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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Conflict zones"”.
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Assessing sentiment in conflict zones through social media
While it is widely accepted that polling can assess levels of popular support in a geographic area by surveying a cross-segment of its population, it is less well accepted that analysts can use social media analysis to assess sentiment or popular support within the same space. We examine this …
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Legal Frameworks for Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones
… pillage of cultural property in times of armed conflict. Lacunae and other deficiencies in their frameworks, however, rendered these conventions difficult to enforce and largely ineffectual. This study offers an assessment of the strengths and limitations of the UNESCO system of …
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Resilience of Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine
In places where there is violent conflict and substantial institutional deficiencies, entrepreneurial activity increases as self-employment becomes a necessary survival and coping mechanism and strategy. Women within context affected by long-term conflict are also more likely to engage in …
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Caught in the Crossfire: Exploring Impacts on Young Adults in Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Zones
… highlight emotional distress during prolonged conflict. Many respondents, particularly those displaced within Ukraine or to neighbouring countries, also faced job insecurity and disrupted education, compounding their socio-economic challenges. Despite these hardships, most demonstrated …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… fear and grief they experience living in a conflict zone. I argue such freedom of movement-restricting policies can fracture communities and lead to increased isolation, aggression and a greater likelihood of civilian preferences for militancy. Using life-story style qualitative interviews …
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Multinational corporations in violent conflict: a case study of firestone in Liberia
… engaged with various actors in the Liberian conflict theatre in order to continue operating its rubber plantation. The most notable of these actors was the warlord, Charles Taylor, a relationship for which Firestone Liberia has received much criticism. This case study is situated within the …
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Adams Morgan Parkway: Envisioning a Network of Green Streets
The footprint of urban streets have become conflict zones of interests; ranging from efficient automobile infrastructure, building restriction lines, economical interests, shy efforts to introduce nature, services, etc. How can we, as urban designers, retrieve a portion of this footprint to nature …
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A Framework for Development in Rural Arid and Semi-Arid Environments in Africa: The Somalia Case
… in rural, arid and semi-arid agricultural conflict zones of Sub Saharan Africa, focusing on Somalia's societal stabilization and conflict mitigation. This task requires developing risk-reducing measures for infrastructure and service delivery in rural, post-conflict zones. Literature …
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Female survivors of abduction in armed conflict zone: psychosocial needs, rehabilitation, and reintegration pathway
Armed conflicts and regional wars occur across the world and girls and women are often abducted, forced to live in captivity by their captors, and exposed to various adverse conditions. Upon return, one would have hoped that their rehabilitation is approached through personalised care. Yet, it has …
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Rebuilding In Post War Syria
… many times over has shown when war and internal conflicts erupt, communities are forced to flee their homes and leave behind all they cherished until, if ever possible, the time and conditions re-align to return. In such conflict zones with countless uprooted communities news of refugees often …
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Representations of Political Violence in Contemporary Middle Eastern Fiction
… Middle Eastern novels that depict major regional conflict zones. Alaa Al-Aswany, Orhan Pamuk, Assaf Gavron, Yasmina Khadra, and Mohsin Hamid’s novels describe the nuances of their respective contexts: Egypt, Turkey, Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Pakistan. The following analyses highlight the …
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Peacebuilding and Gender Inclusivity: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
… and civil society organizations led by women in conflict zones is underestimated and under resourced, yet these groups continue to be a voice of the marginalized. By examining the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, focusing on the 44-Day war in 2020 until now …
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Women, Craft and the Post Conflict Reconstruction of Kashmir
… thesis contributes towards the knowledge of post conflict crafts of Kashmir and the role women play in this sector. It proposes crafts to be a culturally relevant activity which could generate income for people living in Kashmir. It analyses the impact of the conflict on the crafts of Kashmir from …
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HOW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS COOPERATE FOR CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND ITS OUTCOMES
… international organizations (IOs) cooperate in conflict zones and how such cooperation influences civil conflict outcomes and prospects for peace. Although IOs often share the overarching goal of reducing violence, their levels of cooperation in civil conflicts vary. I argue that conflict …
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The benefits of a United Nations Standing Army: Using Article 43 of the UN Charter to improve international human rights and peace
… these humanitarian crisis situations occur in conflict zones. In attempts to curb this, the UN had initiated several peacekeeping missions, some of which had success in the early stages of the organization's peacekeeping agenda. However, the broader failure of these peacekeeping operations is …
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Stress Along the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border? Skeletal Indicators of Conflict-Zone Health
… experienced by populations living in regions of conflict have come to the forefront of research in light of recent increases in socio-political instability in modern populations. Political and ethnic unrest in modern populations have been shown to instigate a decline in the health of people …
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Climate change & society in conflicted landscapes: Cases of Srinagar (Kashmir) and Jerusalem (West Bank, Palestine)
… of the Agreement is the political chaos and conflict in some regions that have arisen out of religious, cultural, linguistic, political, or economic differences – and exacerbated by changing climatic conditions. These regions are in countries that are mostly poor, developing and that have …
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Actors and victims: Understanding the trends and the use of indiscriminate violence in conflicts
… Question: Does the embedding of actors in a conflict cause an escalation in indiscriminate violence against civilians? In this thesis, I explore the different strategic positions, which actor(s) adopted during the decade-long Nepalese conflict (1996-2006). Firstly, I demonstrate who the …
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The Anglophone armed conflict: an immediate peril and fear of crime in Bafut
… Cameroon have been involved in an armed conflict since 2016, now known as the Anglophone Crisis. What started as a political crisis and was mismanaged by the Cameroonian government was transformed into an armed conflict with separatist groups challenging the Cameroonian military in the …
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Violence against Women in Kashmir: Personal and Political
… analysis of violence generated by political conflict against women in the second part (the next two chapters) through a conceptual analysis based in Feminist IR, categorizing violence as ‗out-community violence‘ (violence generated by political conflict). It is followed by the third theme, an …
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