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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"National unity"”.
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The myth of national unity: President George W Bush's rhetorical reconstruction of America
On Inaugural Day, President George W. Bush faced an unusually hostile audience. To reunite the nation, President Bush reached back to Americans' fundamental archetypal images, featuring the American founding myth. However, this reunification process was not complete until his speeches of September …
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Breaking to build: decentralization as an efficient mechanism for achieving national unity in Cameroon
… power and government in Cameroon. The call for national unity, championed by the regime in power has had to survive strong demands for greater autonomy and threats of secession by groups from within an English-speaking minority. In response to these demands and threats, and in conjunction with …
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The long journey to become 'the river of national unity': The Sao Francisco river basin from 1940s to 2008 and the interactions of environment, government and local citizens
… local in the pre-1950s to the regional and international in the post-1950s era. The intensive employment of the water body for entrepreneurial purposes like hydro-businesses is rising. The 1997 Water Policy has not yet reversed the unsustainable ecological trend of the river system, which shows …
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A theopolitical study concerning the interrelation between the Government of National Unity and religion in post-apartheid South Africa (1988-1999) with specific reference to the Dutch Reformed Church and the Anglican Church
The year 2004 marked South Africa's celebration of ten years of democracy as encapsulated by guaranteeing a better life for all. The gap between the rich and the poor as well as moral degradation challenges the euphoria of our young democracy. The South African government's commitment to …
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The Sudanese comprehensive peace agreement: how could the comprehensive peace agreement become the basis for either unity or disintegration of the Sudan?
… o f good will on the part of the old regime (the National Congress Party) and its desire to establish an Islamic state with Shari'ah law in Northern Sudan are incompatible with national unity. Fourthly, the peace agreement is undermined by the controversial provision that at the end of the …
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Realms of Remembered Violence: The Emergence of Mass Murder Memorials in the United States, 1986-2012
… By exposing how the timely interventions of national figures increasingly shaped local commemorative aspirations, my research illuminates how the brief period of national unity in the immediate aftermath has been discursively and materially foregrounded as the heart of national public memory …
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Intergovernmental fiscal reform in South Africa : preference matching, efficiency and accountability
… policy making, provincial over reliance on national transfers to finance their expenditures and the fact that the system was not necessarily crafted for purposes of preference matching but national unity and the need to address the imbalances of the past.
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James Layton Ralston and manpower for the Canadian army
… soldier, lawyer, politician and Minister of National Defense 1940-1944. Ralston was a man known to all Canadians during the Second World War, but after his forced resignation from the Cabinet in the fall of 1944 he ceased to play a prominent public role and war largely forgotten. Historians, …
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Kenya and the ICC: the politics of the 2007 post-election violence
… The incumbent was Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU). His political opponent was Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). The vote was peaceful and described by many in positive terms; that is, a continuation of the positive democratic transition that Kenya began …
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Post-indepencence stability in the Republic of South Sudan : constraints and prospects
… of a willingness to compromise in the pursuit of national unity. The view that an understanding of the problem of stability has to be founded on a full comprehension of the political and social background to the formation of South Sudan is adopted in the study. The study proposes a holistic and …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… model for food control provided a sense of national solidarity, but housewives were still represented as inferior to men. <p>This thesis examines women’s gender identity as present in BBC radio programmes aimed at housewives, specifically broadcasts that dealt with rationing and cooking. …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian cultural …
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Development solutions in a post-consensus world
… Following a review of recent literature in international political economy, the author argues the present system is a result of national self-interest in the North, rather than being the best program for development in the South. A critical analysis of the popular Washington Consensus strategy is …
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A rhetorical analysis of first inaugural addresses of Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela
… political independence in their countries, (b) national unity and nation-building, (c) economic emancipation and (d) self-dependence and empowerment. The results revealed further that Machel, Mugabe, Nujoma and Mandela employed and possessed the faculties of invention (inventio), arrangement …
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Working with the enemy : the military integration process in transitional South Africa and the factors that shaped a new defence force
… organization and re-branded as the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). Scholars and analysts generally consider this process to have been successful; it was a seminal achievement by both the negotiating parties and the Government of National Unity. Looking at the transformation process …
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The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function
… in developing rational solutions to urban and national dilemmas, technocratic strategies employed as a means to realize grand visions. In this way, Islamabad was conceived by both as part of something much larger-Ayub's symbol of a freshly unified nation, steeped in nationalist fervor and …
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Negotiating National Identity: A Study of Nationalist Rhetoric during the British Voluntary Recruiting Movement, 1914-1916
… War I by exploring how conceptions of British national identity served as a technique of persuasion and as a catalyst for individual enlistment. By comparing official propaganda with the diaries and letters of soldiers, this study makes two arguments. First, the British government based its …
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Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author
… her regional novels is on the creation of a national unity and identity following such events as World War II. However, this national identity is inherently biased in favor of the ethnically White considering its development prior to the period of social change inspired by the Civil Rights …
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National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
… government has long striven for an official national identity grounded in a cohesive sense of national unity, but this has been in contrast to the regional reality of the Canadian state. The postwar period reveals increased concern within Canada regarding its national identity, when the …
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Modeling Peacekeeping: The Case of Canada Examined
… employed systemic level of analysis such as national interest and international cooperation without taking into account the impact of domestic political and socioeconomic environment, and the role of leadership personality in peacekeeping decisions. This study tipped this imbalance by …
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