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Conscription 2.0: Compulsory Military Service and the Rise of Women in the Swedish Armed Forces
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a deeper understanding of gender integration in the Swedish Armed Forces, often portrayed as a “North Star” of gender equality, by studying (1) numeric data on the presence of women in the SAF from 2001 to 2023, (2) how official SAF personnel documents describe and explain these data, and (3) how gender integration ...
Elin Berg, Ralph Sundberg
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Environmental peacebuilding: Towards a theoretical framework [PDF]
Cooperation and Conflict, 2018 Environmental peacebuilding represents a paradigm shift from a nexus of environmental scarcity to one of environmental peace. It rests on the assumption that the biophysical environment’s inherent characteristics can act as incentives for cooperation and peace, rather than violence and competition.
Dresse, Anaïs +3 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
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Precarious Peacebuilding : Friction in Global–Local Encounters
, 2013 How can we understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding? This special issue contributes to ongoing debates on the precariousness of peacebuilding, by introducing the term friction as a way to capture and ...
Höglund, Kristine,, Björkdahl, Annika,
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“Who here is a volunteer?” Peacebuilding, brokerage, and moral authority in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a critical examination of the global peacebuilding industry as it has operated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is based around the author's experience as a volunteer broker to the United States Agency for International Development Papua New Guinea Peace Project.
Michael Main
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Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: the case of Timor-Leste
, 2022 openLa presente tesi intende analizzare l’evoluzione del dibattito sul peacebuilding, in particolare in relazione alla svolta locale da questo subito.
DORAGROSSA, SOFIA
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Ecology and SocietyScholarship in peace and conflict studies is paying increasing attention to the role of the environment for conflict transformation and peacebuilding. However, a closer analysis on how different understandings of “nature” implicate policy proposals and ...
Maria Andrea Nardi +2 more
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Afterword: Brokerage in Oceania beyond interactionism
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract The decolonisation of Oceania came late and is far from complete, and this contemporary context influences the way brokerage is enacted. The embeddedness of brokerage in broader contexts may reduce or orientate individual brokers' room for manoeuvre. This leads to the structural dimension of brokerage, beyond the interactionist approach to the
Pierre‐Yves Le Meur
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Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development
, 2018 "Hybridity on the Ground in Peacebuilding and Development engages with the possibilities and pitfalls of the increasingly popular notion of hybridity.
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Sampling bias in environmental peacebuilding research
Environment and Security, 2023 Sampling bias poses enormous challenges to research as it can undermine the validity of results, cause significant knowledge gaps, result in research that is driven by convenience rather than need and limit the ability to provide policy advice. In this study, I assess potential sampling biases in the rapidly emerging research field of environmental ...
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