The purpose of this thesis is to understand the importance of crisis preparation for disaster management in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina, and why New Orleans was so badly prepared despite knowing for several years that a disaster of Katrina’s magnitude was much likely to struck at this time. The study is based on secondary literature in the form of articles, web documentaries and investiga

This thesis is an attempt to identify possible changes in the operational code of the former Swedish minister for foreign affairs Carl Bildt following the Georgian war of August 2008. The analysis uses the VICS (Verbs In Context System) coding scheme developed by Stephen G. Walker, Mark Schafer and Michael D. Young to quantitively analyze public speeches made by Bildt from before and after the war

The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on the 4th of April 1949 became a watershed for the Nordic states and divided the normally very homogenous groupinto two separate camps. By examining this phenomenon from three different methodological approaches, this thesis aims to explain why the division occurred. The methodological approaches are sectioned into macro meso and micro levels in order to d

The concept of poverty as a development and a security issue has been fairly commonplace since the end of Cold War and poverty has been gaining importance in the security agenda of the EU throughout the years. Thus Lisbon Treaty has legally and instructionally enhanced the Union’s capacities to ensure policy coherence and has given poverty reduction utmost importance among its development cooperat

The use of detention centers for refugees in Sweden has been criticized over the last couple of years. The lack of resources and the shortage of accommodations have resulted in the use of alternative facilities such as police detentions and prisons. These alternative facilities has since 1994 been criticized by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. But still the alternative detenti

This thesis concerns the impact of instrumental benefits and norms on state behaviour in international relations. This is studied on the case of the EU’s and Japan’s initiation of enforcement against North Korea in the UN Human Rights Council, which has garnered increased attention since 2013 when a commission of inquiry successfully put the issue on the international community’s agenda. I ask w

Den senaste tiden har ifrågasättandet av diagnosen skakvåld fått mycket uppmärksamhet, bl.a. eftersom HD i NJA 2014 s. 699, just på grund av ovan nämnda ifrågasättande, friade den tilltalade från anklagelserna om skakvåld. I ett annat fall beviljade HD resning för en man som tidigare dömts för skakvåld. Syftet med denna uppsats är att granska diagnosen skakvåld ur ett juridiskt perspektiv. Det skeRecently the questioning of the diagnosis ’shaken baby syndrome’ has received attention, partly because the Supreme Court in a judgment, because of the poor scientific evidence base for the diagnosis, acquitted the defendant from the accusations of shaking his baby. In another case the Supreme Court granted a man, who had been sentenced to prison for killing his daughter by violent shaking, a new

The collective housing movement in Sweden has undergone a lot of changes since it started in the 1930s. It has identified different problems over the years, but the solution has always remained the same. In my thesis I ask if these changes can be explained with individualization-theories, and my hypothesis is that the movement has been individualized. I have chosen to analyze the collective housin

This thesis drives a twofold argument about the Swedish policies on foreign aid and development. First of all is it stated how there has been a continuity in this particular field of policy has since its inception in the 1960s and the issue has in the closest become depoliticised in mainstream politics. With the intent of bringing this field of policy back in to the light of politics and ideology

Den här uppsatsen kommer att redogöra för min undersökning om huruvida personalen i en icke-konventionell förskola presenterar ett normalitetskoncept för barnen som en omedveten strategi att uppbringa lydnad hos dem. Uppsatsen baserar sig på en fältstudie, uppdelad på två dagar, som jag gjorde under hösten 2015 på en svensk förskola. Förskolan tillämpar så kallad Reggio Emilia-pedagogik, vars huvu

This study is based on interviews with people with intellectual and neuropsychiatric functional diversity. The aim was to examine how people with intellectual and neuropsychiatric functional diversity pursue resistance and activism and construct their position within the activism. I also wanted to investigate how the activist position can be possible to intake for the interviewees, even though the

Northern Fennoscandia belongs to the sub-arctic environment and its forests are mostly composed of mountain birch trees (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii). Outbreaks by autumn moth (Epirrita autumnata) and winter moth (Operophtera brumata) are one of the most important natural disturbance factors in the mountain birch forests, with important implications for future ecosystem functioning. If ther

Syftet med undersökningen har varit att utröna hur existensen av deflation påverkat aktiemarknaden. Den data som låg till grund för den ekonomiska analysen var främst finansiell data, men också makroekonomisk data, från Japan mellan 1969 och 2015. Data från USA i samma period förekom också. Den ekonomiska analysen gjordes genom att testa samband med OLS- och binärvalsmodeller. Inflation, och som

Title: Necessity knows no law : A qualitative study on the processing of emergency assistance in the social services. The aim of this study was to examine how social workers make decisions about financial aid in emergency situations when the user does not have food for the day. We wanted to find out what the social worker needs to know about the user to make a decision and which decision basis th

Syftet är att undersöka vilka erfarenheter professionella har av kvalitetsarbete i förskolan och av vilka verkningar det skärpta kravet på systematiskt kvalitetsarbete har för professionen. Ansatsen är kvalitativ och empirin består av åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer av nio professionellas erfarenheter av att bedriva systematiskt kvalitetsarbete i förskolan. Urvalet består av förskollärare och fö

Social workers today have the whole world as their work field and the global social work is often carried out in international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). To work internationally and in NGO's have according to previous research shown to be complex. Therefore the aim of this study was to examine international professionals and their views on their role and function working in NGO´s s

In this thesis, a tunable frequency shift filter (FSF) with a 1 ~ 2 MHz passband created in a praseodymium doped Y2SiO5-crystal using a special hole burning technique is developed and tested. The FSF is able to shift the frequency of its passband and the light passing through the passband by applying an external electric field, where the frequency shift is proportional to the applied field. Since

The present study examined the effect of manipulated (threatened or affirmed) sense of agency on Swedish students’ preference for leadership, by ease of retrieval. Three hundred and twelve students (Mage = 23.04, SD = 2.70) participated in the experiment. The aim of the study was to investigate whether individuals’ leadership preferences was affected by perceived sense of agency. By contrasting a

This essay deals with the concept of rationality. More precisely how rationality is defined within the thoughts of the philosopher Jürgen Habermas and what consequenses this may have for different views of life. By analyzing Habermas thoughts with the experiences obtained from a presumptionistic perspective the study takes form as a critical evaluation of Habermas outspoken pluralistic and accep