Sökning: "Humanitarian Assistance"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Humanitarian Assistance.

  1. 1. Modern Missionaries : An Ethnography of Social Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Legitimation in the Humanitarian Field

    Författare :Wenderson De Lima; Birgitta Schwartz; Bengt Karlsson; Minna Halme; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Entrepreneurship; Modern Missionaries; Humanitarian Field; Legitimacy; Gift; Charity; Technical Assistance; Humanitarian Habitus; Unexpected Entrepreneurship; Third Sector; NGOs; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : In nearly six decades of international interventions, the question of how to promote societal progress in African societies is still the subject of lively debates. The persistence of wars, famine, political instability and economic underdevelopment on the continent continues to fuel spirited discussions about how to organize aid most efficiently and whether old forms of international assistance still work. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Fighting for Aid : Foreign Funding and Civil Conflict Intensity

    Författare :Daniel Strandow; Magnus Öberg; Michael G. Findley; Kristian Skrede Gleditsch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Aid; foreign aid; foreign assistance; relief; humanitarian; conflict; civil war; civil conflict; geographic concentration; intra-state; violence; military; contest; low-intensity; guerrilla; irregular; conventional; decision theory; contest success function; geo-coding; geo-referencing; territorial control; propensity score; Africa; South of the Sahara; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the sub-national impact of foreign aid on civil conflicts by asking the question: How does foreign aid committed to contested areas affect the intensity of violence in those areas? The main theoretical contribution is to focus on how aid influences warring parties’ decisions to engage in contests over territorial control and how that in turn influences violence intensity. The study introduces two concepts: funding concentration and barriers to exploiting aid. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Needs assessments for international humanitarian health assistance in disasters

    Författare :Johan von Schreeb; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :Needs Assessment; Disaster; Relief; Humanitarian Assistance; Donor Allocations; Foreign Field Hospitals;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Natural and man-made disasters overwhelmingly affect people in low and middle-income countries. In that socio-economic context both the immediate and long-term needs of those affected often exceed national resources. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Assisting in the Shadows : Humanitarianism, Shelters and Transit Migration Politics

    Författare :Priscilla Solano; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; criminalisation; human rights; humanitarian crisis; humanitarianism; movement; poverty; transit migration;

    Sammanfattning : The Tamaulipas tragedy in 2010 proved a turning point for transit migration politics. This was one of the worst massacres on Mexican territory, in which 72 undocumented migrants, mostly from Central America, were kidnapped, tortured, and their dead bodies piled up in a ditch at a local ranch in the northern Mexican state. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Swedish Jews and the victims of Nazi terror, 1933–1945

    Författare :Pontus Rudberg; Lars M. Andersson; Margaret Hunt; Torkel Jansson; Bernard Wasserstein; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Jewish history; Holocaust studies; Sweden; the Jewish community of Stockholm; refugees; humanitarian aid; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to provide new knowledge about Jewish responses to the Nazi persecutions and the Holocaust. This has been done through a study of the actions of the Jewish minority in Sweden during the Nazi era. LÄS MER