Dissertations / Theses: 'Human relations'

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Day, Jana R. "Human rights in Sino-American relations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4092.

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Over the past decade, numerous issues largely ignored during the era of Sino-American strategic cooperation emerged to complicate U.S.-China relations. Key among these has been human rights, which both countries view differently. Whereas the United States emphasizes individual civil and political liberties, the People's Republic of China (PRC) primarily advocates economic, social, and cultural rights. This has provided a major source of conflict as Washington has attempted to compel Beijing to provide civil and political liberties to the Chinese people, which Beijing has long withheld in order to preserve power. These differences, combined with a lack of consensus in Washington regarding China policy, the influence of competing interests groups, and the dilemma policymakers face between protecting national interests and upholding American values, makes human rights difficult to address. This thesis offers recommendations regarding a more effective approach to human rights improvements in China. The United States should emphasize China's obligation, as a responsible member of the international community, to comply with international human rights standards. Most importantly, Washington must maintain a strong and consistent stance on the issue. This is particularly true given Beijing's recent attempts to use the international war on terrorism to legitimize its repressive policies in Xinjiang.

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Perpåls, Flyning Anna-Lena, and Andrew Kern. "Human Relations : En enkätstudie av en grupp blivande lärares kommunikationsfärdigheter." Thesis, Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-10916.

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Syftet med denna undersökning är att prova ut ett verktyg bland en grupp blivande lärare i träning i mänskliga relationer (Human Relations Training eller HRT). HRT är en utbildning i hur man kan kommunicera med bl a elever, kollegor och föräldrar för att skapa goda relatio-ner och konstruktivt hitta lösningar till konflikter och andra problem. Tidigare forskning visar att blivande lärare samt nyblivna lärare i Sverige anser sig ha goda ämneskunskaper men upp-lever en osäkerhet i det kommunikativa mötet vid exempelvis konflikter och vanliga problem som kan uppstå i det vardagliga mötet med elever och andra personer. I USA har det sedan decennier ingått HRT i lärarutbildningen, men då vi inte fann någon tidigare koppling till HRT i den svenska lärarutbildningen blev det intressant att prova HRT:s rekommendationer med kunskaperna som snart nyblivna lärare i Sverige har. En av oss författare fick en utbild-ning i HRT, i USA. En av böckerna som användes i utbildningen heter

Vilka hinder och möjligheter kan ses bland blivande lärare i kommunikation med elever, kollegor och föräldrar och hur jämförs de med riktlinjerna som finns i HRT-boken,

Hur svarar några blivande lärare på preciserade kommunikativa situationer i skolan såsom de presenteras i

En enkätundersökning gjordes på en universitetsgrupp snart nyblivna lärare, som läser sista terminen på sin lärarutbildning i Sverige. Totalt deltog 42 lärarstudenter. Resultaten på re-spondenternas enkäter jämfördes med de riktlinjer och definitioner som finns i

Human Relations De-velopment (HRD) och oss emellan växte följande två forskningsfrågor fram: HRD? HRD och hur skall man kunna förstå svaren med HRD som utgångspunkt? HRD. Under-sökningens resultat visade att enigheten mellan respondentgruppen och HRD ligger på en nivå som möjligen skulle nås om respondenterna svarade på enkäten på ett slumpvist sätt.

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The purpose of this study is to determine if there may be a benefit in introducing Human Re-lations Training (HRT) into the teaching education programs within Sweden. HRT has been shown to help teachers communicate with students, colleagues, parents and others in order to create beneficial relations and constructively find solutions when conflicts and other problems arise. Prior research has shown that teachers who are beginning their careers within Sweden find that they have been well-educated within their subjects but that they have difficulties when they are confronted with situations that involve Human Relations (HR), that is to say conflicts and arguments and just plain day-to-day getting along with students and other people. In the USA, HRT has been incorporated within teacher training programs for decades. Because of the difficulty in finding such training within Sweden’s teacher training programs, it is of interest to compare the HR-skills of a group of impending teachers (who have been educated in Sweden) with the skills that HRT recommends. One of the authors of this thesis received HRT in the USA.

What are the skills that can be found among a group of soon-to-be teachers, in regards to their communication with students, colleagues and parents, and how do these skills compare with the guidelines established in the HRT book,

How do these soon-to-be teachers respond to certain given situations that are presented in

A questionnaire study was performed on one group of students during their last term of teach-er training at a Swedish university. 42 students participated. The students’ responses in the questionnaire were compared to the guidelines and definitions contained within the said book,

Human Relations Development (HRD) is the title of the primary book used during the training and the book is what inspired these research questions: HRD? HRD and how does one interpret their responses while using HRD as an authoritative reference? HRD. The results of the questionnaire show that, as a group, the students performed at a level comparable with that which likely would be achieved if the group were to answer the ques-tionnaire’s questions in a random fashion.

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au, debkennedy@iprimus com, and Deborah Jane Kennedy. "Ocean Views : An investigation into human-ocean relations." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080523.120432.

