Sökning: "military violence"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden military violence.

  1. 1. Operational Military Violence : A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices

    Författare :Anders Malm; Marie Demker; Dan Öberg; Annika Bergman-Rosamond; Försvarshögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; military violence; bureaucratisation; operational level; targeting; military masculinity; Krigsvetenskap; Krigsvetenskap; military violence; bureaucratisation; operational level; targeting; military masculinity;

    Sammanfattning : Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and command of military operations to be put under one roof, and as military organisations traditionally have a close dependence on technological developments, procedures and regulations for centralised command and control have developed in close concert with advances in drone technology. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Exile Warriors : Violence and Community among Hutu Rebels in the eastern Congo

    Författare :Anna Hedlund; Socialantropologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democratic Republic of Congo; Eastern Congo; Rwanda; violence; war; rebel camp; genocide; community; Hutu; identity; structural violence; political violence; rebels; soldier; civilian; refugees; exclusion; victim; perpetrator; Goma; Bukavu; armed groups; post-genocide; conflict; anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an anthropological study of war and violence in the volatile eastern territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnographic focus is on one of the largest rebel groups currently operating in the Congo conflicts, the Hutu-dominated Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). LÄS MER

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Duellanten och rättvisan : Duellbrott och synen på manlighet i stormaktsväldets slutskede

    Författare :Christopher Collstedt; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Humaniora; History; Humanities; Genusvetenskap; Gender studies; virtue; violence; Sweden; religion; nobility; New Cultural History; military; masculinity; jurisprudence; judicial discourse; honour; ethics; early modern; crimes of duelling; culture; Historia; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; crimes of duelling; Historical Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines duelling crimes in Sweden during the first half of the 18th century. During this period such crimes could involve verbal insults concerning honour as well as duelling, resulting in death. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Våld och vatten : Våtmarkskult vid Skedemosse under järnåldern

    Författare :Anne Monikander; Ingmar Jansson; Anne Carlie; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Öland; Iron Age; wetland sacrifice; weapon sacrifice; animal sacrifice; horses; rituals; bog bodies; human sacrifice; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the wetland sacrifices that were performed in Northern Europe in the Iron Age. Skedemosse on central Öland is the largest wetland sacrifice in Sweden and was the site of a cult which sacrificed animals and humans. LÄS MER