Human trafficking is a global issue and a grave violation of human rights. This thesis sets out to investigate how successful Canada has been up to date in combating the crime. Canada’s main developments in anti-trafficking ...

This thesis describes the issue of child abandonment and homelessness in Honduras. It includes the causes of the issue, several past and present organizations dedicated to the issue, the physical and psychological effects ...

Even in the midst of the most horrific violent conflicts, there are always people building peace. What motivates such individuals to act for peace when many others do not, and how do they understand their own motivations? ...

Since the early 1990s, southern Mexico has suffered several significant instances of civil unrest, protest and violent military/civilian clashes, which profoundly affect the lives of local peoples and threaten national ...

Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) in post-conflict environments is a practice of long-standing historical significance, but rigorous, outcomes-based research on the topic is relatively rare. Over the millennia of organized ...

Kosovo has become a unique case of trans-Atlantic peacebuilding efforts, a nascent sovereign state that remains under the legal protectorate of the United Nations with a diminishing contingent of international peacekeepers ...

As the scourge of maritime piracy manifested itself in the mid-2000s off the Horn of Africa, the international community demanded a viable response. The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia was formed in 2008 ...

This thesis is presented as a preliminary and explorative endeavor about the role Information and Communication Technologies have, or may have, in the field of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution. Even if this field ...

Since the 1990s the PKK and the Chechen separatists have been branded as terrorist organizations by the international community. As a result, these groups have challenged the conception of terrorist organizations. This is ...

This thesis examines the conditions leading to the collaboration between the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts in Chiang Mai, Thailand through what is known as “Peaceful Homeland Network: PHN” during high tension of political ...