This thesis seeks to uncover why the continuous EU efforts over the years to create a common energy policy have not yielded strong results: despite successful integration in other policy areas, the so-called EU Energy Union ...

This thesis research discusses the contribution of three citizen initiatives on their contribution towards more horizontal cohesion. The research aims to provide knowledge on the manifestation of social cohesion in society ...

Sustainable social transformations are complex and require new governance tools and forms of cooperation to achieve fundamental societal change. This research aimed to offer insights on how transformations can be facilitated ...

The concept of reconciliation seems to have been largely abandoned in research. This master’s thesis examines whether the concept is still valuable. The extent to which individuals are drawn to the cognitive feature of ...

This thesis examines the role rights‐based approaches play in the provision of health and nutrition programmes in southern Chiapas, where service provision is already perceived to be politically motivated. Whilst the ...

Present thesis investigates the role of Mexican state agents in criminal violence against undocumented migrants and asks how this might be explained. Starting point of this research interest was the apparent paradox between ...

DAUGHTERS OF KINNAKI: Sri Lankan Tamil women and Ngos in post-conflict interventions United Nations and international legal framework have established that inclusion of women in livelihood recovery provisions, post-conflict ...

This thesis concerns the topic of education and peace building, a topic that only recently has begun to receive attention and has become an issue on the agenda of the international development aid community. While the ...

This study analyses the situation of female ex-combatants and women associated with the fighting forces (WAFF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In particular, this study seeks to describe the role of different ...

Somalia has been a country without an effective government since the fall of Siyad Barre’s regime in 1991. Multiple attempts to establish an administration with sovereign control over Somalia’s entire territory have been ...