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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Darfur"”.
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Necessary illusions?: representations of Darfur
… NGO representation of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur over an eighteen-month period between January 2004 and June 2005. It concentrated on three key questions. The first question relates to the 'noise' graph of emergencies. What factors - and what actors - were involved in determining the …
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Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur
<p>In the Darfur conflict the Sudanese government forces and the Janjaweed have used rape as a weapon of war, in the ethnic cleansing of non-Arab tribes in the region. Rape as a weapon of war was also used to degrade, terrorize women and destroy families and communities. In Darfur women and girls …
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The Conceptualization of Genocide in the International Media: A Case Study of Darfur
… published accounts of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan over the last five years. Using articles from newspapers in the United States, Great Britain, China, and Qatar, I examined the extent to which the term genocide is used to illustrate this conflict within the mainstream media …
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Negotiating the state at its margins: Colonial authority in Condominium Darfur 1916-1956
The period of British colonial rule in Darfur is prominent in current debates about the roots of recent conflict. It has been argued that the colonial policy of ‘Native Administration’, and the ethnicisation of land rights that it imposed, made large scale violence almost inevitable. In this view, …
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National and international crisis management: the influence of Libyan intervention on the duration of the Darfur crisis
… the factors underlying the duration of the Darfur crisis in Sudan by analysing the Gaddafi regime’s role in that crisis during the 2003–11 period. This dissertation investigates the association between the long duration of the crisis and Libyan involvement as a major regional third party, as …
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Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur
<p>The Fur language of Darfur, Sudan has been undergoing a decades-long language shift to the more dominant and prestigious Arabic spoken throughout the country. However, a decade of conflict in Darfur has brought greater awareness of ethnic identity and disrupted the previously-documented language …
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Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in Sudan: Inter-Tribal Reconciliation Conferences in South Darfur State up to 2009.
… in resolving tribal conflicts in South Darfur State of Western Sudan. The fundamental question raised by this study is: have these reconciliation conferences- 1989-2009- been able to address the root causes of the tribal conflicts and are they capable of serving the same role that they …
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Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in Sudan: Inter-Tribal Reconciliation Conferences in South Darfur State up to 2009.
… in resolving tribal conflicts in South Darfur State of Western Sudan. The fundamental question raised by this study is: have these reconciliation conferences- 1989-2009- been able to address the root causes of the tribal conflicts and are they capable of serving the same role that they …
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Saying it right, doing it wrong : an analysis of the failure of the African Union’s mediation in Darfur (2004-2006)
The Darfur crisis persists to the present day despite the African Union’s (AU) intervention. This mini-dissertation analyses the failure of the AU’s mediation in Darfur from 2004 to 2006. It uses a decolonial lens to investigate: how and why deadline diplomacy guided the mediation efforts by the …
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The Identity, Agency and Political Influence of al-Hakkamat Baggara Women Poets in Armed Conflict in Darfur, Sudan, from 1980s to 2006.
… women poets in the context of armed conflict in Darfur, from 1980s to 2006. Utilising QSR NVivo7 software, the study analyses and interprets qualitatively collected data in the light of the posed research questions. Processes and attributes leading to the identification of al-Hakkamah, such as …
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Justiça internacional e manutenção da paz: o tribunal penal internacional e os membros permanentes do conselho de segurança da ONU nos casos de Darfur e Líbia.
… Unidas (CSNU) mediante o estudo dos casos de Darfur e Líbia. Esses casos foram referidos pelo CSNU ao TPI, em 2005 (resolução 1593) e 2011 (resolução 1970). No Estatuto de Roma, os artigos 13.b e 16 conferem poderes importantes ao CSNU: referir situações ao TPI e suspender investigações. Desse …
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A critical assessment of the link between climate change and violent conflict in the context of sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Darfur
… of the two phenomena. Finally, the case study of Darfur is analysed with regards to the often misused term climate war in order to conclude that violent conflicts are caused by multiple factors which should not be oversimplified and therefore cannot be traced back to purely environmental reasons. …
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Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Perspectives
… is essential. References to events Rwanda, Darfur, and Kosovo are made. There is a critical role for preemptive actions to play in addressing humanitarian crises and calls for global justice.
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Inference in tough places : essays on modeling and matching with applications to civil conflict
… the effects of violence against civilians in Darfur, Sudan on attitudes towards peace and reconciliation. The second and third essays both address a common but overlooked challenge to making inferences from observational data: even when unobserved confounding can be ruled out, correctly …
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The role of transnational television in international political decision-making after the cold war
… the beginning of NATO air strikes in 1999; and Darfur, in the periods of political discussion about possible international action in 2004 and in 2006.
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A critical examination of the relationship between the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council, in the light of referrals and deferrals
… Security Council referrals of the situations in Darfur, Sudan and Libya. Second, the Security Council passing of resolutions 1422(2002) and 1487(2003), which deferred the Court from commencing any investigations or prosecuting of any crimes that could have arisen as a result of the United Nations …
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Playing for impact : the design of civic games for community engagement and social action
… promoting further civic action. An analysis of Darfur is Dying (2006) reveals how casual serious games can deliver short, persuasive messages that compel players to take direct action outside of the game. Participatory Chinatown (2010) shows how a locally networked online game can transform a …
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Navigating Identity and Place: The Role of Displacement Camps in Community Rebuilding and Identity Preservation in Sudan
… cultivate futures. Yet, in Kalma Camp in South Darfur, displacement has given rise to a self-organized, complex urban environment shaped by collective labor, cultural resilience, and everyday acts of spatial and political agency. This thesis explores how communities in Kalma have remade space, …
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The Complexity of Identifying Genocide in the Midst of Bloodshed
… instances of genocide in Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, Central African Republic, northern Iraq (Islamic State), Burundi, and South Sudan. The thesis examines firstly the contestations around the definition of genocide, due to competing legal and social understandings of what genocide entails, …
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