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This dissertation investigates some conceptions of oceans in modern Western societies that are highly influential in shaping human-ocean relations. My main aim in this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Western discourses of law, science and the aesthetic of the sublime illuminate characteristics of human-ocean relations in Western societies. I argue that the conceptions developed and perpetuated in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science unnecessarily constrain the possibilities for human-ocean relations and undermine just existences of oceans. A further aim of this dissertation is to set out an ethical political approach that is inclusive of a diversity of ocean views that facilitate improved knowledge about the oceans and transform dominant human ocean relations into more just relations. In approaching my critique of Western discourses of law, aesthetics and science I canvas a range of philosophical, social and political theories, but make most use of the insights of feminist and ecological feminist thinkers into forms of oppression and environmental justice. I also move beyond critique to set out an approach for structuring ocean policy debates and outcomes with a form of political epistemology that de-centres influential Western conceptions of oceans and is inclusive of a diversity of perspectives. In carrying out this dissertations investigation I find that particular conceptions of oceans in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science narrowly define how Western human subjects think, feel and interact with oceans. These discourses provide a dominant position for Western subjects over those of other people and the oceans. This is how, in basic terms, I suggest that Western discourses undermine just existences for oceans. A common feature in the discourses that frame the conceptions of oceans that I discuss is the exclusion of a diversity of human-ocean relations from consideration. To counter the exclusionary practices of Western discourses I find that robust democratic processes are essential for just ocean existences. The importance of democratic processes is not only that they constitute ethical processes, and should be valued highly for that reason, but also because of a capacity to produce and deliver improved knowledge about the oceans and transform human-ocean relations. I advocate in particular the approach to political epistemology of Bruno Latour as one way to work toward just ocean existences. In the approach I advocate, oceans participate in democratic processes as agents, not as mere objects awaiting human benevolence or exploitation.

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Taylor, Nicola Jane. "Respecifying animals : sociological aspects of human-animal relations." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302628.

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Pijanowski, Cherlyn M. "Theorizing human formation in education for democratic relations /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7535.

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Kennedy, Deborah Jane. "Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations." Thesis, Kennedy, Deborah Jane (2007) Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/123/.

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This dissertation investigates some conceptions of oceans in modern Western societies that are highly influential in shaping human-ocean relations. My main aim in this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Western discourses of law, science and the aesthetic of the sublime illuminate characteristics of human-ocean relations in Western societies. I argue that the conceptions developed and perpetuated in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science unnecessarily constrain the possibilities for human-ocean relations and undermine just existences of oceans. A further aim of this dissertation is to set out an ethical political approach that is inclusive of a diversity of ocean views that facilitate improved knowledge about the oceans and transform dominant human ocean relations into more just relations. In approaching my critique of Western discourses of law, aesthetics and science I canvas a range of philosophical, social and political theories, but make most use of the insights of feminist and ecological feminist thinkers into forms of oppression and environmental justice. I also move beyond critique to set out an approach for structuring ocean policy debates and outcomes with a form of political epistemology that de-centres influential Western conceptions of oceans and is inclusive of a diversity of perspectives. In carrying out this dissertation's investigation I find that particular conceptions of oceans in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science narrowly define how Western human subjects think, feel and interact with oceans. These discourses provide a dominant position for Western subjects over those of other people and the oceans. This is how, in basic terms, I suggest that Western discourses undermine just existences for oceans. A common feature in the discourses that frame the conceptions of oceans that I discuss is the exclusion of a diversity of human-ocean relations from consideration. To counter the exclusionary practices of Western discourses I find that robust democratic processes are essential for just ocean existences. The importance of democratic processes is not only that they constitute ethical processes, and should be valued highly for that reason, but also because of a capacity to produce and deliver improved knowledge about the oceans and transform human-ocean relations. I advocate in particular the approach to political epistemology of Bruno Latour as one way to work toward just ocean existences. In the approach I advocate, oceans participate in democratic processes as agents, not as mere objects awaiting human benevolence or exploitation.

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Kennedy, Deborah Jane. "Ocean views : an investigation into human-ocean relations /." Kennedy, Deborah Jane (2007) Ocean views: an investigation into human-ocean relations. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/123/.

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This dissertation investigates some conceptions of oceans in modern Western societies that are highly influential in shaping human-ocean relations. My main aim in this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Western discourses of law, science and the aesthetic of the sublime illuminate characteristics of human-ocean relations in Western societies. I argue that the conceptions developed and perpetuated in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science unnecessarily constrain the possibilities for human-ocean relations and undermine just existences of oceans. A further aim of this dissertation is to set out an ethical political approach that is inclusive of a diversity of ocean views that facilitate improved knowledge about the oceans and transform dominant human ocean relations into more just relations. In approaching my critique of Western discourses of law, aesthetics and science I canvas a range of philosophical, social and political theories, but make most use of the insights of feminist and ecological feminist thinkers into forms of oppression and environmental justice. I also move beyond critique to set out an approach for structuring ocean policy debates and outcomes with a form of political epistemology that de-centres influential Western conceptions of oceans and is inclusive of a diversity of perspectives. In carrying out this dissertation's investigation I find that particular conceptions of oceans in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science narrowly define how Western human subjects think, feel and interact with oceans. These discourses provide a dominant position for Western subjects over those of other people and the oceans. This is how, in basic terms, I suggest that Western discourses undermine just existences for oceans. A common feature in the discourses that frame the conceptions of oceans that I discuss is the exclusion of a diversity of human-ocean relations from consideration. To counter the exclusionary practices of Western discourses I find that robust democratic processes are essential for just ocean existences. The importance of democratic processes is not only that they constitute ethical processes, and should be valued highly for that reason, but also because of a capacity to produce and deliver improved knowledge about the oceans and transform human-ocean relations. I advocate in particular the approach to political epistemology of Bruno Latour as one way to work toward just ocean existences. In the approach I advocate, oceans participate in democratic processes as agents, not as mere objects awaiting human benevolence or exploitation.

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Smith, Liesl Ann Lynn. "Revisiting human responsibilities: prospects and challenges." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13947.

