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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Chechnya"”.
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Women's Work: Human Rights Journalism in Chechnya, A Case Study of Anna Politkovskaya
… of human rights journalism conducted by women in Chechnya. The primary research question that will be supported by this research, is whether or not Anna Politkovskaya's gender impacted her work, the reception of her work, and her overall experience as a human rights advocate in Chechnya. Anna …
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Political violence and inter-ethnic conflict: an analysis with reference to Chechnya and Northern Ireland
… emphasis on the conflicts of Nothern Ireland and Chechnya, this thesis investigates the contributing factors prevalent in the emergence and continuation of inter-ethnic violence and division. A willingness for one ethnic group to engage in political violence against another requires the acceptance …
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Security and emancipation as resistance: how contesting and navigating narratives of women in Chechnya impacts NGO actions
… emancipation is contested in post-conflict Chechnya by looking at NGO efforts to push the boundaries between the private- public and local-global spheres in resistance. How women’s NGOs are able to challenge these boundaries is demonstrated through relational autonomy and relational thinking …
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Gender, Terrorism, and Nation-Building: A Comparative Study of Chechnya's Black Widows and the Female Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
… the historical context of female terrorists in Chechnya (referred to as Black Widows) as well as the female participants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The author explores women’s motivations for joining each of the conflicts, as well as the shifting role of women within …
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Islam's bloody borders?
… structures and ideas is examined in Xinjiang, Chechnya, and Kashmir in order to identify any patterns between these cases in which Muslims are attempting to separate from primarily Orthodox Christians, Hindus, and Atheists. Several variables are studied for their impact on the level of violence …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
… The North Caucasus is defined as Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Stavropol krai. The thesis examines the career mobility and patronage relationships of both the regional first secretaries serving in these territories from 1956 to …
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The extent of changing role of women participating in 'front line' terrorism: (women being accepted as suicide terrorists, violent and ruthless, devotion or struggle for equality)
… terrorists. In order to do so I will analyse Chechnya and the Black widows. Here suicide attacks represented a real mode of operation and the organisation itself also included women in suicide attack operations. I will analyse Black widows in line with cultural, political, economic, …
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Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion
… the Yamadayev family which operated primarily in Chechnya as well as briefly in South Ossetia and Lebanon and then as separatist formation in Eastern Ukraine, my thesis seeks to examine why Russia uses militias. Using the theoretical frameworks of principle-agent relations and organizational …
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Ethnic Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire
… to stop. Conflicts in the Balkans, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq, and Darfur are among the deadliest examples from the late 20<sup>th</sup> and early 21<sup>st</sup> centuries. The destabilization of states, and in some cases even regions are consequences of ethnic conflict. These conflicts are …
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Scapegoating International Socialisation: Russia’s (Re-)Encounter Narrative 1999-2018
… suppression of its Third Others, including Chechnya, the opposition, Georgia and Ukraine. The latter became Russia’s primary socialisation scapegoat from 2014, which helps explain Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine from February 2022. While the thesis’s scope is post-Soviet Russia, it …
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Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics
… several autonomous entities in the RSFSR (like Chechnya, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Yakutia, etc.) had separatist demands and Gorbachev was also negotiating the return of the Kuril Islands to Japan, indicates that in exchange to a concession of its control on the Union republics, the Kremlin …
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The War on Terror and the War of Terror: Revealing the post-transformation separatism Kremlin, Radical Salafism and Post-Soviet Dagestan on a Road from the Peace to the Violence
After 1999 the situation in then relatively stable Dagestan started to deteriorate swiftly. However, unlike in the cases of previous separatist movements which sprung up in some parts of the Russian Federation after the demise of the USSS, Dagestani separatists did not officially gather under the …
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Zur Stabilisierung fragmentierter Staaten
Die internationale Staatengemeinschaft steht Sezessionsbestrebungen zur Aufspaltung bestehender Staaten gewöhnlich ablehnend gegenüber. Gleichzeitig wendet sie in vielen Ländern Instrumente der Entwicklungspolitik an und greift so auch in den dortigen politischen Prozess ein. Untersucht wird, …