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Afghanistan: role of drug business in the internal conflict
Zhaliapava, Liudmila ; Nožina, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hrishabh, Sandilya (referee)
This work is focused on Afghanistan, which is one of the centers of the world drug business. Plus Afghanistan is a zone of the old military conflict. However, this is not evidence that this conflict and drug business is connected. Nevertheless, shady regional economy is functioning in that region, and big part of it is drug business. The center of this economy is Afghanistan, place of long military conflict. Connections between drug business and military confrontation in conflict regions along the crucial trafficking routes are attended as well. This problem is took up by the example of one of the main route of traffic - from Afghanistan to Central-Asian piece of northern, or "Silk" road. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The year 1989 as a turning point and drugs in society as perceived by an individual
Šťastný, Josef ; Mücke, Pavel (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee)
English Summary Graduation thesis: The milestone year 1989 and drugs in the society in the view of an individual. This title covers the elaboration of the drug issue through 1989 in the Czech expert literature, dealing with the period since the advent of socialism up to the present days. The view of an individual, which is very important and crucial for the thesis, attends to the region of Prague, within the set objectives of the research. The work is divided into two main parts: The theoretical part which aims to produce an insight into the general happening first in Czechoslovakia and subsequently in the Czech Republic, using the Czech expert literature dealing with the history of drug problems. Practical part consists of an empirical research that focuses on demonstrating the development direction before 1989 up to these days within the region of Prague in three categories which are closely related, using structured interviews.
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Enterprising Faith: Ethnography of Faith-Based Development in Contemporary Thailand
Ryška, Tomáš ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Bělohradský, Václav (referee)
Based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork in northern Thailand this dissertation scrutinizes a significant part of the contemporary efforts of the international development - the faith-based development. Despite the fact that international donors and governments dedicate much of their resources and trust to the faith-based development organisations, this segment of the development industry remains largely absent from the academic literature. In this dissertation I focus on the relationships between social and economic changes in Thailand and global forces that affect lives of mountain ethnic minorities. State efforts to integrate highland people into the Thai lowland society include the development and maintenance of schools. This effort has been actively supported by Western development organizations employing activities and practices built upon fundamentalist Christianity. Since the mid 90s, the number of faith-based NGOs in northern Thailand, which were rather scarce before, began to rise. These institutions operate orphanages for highland minorities. In the process, thousands of ethnic minorities' children have left their homes and families to become "orphans" or "high risk situation children" that need to be taken care of by foreign aid workers bringing new ideas, information, hopes for a...
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The development of the first facilities offering treatment programmes for alcohol-dependent patients in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia: analysis of the historical and institutional framework and context of the origin, development, and dissolution of such programmes until 1945
Šejvl, Jaroslav ; Miovský, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Morovicsová, Eva (referee)
Background: The tradition of specialised institutional alcohol treatment in what is now the Czech Republic dates back over a hundred years. The first modern institution aimed at treating alcohol dependency began to operate on 7 September 1948. While formally constituting an organisational unit of the Psychiatric Clinic, the "U Apolináře" facility, headed by Dr. Jaroslav Skála, was an independent workplace which gave rise to a distinct treatment approach. Becoming known as the "Apolinar" treatment model, this approach was adopted by all the residential alcohol treatment facilities which came into existence or operated in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989. Before the establishment of this department, three similar treatment facilities existed on the historical territory of Czechoslovakia - Velké Kunčice (1911 to 1915), Tuchlov (1923 to 1938), and Istebné nad Oravou (1937 to 1939/1949). Aim: The aim of the dissertation thesis was to describe the analysis of the conditions which had an influence on the origin, development, operation, and dissolution of the three oldest specialised alcohol treatment institutions on the historical territory of what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1900 to 1945. Methods: The research involved qualitative content analysis of historical materials, mainly written...
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The development of the first facilities offering treatment programmes for alcohol-dependent patients in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia: analysis of the historical and institutional framework and context of the origin, development, and dissolution of such programmes until 1945
Šejvl, Jaroslav ; Miovský, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Morovicsová, Eva (referee)
Background: The tradition of specialised institutional alcohol treatment in what is now the Czech Republic dates back over a hundred years. The first modern institution aimed at treating alcohol dependency began to operate on 7 September 1948. While formally constituting an organisational unit of the Psychiatric Clinic, the "U Apolináře" facility, headed by Dr. Jaroslav Skála, was an independent workplace which gave rise to a distinct treatment approach. Becoming known as the "Apolinar" treatment model, this approach was adopted by all the residential alcohol treatment facilities which came into existence or operated in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989. Before the establishment of this department, three similar treatment facilities existed on the historical territory of Czechoslovakia - Velké Kunčice (1911 to 1915), Tuchlov (1923 to 1938), and Istebné nad Oravou (1937 to 1939/1949). Aim: The aim of the dissertation thesis was to describe the analysis of the conditions which had an influence on the origin, development, operation, and dissolution of the three oldest specialised alcohol treatment institutions on the historical territory of what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1900 to 1945. Methods: The research involved qualitative content analysis of historical materials, mainly written...