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Since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (1948), the extent to which individuals should bear responsibilities for the fulfilment of universal human rights has been a contentiously debated subject. Despite conflicting value-based claims, the approach of international human rights law traditionally has been to recognise states as primary obligation bearers. While the UDHR focuses primarily on state obligations, deliberately unspecified duties of individuals are included under Article 29(1). The meaning of these duties has remained contested, often by relativist critics claiming that a stronger focus on responsibilities would provide a more balanced approach to human rights. The end of the Cold War brought a renewed interest in the normative potential of human rights and a parallel renewal of relativist objections to the universality of the UDHR. In this context transnational campaigns have emerged to advocate for a universal declaration of human responsibilities complementary to the UDHR. The issue has received attention from a number of initiatives, including those of United Nations bodies and agencies and of nongovernmental organisations. The most prominent of these initiatives have received firm opposition from influential Western state and non-state actors. Approaching the topic from a constructivist perspective, this dissertation draws on the social movement literature on the international political opportunity structure to argue that the activities of opponents to human responsibilities initiatives, particularly their framing of human responsibilities as having the potential to undermine and weaken the international human rights framework, have constrained the political opportunities available to human responsibilities campaigns.

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Borrell, Sally. "Challenging humanism : human-animal relations in recent postcolonial novels." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2009. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6520/.

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This thesis identifies and examines a conjunction between white postcolonial cultural and species concerns within recent novels from South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The argument takes as a starting point a suggestion by Philip Armstrong that postcolonial and animal studies discourses might form an alliance based on a common antagonist: humanism. Here, this idea is applied in the context of literature by white postcolonial writers. I explore the extent and nature of the alliance and the degree to which it can be called successful within the selected novels. Each of the five chapters concerns a different text, and the thesis is also divided into two sections. The first addresses the contrasting approaches to humanism and to animals offered by J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2001). The second addresses the representation of these themes in Fiona Farrell's Mr Allbones' Ferrets (2007), Julia Leigh's The Hunter (1999), and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003), set in the past, present and future respectively, to illustrate the temporal dimension of the white postcolonial-animal alliance in question. Overall, the thesis emphasises the relevance of species concerns within white postcolonial culture, and posits the existence of a thread running through contemporary white postcolonial novels in which animals are a priority. All of the novels examined here, I argue, represent animals as more than victims in relation to humanist discourse: they emphasise animals' potential to disrupt that discourse by affecting the attitudes of individual humans or by resisting humanist endeavours by their own actions. The result of this, I suggest, is that animals appear as allies in white postcolonial cultures' attempts at self-definition against historical colonialism and contemporary globalisation, while white postcolonial literature portrays animals in ways that promote positive human perceptions of them.

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Redhead, Robin. "Reading the Visual : Gender, Human Rights and International Relations." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508986.

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Schütt, Robert. "Political realism, Freud, and human nature in international relations." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2085/.

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Political realism has enjoyed a renaissance in International Relations (IR). Recent studies have provided insightful accounts of its timeless virtues and philosophical depth. Although the concept of human nature has long been the philosophical basis of realism, it has now become a largely discredited idea. The thesis, Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations, provides an important re-examination of the concept of human nature in realist international-political theory with special reference to one of the truly consequential figures of Western thought: Sigmund Freud. The thesis questions whether human nature is really dead and also asks whether human nature ought to be dead. Examining a variety of theorists from Morgenthau to Mearsheimer commonly invoked as classical and post-classical realism's foremost proponents, the thesis shows that contemporary realism has not eliminated the concept of human nature from its study of world politics. Further, the thesis offers a powerful argument for the necessity of a sophisticated theory of human nature within realism, seeing Freud as offering the most appropriate starting point. This study will interest IR theorists and historians of international thought as well as Freud scholars.

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Gearey, Benjamin Richard. "Human-environmental relations on Bodmin Moor during the Holocene." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/511.

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Desougi, Maria M. A. "Death and dying in human and companion canine relations." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20552.

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Since before the Neolithic Revolution, when human civilisation first emerged, humans and canines have lived, and died, together. This Scottish study is conducted in the field of animal-human interaction and, using qualitative methods, applies established insights from the sociology of health (born of human-to-human interaction) to a human-animal relationship. Specifically, this thesis explores death and dying in relations between the companion canines, and the human members, of ten families. Nonhuman illness narratives are found in profusion in this study, and it was also found to be possible to apply biographical disruption to nonhumans, when conceptualised as biographical disruption-by-proxy. Unexpectedly, there emerged from the data support for a four-fold model of canine selfhood, as forged within the family. This is, as far as I am aware, the first modelling of a specific nonhuman consciousness, within the discipline. Suffering was found to exist in both physical and non-physical forms for the companions, and a mutual vulnerability to loneliness, and desire for companionship, appears to be a powerful point of connection between the humans and the canines. Being together emerged as both a practice, and as an ideal, that moulded the human-canine relations, and it was regarded as unfitting for a canine to die alone. Companion canine dying comes forth as a negotiated process, shaped by a divide between gradual and sudden death. This work encountered developed narratives of departure, that seem to structure the experience of losing a companion. In particular the role of the expert is a privileged voice in the negotiations of dying, and the biomedical view is treated as being definitive. The role of the expert is not simply submitted to however, but a range of stances to veterinary authority are displayed, being; acquiescence, resistance and invalidation of the veterinary voice. Ultimately, whilst interplays of wellbeing are present, they are less biophysically grounded, than they are rooted in the everyday routines of life, in the rituals of eating, sleeping, walking, and playing together, that compose the shared world of the human and companion canine.

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Bayer, Bastian. "The Role of Human Rights in EU-Belarus Relations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-329937.

