Student theses resulting from the MPCT-Programme

Find below the overview of the students' theses at the MPCT-programme:

Completing the MPCT-programme Summer 2006:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Yodit Zenebe Mekuria	Ethiopia	Civic Education in Rural Ethiopia: The Case of Civic Education in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia Prior to the 2005 National Election
Mohammad Musfequs Salehim	Bangladesh	Governance and Political Violence. A Study on Bomb Terrorism in Bangladesh
Yuriy Mykhaylenko	Ukraine	Internal Division Lines and Regional (In)Compatibility in Ukraine

Completing the MPCT-programme Spring 2006:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Javier Mata Fabra	Spain	International Accompaniment in Violent Scenarios. A Performative Reading of Peace Brigades International in Colombia	Electronic Version
Cornel Borit	Romania	The Identity Conflict of the Csango Minority From Romania
Mari Gakkestad	Norway	Overcoming Caste and Oppression. Dalit activitsts' understandings of violence and violence reduction in South India
Silje Solheim	Norway	Either You Are With Us, or You are With the Terrorists. A Discourse Analysis of President George W. Bush's Declared War on Terrorism
Elisabeth Giæver-Many	Norway	"One needs to get in contact with Norwegians" - A study of identity management, stereotypes, and cross-cultural communication in integration processes of immigrants in Tromsø, Northern Norway
Gabriela Sirbu	Romania	Religion and Gender in Orthodox Romania
Arrey William Hermann	Cameroon	Divided Societies and Ehtno-regional Antagonisms: A study of the social interaction between Anglophone North-westerners and South-westerners resident in Buea, South-west Cameroon

Completing the MPCT-programme Autumn/Winter 2005/06:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Katrina Maria Gillman	Denmark	The "L" Between Word and World : Ritualized Practices of Border Control
Reidar Breivik	Norway	Skolemobbing : fred og ufred i et flerkulturelt område i Nord-Norge	Electronic Version
Amir Appelbaum	Israel	New clothes but old demons: European Anti-semitism from Christianity to "Progressive" Left Wing Milieu	Electronic Version
Nora Ahmetaj	Kosovo/Serbia & Montenegro	"Peace Now" in Israel in Search of an Alternative Identity
Mamadou Diouma Bah	Guinea	Democratization as a means to end civil war? : the case of Liberia
Hanne Hovde Bye	Norway	The fight against domestic violence in East Timor : forgetting the perpetrators	Electronic Version
Marit Holmquist Fenne	Norway	The Guatemalan peace accords : an example of international norm socialization?

Completing the MPCT-programme Summer 2005:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Alberto Valiente Thoresen	El Salvador	Theorizing peace education : a theoretical survey of the practice of peace education	Electronic Version
Holger Pötzsch	Germany	Virtuous wars and virtual enemies : the construction of self, other, and conflict in Black Hawk down and other mass media representations
Juliana Edith Turqui	Argentina	Indigenous workers i Guatemala City and the Mayan Movement : exploring the representation of ethnic and labour demands
Kadija Saudatu Mona Kabba	Sierra Leone	Women in the civil war in Sierra Leone : contributions towards attaining, consolidating and sustaining peace
Maria Lvova	Russia	Trafficking in women and democracy : the case of the Russian Federation
Maryna Selivanova	Ukraine	Is gender identity the primary cause of insecurity in the context of trafficking? : country in focus: Ukraine	Electronic Version
Ramil Aliyev	Azerbaijan	The Georgian rose revolution : challenges and supports for ensuring the non-violent outcome in a post-Soviet society
D.L.A. Hasantha Shammika	Sri Lanka	Norwegian mediation in Sri Lankan conflict

Completing the MPCT-programme Winter 2005:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Eirin Annamo	Norway	Creative Peace - A Practical Study of Andrew Cohen's Teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment
Klaus N.A. Melf	Germany	Exploring medical peace education and a call for peace medicine	Electronic Version
Kristin Røymo	Norway	Women, development and peace in contemporary Sri Lanka
Mette Røkke	Norway	'Witch' hunt in contemporary Tanzania : exploring cultural and structural factors leading to violence against women in a Sukuma village
Ottar K. Kvaal	Norway	Bilingual peace or diglossic conflict? : the case of the Paraguayan Guaraní

Completing the MPCT-programme Summer 2004:

Name	Country	Topic	Digital Archive
Álvaro Cedeño Molinari	Costa Rica	MINUGUA : the UN verification mission in Guatemala : the perceptions of civil society organizations in Guatemala about the role of MINUGUA regarding indigenous peoples
Anniken Kleven	Norway	Psychological healing in peace building : experiences from the reconciliation process in South Africa
Bjørn-Richard Hagvåg Monsen	Norway	MINUGUA : the UN verification mission in Guatemala : the perceptions of civil society organizations in Guatemala about the role of MINUGUA regarding indigenous peoples
Delia Despina Dumitrica	Romania	Deconstructing nationalism from a peace perspective : a case study of Romanian nationalism
Hanne Blomberg	Norway	Contextual limitations : a comparative, theoretical and boolean analysis of conflict mediation
Heidi Johansen	Norway	Exploration of the morality of revenge : how are the potentials and usefulness of a just revenge theory?
Heidi Tamminen Egge	Norway	Peace-building in divided societies : the case of the internationalised reconstruction and democratisation of Kosovo
Jayne Khayega Kigadi	Kenya	Peace education in schools : a study of textbooks in Kenya
Kari Mette Darell Eliassen	Norway	Angola from war to peace : does the Norwegian strategic framework and aid support peace-building?
Ole Henning Sommerfelt	Norway	"Dream of the Good" : a peace education project : exploring its potential to educate for peace at an individual level