The thesis aims to illustrate how Food Aid, Free Trade Agreements, and Agricultural Dumping are closely related. By drawing the relation between these three seemingly separate issues, a divergent...Show moreThe thesis aims to illustrate how Food Aid, Free Trade Agreements, and Agricultural Dumping are closely related. By drawing the relation between these three seemingly separate issues, a divergent perspective upon the global trading system is exposed. The thesis reaches its outcome by using both macro and micro analyses. Where macro analyses allows the debate to have a more theoretical nature, the micro analyses of the case study on Agricultural Dumping in Mozambique shows a more practical side of the debate. By the use of these two analytical tools, the thesis illustrates how Agricultural Dumping is a negative effect of Food Aid, enabled through Free Trade Agreements. As open market policies and low domestic protection are part of these agreements, local agricultural markets in sub- Saharan Africa become unable to compete with subsidised imported agricultural goods. Hence, the three issues all contribute to an unequal market system that, in certain situations, provides advantages for the donor country and leaves the receiving country at a disadvantage.Show less
This research attempts to add to the existing literature on the extent to which state sovereignty can restrict the efforts of international actors in the 21st century, specifically the World Bank,...Show moreThis research attempts to add to the existing literature on the extent to which state sovereignty can restrict the efforts of international actors in the 21st century, specifically the World Bank, to guarantee social development and the protection of human rights. The World Bank is an organisation that in recent years has been criticised for not upholding human rights obligations due to reasons largely placed on the failings of the organisation itself. However, this paper examines state sovereignty, an external reason for the World Bank’s failure in upholding international human rights obligations, using the case study of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project (CCPP).Show less
This thesis has looked into the conflict that arose after President Nkurunziza of Burundi decided to run for a third term. It has asked whether the ethnic power sharing model of 2002 has shifted...Show moreThis thesis has looked into the conflict that arose after President Nkurunziza of Burundi decided to run for a third term. It has asked whether the ethnic power sharing model of 2002 has shifted the conflicts in Burundi from playing along ethnic lines to political alliance. It has found that at the time of writing the consociational model seems to have done that.Show less
In this thesis the influence of drought on the conflicts in Turkana in northern Kenya and Darfur in Sudan is researched, both of which involve pastoralists, but which also differ in many other...Show moreIn this thesis the influence of drought on the conflicts in Turkana in northern Kenya and Darfur in Sudan is researched, both of which involve pastoralists, but which also differ in many other respects. First, a theoretical background on the relation between environmental degradation and violent conflict is provided, exploring the academic debate on the topic. The following chapters constitute a thorough overview of the histories and important factors for both the Darfur and Turkana conflicts, investigating the role of drought in the conflicts and its interplay with other causal factors. The last chapter compares the different ways in which drought influenced both conflicts. In the theoretical framework it is found that most often environmental factors alone do not cause violent conflict, but they can act as “threat multipliers”. This idea holds true for the conflicts in Darfur and Turkana. In both cases drought led to increased migration of pastoralists, causing increased tension in receiving areas. However, the effect of drought on the conflict is found to be much more direct in Turkana than it is in Darfur.Show less