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It has been proven that the burgeoning power of the EU is not negligible. However, it is still debatable whether the EU acts as a smart power in its external human rights policy. Through Joseph Nye's theory of hard, soft, and smart power, this thesis will offer a critical understanding of a wide range of factors which merits the EU's role as a smart power. The contemporary history of Belarus also illustrates that the political, economic, and cultural endeavours of the EU reveal the institution's role as a smart power. Within the theoretical framework predicated on Nye's theory on the aforementioned powers, the EU-Belarus relations will be be analysed in order to lay bare the power of the EU and to shed light on the significance of human rights in the EU policies.

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Alsaif, Amal. "Human and automatic annotation of discourse relations for Arabic." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3129/.

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This thesis describes the first, inter-disciplinary, study on human and automatic discourse annotation for explicit discourse connectives in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Discourse connectives are used in language to link discourse segments (arguments) by indicating so-called discourse relations. Automating the process of identifying the discourse connectives, their relations and their arguments is an essential basis for discourse processing studies and applications. This study presents several resources for Arabic discourse processing in addition to the first machine learning algorithms for identifying explicit discourse connectives and relations automatically. First, we have collected a large list of discourse connectives frequently used in MSA. This collection is used to develop the READ tool: the first annotation tool to fit the characteristics of Arabic, so that Arabic texts can be annotated by humans for discourse structure. Second, our analysis of Arabic discourse connectives leads to formalize an annotation scheme for connectives in context, based on a popular discourse annotation project for English, the PDTB project. Third, we used this scheme to create the first discourse corpus for Arabic, the Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank (LADTB v.1). The LADTB extends the syntactic annotation of the Arabic Treebank Part1 to incorporate the discourse layer, by annotating all explicit connectives as well as associated relations and arguments. We show that the LADTB annotation is reliable and produce a gold standard for future work. Fourth, we develop the first automatic identification models for Arabic discourse connectives and relations, using the LADTB for training and testing. Our connective recogniser achieves almost human performance. Our algorithm for recognizing discourse relations performs significantly better than a baseline based on the connective surface string alone and therefore reduces the ambiguity in explicit connective interpretation. At the end of the thesis, we highlight research trends for future work that can benefit from our resources and algorithms on discourse processing for Arabic.

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Percival, Mark Landon. "British-Romanian relations, 1944-65." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244661.

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Jorge, Susan Elisabeth Domingues Costa 1983. "Correlação estrutura-função de variantes da hemoglobina humana = Structure-function relations of human hemoglobin variants." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/310885.

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Smoak, Gary Alan. "A human relations policy manual for churches and religious organizations." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Cavaco, Fernando Almeida. "Human relations on board merchant ships : a function of leadership." Thesis, Open University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261272.

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Shapland, A. J. "Over the horizon : human-animal relations in Bronze Age Crete." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/17579/.

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The iconography of Bronze Age Crete has long been noted for the abundance of animal imagery. The excavator of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, explained these depictions in terms of ‘nature-loving Minoans’: as part of the reassessment of long-held concepts in ‘Minoan’ archaeology this thesis offers a different framework for considering animals in Bronze Age Cretan material culture. Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of ‘animal studies’ it provides a perspective which foregrounds human-animal relationships, rather than the prevailing onesided view in which humans impose meanings on animals. The affordance concept, in which meanings arise from interaction, offers a balanced way to consider the relations between humans, animals and material culture. Sealstones, frescoes, zoomorphic figures, ceramic decoration, animal bones and written documents are all regarded as material traces of human-animal relations, each medium potentially implicated in different types of human-animal relationships or ‘animal practices’. Iconographic and statistical analysis are used to establish the potential significance of these traces: different types of animals are depicted in different ways and occur in varying frequencies in each medium. This demonstrates that they were used actively to convey information about animals rather than reflecting a passive interest in the natural world. The implications of this approach for an understanding of Bronze Age Cretan society are considered.

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Albarello, Flavia <1979&gt. "When the others are less human: dehumanisation in intergroup relations." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1015/1/Tesi_Albarello_Flavia.pdf.

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Albarello, Flavia <1979&gt. "When the others are less human: dehumanisation in intergroup relations." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1015/.

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Kavesh, Muhammad Amjad. "Beyond Cage and Leash: Human-Animal Relations in Rural Pakistan." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145355.

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This thesis is an ethnographic inquiry into human-animal relations through an examination of three types of activities: pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting. By explaining the life trajectories of the animal keepers, their personal experiences, and social stigmatisation, the thesis explores how human-animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in South Punjab. As a multispecies ethnography, the thesis illustrates diverse modalities of inter-species intimacy, the social worlds of the animal keepers, and their symbolic expectations from the animals. I contend that these three animal activities are not unique and independent phenomena, but a lens through which one can understand different value systems and normative relations in rural Punjab. Developing the concepts of anthropology of life and more-than-human sociality, the thesis argues that those who engage in these animal activities regard their animals as a key for exploring, enhancing, and refining their own life needs and ambitions. As such, each pigeon in the flock, and a rooster or a canine, is considered an individual with a distinct personality, needs, and attitude. Through a close examination of how these men care for and conceive of their animals, I argue that this more-than-human relationship enables them to cultivate the self, gain pleasure, accumulate social capital, and engage in the production of masculinity. The rural South Punjabi men indulge in and adopt these three animal activities as their shauq. “Shauq” is the local term commonly used to emphasise any activity that is routinely carried out to fulfil a personal passion. The animal keepers’ shauq, they maintain, enables them to find great joy, freedom, fulfilment, and a sense of wellbeing to counteract the confines of everyday social and familial obligations. While explaining the different modalities of human-animal relationships, this thesis interrogates the notion of shauq, as an ideology and a practice, and one that transforms the men’s lives, re-defines their social relationships, informs their symbolic practice, and shapes their ideological orientation. By discussing socio-cultural and symbolic implications of human-animal relationships, the thesis raises multiple questions: how do rural men develop a deep attachment to their animals? What motivates the men to fly and fight their animals? How does such inter-species attachment shape and influence the men’s social relationships, including their ties with other enthusiasts, community members, and their own family? Finally, I also explore the symbolic meanings embedded in such activities, with regard to questions of honour and the cultural politics of masculinity in wider Pakistani society. The thesis is based on year-long ethnographic fieldwork in South Punjab, and draws on participant observation, interviews, and archival material to illuminate the concept of shauq and the different modalities of such human-animal relationship.

