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Violence Against Refugee Women and Mitigation Programs: Highlighting the Perspectives of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
(2018-08-28)
Refugee women and girls are among those most vulnerable to violence. This thesis examines how Syrian refugees view efforts to prevent and address such violence in their host community. Through interviews with both NGO staff ...
Decolonizing Childbirth: Inuit Midwifery and the Return of Delivery to the Canadian North
(2018-08-27)
Since the 1970s, the mandatory evacuation of Inuit women to southern Canada for hospitalized
childbirth has resulted in many negative impacts on communities including a loss of culture in
the form of traditional knowledge ...
Understanding Ecologies: Post-Conflict Service Provision and the Resilience of Children Born in Captivity
(2018-04-27)
The conflict in northern Uganda often provokes images similar to those in the 2012 viral video of a warlord abducting young children and forcibly recruiting them to battle in a civil war. While these images helped to garner ...
STRATEGIES TO TACKLE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN CUBA: COMMUNITY-LEVEL EFFORTS AND CHALLENGES
(2018-08-29)
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is the most prevailing form of Violence Against Women (VAW). Due to this common occurrence, it is essential to develop effective measures to combat IPV. Through field research conducted in ...
MUSIC IN PEACEBUILDING: Examining Music within the Peacebuilding Discipline
(2018-04-25)
This thesis will examine the peacebuilding discourse, alongside current findings in the music discourse, to determine whether the integration of music could enhance current peacebuilding practices. Music is an important ...
TELENOVELAS AND NARCONOVELAS: LOVE AND INTIMACY IN CALI, COLOMBIA
(2018-04-27)
This thesis explores the importance of Latin American soap operas – henceforth telenovelas – and narconovelas – contemporary audiovisual productions inspired in the phenomenon of drug trafficking in Colombia – in the ...