As a reaction against unjust policies and repression the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia and the Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO) in Thailand were formed at the end of the 1970s. Though their agendas have developed during the years, their demands have usually been centred on claims for independence based on nationalist arguments. GAM and PULO have used different tools in their c

In this study, I investigate the impact of Non Formal Education (NFE) programs on working children’s lives in Bangladesh considering the principle of the “best interests of the child” and assuming the importance of “educational opportunities” in challenging child labour and allowing children to make informed rational choices. Since the principle of the “best interests of the child”, as defined by

The purpose of this essay was to analyze the management and steering of the social welfare service. The objective was specifically to examine how the leaders approach their position as managers of the social welfare service, and also how they approach their way of steering. The social welfare service acts under political decisions, but the management interpret and transform these decisions into ac

An evaluation of the ecological status of 23 small water reservoirs in Burkina Faso was made in 2004 by IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Large dominance of cyanobacteria in some of the reservoirs was one of the signs of an imbalance in the ecology of the water (Cecchi et al. 2005). This led to a further investigation in 2005 and an assumption that the dominance of cyanobacteria w

This Minor Field Study aims to examine how small-scale farmers in Northeast Brazil experience the transition towards organic farming mainly in regard to economy and quality of life but also considering gender equality and national migration. The author finds that organic farming seems to create new meanings and discussion areas for the people involved. Organic farming may also be of relevance cons

SAMMANFATTNING Uppsatsens titel: De levande döda ? Tecken, Myter och Levande Legender Seminariedatum: 2007-06-07 Kurs: MKV 404:3 Magisteruppsats 10 poäng Författare: Michael Rübsamen Handledare: Fredrik Miegel Examinator: Peter Dahlgren Nyckelord: Diskursanalys, Offentliga Personer, Paparazzi, Post-strukturalism, konsumtion Syfte: Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka och problematisera den

Ecological modernisation has together with sustainable development reached a hegemonic status in the current environmental discourse. In the 1970's, the environmental crisis was blamed on modernity and technology and environmental protection was a prioritised area within the environmental movement. Today, it is believed that the crisis is to be solved with technical innovations and keywords ar

Studien använder ett explicit test och jämför ungdomar (14-16 år) och vuxna gällande deras riskbedömning av brott, attityder kring brott och moralnivå. Dessa faktorer förväntas ha ett samband med varandra och kan ge en förklaring till varför ungdomar begår fler brott per capita än vuxna (Ahlberg, 1996). Samplet som utgjorde ungdomsgruppen (N=101) togs från fyra högstadier och vuxensamplet (N=101)

Social interaktion och känslan av att tillhöra en gemenskap är viktiga faktorer för människans välmående. För en äldre person kan interaktionen med omgivningen försvåras genom till exempel rörelsehinder eller sjukdom. I denna studie undersöktes webbforum som ett komplement för seniorer, där intentionen var att underhålla kontakter i det sociala nätverket. Under en månad fick en grupp om fyra senio

Abortfrågan har sedan länge varit en mycket omdebatterad och kontroversiell fråga i det amerikanska samhället. Striden mellan abortförespråkare och abortmotståndare har eskalerat på senare år och de fredliga blockaderna har numera utökats med kraftigare våldsinslag som dödsskjutningar. Vårt syfte är att ur ett konstruktivistiskt forskningsperspektiv undersöka hur dessa rörelser för fram och frams

Den här uppsatsen har sin utgångspunkt i staden Lund vid tiden för Sveriges nationella omröstning om totalt rusdrycksförbud 1922. Syftet är att belysa den lokala alkoholsyn och de lokala alkoholkulturer som möjliggjort stadens specifika valresultat; ett valresultat som visade det näst lägsta förbudsintresset i hela landet. Uppsatsen försöker beskriva hur stadens olika aktörer och samhällsskikt -

In this paper respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was examined in relation to two kinds of threatening pictures, biological and nonbiological. Based on the results of prior research the hypothesis was claimed to note a difference between the two types of pictures regarding RSA and gender differences regarding cardiac activity due to the emotional stimulus. ECG and respiration were collected from 36

BACKGROUND: The main purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between religious affiliation and individuals' general trust with particular reference to South Korea. More precisely the intention was to examine if a religion that has been transplanted from one cultural context changes the moral values of its adherents in the different cultural context into which it has been introduce

The purpose of the present essay, as part of the project Self esteem and Life circumstances among teenagers, was to investigate the rate of both deliberate self-harm (DSH) and risk behaviour related to eating disorders in 14-year-old swedish adolescents, gender differences in DSH, and possible correlations between DSH and risk behaviours related to eating disorder. In addition, the effects of expr

Så länge människan mår bra och har hälsan tar hon livet för givet. Förr i tiden var fysiska ansträngningar ett måste för överlevnadens skull. Vi arbetade från morgon till kväll, stora som små, med tunga sysslor både hemma på gårdarna och ute i arbetslivet. Idag är arbetssysslorna mer stilla sittande och kroppen får inte den rörelse som den är skapt för som i sin tur kan skapa ohälsa. Förr arbetade

This project aims to obtain a deeper understanding of what it is like to be young today, and of how young people experience their lives. Identifying and uncovering the process of meaning constitution concerning young people's thoughts and feelings within each subjective individual, and their visions about the future as well as how they experience relations to other people in their surrounding,

Många organisationer använder sig idag av produktutvecklingsteam som är en form av tvärfunktionellt team. De används därför att det har visat sig ge givande resultat för organisationen, med utgångspunkt från innovation. Hur givande är teamen i lärosynpunkt för individerna i teamet? Med denna fråga som utgångspunkt startade min studie. Då det redan fanns rikligt med litteratur kring både mångfald o

The civil war in Sierra Leone was a very complicated conflict, both in its origin as well as in its realization. Many actors, along with the diamond trade, played vital parts in making the war carry on for a decade. In this paper I will try to clarify the relations between the actors and the diamonds, first and foremost the part the diamonds played in the conflicts start and continuation. I will a

Möllevången.net is a web community in the Swedish neighborhood Möllevången in Malmö. A social network analysis was made on the community's internal postal service to examine the amount of role groups there were, consisting of the community members, and what was characteristic about each group's communication behavior pattern online. Thereafter a Chi-Square analysis was made to examine if t

We consider the meaning of leisure time for the human linguistic and cultural development of great meaning, in particular association with bilingual. We are both bilingual and have had the privilege to use and develop our knowledge likewise our experience during our education. The purpose with our school essay is to investigate what the youth tell us about their bilingual development outside Scho