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- Brosché, Johan, 1978-, et al.
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Nio punkter för global fred (Nine Points for Global Peace)
- 2015
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Insatserna för global fred måste stärkas skriver tolv företrädare för institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning apropå att världens ledare samlas i dag i New York för att anta 17 nya globala mål för en bättre värld och mer hållbar utveckling.
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- Hallberg, Mathilda
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Barn till beskådan : Familj, välfärdsstat och nation i fototävlingar och fotoböcker 1930-1944
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I fokus för den här avhandlingen står åskådningskulturen under 1930- och 40-talen, närmare bestämt fototävlingar och fotoböcker med bilder på barn som bärande element. Den här studien granskar hur fototävlingar och fotoböcker var en del i förhandlingen om välfärdens organisering rörande barn och familj. I studien undersöks hur familj, välfärdsstat och nation konstruerades genom representationer av barn, vilka budskap som därigenom etablerades och vilka politiska visioner som kommunicerades. Analyser av bilder och texter visar att fototävlingar och fotoböcker presenterade ett enhetligt budskap om att det behövdes fler och bättre barn, men också hur fototävlingar och fotoböcker förmedlade skilda visioner om hur detta skulle uppnås. Studien bidrar till att synliggöra hur användbara representationer av barn var i bygget av välfärden. De hade potential att förmedla både skilda och gemensamma visioner om välfärdssamhället.
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- Lindgren, Mathilda, et al.
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Meeting the New Challenges to International Mediation : Report from an international symposium at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, June 14-16, 2010
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The discussions of the Uppsala symposium on Mediation in June 2010 highlighted a number of issues novel either to researchers or to practitioners. The meeting was organized around eight such themes. In short, the discussions showed that there are selections effects which makes the evaluation of success in mediation very difficult (more difficult conflicts get more mediation attempts), and that a biased mediator or mediation mandating actor is not always negative. If a conflict is about the control of government or of a particular territory, this affects the mediation approach as well as the durability of the outcome and the following peacebuilding efforts. Mediation styles vary and may sometimes create, for instance, cultural problems for a mediator. Mandates can be constraining for the mediator, but also solve some problems in mediation. Building fruitful relations between researchers, practitioners and policy makers can generate more resources for mediation. The proliferation of mediation efforts in the same conflict raises new issues of coordination and involves the dangers of negative competition. External shocks are seldom considered in the literature, but may provide breakthroughs for mediations as well as ending such efforts. Outcomes of mediation are not only equal to reaching an agreement. The long-term peacebuilding effects of mediation provides for new challenges to mediation research and practice where the researchers may appear not only to be constructive collaborators for practitioners, but also turn into ‘myth busters’. This report puts some meat to these one-liners.
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- Lindgren, Mathilda, 1983-
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Peacemaking Up Close : Explaining Mediator Styles of International Mediators
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Scholarly work on international mediation suggests that how third parties mediate influences the resolution of armed conflicts. However, our understanding of what explains mediator style is limited. This dissertation addresses this gap by offering the first systematic study on explanations for mediator styles at the level of the individual. It explores the research question: what explains mediator styles of individuals mediating for peacemaking organizations in armed conflicts? Mediator style is studied as themes in goals and behaviors along two dimensions: directiveness and orientation. Directiveness covers a mediator's use of leverage and varies from non-directive to directive, while orientation covers a mediator's prioritized type of outcome and varies from relationship-oriented to settlement-oriented. The dissertation develops a theoretical framework on the effects of conflict context and mediator characteristics on mediator style. It formulates a set of theoretical expectations concerning how context in the form of conflict intensity, and characteristics such as the mediator's background profile and personality, influence mediator style. The framework is evaluated and developed based on the findings of a mixed-method design combining a survey experiment and 46 semi-structured in-depth interviews with a broad variety of IGO and NGO mediators. The results on context suggest that high-intensity conflicts make mediators on average more directive than low-intensity conflicts as a result of heightened humanitarian concerns. Furthermore, on characteristics, high-profile mediators are shown to be overall more settlement-oriented than low-profile mediators as a result of their views on conflict causes and mediator accountabilities. These findings are complemented with evidence for contingent relationships between conflict intensity, mediator personality and directiveness as well as conflict intensity, mediator profile and orientation. The study thus contributes with a refined understanding of the mediator styles of international mediators that both facilitates its further scholarly exploration and provides input to the practice of peacemaking.
