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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"international interventions"”.
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Developing guidelines to strengthen the human capabilities of parents with children with developmental disabilities using an Interdisciplinary team approach
… was employed, combining a systematic review of international interventions with qualitative data gathered from parents, health professionals, and community stakeholders in three historically disadvantaged communities in the Western Cape. Purposive sampling yielded 13–23 parents and 12 …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… discourse studies (CDS), theories of identity, international interventions, peacekeeping and postcolonialism. This framework analyses a set of discursive strategies through which legitimation and identity are constructed. This study comprises a total set of 18 interviews with leaders of MINUSTAH …
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The International Criminal Court’s intervention in the Lord’s Resistance Army war: impacts and implications
This thesis argues that the International Criminal Court (ICC) brings a new more deontological paradigm to international interventions, founded upon the universal application of legal principle, and displacing consequentialist notions of justice linked to human rights. Based upon the Court’s …
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The needs of miners: political ethics, mercury abatement, and intervention in artisanal gold mining communities
… dissertation examines the role of donor-funded international projects to reduce mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM). ASM is the second largest source of anthropogenic global mercury pollution, accounting for roughly 1000tonnes of atmospheric emissions and releases …
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New states challenged: education, peacebuilding and statebuilding in post-conflict Kosovo and East Timor
… study focuses on the ways in which a variety of international actors shape national education systems in states that have emerged out of armed conflict, and how these systems reflect and affect peacebuilding and statebuilding. From these premises, I have conducted fieldwork in Kosovo and East …
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Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding
… <p>Adviser: Professor Susan Woodward</p> <p>International efforts to build strong and legitimate states in developing societies often present a paradox. In many instances they are undermined by the resistance of very local actors with whom the Union partners up. The form that this resistance …
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Development discourse and the Batwa of South West Uganda: representing the 'other' : presenting the 'self'
… Current Interface, I ask why national and international interventions, aimed at helping the Batwa, have failed to achieve their stated aims, and in some circumstances deepened their present marginalisation? The thesis argues that representations of, and knowledge about the Batwa are …
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Statebuilding versus state formation: the political economy of transition in Iraq and Libya
The international interventions in Iraq and Libya are exemplary of a decline in the expectations that statebuilding fervour can contribute to the full-fledged transformation of societies intervened upon. From the intervention in Iraq under the banner of “armed liberalism” to the …
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Exploring History Education in Primary Schools and its Impact on Students’ Attitudes Toward Other Ethnic Groups in Divided Communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
… to inform the region's educational policies and international interventions. The study's methodology employs structured surveys and semi-structured interviews, capturing quantitative data from 9th-grade students across BiH and qualitative insights from diverse experts. The analysis, rooted in …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… the borders of sub-disciplines such as international political theory, international development, or transitology. The outcome of the schema helps understand, explain and forecast the challenges related to state failure and statebuilding. Although, there were several techniques to …