Sökning: "value conflict"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 114 avhandlingar innehållade orden value conflict.
1. Fighting for Aid : Foreign Funding and Civil Conflict Intensity
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
2. Autonomy and Conflict : Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia
Sammanfattning : Providing minority populations with autonomy is gaining appreciation as a method of solving,managing, and even pre-empting ethnic conflict. However, in spite of the enthusiasm for autonomy solutions among academics and practitioners alike, there is reason to argue that the provision of autonomy for a minority may under certain circumstances increase rather than decrease the likelihood of conflict. LÄS MER
3. Information, Markets and Conflict : Essays on Development and Political Economics
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four essays.The first essay, “The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War”, uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the strategic value of these countries. LÄS MER
4. Changing the Game : Consociational Theory and Ethnic Quotas in Cyprus and New Zealand
Sammanfattning : This study addresses the question of what makes ethnic quota systems in parliament work to manage ethnopolitical violence. By a reconstruction of Arend Lijphart’s theory on consociationalism, two causal mechanisms are identified. The first mechanism levels the power balance of contending groups by permanent inclusion in parliament. LÄS MER
5. Spectral Jade : Materiality, Conceptualisation, and Value in the Myanmar-China Jadeite Trade
Sammanfattning : Hosting a cultural history of 8.000 years in China, jade has seen a revival in China’s current era. Jadeite is the most expensive type of jade, and the vast majority of jadeite is mined in Myanmar’s Kachin State and sold in China.Spectral Jade is a study of trade, carving, and use of jadeite. LÄS MER