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Drugs in socialist Czechoslovakia
Kolář, Jan ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Vaněk, Miroslav (referee)
The issue of drugs and drug addiction is one of the greatest unresolved (and probably unresolvable) problems of mankind. This topic encountered a rocket rise in the Czech environment especially after the Velvet Revolution. The problem itself, nevertheless, germinated in the times of Communist dictatorship. For ideological reasons, however, it has long been trivialized, concealed, or attributed to the "decadent West" and to its affiliated domestic "elements". Serious drug-related debates took place in the Normalization period almost exclusively on the pages of professional publications and magazines kept from the eyes of ordinary citizen. The topic of drug addiction began to penetrate the public space without the old ideological templates in the second half of the 1980s, in connection with liberalization after the inauguration of M.S. Gorbachev into the leader of Communists in the Soviet Union. Regardless of the "wishes and complaints" of the Communist establishment, a subculture of young drug addicts emerged in Czechoslovakia, which had its values, hierarchies, symbols and its problems too. In the 1980s, several tens of thousands of people were involved, and if we add several hundreds of thousands elderly people who abused psychotropic medications, we find out how a major problem it was in the...
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Ethnic conflict in Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) in 2001 and 2004
Leová, Quynh Anh ; Nožina, Miroslav (advisor) ; Lopatková, Marta (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with ethnic situation in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) in Vietnam and with the ethnic conflict which lead to riots in 2001 and 2004. The aim of my thesis is to analyse this conflict and its impacts on current national minorities policy in Vietnam. Roots of this conflict go deep into history of relationship between ethnic majority Viet (Việt, or Kinh), and ethnic minorities. The Indochinese War and the Vietnam War had the biggest impact on this conflict, so did the economic reform Đổi Mới. The Đổi Mới aimed to improve living standards of ethnic minorities by resettling Viets to pass on their experience and help minorities to level up. However, number of the Viets have started to increase and tightening of control over the minorities lead to growth of interethnic tensions which resulted in ethnic conflict. Keywords: Vietnam, ethnic minorities, ethnic conflict, Tây Nguyên, Central Highlands
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Thieves in law - post-soviet criminal world leaders (from "perestroica" until today)
Dluhoš, Marek ; Reiman, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee)
The work deals with thieves in law as chiefs of Russian-language criminal organizations. On the basis of an analysis of available sources, and their historical, criminologically focused processing, there is examined a hypothesis that criminality represented by the thieves in law creates in its fight against the society a specific form of self-defence. Part of the work being also an answer to a question to what extent today's division into old and new vors is topical, and whether this world has modernized in permanent relation to the environment surrounding it. The author proceeds in his analysis from the role of the thief in law as the individuality acting in constant tension with the society to the characterization of the thieves in law and to relations by which they are connected. He also focuses on power structures to which the thieves in law are subordinated. Thus, the author pursues an overall picture of chiefs of the Vor world and its possible modernization. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Thieves in law - post-soviet criminal world leaders (from "perestroica" until today)
Dluhoš, Marek ; Reiman, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
The work deals with thieves in law as chiefs of Russian-language criminal organizations. On the basis of an analysis of available sources, and their historical, criminologically focused processing, there is examined a hypothesis that criminality represented by the thieves in law creates in its fight against the society a specific form of self-defence. Part of the work being also an answer to a question to what extent today's division into old and new vors is topical, and whether this world has modernized in permanent relation to the environment surrounding it. The author proceeds in his analysis from the role of the thief in law as the individuality acting in constant tension with the society to the characterization of the thieves in law and to relations by which they are connected. He also focuses on power structures to which the thieves in law are subordinated. Thus, the author pursues an overall picture of chiefs of the Vor world and its possible modernization. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Russian Speaking Organized Crime - international modernization and international expansion
Pojman, Petr ; Kubát, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Zoubková, Ivana (referee)
This work attempts to characterize internal modernization and international expansion of Russian speaking organized crime. Special emphasis is placed on the main stages of development of organized crime in the Soviet Union and its current state primarily in Russia and Ukraine. The paper proffer the new definition of modern forms of organized crime and different characteristics of regimes as for the relations between the state and organized crime (criminal syndicalism, mafia, state kleptocracy). The paper characterizes different types of international expansion of Russian speaking groups (regional expansion, global retirement and emigration). In this regard, research was focused primarily on the activities of the Russian speaking organized crime groups in the EU and the Czech Republic. In the last phase of the work I focused my research on some important measured how to reduce risk in the current conditions. Though the work is primarily devoted to organized crime from the CIS countries, it should be noted, modernization of organized crime everywhere in the world takes place by a similar manner. It was therefore necessary to briefly address the wider contextual issues. Working so many places highlights some aspects of the development of organized crime in Italy, USA , Czech Republic, Japan and China.
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