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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Humanitarian crisis"”.
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Guerilla Government and Policy: Lessons From The Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy
… of children separated from their parents; a humanitarian crisis engineered purposefully by the administration would be underway for the next years. Along the way, dissenters would try to stop the administration’s policy. In her seminal work The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government, …
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Necessary illusions?: representations of Darfur
… examined media and 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 …
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The Origin of Usurpation and Tyranny: Nonagentic Anti-Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century and the Legacy of Chavismo
… descent into Latin America’s worst refugee and humanitarian crisis in modern times, a mass exodus of nearly five million Venezuelans since 2015, the rhetoric of Western anti-imperialists and the regime itself has absolved it of any responsibility for the crisis and the increasing …
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NATO tapatybės analizė - Libijos ir Sirijos atvejai /
… analysis method are used to analyze two cases of humanitarian crisis, Libyan and Syrian, and, more specifically, the approach of all 28 NATO members to both interventions, including their positions on NATO‘s role in those specific interventions. Data concerning these positions was collected, …
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Safe havens in Syria : missions and requirements for an air campaign
… in Syria's civil war in the midst of calls for humanitarian intervention in mid-2012? Despite the importance of this question for the study and evaluation of U.S. foreign policy, little exists in the way of systematic, open-source analysis of the military missions and material requirements for a …
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The Media, Education, and the State: Arts-Based Research and a Marxist Analysis of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
… eight years and it has created the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII (Achlume, 2015). Using the siege of Aleppo in 2016 as a case study, the author applied a Marxist-humanist theoretical framework and incorporated arts-based research methodology to examine how US news media supports …
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Beyond Access to Education: Using Collaborative Learning to Promote Agency in Unauthorized Latinos Entering Community College
… unauthorized immigration became a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Unauthorized immigrants, 71% of whom come from Mexico and Central America, make up an increasingly significant portion of the population. This is particularly true in California, where 28% of unauthorized immigrants reside. …
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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
… Despite this, the world continues to witness humanitarian crises flaring up at consistent (if not growing) levels, and in most cases these humanitarian crisis situations occur in conflict zones. In attempts to curb this, the UN had initiated several peacekeeping missions, some of which had …
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Fighting HIV/AIDS insecurities using a human rights-based approach : a case study of Zimbabwe
… melt-down the country is suffering a serious humanitarian crisis that has impoverished the community, encouraging risky sexual coping strategies and severely undermined the countries health delivery system, all which work to threaten the success achieved so far in the battle against HIV/AIDS.
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The Boko Haram Crisis: Responses by State and non-State Actors to a Security Challenge in the Lake Chad Region
… the violence. Boko Haram has caused severe humanitarian crisis in the region as more than two million people have been displaced. The international community primarily focuses on creating basic secure conditions for refugees to return to their homes in safety and dignity as well as providing …
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The challenges of a water system management handover in eastern Ethiopia : from the United Nations Refugee Agency to a local community
During the height of a political crisis in the late 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees crossed into eastern Ethiopia. A humanitarian crisis soon unfolded as water was in short supply in the arid region. In response, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) constructed …
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Political economy, public policy, power structures, and human rights violations : the case of internally displaced persons in Colombia between 1993 and 2010
… Colombia has had three peaks of violence and humanitarian crisis. The first two were due to a reorganization in the power structures of the country. However, the last and worst peak of violence in Colombia is due to a specific economic agenda. It began with the imposition of the neoliberal …
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Nowhere to run: measuring how refugee flows and rights shape civil conflict
… remain trapped in the conflict zone, creating humanitarian disasters. This dissertation argues that civilians will flee when they have a reasonable, safe place to seek refuge, but in the absence of a safe place to seek sanctuary, civilians have no choice to but to stay put. When civilians can …
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An Exploration for a Holistic Approach to Upgrading Informal Settlements as an Alternative to Settlement Elimination: A case study on Okapale informal settlement, Windhoek
… declared informal settlements in Windhoek as a “Humanitarian crisis”, which he further declared to eradicate by 2025. The study highlighted a gap in the understanding of such a political statement's implications on the attitudes and efforts towards informal settlements upgrading processes. The …
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Navigating holostic and sustainable learning:Challenges and opportunities in ongoing and creeping emergencies
… within situations of actual and anticipated humanitarian crisis. The study begins with an examination of the broad backcioth to the study, the interlinked causes of humanitarian emergencies - globalization, climate change and underlying worldviews. It is based on the assumption that …
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Loss to follow-up from South Africa's antiretroviral treatment programme: Trends, risk factors, and models of care to improve retention
… and mortality, thereby transforming HIV from a humanitarian crisis to a chronic disease. However, the benefits of ART to patients and communities are dependent on patients being retained in care. This thesis investigates loss to follow-up (LTFU) after ART initiation, in the context of scale-up …
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Internal displacement and the education of school-aged children in Colombia
… , highly relevant to the current status of this humanitarian crisis. Using a unique data set from Colombia, the National Survey of Displaced Households (ENHD) performed in 2004, this thesis examines the educational situation of displaced children and studies the impact of various forces, …
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Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda: An Analysis of the Challenges and Opportunities for Reintegration and Rehabilitation.
… the former United Nations Under- Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, as ¿the biggest forgotten humanitarian crisis in the world¿. This study is primarily concerned with the plight of child soldiers in northern Uganda and how their effective reintegration and rehabilitation (RR) could lead to …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… specific socioeconomic context of economic and humanitarian crisis in contemporary Greece. There are different lifestyle patterns of multilevel being, living and belonging of mixed couples within Greek society. Discrimination, racism and xenophobia against immigrants and minorities provoke …
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Education for All? Complex solutions to complex problems in the Nigerian education sector
… This is further compounded by a security (and humanitarian) crisis with girls in particular facing daunting odds. While the South has slightly better learning outcomes, there has been a steady decline in performance across the board. Unstable enrolment rates, high poverty levels, growing gender …
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