Sökning: "Yazidi community"
Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden Yazidi community.
1. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. LÄS MER
2. Keeping the Promise of International Criminal Justice - prosecuting and adjudicating gender-based mass atrocity crimes in “non-territorial” States
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenSammanfattning : Konflikt är en grogrund för könsbaserat våld. Tidigare diskriminerande strukturer förstärks och mynnar ut i våld inom ramen för konflikten. I komplexa kontexter präglade av religiösa, etniska och/eller politiska slitningar förstärks vissa individers utsatthet. LÄS MER
3. Terrorism and Genocide : The Islamic State and the Case of Yazidis
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumSammanfattning : The Yazidi religious minority was a subject to extreme violence perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2014. This thesis argues that the violence was genocidal in nature and aimed to destroy the Yazidi group as such. LÄS MER
4. Sexual violence as a weapon of war: the case of ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis set out to research why ISIS combatants use sexual violence when they target the Yazidi community in particular. The aims have been to provide an understanding of why ISIS target Yazidi women and girls with sexual violence and develop a better understanding of both groups and thus hopefully provide assistance that is contextually adapted to the needs of Yazidi women and girls who have been targeted by ISIS. LÄS MER