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Hulsey, Amber Lee. "Human Trafficking| Flying under the Radar." Thesis, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752077.

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The global hegemon, the United States encompasses roughly 57,000 to 63,000 of the roughly 45.8 million slaves present across the world today (Walk Free Foundation 2016a). This dissertation research uses the theoretical lens of Human Security as a unique approach in that it is people-centered, focusing on the individual, rather than the more traditional theories in international relations that emphasize the state as the central actor. This dissertation focuses on the understudied area of human trafficking into and within the United States. More specifically, the objective of this research examines the movement of trafficked persons via air and details actions to be taken to combat human trafficking.

Although the world relies upon aerial commerce to enable globalization and interdependence, these same transportation systems and flows that carry persons and goods for legal commerce and trade can also be used as an avenue for illegal commerce, including trafficking of human. Thus, the researcher surveyed aviation personnel in various sectors of the industry, government organizations, non-government organization and victims/survivors via an online survey platform and utilized social media to reach potential survey participants. The sample size used for this study was 10,065 and the study received 578 participants.

The data collection procedures and results used in this dissertation were designed to identify gaps in security safeguards that further enable human trafficking via aircraft. The author presents strategies that can be adopted to reduce, if not eliminate, human trafficking into and within the United States via air. The researcher identified eleven opportunities for future research and discusses the limitations. The studied reveals seven key findings: definition of human trafficking is not known in totality, the level of human trafficking awareness, the number of human trafficking cases identified, the characteristics of the typical respondent, aviation sectors place a slightly different areas of emphasis of human trafficking that is understudied, understudied areas of human trafficking were different than that of the typical respondent, and the absence of human trafficking regulations and training. Finally, the study introduces a comprehensive-holistic human trafficking training curriculum entitled, “Operation Safe House: Human Trafficking Training for Aviation Professionals.”

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Huang, Yingliang. "Reservations to multilateral human rights treaties." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27374.

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Reservations to multilateral human rights treaties have become an important issue since the case of the Genocide Convention in 1951. Although the compatibility principle upheld by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was codified in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna Convention), the current reservations mechanism is problematic and detrimental to human rights treaty-making. I will argue that the logical relation between the two standards comprising the compatibility principle has been lost under the Vienna Convention and it should be reintroduced by a competent body. For this purpose, I will analyze the characteristics of human rights treaties, clarify the permissibility of making reservations, go through the origin and development of the compatibility principle, and identify the problem of the current reservations mechanism, namely that the determination of the compatibility of reservations is left to individual States. The solution I will propose is that the ICJ should be conferred the competence to objectively determine the compatibility of reservations. Key words. the compatibility principle; the objective determination of compatibility

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Lozano, Victor W. "Power relations of the waterscape /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418046.

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Fitzpatrick, Robert Shane. "The Helsinki final act and human rights in Soviet-American relations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18882.

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Hameed, Imran Boonyong Keiwkarnka. "Human relations among nurses at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd363/4637984.pdf.

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Nicolato, Giulia <1996&gt. "The case of Giulio Regeni. Between commercial relations and human rights." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21675.

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L’omicidio del dottorando italiano Giulio Regeni il 25 gennaio 2016 è uno dei capitoli di cronaca più terribili dei nostri tempi. La ricerca di dottorato di Giulio sui sindacati indipendenti egiziani per l’Università di Cambridge lo portò a lavorare direttamente sul campo e a trasferirsi al Cairo, in Egitto, da settembre 2015 a marzo 2016. Il 3 febbraio 2016 il suo corpo fu trovato senza vita sul ciglio dell’autostrada tra Il Cairo e Alessandria. Le autorità del Cairo ostacolarono le indagini e negarono ogni accusa fin da subito dopo la scoperta del cadavere. Parlarono di un incidente stradale, di una rapina finita male, di un’aggressione spinta da una presunta relazione omosessuale o da questioni di droga, tutte ipotesi che si rivelarono incompatibili con la tremenda immagine di tortura fornita dall’autopsia. Con il passare degli anni, il Cairo si è rivelato sempre meno collaborativo con le autorità italiane, e quando la Procura di Roma chiese il rinvio a giudizio di quattro membri dei servizi di sicurezza egiziani, il Cairo si rifiutò di fornire le informazioni necessarie riguardanti l’indirizzo di domicilio degli imputati. Per questo motivo, dopo ben sette anni di indagini, non è stato ancora possibile inviare loro le notifiche degli atti e andare avanti con il processo. Dopo una prima panoramica sul caso di Giulio Regeni, il secondo capitolo dell’elaborato si dedica alla storia recente della Repubblica Araba d’Egitto e alle circostanze economiche, politiche e sociali instabili in cui ha avuto luogo il tragico evento. Particolare attenzione viene rivolta all'attuale Presidente Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, che nel 2014 instaurò un regime di controllo totale della sfera politica, di corruzione e di dura repressione dell’opposizione attraverso arresti, torture, sparizioni forzate e uccisioni che caratterizzano ancora oggi il paese egiziano. Ciononostante, il ruolo del paese arabo è di particolare importanza nello scenario mediterraneo e internazionale. Molti paesi occidentali, tra cui l’Italia, mirano a mantenere un’influenza sull’Egitto per interessi commerciali, legati soprattutto alla presenza di grandi giacimenti di risorse naturali, e per il ruolo centrale che il paese gioca nella regione, in particolare rispetto ai temi della gestione dei flussi migratori e della lotta al terrorismo. Inutile dire che un episodio come l’uccisione di un ricercatore italiano al Cairo ha rappresentato uno shock alla luce degli stretti rapporti bilaterali tra Italia ed Egitto. Uno degli obiettivi di questo elaborato è infatti quello di capire se e come queste relazioni commerciali e diplomatiche siano state influenzate dopo il 25 gennaio 2016. Il quarto e ultimo capitolo si concentra sulla questione dei diritti umani e mira a capire come la tortura e l’uccisione del dottorando italiano sia stata gestita a livello nazionale – sia in Egitto che in Italia – e internazionale. Ciò che è evidente finora è che, nonostante le continue violazioni dei diritti umani perpetrate dal regime di al-Sisi, l’Italia si dimostra riluttante ad esercitare un’adeguata pressione sul Cairo. I rapporti con l'Egitto si sono addirittura intensificati negli ultimi anni, soprattutto alla luce delle scoperte di nuovi giacimenti di gas da parte della multinazionale italiana Eni. Questo ha sollevato molte critiche da parte della comunità internazionale, che si batte costantemente chiedendo verità e giustizia e a cui è ormai giunto il momento di dare una risposta.

