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Browsing Political Sciences by Type "Thesis"
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This thesis critically analyzes the phenomena of Issa-Afar violence in Ethiopian in the post-1991 period. It interrogated the explanation for the self-perpetuating nature of the violence militating against successive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The thesis, A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector, looks at the underlying problem of financial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04)Since the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in 2000, relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and African countries have risen at unprecedented levels. China and African countries ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy in 1994 and its related efforts to be a champion for human rights promotion and protection are well documented. Since the advent of democracy, it has signed and ratified seven ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study is an analysis of how military issues can contribute to a sustainable ending of civil wars particularly in Africa. The continuous warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1996 and 2004 is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The primary objective of this study is to analyse electoral violence in Nigeria using the Hoglund analytical framework on electoral violence. More specifically, the study undertakes to analyse incidents of electoral violence ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)A casual look at Europe's and Africa's experiences of integration suggests that they share certain similarities. Their respective institutional frameworks (Commissions, Parliaments and Councils) bear certain similarities ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) is an interdisciplinary normative framework that reconceptualises state sovereignty as a responsibility rather than a right. It obliges states to protect their people from humanitarian ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Despite vast research on gender-based violence, little is known about the implementation of policies on gender-based violence in minority groups. The aim of this study was to assess the implementation of the KwaZulu-Natal ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This study examines the relationship between international borders and identity, in the context of the Xhosa-speaking people of Tele Bridge in South Africa and Lesotho, who live at the border separating the two countries. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The fast-growing Internet platform in Africa has given opportunities to a new set of non-state actors to offer nonviolent intervention in addressing protracted conflicts with the use of new media technology/new media. As ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)How we respond to legacies of past violence cannot be separated from the narratives we hold about that violence. When the state fails, for whatever reason, to take the lead in dealing with past violence and the development ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The Somali conflict combines some of the risk factors commonly associated with state failure, state collapse and state disintegration phenomenon. This study commences with an exploration of the failure of the peace process ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa’s unresolved land question has material and ideational dimensions. While undeniably crucial to resolving the land question, the material dimension has created tension and conflict. Therefore, this thesis ...
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A critical afrocentric analysis of South Africa’s SADC-mandated mediation in Zimbabwe, 2007 – 2014 (University of Pretoria, 2022)This study seeks to understand how South Africa has pursued the African agenda through its foreign policy and how it applied it during its mediation in the Zimbabwe crisis between 2007 and 2014. South Africa’s approach was ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (hereafter, NATO) invasion of Libya in 2011 demonstrated and revealed the operative logics and technologies of global coloniality. Global coloniality names the trans-historic expansion ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Ethiopia officially declared to follow a democratic developmental state since 2002. Some scholars argue that there is an attempt to emulate the developmental state in Ethiopia, citing a few features of the developmental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-09)Examining national identity, belonging and a national culture, this study argues for the theorisation of the political reality in South Africa by analysing the literary landscape of the country. By combining a set of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2003-07-03)The recent election victory of gen. Obasanjo highlights the fragile civil-military relations encountered in Nigeria. It also illustrates the impact environment has on the recruitment process of political leaders, as a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The discussion on policing in multicultural societies is embedded within a wider context of political responses to diversity in state-building. Historically, nations were characteristically formed based on common ancestry, ...
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