningsstrategi utgörs av en kvalitativ bibliografisk litteraturanalys som vilar på sociologiska och psykologiska teorier. Detta vävs sedan samman med mänskliga rättigheters paradi

Although human rights may well be universal and eternal, but their exercise is an ever changing process and so are the threats or violations of those same rights. Today the violations of human rights in most western, democratic nation states have by large taken a sublime and physically non-aggressive form, best understood in a discursive and institutionalized perspective, when talking about racism

In May of 2005 the government of Zimbabwe initiated an eviction campaign called Operation Murambatsvina which rendered approximately 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless. The international community condemned the action and a UN Special Envoy was sent to assess the scope and extent of the Operation. This envoy, as well as numerous NGO reports, touched upon the subject of a ?crimes against humanity? charge

Uppsatsen berör implementeringen av mänskliga rättigheter i den svenska jurisdiktionen och i förlängningen asylprocessen och dess konsekvenser för dem den berör. Syftet med studien är att påvisa hur de mänskliga rättigheterna framstår i praktiken genom att se på hur principen om non-refoulement efterlevs. Genom en fallstudie av två svenska avvisningsfall har jag valt att göra en textanalytisk und

Afghanistan är ett land där motsättningen mellan tradition och modernitet har kännetecknat hela 1900-talet. Skillnaderna mellan utvecklingen i städerna och i landsbygden är stora vilket är en av orsakerna till att landet har splittrats. Olika moderniseringsförsök har utgjorts av olika utomstående aktörer under de senaste 100 åren. Denna undersökning fokuserar på en jämförelse mellan två olika peri

The aim of this study about post-conflict economic, social and political reintegration of ex-combatants is to understand how such a process should be prepared for in order to help as many traumatized and sometimes destructive or disabled soldiers as possible to re-establish themselves as functioning civilians as well as preparing communities for their return. In order to do this I have focused on