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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa was a unique experiment. It has been named as a “third way” between punishment and amnesia. The TRC was created so that the South African community could deal with the horrors of the past crimes of apartheid, and so that South Africa could lay a new foundation of freedom and human rights in the new democratic state. Within the TRC there

In the so called ‘war against terrorism’ the international humanitarian law was declared as non-applicable to ‘unlawful combatants’ by the Bush administration. The prisoners defined as such would therefore be given a different set of rights than would those who under the third Geneva Convention qualified as ‘prisoners of war’. By passing new national legislation, the president’s administration and

Att utforma demokratiska samhällen är idag det främsta tillvägagångssättet för en fungerande fredsprocess. Detta grundar sig i den liberala fredsteorin, vars huvudtes lyder att demokratiska stater leder till en fredligare värld. Därför är det viktigt att i krigsdrabbade samhällen snabbt bygga upp fungerande institutioner som främjar denna demokratiska utveckling, samt värnar om mänskliga rättighet

The purpose of this paper is to analyze if the multiculturalism expressed in the personal laws has had a negative impact on the rights of Muslim and Hindu women and in that case, how. This paper also aims to analyze why there is a tension between minorities cultural rights and women’s individual rights in India. This is done trough a examination of various sections in the “Hindu Marriage Act” from

The purpose of this paper is to explain and examine the status of the women in Iran based on how the Islamic law is affecting the women’s rights. Based on objective information I will try to obtain legal, sociological and religious perspective on the definition of the Islamic law, women’s rights and feminism. In order to clarify the circumstances of this subjects I will be observing the concepts b

After World War II Sovjet took over Poland with the plan of making it a socialist state in all its meanings, religious as well. That meant changing it from Roman Catholic to secular which turned out to be harder than expected because of the position of the church. The church was a symbol of the nation and a savior of the people and the communist party understood that this would be a process of tra

Efter de två senaste krigen i Tjetjenien har en paradoxal situation uppenbarat sig i Vladimir Putins strategi för institutionellt uppbyggande i norra Kaukasus eftersom han, genom sin tidigare kortsiktiga ryska politik; där man skulle tämja de lokala krafterna inom den tjetjenska eliten genom att erbjuda dessa centraliserad makt och resurser, har misslyckats. Istället har dessa institutioner gått e

As the economic globalization has intensified worldwide and Sweden has become a member of the European Union we have in a short time experienced a dramatic change with the influx of migrant workers, also in the Swedish labour market. The increase of migrant labour against a background of free mobility in the EU has raised a number of new issues and problems. Above all questions of how migrant work

Denna uppsats ställer frågan hur israelisk film tar upp och bearbetar rättfärdigandeproblematik från det första Libanonkriget 1982. Det centrala för analysen är att undersöka hur rättfärdigandediskursen tar sig uttryck i filmens värld, något som ofta förbises i analyser av detta slag trots filmers ibland enorma genomslag. Filmerna Beaufort (2007), Waltz with Bashir (2008) och Lebanon (2009) analys

Denna uppsats är en kvalitativ fallstudie av den fredsbyggande processen i Namibia. Syftet är att studera möjliga faktorer för processens framgång samt hur de hörhåller sig till Roland Paris teori om Institutionalization Before Liberalization, som är vår teoretiska utgångspunkt. Vår hypotes är att Namibia utgör ett undantagsfall från teorin då operationen, internationellt sett, anses vara framgång

“Men are not the deliberate oppressors of women, but can also be disempowered by current social arrangements”. The role of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is among the most powerful in the world. Since 1945 and the establishment of the UN that position has never been held by a woman. Through gender mainstreaming the UN aims at reaching the goal of gender equality. This essay evaluate

The aim of this thesis is to examine whether the asylum- and migration policy in EU is securitized or not, focusing on illegal immigration and the legal immigration of asylum seekers and refugees. My aim is also to scrutinize if and how a conceivable dilemma between migration, asylum and human rights is appearing in the studying policy documents and in the thesis’ case study. The method chosen for

This study is about the multinational oil company Trafigura who has offices in 67 countries. Trasfigua put dangerous waste in coast outside Ivoara 2006. It was dangerous because the effects caused dead to a lot of people. One of the main questions of my study is however the company has any responsibility for the things they dump in coast outside of Ivory in the perspective of the actors. The other

This paper focuses on the AVR (Assisted Voluntary Return) program in Sweden. It will question the voluntariness of the return, as it is a prerequisite to receive the help which is provided though the AVR program. Furthermore, the intention with the program will be identified and the design of the program will be analyzed. I will use Khalid Kosers theory about a successful AVR program and apply it

Organisationskultur har under senare decennierna blivit ett välkänt och välstuderat fenomen. IKEA är ett företag som har expanderat i snabb takt och företaget bör räknas som synnerligen framgångsrikt. Att som en multinationell koncern välja att behålla kärnverksamheten i en liten by som Älmhult är tämligen unikt, och gör studieobjektet än mer intressant. Av intresse i denna studie är framför allt

The purpose of this paper is to determine how Israeli children are recruited as soldiers or to serve with similar duties with the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). The paper will also address the complications that occur when children are being recruited/prepared for the IDF in early childhood in relation to the CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Children). Israeli children are from their earliest s

Development has become a matter of security, and therefore development has a new strong role in the liberal peace-building, though not all theoretics agree to this hegemony. Social capital has become a global term when discussing development, and though the concept derived from a Western civil society, social capital cannot be ignored as a deeply rooted concept describing social structures of trus

The purpose of this essay is to examine how responsibility to protect is portrayed in NGO reports. In Burma, which is ruled by a military junta since 1962, the violation of fundamental human rights is prominent. In 2008 Cyclone Nargis struck Burma which destroyed several towns and villages and led to the death of hundreds of thousands Burmese people. The regime failed to take action to help its ow

Med avstamp i ett postmodernt och sociokulturellt perspektiv riktar denna uppsats in sig på ett nytt kulturellt fenomen, hipsterkulturen. Genom kvalitativ metod har intervjuer utförts med personer som direkt eller indirekt har samröre med hipsterkulturen, både som deltagare och belackare av densamma. Syftet har i första hand varit hur man kan förstå detta kulturella fenomen som en ny form av subku