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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Transitional societies"”.
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Security Sector Change in Georgia, 1985 - 2008 Local Dynamics, Politics of Reform and Paramilitaries
The literature on security sector actors in transitional societies emerging from war and/or authoritarianism has evolved by critiquing local perspectives recently. While the existing literature has extensively analysed transitional societies in Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe, the thesis …
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Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law- a Nigerian case study
… an important but relatively neglected aspect of transitional justice theory and state practice. The thesis of the research is that the judicial institution, as the third branch of government ought to be held accountable for its role in past governance in transitional societies. This is …
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Reparations for sexual violence in transitions from conflict: harm, identity, vulnerability and repair
… healing and repair with the broader practice of transitional and restorative justice. Taking a socio-legal approach from a medical background, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the harm experienced by victims. In particular, it identifies gaps in the understanding of harm that have a …
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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
… examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared to be …
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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
… examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared to be …
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New social movement theory and the reparations movement in Northern Ireland: The case of the WAVE Injured Group and its Campaign for Recognition
… based on social movement theories and transitional justice scholarship, this thesis explores the chronological history of the campaign and the dynamic processes, which explain the origins of this movement, its active mobilisation, its framing strategies, and its interaction within dense …
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The (de)personalisation of mediated political communication in communist and post-communist societies: The case of Croatia
… that from the communist and post-communist societies, by using Croatia, the latest member of the European Union, and its communist predecessor Yugoslavia, as a case study. The thesis starts from the premise that the political communication is more personalized, i.e. focused on individual …
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The application of Western management to the development of a management education programme in Bahrain
… as highly problematic in advanced industrial societies that have a relatively long tradition of management theory and practice. Problems of developing managerial competence become all the more acute in non-Western societies that require the transfer of managerial know-how from external, mainly …
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Ba ne’bé: where are you going? the changing nature of United Nations peacekeeping in Timor Leste
… approach to political reconstruction in transitional societies recovering from chaos. In order to fill this gap this research draws upon the lessons of intrastate conflict and state-failure in post-colonial states during the 1990s and uses an institutional peace-building framework to …
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Building peace and democracy in South Africa : an assessment of the "peace process" in relation to the "truth process" (1991-1998)
… peace and truth" is worth considering if other transitional societies opt for managing their transition by means of a "peace process" and a "truth process". peace process" that followed from South Africa's the National Peace Accord (NPA) and the "truth process" that followed from the Truth and …
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Psychological Counselling in Russia: The Making of a Feminised Profession
… of this female-dominated field in a transitional society and show how and why it became feminised. In the analytical chapters of this thesis I examine professional education, working practices, regulation and infrastructure, and counsellors’ views on the role of gender in their …
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Positive Futures for Serbian Sport
… and community benefits in the contexts of ‘transitional’ societies residing at the European semi-periphery. This thesis seeks, hence, to address this void by examining the social implications of sport for a multitude of communities in the context of semi-peripheral Serbia. In particular, it …