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Eyal, Nir. "Distributing respect." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270630.

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Fears, Tellis A. "Framing cultural attributes for human representation in military training and simulations." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Sept/08Sep%5FFears.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation (MOVES))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Gibbons, Deborah ; Blais, Curtis. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 4, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42). Also available in print.

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Cutcher, Leanne Rose. "'Banking on the Customer': customer relations, employment relations and worker identity in the Australian retail banking industry." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/632.

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Previously consigned to the anonymity of 'the product market' by researchers in traditional fields such as labour economics and industrial relations, the customer has recently attracted the attention of scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including organisational behaviour, work psychology, labour process studies, gender studies, and critical management studies. In large part, this emerging interest in the customer is a result of the increasing dominance of service industries in developed economies and the recognition that service work entails a complex, three-way interaction between customers, management and workers. The literature identifies a range of competing and, at times, contradictory images of the customer. Rather than seeking to reconcile these competing representations, this thesis explores the multi-faceted nature of the customer presence and the implications for managers and workers in the retail banking industry in Australia. The thesis highlights how structural change and shifting discourses of the 'customer' have influenced customer relations, employment relations, and worker identity in three areas of the retail banking industry: traditional retail banks, the credit union movement, and community banks. Drawing on detailed qualitative case study evidence, the thesis highlights the range of customers, both 'real' and 'constructed', that can be found in the case study organisations. The thesis identifies the ways in which customers influence employment relations and how workers can be active in either accommodating or resisting the impact of these 'customers' on workplace practice and worker identity. The central argument of the thesis is that, in addition to customers having a physical presence in and influence on organisational life, management and workers also construct 'discursive customers' as a means of influencing the employment relationship and the meanings attached to service work. The study examines how these competing concepts of the customer and customer service influence both the customer-service provider relationship and service workers' relationships with one another and with management. Despite the increasing recognition that service work entails a three-way relationship between customers, management and workers, our understanding of how workers either welcome or resist the presence of this third actor in the employment relationship has, until recently remained very limited. This thesis makes a significant contribution to our understanding that for workers the customer is ever-present physically, emotionally and discursively.

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Cutcher, Leanne Rose. "'Banking on the Customer': customer relations, employment relations and worker identity in the Australian retail banking industry." University of Sydney. Business, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/632.

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Previously consigned to the anonymity of �the product market� by researchers in traditional fields such as labour economics and industrial relations, the customer has recently attracted the attention of scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including organisational behaviour, work psychology, labour process studies, gender studies, and critical management studies. In large part, this emerging interest in the customer is a result of the increasing dominance of service industries in developed economies and the recognition that service work entails a complex, three-way interaction between customers, management and workers. The literature identifies a range of competing and, at times, contradictory images of the customer. Rather than seeking to reconcile these competing representations, this thesis explores the multi-faceted nature of the customer presence and the implications for managers and workers in the retail banking industry in Australia. The thesis highlights how structural change and shifting discourses of the �customer� have influenced customer relations, employment relations, and worker identity in three areas of the retail banking industry: traditional retail banks, the credit union movement, and community banks. Drawing on detailed qualitative case study evidence, the thesis highlights the range of customers, both �real� and �constructed�, that can be found in the case study organisations. The thesis identifies the ways in which customers influence employment relations and how workers can be active in either accommodating or resisting the impact of these �customers� on workplace practice and worker identity. The central argument of the thesis is that, in addition to customers having a physical presence in and influence on organisational life, management and workers also construct �discursive customers� as a means of influencing the employment relationship and the meanings attached to service work. The study examines how these competing concepts of the customer and customer service influence both the customer-service provider relationship and service workers� relationships with one another and with management. Despite the increasing recognition that service work entails a three-way relationship between customers, management and workers, our understanding of how workers either welcome or resist the presence of this third actor in the employment relationship has, until recently remained very limited. This thesis makes a significant contribution to our understanding that for workers the customer is ever-present physically, emotionally and discursively.

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Hill, Geof W., of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and School of Social Ecology. "An inquiry into 'human sculpture' as a tool for use in the dramatistic approach to organisational communition." THESIS_XXXX_SEL_Hill_G.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/141.

