Sökning: "humanitarian action"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden humanitarian action.

  1. 1. Images, Motives, and Challenges for Western Health Workers in Humanitarian Aid

    Författare :Magdalena Bjerneld; Gunilla Lindmark; Beth Maina Ahlberg; Lars Dahlgren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; humanitarian action; human resource management; relief workers; aid workers; volunteers; images; motives; qualitative research; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden; Medicin; Medicine;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents how humanitarian aid workers were attracted, motivated, recruited, and prepared for fieldwork, and how they reported their work experience directly from the field and when they returned home. Data were derived from interviews with experienced aid workers, focus group discussions with presumptive aid workers, analysis of letters from aid workers in the field on MSFs homepages in Europe, and from interviews with recruitment officers at some of the main humanitarian organisations. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Persuasive Prevention: Implementation of the AU Right of Intervention

    Författare :Daniel Kuwali; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; AU human security architecture; treaty-based intervention; Article 4 h intervention; enforcement by consent; Responsibility to protect; humanitarian intervention; right to intervene; jus cogens crimes; persuasive prevention;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the scope and limits of Article 4(h) of the AU Act in order to generate new thinking on, and contribute a fresh legal approach to, the implementation of the AU’s right to intervene under Article 4(h). While Article 4(h) intervention can be construed as enforcement by consent, it is not clear whether the UN Charter provides for enforcement action by consent to be outside the purview of Article 53(1) of the UN Charter. LÄS MER

  3. 3. The Technopolitics of Compassion : A Postphenomenological Analysis of the Digital Mediation of Global Humanitarianism

    Författare :Daniel Møller Ølgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; humanitarianism; digital media; technopolitics; postphenomenology; mediation theory; power; materiality; imaginaries; algorithms; social media; virtual reality; apps;

    Sammanfattning : Humanitarian organisations are central actors in the mediation of humanitarian disasters as objects of public, political and moral concern. Consequently, if we want to understand this key dynamic of world politics we have to understand how aid organisations use media. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Justice for victims of atrocity crimes : prosecution and reparations under international law

    Författare :Fanny Holm; Monica Burman; Per Bergling; Pål Wrange; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Crime victims; atrocity crimes; genocide; war crimes; crimes against humanity; prosecution; reparations; human rights; jurisdiction; transitional justice; International Law; folkrätt; Law; juridik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis takes its starting point from the need for a comprehensive approach towards justice following atrocities, and where not only the states in which the crimes were committed have a role to play. The thesis discusses atrocity crime (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes) prosecution and reparations procedures concerning individuals as two appropriate courses of action, through which non-territorial states may contribute to atrocity prevention and justice for the victims of atrocities. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Hjälten och offren : Raoul Wallenberg och judarna i Budapest

    Författare :Attila Lajos; Lars Olsson; Tommie Sjöberg; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anitsemitism; hero; victim; structure and individual freedom; situation; context; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : AbstractIn the summer of 1944, Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest as a representative of the Swedish Foreign Office. His assignment was to save Hungarian Jews with connections to Sweden. LÄS MER