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Politics and society in Angola in the 1970s: MPLA' s struggle for the consolidation of power
Caetano Joáo, Mário Augusto ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (advisor) ; Klíma, Jan (referee) ; Kropáček, Luboš (referee)
Politics and Society in Angola in the 70's of the 20th century: MPLA's struggle for the consolidation of power is a rigorous and meticulous work on the internal dynamics existing in MPLA, first as a movement and then as a political party, through the greatest moments, which in its development occurred. The seventies of last century represent the biggest crisis in the history of the Angolan strongest political party ever. The work seeks to highlight the political consequences but also consequences in human lives that these crises have influenced. During the 70's of the 20th century four major events bring MPLA on the verge of liberation process. On the eastern front, at the beginning of the seventies, there was an uprising in the MPLA army against the central leadership. Later, Daniel Chipenda, a member of the MPLA Steering Committee, took the lead of the rebellion. In terms of leadership in MPLA, this was the first major collapse between the Steering Committee and the MPLA social and rural bases. Right after took place another revolt, which was called Active Revolt, in May 1974 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo where MPLA had its headquarters. It was carried out by mostly intellectual dissidents, but it brought structural catastrophic consequences for MPLA, when the 25th April 1974 in Portugal played a coup...
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Amharas in Ethiopia.
Zárubová, Martina ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (advisor) ; Korecká, Zuzana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present from the historical perspective the Ethiopian Amharas as a nation, which, even though they are not forming majority of the state, they had and still have major impact on the Ethiopian society. They also maintained influence on other nations mainly thanks to the Amharic language, which became the official language of the whole of Ethiopia. The structure of the work is divided in such a way in order to include all the relevant phases that are related to the history and life of the Ethiopian Amharas. The compilation of the work is based on the theoretical analysis and the study of the literature. In the thesis I give a brief overview of the history, including the legend of the origin of the Solomon dynasty, to which the Amharas still avow. In the view of the fact that significant role in Ethiopian society plays also the affiliation of most of the Amharas with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, I deal with its history and hierarchies. I also apprise of the religious rituals, feasts and celebrations. In individual parts I follow up the historical roots of Amharic and its relevance to a particular language group. Role of Amharic is analyzed with respect to the educational system in Ethiopia, I am also referring to its role in connection with the so-called Amharization...
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Ethiopians in Prague
Šobáňová, Hana ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee)
The thesis deals with the Ethiopian migration to the Czech Republic, especially to Prague. The aim of this work is to present the Ethiopian migration, to identify the origin and the reasons of an individual migrant for coming to the Czech Republic, to learn about their adaptation to the Czech environment and to find out what are their prospects and aspirations for the future. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first introductory chapter contains motivation, criticism of the sources, the structure of work and terminology. The theoretical part deals with the characteristics of Ethiopia, 20th century history, present time, selected Ethiopian nations and two cases of the most common Ethiopian's migration. Afterwards we focus on the Czech (Slovak) - Ethiopian relations, establishment of diplomatic, cultural and economic relations and the statistics of the number of Ethiopians in the Czech Republic. In the research part, based on participant observation and interviews I describe the course of the Ethiopian migration from the initial motivation, through language training, study, work, relationship to the Czech Republic and Ethiopia, to their future plans.
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Amharas in Ethiopia
Zárubová, Martina ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (advisor) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
This thesis is devoted to the Ethiopian Amharas, who had and still have big impact on the present Ethiopian society in spite of not being majority in the state. Before it was thanks to the privileged position within the Orthodox Church and later, thanks to taking control of the educational system, when Amharic became the official language of whole Ethiopia. The work is based on theoretical study of literature and is structured in such a way as to include all the important phases of the history and life of Ethiopian Amhara. In this thesis I give a brief overview of the history, including the legend of the origin of the Solomonic dynasty, to which Amharas still avow. In the view of the fact that significant role in the Ethiopian society plays also the affiliation of most of the Amharas with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church I am pursuing its history and hierarchy. I also appraise religious rituals, feasts and celebrations. In individual parts of the thesis I follow up the historical roots of Amharic and its relevance to a particular language group. Role of Amharic is analysed also with respect to the so-called amharization process - Ethiopian modernization. I also put up a historical view of the language situation in Ethiopia in general and briefly describe other Ethiopian languages, including their...
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The Magnitude of Governance in Addressing HIV/AIDS Problems in Ethiopia
Balcha, Daniel Messele ; Potůček, Martin (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee) ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee)
This case study seeks to understand the scope of governance in addressing HIV/AIDS issues in Ethiopia by making use of HIV/AIDS partnership forums that exist in the country. All individuals representing the government sector, the NGO sector, the for profit sector and HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO) both at the national level and in the three regions namely Oromia Region, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) and Addis Ababa have been interviewed. Additional data were gathered using a PARTNER tool survey and also relevant documents have been analyzed. The social capital and governance theories create a framework where actors enjoy partnerships and use the benefits in both policy making and implementation. With the help of a problem tree and thematic analysis the study describes the causal effect relationship of the factors affecting partnerships and their ultimate consequence in maximizing social capital and governance. Accordingly, the thesis identifies the specific effects of the 2009 law on partnership endeavors in particular and HIV/AIDS policy implementation in general. Moreover, the study points out the existence of insufficient partnership in both decision making and policy implementation.
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The integration of immigrants in the Czech Republic: with and without the help of the non-governmental organizations - the comparative study
Suchánková, Pavla ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee)
This bachelor thesis concentrates on problematics of immigrants integration in the Czech Republic. The main aim of this work is, to find out what the kind of influence non- profit organisations, in this case the Counselling Centre for Integration, has for the process of integration of immigrants itself. The set target is being verified on the basis of comparison of integration level of clients of Counselling Centre for Integration and Globus ČR, k. s. employees. This work is divided into five basic chapters. The introductory chapter presents the topic, aims and the structure of the work itself. Second chapter is devoted to an evaluation of sources and literature used in this work. The theoretical part defines notions which are directly related with the problematics given, describes the process of integration of immigrants in the Czech Republic, deals with the integration politics and non-profit organisations in the Czech Republic. Empirical investigation contains some important data about Counselling Centre for Integration and an evaluation of information gained due to questionnaires, participant observations and non-structured informal discussions. Last chapter summarizes information gained and evalues target reachments.
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Syrians in the Czech Republic
Šimonová, Hana ; Pargač, Jan (advisor) ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee)
The thesis "Syrians in the Czech Republic" is engaged with the Syrians living in the Czech Republic, and their activities here. Attempts to outline the Syrians view on the Czech society and their integration into Czech society. The main method of work is a field research among the Syrians supplemented with study of technical literature. Keywords Syria, Syrians, the Arabic spring, the Arab revolution, Bashar Assad, the Baas, Syrian identity, islam, emigration, immigration, integration process, problem of identity
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Selected areas of socio-cultural changes: Ethiopia since the early 20th century
Hejzlarová, Kristýna ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
The goal of this work is to analyse changes and their processes in Ethiopian society and culture of twentieth century. The first part deals with theoretical grasping of the category of change and its conception in sociology and anthropology. The second part outlines the general history of the twentieth century in Ethiopia, with emphasis on political course of events, which by its different attitudes and strategies toward selected areas to a large extent determined their form in corresponding periods. The first area is education and the second is religion, both subsections containing a summary. The third section synthesizes theoretical approaches of socio-cultural change from the first part of the paper peripherally and implies a possible alternative interpretation of real events by theoretical concepts.
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