Sökning: "soldier individual"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden soldier individual.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Guerrilleros de papel : La representación del guerrillero en seis novelas centroamericanas de los años setenta y ochenta

    Författare :Oscar García; Sergio Infante; Héctor Areyuna; Jorge Román-Lagunas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Central American literature; guerrilla soldier; representation; postcolonial theories; postcolonial discourse; subaltern; essentialism; hybridity; phenomenological hermeneutics.; Spanish language; Spanska språket; Spanish; spanska;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study is to analyze and compare the representation of the guerrilla soldier in six contemporary Central American novels. According to Claudio Guillén, the comparison is a dialogue between unity and diversity. It can be defined with the help of two coordinates: a spatial and a temporal. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Mind over matter : Non-cognitive assessments for the selection of the Swedish voluntary soldier of peace

    Författare :Charlotte Bäccman; Kjerstin Almkvist; Erik Wästlund; Lennart Sjöberg; Per-Olov Michel; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; personnel selection; personality; resilience; validation; military; international operations; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis was firstly, to investigate if the current selection system mirrors the task of international deployment and voluntariness. Secondly, to investigate if and how non-cognitive assessments of personality and resilience, individual aspects that seem underrepresented in the current selection system, may increment validity to the current selection system. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Military Leaders and Trust

    Författare :Maria Fors Brandebo; Gerry Larsson; Renée Perrin-Wallqvist; Misse Wester; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; military leadership; trust; destructive leadership; constructive leadership; Destrudo-L; Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden; Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study trust in military leaders. Empirical data was gathered through interviews and questionnaires with military personnel mostly from Sweden, but also from four other European countries. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Values and Attitudes across Peace Operations : Change and Stability in the Political Psychology of Swedish ISAF Soldiers

    Författare :Ralph Sundberg; Kristine Höglund; Erik Melander; Karen Brounéus; Christopher Cohrs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; peace support operations; peacekeeping; soldiers; ISAF; Afghanistan; political psychology; combat exposure; values; value change; attitudes toward violence; attitude change; personality; Big Five; person-environment fit; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

    Sammanfattning : Participation in Peace Support Operations (PSOs) is one of the most common military duties assigned to present-day Western soldiers. Previous research concerned with the psychological effects of these missions on the individual soldier has focused on issues of mental health and how to ensure military effectiveness. LÄS MER