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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Bosnia-Herzegovina"”.
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Empowering women through microfinance in post-conflict Bosnia & Herzegovina
… (MFI) loan recipients in post-conflict Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) where microfinancing had emerged as a tool that addressed poverty and socio-economic development and the empowerment of women. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study revealed that women who invested in small scale …
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In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
… examination of case studies in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina. I argue that this is because the current theoretical approach to religious peacebuilding often views religion as solely ideological and uni-directional in how it relates to conflict and peace (as an independent, rather than a …
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Afterlife of Empire: Muslim-Ottoman Relations in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, 1878-1914
… cultural, social, and political continuities in Bosnia Herzegovina during the Habsburg administration (1878-1914). The research focuses on the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire - an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the Ottoman imperial state, and by the former subjects in …
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The Political Impact of the Rising Salafi-Wahhabi Influence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
… impact of Salafi-Wahhabism in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) since the El Mujahed Brigade of mujahedeen introduced this puritanical Saudi form of Islam during the 1992-1995 War that broke apart the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFROY). This study employs tenets of the …
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Our mosques are US : rewriting national history of Bosnia-Herzegovina through religious architecture
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… between mixed marriage and national identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More precisely, it examines the ways in which different types of elites—political, religious and social—operating under different regimes—Austro-Hungarian, royal Yugoslav, Yugoslav Communist, and post-Yugoslav nationalist—used …
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Recovering Territory: The Thick Geopolitics of Demining in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Wartime Ukraine
… life. By presenting a contrasting study between Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and Ukraine, this dissertation shows that demining, which has historically emerged in post-conflict settings as part of the efforts to "reverse the effects of war", can also evolve in substantially different contexts in ways …
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Nationalism, Identity, and Rhetoric in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Speeches, 2004–2012
… divisions undermine statebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina almost twenty years after the end of a war among the three main ethnic groups in the country. The political elites influence on how nationalism and identity is experienced in Bosnia-Herzegovina and offer reflections on how the …
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Model Interventions: The Evolution of Media Development Strategies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007
… and their impact on recipient communities in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007. International donors came to see media development as a silver bullet for democratization efforts to foster freedom of speech, civil society, good governance, as well as an engaged citizenry. Donors …
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‘A river under the earth’: the silencing of conflict-related sexual violence survivors in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo
… region with a focus on the case studies of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia and Kosovo. This involves an assessment of what these silencing mechanisms are and how they manifest to impact CRSV survivors in their everyday lives. In this investigation, the apparatuses that a visible minority …
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Ethnic Composition of Constitutional Courts in Ethnically Divided Societies: the cases of the Republic of Cyprus and Bosnia-Herzegovina
… 1960 Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina under the General Framework Agreement (1995) and the proposed Supreme Court of United Cyprus Republic under the Comprehensive Settlement of the Cyprus Problem (2004) are chosen as case studies. These constitutional courts are …
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Resisting division along ethnic lines: a case study of two communities who challenged discourses of war during the Yugoslav conflict 1991-1995
… discourse, inter-ethnic violence in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was inevitable and the division of the population along ethnic lines was needed to stop the violence. In this thesis I problematize the dominant discourse on the ethnic nature and inevitability of violence, as well as on the …
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The EUPM and EUFOR Althea missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An evaluation
… as a new crisis management power was post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country that needed physical, political and social reconstruction. As a result in 2003 Brussels launched its first-ever civilian crisis management mission, the European Union's Police Mission in Bosnia -- Herzegovina (EUPM). It …
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Mobilizing for Ethnic Violence? Ethno-national Political Parties and the Dynamics of Ethno-politicization
On July 12th, 1990 the Serb Democratic Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina (SDS BiH) held its founding assembly. Less than five months later, it participated in the November 1990 elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), winning a decisive majority of the vote of ethnic Serbs. Yet, SDS BiH was not an ordinary …
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Democratization and police reform
… during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research question of this paper is: Why are …
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Referendum Discourse in Republic of Srpska Politics 2006-2008: An Analysis of its Emergence and Performative Structure
… influence on the future of the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The tensions raised by ethno-nationalist rhetoric would lead to a 1992-1995 War that effectively segregated the population of Bosnia into three ethnic camps and destroyed the country's trademark multiculturalism. Bosnia emerged …
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Coercion, norms and atrocity: explaining state compliance with international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia arrest and surrender orders
… the question of compliance in the context of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, both of which do not conform to traditional models of the Westphalian state. This thesis will argue that the study of compliance is limited by the state centricity of international law and the rationalist failure to …
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… of political and social transfor-mation in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) over the past century and a half through the prism of popular agency. The primary research question of this dissertation asks why given nearly uniformly catastrophic social indicators across virtually all socio-economic …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… within one conflict: soldiers in the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Bosnian War from 1992-1995. Responding to limitations in explanations of rebel behavior ranging from governance to civilian victimization, I argue that combatants' interactions that occur on and off the battlefield are …
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