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RESURGENT ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN POST-WAR SOCIETIES: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF EXTERNALLY GUARANTEED CONSOCIATIONAL EXPERIMENTS
(2020-04-01)This thesis examines why violent ethnic conflict re-emerges following a power-sharing agreement in states that have witnessed civil wars. By surveying the post-war state-building experiences of Lebanon, Iraq, Northern ... -
Legitimacy, Inequality, and Conceptions of Democratic Crisis
This thesis explores the relationship between legitimacy and inequality in well-established, embedded democracies by considering inequality as a potential cause of legitimacy crises. In the first chapter, the thesis reviews ... -
Chaotic Schooling: State schools and the making of (un)freedom in contemporary Brazil
(2020-07-18)With this work, I explore and discuss the relationship between state-provided education and the making of substantive freedoms for urban Brazilian underprivileged populations. In Brazil, state schools for basic education, ... -
What are the factors associated with sanitation and hygiene behaviours, an investigation in Giong Trom district, Ben Tre province in the Mekong river Delta region of Vietnam?
Poor sanitation and hygiene are still one of the pressing challenges in the developing world with not only serious health and but also non-health consequences. Diarrheal diseases, for example, are preventable by handwashing ...