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People in organisations often have difficulty communicating with each other about their understanding of the problems of the organisation. The Dramatistic Approach is an organisational inquiry method, based on a notion of ?script?, which assists people in organisations to discuss interpersonal communication problems. A ?script? is defined in this document as being an unconscious socialised social routine. The purpose of this thesis is to document an inquiry into ?Human sculpture?, a process using dramatisation to facilitate discussion about the notion of ?script? in the organisational setting. The inquiry method is action research in the post positivist research paradigm, and is written in four chapters. The use of the notion ?script? within the disciplines of therapy and organizational studies is examined. The appropriateness of the positivist paradigm for human inquiry is debated, reaching the conclusion that a post positivist paradigm needs to underpin a human inquiry of the nature of the inquiry about ?Human sculpture?. The nine cycles of the inquiry are documented. The learnings which have emerged from this inquiry are discussed, addressing the primary focus of the inquiry, the procedure and facilitation of ?Human sculpture?, as well as two secondary focii which emerged, the notion of ?script? and the facilitation of a human inquiry
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Dalacoura, Katerina. "Human rights in international relations : Islam and liberalism in Eqypt and Tunisia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399796.

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Ichikawa, Minako. "Citizenship, human rights, and state sovereignty in international relations : towards global citizenship?" Thesis, Keele University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411885.

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Wade, S. J. "Species of wonder : human-animal relations in contemporary art and visual culture." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10044008/.

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This thesis investigates wonder in contemporary art and visual culture, which interrogates human-animal relations and aims to raise awareness about various plights facing wildlife. Recognising the ethical and political potential ascribed to wonder by various theorists, it examines the role wonder plays in promoting respect and responsible behaviour towards wildlife through artistic practice at this time of ecological fragility. Various species of wonder are identified that have human-animal relations at their heart. These are explored through three case studies, drawing on theoretical work from the fields of art history, visual culture studies, human-animal studies, anthropology and philosophy. Chapter one examines how wonder arises and what forms it takes in relation to Art Orienté Objet’s exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. Here, wonder’s potential to contribute to the cultivation of an ethical sensibility and elicit compassion towards wildlife is discussed. Next, the limits and possibilities of wonder in this regard are addressed through Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno films, which focus on the problems facing marine wildlife. Finally, the work Marcus Coates and Tania Kovats made during the Gulbenkian Galápagos Artists’ Residency Programme is discussed in terms of what wonder might do and where it might lead in the context of the fragile ecologies on these Enchanted Isles as well as closer to home. These artists are argued to be working in ways commensurate with their awareness of the plights facing wildlife today and their desire to treat nonhuman animals with respect. Accordingly, their representations of wildlife often avoid the use of live animals or animal derived materials. Instead, wildlife is fabricated from surrogate or more ethical materials, and even performed by the artists themselves. Such playful and poignant artistic strategies are shown to be ripe for wonder, responding to the call of Donna Haraway’s Chthulucene.

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Parisi, Laura Jean. "Gendered disjunctures: Globalization and human rights." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290144.

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In this dissertation, I attempt to improve upon previous studies of globalization and human rights by employing several strategies. First, I employ an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that draws on disparate literatures from political science, economics, international law, and feminist studies. Second, I use a methodology known as multiple imputation to deal with missing data problems that have plagued previous studies. Third, I test for the differential effects of globalization, economic development, and democracy on the achievement of female and male socio-economic rights in order to understand the degree to which these variables affect the dependent variables of female and male infant mortality, life expectancy, literacy, primary school enrollment, and economic activity rates. Overall, the main findings in this dissertation shed light on inequities of men and women as empirical categories in the context of globalization, economic development and democratization. There are two main findings of this study: (1) There is a statistically significant difference between the achievement of socio-economic rights for women and men in the context of globalization; and, (2) The differential effects of globalization, economic development, and democratization on female and male socio-economic rights are varied but in general all three of these independent variables tend to have more positive effects on the achievement of women's socio-economic rights relative to men's.

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Wuryandari, Ganewati. "Human rights in Australian foreign policy, with specific reference to East Timor and Papua." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0041.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis focuses on human rights in Australia’s foreign policy from 1991 to 2004 taking East Timor and Papua as case studies. It encompasses the Paul Keating years (1991 to 1996) as well as John Howard’s three consecutive terms as Prime Minister (from 1996 to 2004). As a consequence of events unfolding in this period of time, the thesis does not consider Australian foreign policy towards East Timor beyond the 1999 referendum that resulted in the separation of East Timor from Indonesia and focuses on Papua until 2004. The primary empirical aim of this thesis is to compare and contrast the two administrations’ approaches and responses to human rights abuses in East Timor and Papua. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical concepts in human rights and foreign policy, this thesis shows that incorporating a concern for human rights in the foreign policy making process is problematic because the promotion of human rights often comes into conflict with other foreign policy objectives . . . The two case studies on human rights abuses in East Timor and Papua reflect the tensions between concepts of realism and idealism in Australian foreign policy. However, the situation of East Timor shows that public pressure is required to balance the disparity of national interest and human rights. The role of public pressure has been largely absent in debates on human rights and foreign policy. While this study focuses on East Timor and Papua as case studies, the discussion of the findings has far reaching implications for Australian foreign policy and international relations, especially concerning the scholarly debate over the place of human rights in foreign policy.

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Rodriguez, Simonetta Andrea 1952. "Human/environmental relations analysis & simulation using human-centered systems methods for design and evaluation of complex habitable environments." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84809.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, February 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-75).
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Gravely, Janice Marie. "Counterterrorism and Human Rights Committees’ Influence on Terrorism and Human Rights Atrocities." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7652.

