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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Ethnic Tensions"”.
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Ethnic Tensions in the Western Balkans and the Experience of Ethnic Minorities
<p>The Western Balkan has experienced a past of ethnic turmoil. From the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo to ethnic tensions in Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. Understanding that ethnicity itself continues to be a salient factor in Western Balkan, the question remains how …
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"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
… and politics, crime and punishment, race and ethnicity clashed with the violent reality of prison life helps illustrate how minority groups forged an identity in opposition to the broader values of the nation. Such findings contribute directly to African-American history and immigration …
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The struggle for vibrancy : a study of local government intervention in Detroit's inner suburbs
… poverty, failing schools, and racial and ethnic tensions. These challenges are compounded by growing fiscal difficulties fueled by shrinking revenues and increasing costs. This thesis asks what strategies an inner suburban government facing population decline, economic disinvestment, and …
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ELECTION VIOLENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY: NIGERIA IN PERSPECTIVE
… republics reflects entrenched drivers like ethnic tensions, youth unemployment, godfatherism, and institutional deficiencies. This research examines the critical roles of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies in mitigating electoral unrest and upholding …
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Diversity and Democracy at War: Analyzing Race and Ethnicity in Squad Films from 1940-1960
… war. However, in the wake of various racial and ethnic tensions consistently unfolding in the United States from 1940 to 1960, it became apparent to Hollywood that the nation needed pictures of unity more than ever, especially if America was going to win its wars. Using combat as the backdrop, …
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An Assessment of the Major Security Problems in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
… of instability internal to the region include ethnic and sub-ethnic tensions, Islamic radicalism, porous state borders, and the fragmentation of Tajikistan following the cessation of the civil war in 1997. Complicating the prospects for stability is the manner in which these elements are often …
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Humanitarian aid in less secure regions : an analysis of World Food Programme operations in the Somali region of Ethiopia
… The political instability, rebel activity, ethnic tensions, and poor infrastructure in the area endanger and delay the flow of commodities through the WFP's supply chain. In this thesis, we explore and analyze the role that these threats play in the WFP's aid distribution in the Somali …
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Separatism in South Asia: The politics of ethnic conflict and regional security
Ethnicity has come to be recognized as an important, and in some cases a dominant factor in the search for regional peace and security. This dissertation examines the linkages in South Asia among ethnic conflict, the state and regional security. Our analysis of the Sikhs in the Indian province of …
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Microdynamics of War-to-Peace Transitions: Evidence from Burundi
… first essay studies the effects of quota-based ethnic integration within Burundi's army on expressions of prejudice and ethnic salience among soldiers. Exploiting a natural experiment within the army, I find that exposure to quota-based integration reduced prejudice and had no effect on ethnic …
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Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography
… vulnerabilities known and unknown intra-racial, ethnic tensions as well as dysmorphic responses based on hair texture\style, body shape, and colorism were habitual which resulted in the denial of mentorship across all fronts.</p> <p>Qualitative analysis revealed significant stress lending to …
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The Nexus of Climate Change and Human Rights: An examination of how social, political, and environmental impacts of climate change jeopardize the protection of human rights in the African Sahel
… impacts and conflict, including ongoing ethnic tensions, civil wars, and the rise of armed extremism. However, accelerating change in the environment also exacerbates pre-existing vulnerabilities, including rapid rises in population growth, poverty, and public health emergencies – all …
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Demokratizacija etnonacionalistinių partijų gniaužtuose: Bosnijos ir Hercegovinos atvejis /
… a typical peace-building strategy after violent ethnic conflicts. There is a consensus that democratic institutions, especially, power-sharing institutions are able to ameliorate inter-ethnic conflicts by peaceful means. However, power-sharing arrangements are also criticized because of its …
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Britain and Upper Silesia 1919 - 1922
… also demonstrates how the region's long-standing ethnic tensions,combined with Polish national aspirations and class consciousness led to three insurrections in Upper Silesia between August 1919 and May 1921. British military leaders utilised the prevailing fears about the post-war industrial …
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The EU and civilian crisis management: a case study of EULEX KOSOVO and building multi-ethnic rule of law
… field, Kosovo remains a place plagued by inter-ethnic tensions, organized crime, and corruption. Following a brief, but costly ethnic war in 1998-99, and ensuing inter-ethnic violence, the Serb minority of Kosovo separated into defensible enclaves spread around the territory, the largest being …
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The question of regional integration in Africa: A critical analysis of Kenya's trade, infrastructure, and security in the context of the AfCFTA
… These obstacles, which include terrorism, ethnic tensions, porous borders, and inefficient security cooperation, stand to negatively impact regional integration in the context of the AfCFTA by destabilizing trade and movement of persons across the region.
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“Bring security to the people and not the people to security”: security, refugee, and ethnic minority policies and implementation in Vietnam’s central highlands, 1968-1975
… examine events in the more heavily populated and ethnically homogeneous Saigon and Mekong Delta regions of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). This thesis examines Lam Dong province, at the southern end of the Vietnamese central highlands. Focusing on the territorial forces initiative and RVN policy …
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The fragmented self the longing (novel) and intergenerational relations in a Chinese Indonesian family (exegesis)
… that assist the aim of the thesis to illuminate ethnic tensions and marginalised perspectives while promoting diversity, acceptance and unity. Among various literary, theoretical and historical sources discussed in the essay, I point to the influence of Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Third World Women …