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Kenya's foreign policy towards Somalia : a contribution to insecurity
(Master thesis, 2016-11-22)The study seeks to explain and give an understanding of Kenya’s foreign policy towards Somalia. In order to understand the increased security situation; it explains how Kenyan government decisions lead to more al-Shabaab ... -
Kommunal behandling av private planforslag
(Master thesis, 2018)Temaet for denne oppgaven er kommunal behandling av private planforslag, med spesielt fokus på oppstartsmøtet og dialog i tidligfase av reguleringsprosesser. Per våren 2018 ble 70 % av forslag til reguleringsplaner ... -
Labor unions as transnational actors
(Master thesis, 2021)This has been a macro-level qualitative study exploring low-level (nationally and locally) based labor unions’ transnational capabilities. To guide the research, I asked how national labor unions function as transnational ... -
Labour against ecology : a theoretical approach to work as a contributor to environmental crises and the case for the abolition of labour
(Master thesis, 2021)The present ecological crises call for fundamental transformations of capitalist society. However, these calls seem to not include the transformation of labour as a social structure, only its technical aspects. To rectify ... -
Land conflict, gender and agricultural production : a case of Apac district, northern Uganda
(Master thesis, 2016-08-12)This study explores the extent and causes of land conflict at the local community level. It also investigates genders aspects in relation to women position in land holding, transaction and inheritance, and winners and ... -
Land contention as an obstacle to peace : the effect of multinational corporations and the palm oil industry on the Colombian conflict
(Master thesis, 2014-02-19)In 2012 the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla commenced peace talks for the first time in many years. This thesis looks at the Colombian land struggle from its earliest stages to understand the roots of the ... -
Land grabbing for jatropha bio-fuel in Ghana : assessing the impact on households' livelihood in northern Ghana
(Master thesis, 2015-08-03)The research focus on the impacts of large scale production of jatropha cultivation for bio-fuel and it effects it has on the local farmers in their access to land, ensuring food security and their livelihoods in the four ... -
Land reform and populism : amending South Africa's constitution
(Master thesis, 2020)Land reform is a highly contentious issue in post-apartheid South Africa. Immediately after apartheid ended, the new African National Congress (ANC) government, on advice from the World Bank, adopted a willing buyer-willing ... -
Large-scale agricultural land development in post-war Liberia : investigating the Golden Veroleum and Sime Darby palm oil plantations
(Master thesis, 2019)The present research examines the impact of the large-scale agricultural land developments in post-war Liberia, particularly investigating Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum palm plantations. Liberia experienced two civil wars, ... -
Legal framework of NGOs : the registration challenges of NGOs in Ghana (a case study of NGOs operating in the greater Accra Region)
(Master thesis, 2022)Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have rapidly expanded in most developing nations, particularly those in Africa, as a result of governments' and the private sector's inability to fulfil socio-economic development ... -
Legal pluralism and differential access to land and forests : implication of REDD+ to women and migrant farmers at Western Region, Ghana
(Master thesis, 2015-08-04)Land is regarded as wealth creating and livelihood sustaining asset to gender and migrant farmers in the high forest zones in Ghana. However, the land tenure regime in Ghana is legally pluralistic and complex. Traditional ... -
Legal sanctioning of returnees : a comparative case study of Norway, Sweden and Denmark’s approach to returnees from Syria and Iraq
(Master thesis, 2020)From 2011 to 2016, about 560 foreign fighters travelled from Scandinavia to Syria and Iraq to participate in the Islamic State (IS) (Bjørnland, 2017; Säkerhetspolisen, 2017; Justisministeriet, 2019). Today, about 40 of the ... -
Legitimizing Puntland : exploring Puntland’s hybrid political order
(Master thesis, 2018)In the era of ‘new wars’ and state-failure, the state-building paradigm have shifted from the normative policy discourse towards a more pragmatic one with alternative approaches. In this, the Western ideal of statehood and ... -
Lessons learned form the context of state-building in Afghanistan
(Master thesis, 2018)State-building is a popular approach to help states out of state weakness and state failure. Yet, state-building efforts have a long way to go to achieve desirable results. Reasons for inadequate state-building success ... -
A liberal approach to a not so liberal policy : refugees in international society
(Master thesis, 2020)The rising number of refugees, and (civil) conflicts, especially after the end of the cold war and the apparent triumph of liberalism poses a challenge to liberalism both as a theory and as a policy agenda. This thesis ... -
Life at a leisurely pace? : environmental impacts of leisure and work time reduction in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Consumption is the single largest contributor to global environmental degradation. Because work drives consumption, scholars have proposed work time reduction (WTR) as a policy to reduce environmental pressure, while ... -
Linguistic rights of the Finland-Swedes : good on paper, but not in practice?
(Master thesis, 2021)The Swedish language is one of two national languages in Finland and is spoken by 5,2 percent of the population. Despite having the status of a national language, the Finland-Swedes are sometimes referred to as a linguistic ... -
Linking SSR 2.0, human security & development : community-based approaches to policing and police reform in Afghanistan
(Master thesis, 2014-11-05)The thesis presents the results of an exploratory study of perceptions which examines the debate over community-based approaches to policing in Afghanistan. Putting the security of the Afghan people rather than that of the ... -
Livelihood Challenges (Vulnerability) Among the Datoga Pastoralists in Basutu and Basodesh Ward (Tanzania)
(Master thesis, 2015-08-05)This thesis is about pastoralist’s risks to their livelihoods under scenarios of expected climate changes and non-climate change in resource tenure. The study aimed at exploring the livelihood challenge facing by Datoga ... -
Livelihood vulnerability assessment to the impacts of socio-environmental stressors in Raksirang VDC of Makwanpur District Nepal
(Master thesis, 2015-05-08)This study was conducted to estimate the level of livelihood vulnerability (Livelihood Vulnerability Index- LVI) for the Chepang community of Rakshirang Village Development Committee of Makawanpur district in Nepal and ...