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The United Nations Counterterrorism and Human Rights Committees’ current collaborative practices have failed to reduce global terrorists’ activities and human rights abuses associated with counterterrorism activities. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and compare collaborative processes between the committees in combatting terrorism and human rights violations associated with counterterrorism. The researched was centered around two key questions: The similarities and differences with information sharing processes and the impacts of the committees’ collaborative processes on terrorists’ activities and human rights violations. For this study, the pragmatic paradigm theoretical framework was used, focusing on the descriptive exploratory design. Secondary data was used as a source. Additionally, face-to-face and telephonic interviews with subject matter experts were conducted. Eclectic coding was used as the primary coding methodology to integrate other coding methodologies in the analysis process. The research concluded that the current multidisciplinary collaborative process used by the United Nations Counterterrorism Committee and Human Rights Committee creates inefficiencies that enable terrorists’ activities to adapt while reinforcing their terrorist message. Strategically integrating the interdisciplinary process within both committees could expand each committee’s awareness and efficiency in specified areas while positively reducing terrorist activities and human rights violations. Developing an appreciation and understanding beyond one’s individual expertise while melding expert considerations is the basis of the interdisciplinary process that can positively effect social change for a more stable international forum.

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D'Hollander, Juliette. "Economic sanctions as a means to enforce human rights." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23437.

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The United Nations Security Council has recently imposed economic sanctions against several states with the aim to protect human rights. Before the Second World War economic sanctions had been imposed under the Covenant of the League of Nations. It was, however, only with the creation of the United Nations and the evolution of international human rights law that economic sanctions have been imposed explicitly in the name of human rights. While the Security Council has ordered economic sanctions against Iraq, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia for their human rights violations, the thesis explores the reasons why the Council has not taken similar measures against other countries with comparable human rights records and concludes that, there exists a double standard. Another important issue examined concerns the collateral consequences of economic sanctions. More often than not, it is the civilian population that ends up enduring the harsh conditions that result from the sanctions. The thesis suggests that the economic sanctions imposed for human rights purposes may in fact result in the infringement of the basic human rights of the very population that they are intended to protect.

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Ільяшенко, Анастасія, and Anastasiia Ilyashenko. "Global challenges in the system of international economic relations." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2020. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/43560.

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Abstracts are devoted to the study of global challenges of the 21st century. Now, the question arises of international cooperation and interaction in times of crisis that affect the economic capacity of individual countries, regions and the whole world. It would seem that under the influence of globalization processes all the countries of the world should establish channels of cooperation and become competitive. But since 2020, there has been an increasing need for new solutions to global problems and for new approaches to deal with critical situations.

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Blakeley, Ruth. "Repression, human rights, and US training of military forces from the South." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/cbdf6917-ab7b-497b-848d-70881d75aa3b.

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In order to understand whether US training of military forces from the South has resulted in the use of repression or improvements in human rights, we need to situate the training within the broader context of US foreign policy objectives and strategies. The main aims of US foreign policy are to maintain its dominant global position and to ensure control of resources and markets in the South. These objectives are being pursued through an emerging, US-led transnational state, using the instruments of legitimation at least as much as repression. This contrasts with the Cold War, during which US foreign policy strategy towards the South emphasised repression. US training of military forces from the South during the Cold War played a key role in a US-led network, through which many states in the South were connected to the US and each other by cooperation between their militaries, police and intelligence services. The training was dominated by a particular form of counterinsurgency instruction which advocated repression of groups that might potentially threaten US control of Southern economies and assets. This contributed to widespread human rights violations, particularly in Latin America. Following the end of the Cold War, reliance on coercion diminished, and it was subsumed within the emergent transnational state. In line with this shift in US foreign policy strategy in the South, some aspects of the training began to be characterised by the promotion of legitimation. In the wake of 9/11, the US has intensified both its legitimation efforts and its use of repression, and the training continues to play a significant role in the service of US foreign policy objectives.

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Sen, Sweta. "When Rebels talk Human Rights: Non-State Armed Groups and Humanitarian Agreements." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574696567910807.

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Owuor, Elijah Medego. "Theory of international law basic human rights conception of the international law /." restricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05192008-125514/.

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Thesis (B.A. Honors)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Robert Sattelmeyer, Andrew Jason Cohen, committee members. Electronic text (34 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 26, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 34).

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Torricelli, Gian Paolo. "Territoire et agriculture en Valteline : géographie et groupes de relations /." Genève : Le Concept moderne/Editions, 1990. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=002638714&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Mai, Tam Thi Hong. "Human Rights in Vietnam: A Debatable Issue." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212197540.

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Bero, Ursula. "Approaching the Pollinator Problem Through Human-Bee Relations: Perspectives & Strategies in Beekeeping." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36511.

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Beekeepers help to secure the pollination capacity of bees by mediating bee-stressors. This study argues that beekeeper strategies are best conceptualized as a series of specialized practices for bettering bee-health, which are mobilized by a variety of actors, including those who are not traditionally considered ‘beekeepers’. The aim of this paper is to explore those human beliefs and practices which are most relevant for gaining insight into the current pollinator problem. Farmers, bee-conservationists, bee-researchers and honeybee-keepers all play an important role in securing bee health. The paper draws on the social-ecological perspective to consider alternative definitions of caring for bees, what shapes these conceptualizations and how these are reflected in beekeeper strategies, which inevitably contribute to the overall functioning of human-bee constituted systems. In the context of rising honeybee colony losses in Canada and of wild bee decline around the world, understanding the diversity of approaches for bettering bee-health is exceedingly important for initiating long-term, sustainable and multi-level bee-pollinator conservation.

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Haagh, Louise. "Redemocratisation, labour relations and the development of human resources in Chile (1990-1993)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285242.

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