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- Nenonen, Hannah, et al.
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The N680S variant in the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor gene identifies hyperresponders to controlled ovarian stimulation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. - 1744-6872. ; 29:5, s. 114-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To study if the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) variant asparagine/serine in amino acid 680 (N680S) can predict hypersensitivity to gonadotropins in women undergoing assisted reproduction.PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this retrospective study, 586 women undergoing their first in-vitro fertilisation treatment were enroled, and their FSHR N680S genetic variant was analysed. The main outcome measures were number of retrieved oocytes and any grade of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). Experimental studies were performed on FSHR variants transfected into eukaryotic cells treated with 1-90 IU recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone. The receptors' ability to induce a second messenger 3',5'-cyclic AMP was measured.RESULTS: The proportion of women who developed OHSS was 6% (n=36). None of the women who developed this condition had the homozygous serine variant. The N680S polymorphism in the FSHR was associated with the condition, P trend (genotype)=0.004 and P allelic (alleles)=0.04. Mean oocyte number was 11±6 in women without OHSS and 16±8 in women who developed OHSS (P=0.001), despite exposure to lower total hormonal dose in the latter group. The odds ratio for developing OHSS in carriers of the asparagine allele was 1.7 (95% confidence interval: 1.025-2.839, P=0.04). A higher receptor activity in cells expressing asparagine compared with the serine was also evident at all concentrations of recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone used (P<0.05 for all).CONCLUSION: This study confirms previous findings regarding higher hormonal sensitivity in carriers of asparagine in the N680S position. These women are at higher risk for OHSS during in-vitro fertilisation. Genetic testing could identify those at highest risk to develop this adverse effect.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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- Svensson, Isak, 1974-, et al.
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Community and Consent : Unarmed insurrections in non-democracies
- 2011
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Ingår i: European Journal of International Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0661 .- 1460-3713. ; 17:1, s. 97-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores popular challenges against the state through nonviolent means. Although previous research has started to examine the effect of these 'unarmed insurrections', the relationship between challenging the state apparatus (vertical legitimacy) and the state identity (horizontal legitimacy) has not been adequately addressed. We argue that unarmed insurrections are most likely to be successful when challenging the vertical, rather than the horizontal, legitimacy of the state. Studying data for 287 years of protests in 57 non-democratic countries during the period of 1946-2006, we find support for three implications of this proposition: 1) campaigns that demand governmental regime change are more successful than campaigns for territorial changes; 2) success is less likely when the identity of the insurgents and the government is split along ethnic lines; and 3) success is less likely when society is highly polarized along ethnic lines rather than being ethnically homogeneous. Thus, when the community is divided, the efforts to withdraw consent will be less effective. The study discusses the implications of these findings for policymakers and scholars interested in nonviolent strategic action.
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- Svensson, Isak, 1974-, et al.
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From Bombs to Banners? : The Decline of Wars and the Rise of Unarmed Uprisings in East Asia
- 2011
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Ingår i: Security Dialogue. - London : Sage Publications. - 0967-0106 .- 1460-3640. ; 42:3, s. 219-237
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most important debates in the field of peace and conflict research concerns whether wars andarmed conflicts are declining over time. The region where this plays out most markedly is East Asia: havingsuffered some of the world’s most brutal wars in the period prior to 1979, the region has since witnessed anera of relative peacefulness. This article asks whether the decline in the level of war in the region reflects achange in the means used to pursue conflicts: are conflicts that previously were fought with arms increasinglymanifested through unarmed uprisings based on strategic nonviolent actions? Examining the empiricalpatterns of armed conflicts and unarmed uprisings in the region, the article shows that there has been asubstantial increase in the number of unarmed uprisings in East Asia that runs parallel with a decrease in theintensity and frequency of warfare. Yet, the article also shows that these nonviolent uprisings do not follow onfrom previous armed campaigns, and that armed and unarmed campaigns differ in terms of aims, nature andoutcome. Thus, the article concludes that there is little support for the hypothesis that those who formerlyused violence have shifted to new nonviolent, unarmed tactics, and that we are rather witnessing two parallel,unrelated processes. These insights call for an enlargement of the research agenda of the ‘East Asian peace’.
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