Browsing Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism by Title
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Defeated Identity and Socio-Emotional Reconciliation: An Inquiry into the Sri Lankan Post-war Context
(Master thesis, 2024)In 2009, the Sri Lankan state armed forces triumphed in a 26-year-long civil war over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), leading to annual war victory celebrations on 19th May that impede ethnic harmony. This ... -
Democratic values in public primary schools in Bangladesh: A qualitative investigation
(Master thesis, 2020)The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is a democratic country according to the national constitution. The country has a strong history of student participation in active democracy based activities since before its liberation ... -
Digital Space, Belonging and Translocational Positionality: A Study on the Nepali Diaspora in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Abstract This study explores the notion of identity and belonging of the Nepali diaspora living in Norway. It focuses on Nepali digital diaspora's engagement in social site network Facebook in connection with diasporic ... -
Discussing racial preference with white Norwegian women: stereotypes and colorblind rationalizations
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis aims to take a critical look at stereotypes that can be connected to different racial groups and how they work in conjunction with categorizing according to preference. The questions of the thesis are a) Which ... -
Does the Norwegian Introduction Program Empower Individual Refugees?
(Master thesis, 2020)This qualitative study investigates the Norwegian introduction program for refugees to identify whether or not it empowers its individual participants. Moreover, it examines the extent to which this program might be ... -
Eritrean migrant youths’ understanding of citizenship, human rights and diversity in Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)The goal of this thesis is to investigate Eritrean youth participants’ perceptions, experiences, attitudes and feelings about citizenship, diversity, integration and human rights education that they are learning in schools ... -
Et amerikansk imperativ
(Master thesis, 2022)Masteroppgaven går ut på å definere et moderne amerikansk imperativ, og hvordan dette introduserer nye fremdstidsutfordringer til humanitær folkerett og internasjonal menneskerettighetslov ved bruk av kampdroner i ... -
Fast Fashion, Performativity, & Corporate Social Responsibility: Analyzing SHEIN’s Statements on Initiatives against Labour Exploitation in their Supply Chains
(Master thesis, 2024)In recent years, there has been an increased amount of attention to issues related to the garment sector along with the rise of fast fashion. With an increased demand for clothes, it begs the question: how is this impacting ... -
FGM in Italy: healthcare professionals as agents of change? A study ten years after the adoption of law 7/2006 on targeted training as dialogical tool
(Master thesis, 2017)Due to migration fluxes, modern societies are increasingly more characterized by a plurality of cultural groups, each one with its specific behavioral norms and cultural practices. Particularly, "female genital mutilation" ... -
Gender based exclusion of Bangladeshi transgender “Hijra” community from job sector
(Master thesis, 2024)In Bangladesh, the Hijra is a large community of third gender people, mostly consisting of male-to-female transgender persons as well as eunuchs or men who had their genitals removed. These Hijras are often a time excluded ... -
Gender Disparity in Leadership and Decision-Making Positions through Workplace Context in Bhutan
(Master thesis, 2022)Abstract Women around the world are disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions and in positions where decisions are made. In Bhutan, gender inequality and discrimination are often taken for granted with ... -
Gender equality in educational and occupational choices in Egypt? A study of cultural and societal constraints on women's recruitment and practicing in judicial work.
(Master thesis, 2021)After two uprisings in less than three years, fueled with chants of women demanding their rights to freedom, dignity, justice, and equality, Women are still struggling to make inroads into an occupation that has historically ... -
Give them voice, don’t speak for them Women’s right on decision-making: Study case of minority women in Kosovo
(Master thesis, 2017)Researchers, organization, and activists are advocating increasingly for the political representation of women and minority groups. However, few are considering the impact of laws and policies on minority women, or generally ... -
Hegemony and Reconciling Indigenous-State Relations A discourse analysis of truth commission debates in Australia and Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)This study emerges from the context of requests for truth commissions by indigenous populations in Australia and Norway between 2016-2017. In both western liberal democracies, these requests reflected a need felt to reconcile ... -
Herstories of War Experience: An Analysis of Selected War-narratives of Women in Post-war Sri Lanka for the Human Rights Discourse
(Master thesis, 2023)Her-stories or women’s stories of the war connote historical notes and experiences told from a feminine perspective related to the war that construct, preserve, and present the memory and atrocities of war as an instrument ... -
History education and reconciliation in post war societies. A narrative analysis of Serbian and Kosovan history textbooks for students in primary education
(Master thesis, 2022)Since the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s there has been a conflicting relationship between Serbia and Kosovo. Lack of reconciliation is, according to the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 16, "Peace, justice and ... -
How do Mexican women in Scandinavia use Cultural and Economic Capital to negotiate their transnational identities as immigrants or expats?
(Master thesis, 2022)The international growing Mexican female migration to Norway and Sweden has given rise to a different perspective to the negotiation of transnational identities. The dominant discourse on female immigrants often has no ... -
How does COVID-19 effect Afghan migrant workers’ rights in Iran?
(Master thesis, 2021)Afghanistan has endured over 40 years of conflict, resulting in a complex humanitarian crisis and the protracted displacement of its population. Millions of Afghans fled to neighboring Iran and Pakistan, some as refugees ... -
How the Indian Government are using “The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019” to suppress the right to self-determination of the citizens of Kashmir?
(Master thesis, 2022)The principle of self-determination is one of the significant principles in international law and order that is recognized in various treaties and agreements. It is noted that all individuals are entitled to this right ... -
Human Displacement in Times of Climate Change
(Master thesis, 2021)Today, more and more people are forced to flee from their homes as a result of global warming. Migration scholars, environmentalists and international institutions, have all expressed concern over the increasing social ...