How to define Private Military Companies is an issue, which due to PMC’s explosive growth during the last 30 years has become increasingly relevant. But how do you define the PMC personnel that take a direct part in combat situations? Through a singularly juridical aspect, based on interpretations of the Geneva Conventions I try to answer this problem. This essay first tries to define the PMC

In this essay the notion of targeted killings is reviewed through arguments about law and philosophy based on two different newspaper articles written by Daniel Byman and Richard A. Wiley. Targeted killings in the articles context of the Israel-Palestine conflict are categorized in too three argument concepts in my analysis, the three concepts are effectiveness, legality and morality. Targeted kil

In the process of developing the modern and democratic society that the people of Sweden can enjoy today the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1948 has been a cornerstone. Several of these rights have around the world been seen as fundamental to the democratic society and are today both a way of life, future and philosophy running through the country of Sw

In northern Uganda, a war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and governmnet troops has raged for more than twenty years. In this conflict, the civilian population has been made a target and subjected to mass scale torture, mutilation and murder. Almost two million people have been forced to flee their homes to reside in government protected camps for Internally Displaced Persons. In these ca

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur NATO:s policydokument förhåller sig till jus ad bellum som det formuleras i teorin om rättfärdigat krig. Då den moderna folkrätten inte verkar ta upp alla krigsföring som förs idag har de teologisk- etiska argumenten kommit tillbaka. Detta har lett till att den här uppsatsen är utformad som den är. Utifrån kartläggningen av det empiriska materialet

This essay investigates if attitudes to equality work among the administrative managers of Landskrona city can be altered through participating a seminar day on equality, multitude and discrimination. A questionnaire about the equality work in the municipality was sent out the administrative managers before the seminar day, and thereafter followed up by interviews. Through these interviews, leanin

Analyzing social spaces is central in understandings of power hierarchies at work, and there is an in­ creasing emphasis on situated analysis of how intersecting socials categories form the possible posi­ tions for subjects to inhibit. Drawing on contemporary feminist theory and studies, my goal is to nuance the under­ standing of how queer space in Copenhagen 2010 can be conceptualized by offerin

This is a study of the Swedish governments control over pathologicalized bodies. I have carried out a genealogical analysis of Swedish government official reports concerning forced sterilizations. The purpose of the study was to find out in which ways the Swedish government controls and restricts “certain kinds” of bodies when it comes to reproduction. With theoretical influences from Judith Butle

I denna studie har jag undersökt genuskonstruktionerna i Stephanie Meyers fyra böcker; Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006) Eclipse (2007) och Breaking Dawn (2008). Det teoretiska ramverket består av Judith Butlers teorier om den heterosexuella matrisen och perfomativitet, Gayle S Rubin och Michel Foucaults teorier om sexualitet som något historiskt konstruerat samt Laura Mulveys teori om ”The Male GaIn this essay I have studied gender constructions in Stephanie Meyers four books; Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006) Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008). My theory frame consists of Judith Butlers theory about the heterosexual matrix and performance, Gayle S Rubin and Michel Foucaults theory about sexuality as something historically constructed and Laura Mulvey´s theory about the “male gaze”. My

Children who have witnessed violence in their homes have not been considered victims of crime until recently and only few studies have been made regarding these children. It is crucial to investigate how these experiences affects the children and later on in their adult life. In my essay I will discuss this subject with the use of in-depth intervjues with three women. The informants/interviewees h

This bachelor’s thesis aims to problematize the debate regarding the use of quotas as a tool or strategy to create equality between women and men, and it focuses particularly on the current debate regarding the boards of companies. The thesis also addresses the debate regarding quotas in the university context. This thesis analyses the discourses against quotas for gender equity within these debat

Racial Profiling is a phenomenon which does not have an accepted definition but most researchers use the term as the inappropriate use of race as an indicator of potential criminal behavior in the work of the police. In April this year the state of Arizona enacted a new immigration law that allows the local police to arrest a person without a warrant if the officer has a probable cause to believe

The objective of this research is to be a contribution of knowledge regarding the national project's condition in Denmark based on a discourse analysis of the tolerated stay concept. Tolerated stay is placed in the tension field between the discourse regarding non-citizenship and the discourse regarding criminality and is legitimated by a discourse regarding security of the state. The empiric

Denna uppsats är tänkt att samla de fall där personer har gravlagts i romanska västtorn från tiden cirka 1050 – 1300 i det medeltida Danmark. Texten blir därmed en forskningsöversikt och en katalog rörande torngravar. Huvudfrågan med uppsatsen har varit att ta reda på om vem som helst fick bli begraven på detta sätt, om det är stiftargravar som vissa forskare påstår. Genom att väva in tolkningar a

This paper examines the difficulties that can meet an LGBT-refugee in the process of applying for asylum in Sweden. The study is based on interviews with activists and a former refugee and the result is discussed from a queer and intersectional perspective. While previous studies have dealt mostly with official documents and laws, this one is aiming at creating an understanding of norms and proble

I den här uppsatsen studerar jag hur pedagoger på en Reggio Emilia inspirerad förskola ser på sin roll som pedagoger, samt hur eller om de ser sig själva som en del i barnens kön- och genuskonstruktion. Studien har genomförts på Förskolan Trollet i Kalmar som för en verksamhet med inspiration från Reggio Emilia pedagogiken. Studien utgår ifrån intervjuer med fyra av Trollets pedagoger. På förskolaIn this thesis I study how pedagogues at a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool look at their roles as pedagogues, and also how, or if, they see themselves as a part of children’s sex- and gender constructions. The study was conducted at the preschool Trollet in the city of Kalmar that applies a Reggio Emilia inspired pedagogy. The study is based on interviews with four pedagogues from Trollet. At th

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine if priming of norms by using scrambled sentences can affect results on an implicit test. The primed norms were justice and loyalty. In addition there was a control group. As method for measuring the result we used a SPFT-test (Sorting Paired Features Task, Barn-Anan et al., 2009 ). This test is a variation of the well established Implicit Associati

Denna uppsats behandlar frågan om mediebilden och tidigare forskning rörande kvinnor och politisk identitet i Afghanistan. Hur presentationen av kvinnorna ser ut och hur deras situation och positionering görs av kvinnor i Afghanistan och hur detta beskrivs i tidningen Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter är den svenska dagstidning som vi valt ut då vi anser den ha hög validitet och stor läsarkrets. Geno

In this paper we will examine the way in which normative representations of body and sexuality can be challenged. This will be done by studying pictures from the campaign “Komikondom”, which has been a project by the Swedish organizations RFSL (The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights) and RFSU (The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education). The pictures are chos

Denna uppsats undersöker exkluderingstender och normeringsprocesser i studentmiljön vid genusinstitutionen vid Lunds universitet. Jag har med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer kombinerat med minnesarbeten intervjuat fyra stycken studenter som fungerat som mina informanter – två som hoppat av utbildningen i förtid och två som inte hoppade av. Med utgångspunkt i norm- och klassteorier analyserar jag m