Between Policy and Practice : An Analysis of Refugee Agency and Governance in Protracted Refugee Situations
Kessler, Sabeth
MA Thesis Archive
2024
Children of Nationals but Stateless : An Analysis of the Maintenance of Gender-based Discriminatory Nationality Laws
Jiménez Baigorri, Victoria
Militarized Masculinities of the Oath Keepers: A Feminist Framing Analysis of an American Militia Group
Salonen, Tiia
Sexual Violence Against Men in South Africa in Times of Peace : Prevention Work by South African NGOs
Schnieders, Stefanie
“It is politics, and we are being used as its pawns.” : Analysing national security and ethical considerations in Finland's response to organized migration at the eastern border
Parviainen, Sanni
Hybrid Threats in the Arctic : The Influence of China's Scientific Activities on Arctic Security Interests
Klein, Marius
Mobilization of Queer and Feminist Organizations in Georgia amid the War in Ukraine
Japaridze, Margalita
Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity : Conscientious Objection and Gendered Militarism in Finland
Moon, Myungjin
Reconciliation, Gender and Faith : Perspectives on reconciliation in the Zimbabwe Council of Churches
Linervo, Päivi
Peace and Journalism in Somalia : Ambition, struggle and striving for peace in a conflicted society
Sorvali, Iikka
Moldovan Young Adults Navigating Everyday Peace, (Im)mobility, and Structural Insecurities
Pitkänen, Anna
Bodies in Everyday and Virtual Worlds: An Analysis of “Peace-VR” and Everyday Embodied Peace
Doyle, Kieran
2023
"The shame of rape is worse than dying": The role of social norms and social control in stigmatizing female rape survivors in the Kivus, DR Congo
Shampemba, Manuela
Anti-War Movement in Russia: Making Resistance Visible
Soloveva, Valeriia
Legitimized Fear : Donald Trump's January 6 Rhetoric as a Narrative of Crisis
May, Emily Catherine
Home and Belonging for the Ingrian Diaspora in Times of Displacement : Narratives From Rootedness in Ingria to Homemaking in New Places
Roivas, Maria
Peace Education and Historical Empathy in the Museum Field : The Case Study of the State of Emergency Exhibition at the Muisti Centre of War and Peace
Tiusanen, Sanni
Aesthetics of Power: Understanding the Meanings of Political Visual Demonstartions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Daneshpour, Zeinab
Non-violent Cultural Resistance as Visual Representations of Peace : The Non-official Representation of Spain at the 1976 Venice Biennale
Tobal Galán, Sara
Remembering the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War through the Life Stories of Young Veterans
Petrosyan, Anush
Born Into Unity and Peace? : The Relevance of East-West Differences and their Role for Peace for Germans Growing Up after the Reunification
Kolarzik, Nina
Assimilated, silenced, and forgotten — Decolonized perspectives on the Finnish-Karelian past and present: Researching the impacts of Finnish politics of forgetting on young Karelians
Laitinen, Essi
Unweaving the Social Fabric of Finland : Violence in Peace during the Covid-19 pandemic
Levola, Henna
Political Elite Rhetoric on Popular Uprisings: Responding to the Lebanese 2019 ‘October Revolution’
El-Khoury, Anna Kristiina
"For the sake of my children" : Exploring the centrality of motherhood within QAmom accounts in social media spaces
Mikkola, Hilary
Coming to terms with the legacies of a secret war : A narrative inquiry of the United States redressing the issue of unexploded ordnance in Laos
Matinlauri, Juho
2022
Fight over Realities : A rhetorical analysis of the communication between China and Taiwan about the 2019-2020 Hongkong protests
Wiedemann, Gina
The Co-Existence of Peace and Violence in the North of Cauca, Colombia : Promoting Peace Amid Conflict as Part of the Everyday
Tarazona Galvis, Ana Maria
“Today, we’re all broken.”: postcolonialism, trauma, and narrating genocide through comics
Lappalainen, Saara
“We cannot even take care of our own citizens”: Symbolic boundaries and perceptions of intergroup threat in citizens’ initiatives on immigration
Mäkelä, Roosa
When 'Schoolgirls' Become 'Terror Brides': Exploring the media discourse on (aspiring) female ‘IS’ returnees in German and British media
Kaiser, Miriam
Detecting Migration Trends: A Method for Open Source Data Analysis
Leinonen, Mikko
Youth Imagining Peace in Post-Accord Colombia: Meanings of Everyday Peace and Territorial Peace in Jóvenes y Territorios Imaginados project
Niemelä, Iiris
Local Ownership in UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture : Identifying the Main Actors in Sustaining Peace Policies
Vulkko, Vilhelmiina
Refugee camps as spaces for genocide : Narratives from Rwandan refugees
Ruuska, Eveliina
“The system has failed the majority too”—Deconstructing the unawareness regarding the Sámi with the Dihtosis project : A collaborative study about the Dihtosis project and the agency context of teachers for decolonisation and everyday peace
Heinola, Anne
2021
Beyond the Political Rhetoric: The UK’s Position on its Participation in EU Civilian Crisis Management Post-Brexit
Hancock, Conor Patrick
Everyday Perspectives of Community-Based Peacebuilding : The Practices of the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida
Estling, Eric Emmanuel
Permaculture and Peace: Toward a Permaculture Peace Framework
Kjeldsen, Jakob
Who Holds the Power When the Demons Are Loose? : The Carnival of Riosucio as a Scenario of Peace
Blanco Rengifo, Laura
