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Climate Change Inaction in Canada: Political Subsystems and Policy Outcomes in the Oil & Gas Industry, 1999-2019
(2021-07-06)Despite increasing urgency of the climate crisis, Canada is unlikely to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement. The expansion of the countrys fossil fuel industry is one of the ... -
Stateless Palestinian Youth in Jordan: Negotiating Poverty and Durable Solutions Beyond Legal Status
(2020-08-11)A significant body of research focuses on understanding refugee agency beyond the legal frameworks institutionalized by the global refugee regime and hosting states. Situated within a critical approach, this thesis bridges ... -
Visual Representations in the Field: Policies and Practices of Photography in Ethiopia
(2020-08-11)My research examines the policies and practices associated with photography at major international development organizations operating in Ethiopia. The analysis is based on a series of semi-structured, in-depth interviews ... -
Empowerment and Reintegration: Survivors' Perceptions of Human Trafficking Rehabilitation Programs in Nigeria
(2020-08-11)Rehabilitation services are often aimed at facilitating the recovery, empowerment, and reintegration of human trafficking survivors after their exploitative ordeal. However, only limited efforts have so far been directed ... -
Close to Peace but Far from Home: Forced Displacement and Land Restitution in Post-Accord Columbia
(2019-07-02)My research looks at the opportunities and challenges of the Colombian transitional justice process to produce long-overdue societal transformations. It critically examines the land restitution framework established by Law ... -
The Value of Social Capital: Exploring How Public Senior High Schools in the Central Region of Ghana Respond to Challenges and Opportunities in the Secondary Education Sector
(2019-07-02)Although low-to middle income countries have been encouraged to attain the international benchmark of 15-20% public budget allocation to education, Ghanas education budget to GDP has hovered between 4% and 10% over the ... -
More than a Game? Exploring Sport's Role in Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Settlement in Glasgow, Scotland
(2019-03-05)Up until recently, refugees and asylum-seekers, and even more so, the relationship between sport and settlement, has generally been written out of discussions surrounding sport for development (SFD). This study seeks to ... -
Livelihood Strategies of Displaced Independent Eritrean Youths in Cairo: Examining Agency and Vulnerability
(2018-11-21)Eritrea is one of the largest refugee producing countries, as many exit to escape arduous National Service (Amnesty International 2015). Egypt is an important transit country for Eritreans, with the majority settling in ... -
'If You Can't, We Can!': Labour as Commons, the Solidarity Economy and Transformative Development on the Margins - A Case Study on the Worker-Recuperated Company, VIO.ME, in Thessaloniki, Greece
(2018-08-27)This Masters Thesis analyzes the worker occupation and takeover of the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki, Greece in a context of widespread business closures brought on by the economic crisis. The recuperation of the Vio.Me ... -
Exploring Gender Mainstreaming in Primary Education: A Cambodian Context
(2017-07-27)Gender and education has become a popular component to mainstream development discourse over the past decade. In such a short span of time, the focus, aims, implementation, and monitoring processes have shifted quickly. ... -
Spirit and Body, Heart and Soul: Exploring Student Narratives through Higher Education in Exile
(2017-07-27)Refugee higher education, as a subset of the larger education in emergencies field, has been rapidly growing since the 2000s. However, a deeper exploration of student experiences is needed to critically understand the ... -
Understanding the Relationship between Participation and Social Capital for Collective Action: A Case Study of Muungano's Self Help Saving Group System
(2017-07-27)This study is an attempt to provide a contextual analysis of the processes that link social capital and participation and examine how the processes that link the two are acting as enabling or constraining factors for ... -
From the Peaks and Back: Exploring the Educational Journeys of Trans-Himalayan Students in Kathmandu, Nepal
(2015-08-28)In a rapidly modernizing Nepal where urbanization is on the rise, families in rural areas participate by sending their children to urban schools, vast distances from home. Children/youth who have migrated to Kathmandu from ... -
Preparing for Uncertainty: Exploring Access to Higher Education in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
(2015-01-26)Against a backdrop of increasingly protracted refugee situations worldwide and on the continent of Africa in particular, education is imperative to facilitate the ability of displaced persons to voice their concerns and ...
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