Sökning: "counterinsurgency"
Visar resultat 6 - 9 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet counterinsurgency.
6. Living With Bad Surroundings : War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
Sammanfattning : War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986. The Ugandan army is fighting a rebel insurgency group called the Lord’s Resistance Movement/Army. LÄS MER
7. A Farewell to Arms : Motivational Change and Divergence Inside FARC-EP 2002-2010
Sammanfattning : How can motivational change and divergence inside a rebel group be explained and what does this imply for our understanding of civil wars? In contemporary research, these questions have received limited attention. In many studies, motives are either overlooked, inferred from a single type of motive indicator or assumed to be narrow, static over time and homogenous throughout the organization. LÄS MER
8. The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
Sammanfattning : Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ‘war by conservation’, in which conservation and military-like practices address and tie into wider security issues. LÄS MER
9. Possessed Earth : Ownership and Power in the Salween Peace Park of Southeast Myanmar
Sammanfattning : In the wake of seven decades of protracted revolution and armed conflict in Southeast Myanmar, an ensemble of indigenous peoples and transnational activists have begun formulating a radical alternative vision of how peace and conservation might be achieved in practice. Through translating and rescaling indigenous modes of possessing the earth, this ensemble is working to transform 5,000 km2 of highly contested terrain in the highlands along the Salween River into a conservation zone they call the Salween Peace Park. LÄS MER
