The lived realities of soldiers have largely been ignored in modern peace and conflict studies. This thesis aims at studying the perception of Everyday combatants in order to attain a greater understanding for how soldiers percieve the enemy. This will be done as a narrative analysis, including perspectives about the everyday experience of war.

This thesis investigates how the traumas of the Holocaust and the Nakba have been utilized by Israeli and Palestinian political elites in media rhetoric during the first month of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. With the theory of the transmission of chosen transgenerational traumas as a point of departure, this study finds that political leaders have frequently utilized historical traumas as points of

Previous research has seen populist leaders emerge globally and focus on how they change security dynamics. The field is relatively new, and the relationship between populist leaders and security issues is an ongoing debate, whether tensions create populist leaders or generate insecurity. This thesis investigates how constructions of internal and external threats change security discourses over ti

This thesis employs a theoretical framework of everyday nationalism, Social Identity Theory (SIT) and violent discourse theory to examine nationalism and identity-based violence among Serbian post-war football supporters. The Serbian supporter scene is known internationally because of the ideological standpoints brought forward in the stands, motivating a multimodal discourse analysis of these mul

Denna uppsats utforskar de utmaningar som industriföretag möter vid implementering av Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Genom en kombination av teoretisk forskning och en kvalitativ intervjuansats undersöks hur teknologiska, organisatoriska och kulturella faktorer påverkar framgången för MES-implementeringar. Studien identifierar kritiska aspekter såsom behovet av en stark strategisk vision,

This paper examines how the framing of NATO has changed in Russian foreign policy in the 21st century. The Russian perception and portrayal of NATO is very much interconnected with Russian behavior on the international stage. For a greater understanding of Russian foreign policy, a content analysis of the Russian foreign policy concepts has been conducted with framing as a theoretical perspective.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been called the strictest data protection law in history, and one of the key reasons for this is due to its vast territorial scope, which allows it to be applied to non-EU entities as long as the relevant conditions are met. Such a broad extraterritorial application has greatly improved the level of data protection, but it has also triggered some c

During the past ten years, Sweden's security policy has undergone a clear change, where key events have been Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and, most recently, Sweden's entry into NATO in 2024. The focus on issues such as national security and military rearmament have increased. The essay discusses how a perceived need to improve resilience has put requirements on the population

As groups previously engaged in armed conflict enter peace negotiations, they risk losing support and legitimacy with the people they represent. The Kurdish peace process in Turkey between 2013-2015 however enabled the Kurdish movement to reach unprecedented levels of support and influence. In this thesis, a frame analysis of the Kurdish movement’s strategic communication during this period is con

After the Rwandan genocide ended in 1994, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have continuously posed an existential threat to Rwanda. This paper examines how this external threat has been perceived by the Rwandan government and subsequently responded to through military development measures. In addition, the objective is to evaluate

Reports of sexual abuse committed by United Nations peacekeepers has sparked much attention and research in recent years. Scholars, journalists and the general population have made efforts to try and understand this phenomena and its apparent continuation. The aim of this paper is to examine and identify the possible factors, stemming from the relationship between Troop Contributing Countries and

Abstrakt Bakgrund: Remifentanil har fått allt större plats i anestesiologisk kontext sedan dess introduktion under 90-talet. Det har genom åren noterats att patienter som får remifentanilinfusion har ökad postoperativ smärta jämfört med traditionell opioidtillförsel (upprepade enstaka doser) av preparat med längre halveringstid. Ökad postoperativ opioidkonsumtion kan ses som en indikator för förhö

This paper examines the self-published materials of three different Arctic institutions (the Arctic Council, the Law of the Sea Convention, and the Inuit Circumpolar Council) related to deep-sea mining in order to get an understanding of how these institutions approach conflict prevention within the context of the interest conflict that is present in the Arctic. By applying environmental diplomacy

Based on the geopolitical situation in Europe and the European Union's (EU) initiative for further cooperation with its eastern neighborhood, this thesis analyzes the strategic interests behind the bilateral development aid allocation of the EU member states. The purpose is to, with a focus on aid directed to the Eastern Partnership states, provide the academic foreign aid field with a regiona

This thesis aims to discuss how histories of violent conflict can be addressed in a manner that enables societies to move on from legacies of war, a process herein referred to as reconciliation. By analyzing a historical museum exhibition situated in Serbia that takes on the decade of the 1990’s in (post-)Yugoslavia, the question of how memory agents construct narrations of the past for the purpos

Following the Swedish NATO accession in 2024, this thesis aims to portray views of the shift in defense policy from within the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). By conducting a qualitative research study comprising six interviews with senior officers from the Swedish Air Force, Navy, and Army, the aspiration has been to investigate to what extent the institutional changes of the Swedish NATO membership

Bakgrund: Forskning har visat på vinster för patienter som urtränas från ventilator med protokoll, då vårdtiden i ventilator minskar markant vid användning av protokoll. Detta till trots är det mindre än hälften av intensivvårdsavdelningarna i Sverige som använder sig av protokoll vid urträning ur ventilator. Syfte: Belysa barriärer för användning av standardiserade urträningsprotokoll för patient

This thesis sought to investigate how ISOs shaped their strategic narratives, linked to their reactions and actions against Russia, since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In addition, it also intends to shine light on how international sport activities can be used as a soft power tool in international politics. Using a combination of a case study and qualitative content analysis, it is revealed ho

Bakgrund: Första fallen av COVID-19 kom i december 2019 i Kina. I mars 2020 blev COVID-19 klassat som pandemi. Pandemin satte stor press på sjukvården världen över, men framför allt på intensivvården och intensivvårdssjuksköterskorna som tog emot ett större antal patienter än normalt. Syfte: Att belysa intensivvårdssjuksköterskors upplevelser av att arbeta under COVID-19 pandemin ur ett globalt peBackground: The first cases of COVID-19 emerged in China in December 2019. In March 2020 COVID-19 became a pandemic. The pandemic put a big strain on healthcare all over the world but especially intensive care units and the critical care nurses who had to take care of an unusually large number of patients. Aim: To highlight critical care nurses' experiences of working during the COVID-19 pande

Title: When Brands Meet: A Case Study on Public Figures' Representation in Marketing Date: 2024-05-30 Course: FEKH29 - Bachelor's Thesis in Marketing - 15 Credits Authors: Casper Kull, Gustav Langley, Joel Sörensen Supervisor: Peter Svensson Keywords: Persona Marketing, Public Figures, Personal Brand, Controlled Media, Uncontrolled Media. Research question: How are human characteristics as