“I know I don’t belong here but I’m just using this space and trying to be invisible”: Experiences of fear and exclusion in the urban space of Helsinki by homeless women
Koivisto, Saana
Innocent girls or jihadi fighters? - A frame analysis of the representations of European women of Daesh in Finnish and Swedish news media
Komulainen, Emma
Criminal Prosecution of Female Sex Trafficking Victims in Finland : Examining Expert Knowledge on the Victim-Perpetrator Overlap
Korpela, Anniina
شانه به شانه : Military, Tribes and Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan
Kylä-Harakka, Jani
A Postcolonial Look at Korean Grandmothers : Representation of Comfort Women Survivors in a Post-Conflict Society
Lampinen, Mariela
"It's only divisive when you physicalize it" : The visibility of the border in Ireland during the Brexit negotiation period
Mäki, Mirjami
No room at the bunker: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Civil Defence and Nuclear Disarmament Movement in Britain
Naumanen, Marika
"Anti-Cop Riots" or Black Civil Rights Protests? Media Portrayals of the 2020 George Floyd Protests
Nichols, Shannon
Gender Identities in Transformation: Afghan Female Police Officers` contested profession in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
Rautaheimo, Kaisa
The 1-O that recalled Franco : The Civil War and Dictatorship in Parties' accounts of the 2017 ' Catalan crisis'
Sanz, Aune
Autonomizing conflict: Conflict transportation and online mobilization among Kurdish and Turkish diasporas in Denmark
Svop Jensen, Caecilie
Structural violence in Finnish democracy : A reflective, multi-sited and feminist ethnography on municipal democracy in Finland
Tiensuu, Meeri
Representation of the Rohingya People in Bangladeshi Media : A Framing Analysis of Mainstream Newspapers
Uddin, Md Riaz
United Nations Support to Local Peacebuilding: A Case Study from Afghanistan
Valtonen, Lotta
2020
Restricting access to asylum through restricting legal aid? An infrastructural analysis of the role of legal aid in asylum processes in Finland
Bhatia, Riina
Yearning for a better life: Yugonostalgia amongst the post-Yugoslav generation of the organisation of Josip Broz Tito, Pula
Crnalic, Elena
Everyday Peace: Iranian Women’s Movement and Peaceful Transformation
Edalati, Zahra
The Belief in a Just Finland as a Form of Cultural Violence: The Effects of Victim Blaming on the Identification and Assistance of Victims of Human Trafficking
Ek, Mari
A Visual Approach to Peace Medation: Exploring the Conceptual Potential of Visual Art-Making in Peace Mediation
Glybchenko, Yelyzaveta
From maintaining stability to securing change : Expert perceptions on how the Civilian Security Sector contributes to resilience in Ukraine.
Karjalainen, Tyyne
Corporate Activism – New Kid on the CSR Block: Perceptions of Social Justice in Starbucks’ Corporate Activism Discourses
Kettunen, Salla
Leadership in a changing security environment
Lepola-Lång, Siina
African peacebuilding?: Reflecting the narratives about peacebuilding in Africa through the Kujenga Amani podcast
Lindroos, Tuuli
Environmental degradation as an incentive for peace? : An examination of environmental policies and practices in Uganda’s refugee response
Pöyry, Miisa
Core Values and Priorities Contested? : Discourses in the US Congress Surrounding Saudi Arabia and the War in Yemen.
Salonen, Jaakko
A new generation of peace?: Meanings of everyday peace among the post-accord youth in Northern Ireland
Suoranta, Anna Sofia
Stalemate in Serbia-Kosovo relations or small steps towards reconciliation? : Changes of narratives of the politicians from Serbia and Kosovo after signing the Brussels Agreement in 2013
Vučetić, Nataša
2019
Literature as a Tool for Reconciliation? A Social-Psychological Approach in Peace Research
Bellmer, Rasmus
Prove you suffer, prove you aren't Daesh - An empirical study on internal displacement in the Ninewa region in Iraq
Hägglund, Mariette
A growing force? : an empirical study on the role of female military peacekeepers in UN peacekeeping operations
Kaltiainen, Laura
Gendering of wartime sexual violence in artistic conflict narratives
Ojala, Jussi
The impact of Rohingya refugees on the local host community : the case of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh
Siddique, Wahiduzzaman
The Brexit negotiations in the media: The Northern Ireland peace process
Stevens, Lauren
Separated by a wall – Narratives of Sahrawi Nationalism and Nation-Building
Suihko, Milja
Activism through art : the indigenous narratives of Suohpanterror
Taylerson, Lydia
When one size does not fit all : failed ideals of liberal peacebuilding, socio-economic downward spiral and the Bosnian Spring protests of 2014
Toikkanen, Harri
"My name is still Josiane" – Experiences of displacement, peace and conflict in Nakivale refugee camp
Vehviläinen, Jenna
Finnish sauna diplomacy as an example of the material culture of diplomacy
Ventelä, Satumaari
2018
An analysis of key approaches and influencers of deradicalization of violent extremists : a case study of Al-Shabaab
Githieya, Njoki
A competent parent, a loving professional : a case study of foster parenting in Russian Children's Villages
Hyppölä, Oona-Maaria Elina; Hyppölä, Anniina Liisa Sofia
Women, War and Peace : a feminist content analysis
Laukka, Anna-Maija
The power of intergroup contact and experiential learning on individual perceptions in the United World College in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina : a path towards bottom-up reconciliation?
