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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Herzegovina"”.
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… 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 categories …
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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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Modeling Student’s Churn in Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… rate at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was nearly half of enrolled students between the 2007/08 and 2018/19 academic years, with rates showing an increase over time. - Half of the student churn occurs within the first year of enrollment, with significantly higher rates in …
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The EUPM and EUFOR Althea missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An evaluation
… 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 was …
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In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
… 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 dependent …
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Afterlife of Empire: Muslim-Ottoman Relations in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, 1878-1914
… 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 Bosnia …
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The Political Impact of the Rising Salafi-Wahhabi Influence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
… 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 English …
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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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The international community’s management of ‘Post-Conflict’ with particular reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina
The purpose of the thesis is to examine the International Community’s (IC) responses to post-conflict at the turn of the twenty-first century and in a period of transition. The thesis will establish whether there are any standard models for the IC’s engagement in post-conflict and if so whether …
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Bridging Brexit-related societal divisions – Learning from civil society initiatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… contexts: on the one hand, in post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina, and on the other hand, in post-Brexit referendum Dorset. It first explores the possibilities for such a comparison and proceeds to establish whether an ethnographically-informed understanding of the Bosnian case study can help generate …
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… 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 the idea …
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‘RS-Exit’: The Geopolitics of Integration and Disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995-2020
This dissertation examines the question of why the Bosnian Serbs were able to advance their goal of independence for Republika Srpska through the period following the war, culminating in the ultimatum laid down by Milorad Dodik in February 2020 on. With reference to the theory of secessionism and …
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Recovering Territory: The Thick Geopolitics of Demining in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina and Wartime Ukraine
… 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 that …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… field of the cultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the late 1980s. It interrogates and challenges competing literary historiographies on behalf of marginalised voices. While ethno-nationalists politically fought to affirm their vision of society amidst rapidly discredited …
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Nationalism, Identity, and Rhetoric in Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Speeches, 2004–2012
… 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 country …
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International norm diffusion? Durable solutions and displaced persons from post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2000-2010.
The key aim in this study is to investigate the linkages, synergies and misalignments between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) ‘top-down’ policy development in relation to the specific case on durable solutions with a detailed exploration of the ‘bottom-up’ views of actual …
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… between the 2014 Social Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 2019 October Uprising in Lebanon. Through forty interviews and hundreds of statements issued by protesting groups, this thesis highlights the rigid process of structuration, in which multiple actors engage, to different extents …
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Is the Dayton Agreement a model for long-term peace? A problematic case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The research focuses on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-conflict scenario. More than twenty-five years on, a weak, politicized, corrupt and inept system of government is characteristic of the post-conflict period and it is a result of deepseated interests of nationalists, ethno-nationalists, …
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Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the Role of Translators as Agents in Language Change
Language planning and policy (LPP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed on the basis of a standard language ideology that has often excluded the speakers from the language legitimisation process. The LPP efforts for the Bosnian language have led to conflicting covert and overt …
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