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  • La partecipazione dei terzi al sistema di risoluzione delle controversie del WTO

    Autore: Federica Mingione

    Abstract: Sin dalla sua introduzione nel 1995, il Sistema di Risoluzione delle Controversie del WTO, ha attirato su di se l’attenzione di accademici, studiosi, esperti, politici e della società civile, sia per gli obiettivi prefissatisi – la risoluzione di dispute commerciali tra gli Stati membri – che per le sue funzioni – garantire sicurezza e prevedibilità al sistema multilaterale degli scambi. Tale meccanismo e lo stesso WTO sono stati spesso criticati, perché considerati degli strumenti al »

  • Winning the Peace: The pursuit of real victory after the Government won the war in Sri Lanka

    Autore: Marco Sean Mcallister

    Abstract: The military defeat of the LTTE by the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2009 ended twenty-six years of war which have caused the displacement of more than 1.1 million Sri Lankans and claimed more than 150,000 lives. Winning the war represented a great achievement for the Government, and allowed Colombo to lay the foundations for the long-term prevention of a recurrence of war. The victory of a comprehensive peace is, however, still to be achieved. This dissertation analyses the case of Sri Lanka »

  • The Zapatistas: A Counter Hegemonic Movement?

    Autore: Kishan Galliara

    Abstract: This thesis uses a Gramscian framework to analyse the Zapatistas movement that epitomises the historical struggle of Mexican hegemony and civil society. When we dissect the strategies implemented by the Zapatistas their attempt to create an organic revolution is apparent but also incorporating modern technology such as the media and internet to legitimate the movement. In a wider context, they have provided some response to the growing concerns within the neoliberal paradigm and »

  • The Impact of Microcredit: a Concrete Help or a Mere Utopia? Analysis of this Poverty-Alleviating Model through its Different Stages of Development.

    Autore: Greta Orsi

    Abstract: The decision to deal with this subject is to provide a clear vision of an important innovation in the world of the finances - the concept of microcredit - which is considered one of the most popular and effective efforts to win the biggest and most pressing challenge the world faces today: the elimination of poverty. The aim is to understand what it consists of, how it is used, what benefits it provides and above all if it can be considered an efficient means to defeat poverty and to offer »

  • Overcoming Access Barriers to Paediatric Healthcare Services: Users’ Point of View Analysis of the Emergency Paediatric Outpatients Department in Goderich, Sierra Leone.

    Autore: Stefano Battain

    Abstract: In the last sixty years international institutions explicitly recognised the primary role of healthcare for people’s well being. In 1948, the United Nation in the Universal Declaration of Human Right declared that all the human beings are equal and that childhood and motherhood should be especially protected. In 1978, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF with the declaration of Alma Ata jointly confirmed that health is a fundamental human right. More recently the United Nations included in »

  • The attitude of European Institutions towards the Chechen question

    Autore: Rosa Pirozzi

    Abstract: The aim of the present work is to investigate what have been the reactions of the European institutions to the dramatic situation in Chechnya starting from 1994. The first chapter deals with the suffered history of the Chechen people. It provides the reader with the historical background necessary to understand the origins of the Chechen-Russian conflict, which lasted for centuries. Particular attention is given to the last fourteen years, period of the two Chechen wars, the first one occurred »

  • Does the Internet Transform Civil Society? The Case of Civil Society Organisations in Indonesia

    Autore: Yanuar Nugroho

    Abstract: The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), particularly the Internet, has attracted huge attention. Despite the attention paid to research into Internet use in homes, government agencies and business firms, little attention has been paid to other types of organisations such as civil society organisations (CSOs). As a result, many things remain unknown: the patterns of uptake and use of the Internet in CSOs, the process of the transformation both of the organisations and the way »

  • Marlow: A twentieth century man?

    Autore: Giorgio Trombatore

    Abstract: Starting from the book by Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" the author writes a thesis on his experience as aid worker for non-governmental organizations in the Third World. »

  • The Coping Strategy Index, a Participatory Impact Indicator for Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Security

    Autore: Demetrio Innocenti

    Abstract: The purpose of this thesis was to assess the feasibility of a participatory food security indicator, the coping strategy index (CSI), in a monitoring and evaluation system that focuses on the outcomes and impact of food security interventions. The research methodology consisted in a critical review of the relevant literature and direct interviews with informants with a specific subject matter expertise. The study elaborated a series of criteria for the evaluation of the CSI and, on this »

  • Environmental meaning of Lower and Middle Holocene soils, Rift Valley, Ethiopia

    Autore: Demetrio Innocenti

    Abstract: The field study was carried out in the Great Lakes Region (Rift Valley) in Ethiopia. The research programme was funded by the Italian Government, and followed previous research phases funded by the EU, DG Environment. The research team was composed by professors and researchers from the University of Florence, University of Siena and Addis Ababa State University. The team Leader was Prof. Mario Sagri, College of Geological Science, University of Florence. The aim of the project was to »