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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 88 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Rwanda.

  1. 21. Effects of violent conflict on women and children : Sexual behavior, fertility, and infant mortality in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Författare :Elina Elveborg Lindskog; Elizabeth Thomson; Sunnee Billingsley; Henrik Urdal; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Violent conflict; war; premarital first sexual intercourse; fertility transition; infant mortality; Rwanda; the DRC; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the relationship between violent conflicts and sexual and reproductive health in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The aim of the thesis is to investigate how war affects demographic outcomes across individual life courses. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Understanding Gender Equality in Rwanda: The Lived Experiences of People Living in Rural Communities

    Författare :Mediatrice M Kagaba; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender equality; women’s rights; Rwanda; experience;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how men and women in rural Rwanda perceive, experience and interpret the country’s gender equality agenda. It also shows how they try to negotiate gender practices and relationships when such an agenda is implemented locally. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Rethinking Reconciliation : Concepts, Methods, and an Empirical Study of Truth Telling and Psychological Health in Rwanda

    Författare :Karen Brounéus; Peter Wallensteen; Erik Melander; Ervin Staub; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Peace and conflict research; reconciliation; truth commissions; truth telling; peacebuilding; internal conflict; security; witnessing; psychological health; Rwanda; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation combines psychology with peace and conflict research in a cross-disciplinary approach to reconciliation processes after intrastate armed conflict. Two overarching contributions are made to the field of reconciliation research. The first is conceptual and methodological. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda: The role of cooperatives in the restoration of interpersonal relationships

    Författare :Ezechiel Sentama; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cooperative; conflict; genocide; genocide survivor; genocide perpetrator; interpersonal relationships; peacebuilding; post-conflict peacebuilding; relationships restoration; Rwanda;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is aimed at contributing to the lack of knowledge in the field of peacebuilding from below, notably regarding the mechanisms to be used in order to overcome the painful past between conflicting parties. The study makes this contribution through an empirically based exploration of the relational outcomes resulting from conflicting parties’ memberships of the same cooperative organization after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: : Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda

    Författare :Jenny Lorentzen; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; norms; practice; discourse; gender; peace building; Mali; Rwanda;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the multiple and often overlapping encounters between ‘global’ and ‘local’ norms, actors, practices, and discourses which take place when norms travel between different socio-political contexts. This is done through a study of how global gender equality norms embedded in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda are promoted in two war to peace transitions: Mali and Rwanda. LÄS MER