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Causes of girl’s pupil dropout at secondary school in Bangladesh : Review of literature and empirical analysis
(Master thesis, 2019)This paper provides a systematic review of the literature analysis and empirical analysis to find out the causes of girl’s dropout at the secondary schools in Bangladesh. This paper has tried to shed on some specific causes ... -
Challenges of Authenticating Migrants’ Academic Credentials as Part of Integrating in Norway : A Case study of Eritreans in Agder
(Master thesis, 2020)Due to the complex interplay among various push/pull factors that impact livelihoods and comfort zones in the Global South, an unprecedented number of persons are following unfamiliar emigration routes, ... -
Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity and the Ethics of Participatory Ownership
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 463, Doctoral thesis, 2024)A lack of trust in governments and larger NGOs has increased the appeal of folk engagement in which “ordinary citizens” address global poverty and humanitarian crises by starting their own initiatives and volunteering ... -
Classification of the lesions observed in female genital schistosomiasis
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Climate Change and Migration for Scandinavian Saami: a Review of Possible Impacts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Migration, especially of indigenous peoples, related to or influenced by climate change continues to gain increasing research and policy attention. Limited material remains for this topic for Scandinavia’s indigenous people, ... -
Climate change mitigation policymaking and communication at the local level: a case study of the Areaand transport plan of the Arendal region in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Climate change mitigation is a collective effort, and different governmental levels must be involved in pursuing it. People in the Nordic counties have a high awareness of climate change, but there is ... -
Climate Change, Community Action, and Health in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Scoping Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Objective: This scoping review investigates the status of research focusing on the nexus of community action, climate change, and health and wellbeing in anglophone Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Methods: ... -
Climate change, migration and conflict : a case study of Kilosa district, Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis discusses the impacts of climate change on rural and urban households in Kilosa district and focuses on investigating the linkage between climate change, migration and conflict in the district. Different ... -
Colombian PDET. A Key strategy to build peace from below? A case study of the vision of territorial peace of the PDET Montes de María.
(Master thesis, 2023)In 2016 the Colombian State and the oldest guerrilla of Latin America ‘FARC’ signed a peace accord in order to end the 60 years internal conflict. As part of it, the Development Plans with a Territorial Approach (PDET) ... -
Community Water Management: Participation of Water User Committees in Public Groundwater Infrastructure Management in Uganda : A Case of Namayingo Town Council
(Master thesis, 2017)Water is a critical natural resource not only to life and natural ecosystem functioning, but also, for economic and social development. The global recognition of the role of water in development dates back in 1977 with the ... -
Community-Based Organisations’ Role in Refugee Integration : A Case Study in Kristiansand, Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)Refugees is one of the major concentration of the world without considering the borders or economic level of the country. Recently, Europe also has received large number of refugees. Norway has also received many refugees ... -
Computational Decision Support for Socio-Technical Awareness of Land-Use Planning under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Land-use planning for modern societies requires technical competence as well as social competence. We therefore propose an integrative solution enabling better land-use planning and management through better-informed ... -
Confronting NGOs: A critical discourse analysis of Norwegian NGOs understanding of women´s poverty in the global south.
(Master thesis, 2022)Norwegian NGOs are organizations that are highly visible in the media in Norway regarding development and aid. With such a prominent place in the media and enormous visibility, these organizations influence the population ... -
Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
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Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in the tourism sector: A systematic literature review and future outlook
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Corporate Social Responsibility as a mechanism of Community Development A Study of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited’s CSR for Bonny Kingdom, Niger Delta Nigeria
(Master thesis, 2015)The study focuses on how the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of a gas company can be a factor in the development of the local community in the Niger Delta. To understand the perceptions of the company and the community ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Garment Industry : A Cross-case analysis of three Norwegian organizations’ approach to central challenges in improving working conditions for factory workers in developing countries
(Master thesis, 2017)Working conditions for factory workers in the garment sector are often appalling, with extensive use of overtime, unsafe working environments, low presence of unions, union-hostility, weak (or no) contracts, and wages ... -
Could Cambridge Analytica Have Delivered Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential Victory? An Anthropologist’s Look at Big Data and Political Campaigning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I first provide some context about Cambridge Analytica’s (ca) activities, linking them to ca parent company, scl Group, which specialised in “public relations” campaigns around the world across multiple sectors (from ... -
Critiquing and Joining Intersections of Disaster, Conflict, and Peace Research
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Culture and risk : the role of culture and indigenous knowledge in the interpretation and adaptation to disasters : a case study of landslides in Bududa district, Eastern Uganda
(Master thesis, 2017)This study explores the role culture and indigenous knowledge play in people’s ‘interpretation’ and ‘adaption’ to landslides in Uganda. This study is important because globally, natural hazards are becoming more dangerous ...