Malkamäki, Maarit
Does intercultural competence matter? : new perspectives on relationship-building in unarmed civilian protection
Molz, Erich
"It gave me everything but it gave me nothing": a study of second-generation migrants, transnationalism and identity
Nieminen, Tuuli
Youth livelihoods and the local conflict in North Kivu : a case study in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Pankakoski, Iiro
Rules make the world better : justifications of Civilian Crisis Management in the EU Concept Core Course
Pellinen, Tapio
Kurdish activism in Finland: mobilization and social boundary construction
Raja-aho, Severi
Technology and society at automated borders : risk of discrimination and fundamental rights
Sanchez Nieminen, Giovanna
Identity Transformation through Dialogue: A Case Study of Student Video Messages Exchange in Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Zuev, Roman
2017
También de este lado hay sueños: Changing patterns of migration flows - Mexico as a new potential migration destination
Katho, Zsofia
Structural violence in Canada: the role of Winnipeg educators in decolonization and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
Kroeker, Silvie
The role of journalism in polarization : an analysis of Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio's reporting concerning issues related to the asylum seeker crisis and multiculturalism debate between 2015-2016
Mikkonen, Nadja
Maintaining presence : Catholic aid agencies in Sri Lanka's civil war − towards a socio-theoretical perspective to humanitarian access and power
Mustonen, Ann
Collective understanding of small state security in the post-Cold War era : Case study on how the shared understanding of security evolved in the Caribbean Community
Montonen, Jouni
Business-based contributions to peacebuilding and conflict prevention : identifying the Finnish private sector potential
Penttilä, Janne
Local conceptualisations of violence and dialogue in Burundi's post-electoral crisis
Takkunen, Juho
Narrating everyday peace in Libya : a study of Libyan youth civil society activists’ framings and enactments of peace
Van der Velde, Anna
Governing environmental security in the Arctic: the perspective of the Arctic Council on climate change, fossil fuel exploration and shipping operation
Chowdhury, Shah
Supporting the peace mediation efforts of religious leaders : an empirical study of co-operation between Finnish NGOs and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Lepomäki, Maiju
Smartphone refugees: mobility, power regimes and the impact of digital technologies
Jungbluth, Silke
Dramatized and Structural Violence within the Axis of Citizenship: An Ethnographic Exploration into Eastleigh, Nairobi
Millar, Stefan
Looking Green: Visual Environmental Framing of FIFA: The Context of the Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil
Titoff, Ville
2016
Alternative Peacebuilding in Bosnia. Evolution of an NGO and volunteer experiences: the case of Trenkalòs
Borrell Giro, Albert
Construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile : Cause for Cooperation or Conflict among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan
Ejigu, Natan
Conflict Transformation and Human Rights in Israel-Palestine
Elkins, Charles
Negotiating Belonging: Social Inclusion and Finnish Rainbow Parent
Huttu, Julietta
Planting peace? How can development cooperation contribute? Perspectives from an environmental project conducted in Somalia
Koivula, Anne
Security Sector Development in Post-Conflict : Kosovo
Marjamäki, Johanna
Interconnectedness, Healing & Harmony: The Application of Ubuntu in Peace Research and in Namibian-German Postcolonial Disputes Emerging from the Return of Human Remains
Rampke, Babett
'Right to Rights' Realized: Agentive Anger Among Iraqi Asylum Seekers in Finland
Roche, Jane
Developing qualitative criteria for assessing the impacts and acceptability of border control technology
Taylor, Benjamin
"They've got the bomb, we've got the records!" Roles of Music in the Making of Social Movements: The Case of the British Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1958-1963
Vähäsalo, Minna
2015
Transnational fairytale: Finnish-Russian transnational families
Chistiakova, Daria
Oil, conflict and media. Study of oil-related statements of the South Sudanese conflict parties.
Heikkilä, Laura
The Value of Representation in Transition : a Case Study of Political Murals in East Belfast
Isler, Kirima
Conflict prevention in post-war Sri Lanka : obstacles and the way forward
Jahan, Sultana
Migration in the Mediterranean: Media Portrayals of Refugees and Migrants
Järvinen, Anna
Activist knowledge and nonviolent action : stories about Gezi Park protests in Turkey
Karelina, Anastasia
Spoiling under the influence: the narcotics trade as a serious threat to Myanmar's nationwide ceasefire process?
Linka, Tim
Understanding the War Experience of Adolescents : the Role of Forgiveness and Future Prospect
Nyarko, Felix