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Conditions of Peace in the Context of the Colombian and Northern Irish Peace Process
Kindl, Jakob ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
This diploma thesis examines the relationship between the content and language of peace agreements and their acceptance by the population. It investigates the content on the basis of Johan Galtung's theoretical concept of positive peace and the language on the basis of structuralist linguistic theory. It is therefore an interdisciplinary research that combines the theoretical concept of the field of international relations with language theory. This thesis defends this approach by analyzing the concept of peace in international relations theories in which it identifies its shortcomings. A comparative case analysis of two peace agreements is conducted, the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and the Peace Agreement in Colombia. While the two conflicts and peace processes show many similarities, the outcome differed and while the agreement was accepted in Northern Ireland, the agreement was rejected in Colombia. This thesis is concerned with the search for the causes that may have led to the different outcome of the referendum on its adoption, and it seeks these causes in the content and language of the two agreements, rather than in the rejection of the referendum per se. The main contribution of the thesis is the analysis of the content and language of the two peace agreements, which examines...
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Consociationalism in the Northern Ireland: theory a practice
Růžičková, Kristýna ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Guasti, Petra (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the consociational political system in Northern Ireland. This topic appears to be still relevant in the light of recent events, especially Brexit and the non- functional Northern Ireland Assembly. The political system of Northern Ireland is the "flagship" case for both supporters and opponents of the consociational democracy theory. There are many publications about the consociational model in Northern Ireland; however, the publications primarily deal with the early stage of implementing and functioning of the system. It has been 25 years since signing of the Good Friday Agreement and this time frame allows us to evaluate the functioning of the system. That is why this thesis deals with not only the consociational model itself but also with its theoretical reflection and the development of the system since 1998 to this day. The main theoretical frame of the diploma thesis is the consociational democracy theory as defined by Arend Lijphart. The main aim of this thesis is to evaluate the functionig of the political system in Northern Ireland, its positives and negatives and propose possible modifications with respect to the development of the system since signing the Good Friday Agreement to this day, its scholarly theoretical reflection and the development of Northern...
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Geopolitical topics in Northern Ireland elections
Král, Josef ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Vrhel, Matěj (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to analyse and interpret the electoral manifestos of several Northern Irish political parties, namely the Democratic Unionist Party, Traditional Unionist Voice, Ulster Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party, People Before Profit and Alliance, in terms of the projection of geopolitical and globally significant social events, namely Brexit and the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, into the electoral manifestos of the parties in question. The thesis uses a combination of critical discursive analysis and content analysis to process the given electoral programmes. In terms of timing, these are documents drawn up by the parties for the Northern Ireland Assembly elections in May 2022. The importance of each issue for the parties in question, the frequency with which the issues appear in the programmes and the way in which the parties deal with the issues in their programmes are examined. The parties' attitudes to the issues, or the existence of consensus or cleavages within the Northern Irish political scene, are also examined. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on the theory of cleavage lines. The thesis has identified the projection of the aforementioned events into electoral...
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Contemporary Government in Northern Ireland: The application of Consociational democracy after 2022 elections
Klementová, Lucie ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Skutilová, Marie (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the government model in Northern Ireland, it deals in more detail with the issue of applying the consociational principle after the 2022 elections. This issue is introduced by the theoretical concept of consociational democracy, when is placed in a historical context, where this thesis describes the formation of the consociational principle of governance in Northern Ireland and then analyses the individual suspensions of the Northern Ireland Assembly, whose examination mainly observes the main characteristics of consociational democracy by Arend Lijphart. These theses aim to find answers to the research question of whether consociational democracy is a working implement for contemporary governance in Northern Ireland. Analysis of the results of the election and subsequent post-election negotiations show that the functionality of the electoral principle of governance is not optimal and leads Northern Ireland to a situation without a functional Northern Ireland Assembly, with a still-rising number of calls for a change in the formation of the government.
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The civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and its portrayal in the local periodical
Brčáková, Anna ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The presented bachelor thesis concerns the topic of the media image of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland in the local period press. The method of qualitative analysis and concept of frames is being used for the examination of the articles dealing with the five chosen important events in the period of the movement in the years 1968 and 1969. The events consist of the Caledon protest, the first civil rights march, the civil rights march in Derry/Londonderry, the announcement of a reform five-point plan, and the march of the People's Democracy. The thesis aims to explore the differences in the media coverage of these events in the periodicals of various socio-political orientations. Therefore, the selected newspapers include the most read titles with different editorial policies - traditional unionist leaning The News Letter (Belfast Newsletter), nationalist The Irish News, and liberal unionist The Belfast Telegraph. The analysis takes into consideration the amount, length, and placement of the articles, which indicates the level of importance of the event for the periodical. The main focus, however, is dedicated to the stance of the newspapers on the movement. Therefore, a system of categories is used to indicate sympathy or antipathy for the events. Moreover, the frames used for the...
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Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy in domestic and foreign press between 1979 and 1990
Štěpánková, Martina ; Šmíd, Marek (advisor) ; Petráček, Tomáš (referee)
This master's thesis will focus on Margaret Thatcher's foreign policy, starting with her appointment as Prime minister of Great Britain in 1979 and ending with her resignation in 1990. Next it will reflect on the social and political situation in Europe during her reign. The key element of this paper will be the analysis of domestic and foreign press, both democratic and communist, in which the student will target the Falkland war, policy towards European Economic Community, the North Ireland conflict solution, attitude towards African continent and the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf war and also special relationship between the Great Britain and United States of America. The goal of the student's research shall be a complex overview of the press in the period in question, put into the context of foreign policy of the first woman in charge of Great Britain.
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1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Cinema
Kolínová, Kristýna ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
The hunger strike of Irish republican prisoners in 1981 that was held in Maze/Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland was the culmination of a protest against the abolition of Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. Ten men starved themselves to death. The events related to the hunger strike are not forgotten to this day and still arouse disputes in the society. This thesis focuses on the analysis of popular feature films whose main theme is the hunger strike in Northern Ireland. On a theoretical level, the thesis uses the concept of collective memory which is described in more detail and applied to the issues of cinema in the first part of the thesis. The second chapter briefly presents historical context: the hunger strike itself and also its legacy today. The last and the most important part of the text deals with three movies, namely Some Mother's Son (1996), H3 (2001) and Hunger (2008) which are compared with regard to the origin of their authors, the selection of specific aspects of the historical events and time of their creation. Besides a summary of the main findings, there is also an outline of how filmmakers generally work with the theme of hunger strike in the conclusion.
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The impact of the policies of Margaret Thatcher's government on the socioeconomic status of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland
Vávrová, Leona ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of the socioeconomic situation of the Catholic community in Northern Ireland. It examines the economic, educational and housing policies that were put into effect in Northern Ireland by Margaret Thatcher's government and endeavours to determine whether an improvement occurred in the socioeconomic situation of the Catholic population during her rule. Education, employment and housing were examined for the analysis. Margaret Thatcher only implemented greater changes in education during her third term in office. When she was prime minister there were no budget cuts in this area, and the budget grew slightly in the second half of the eighties. In the eighties, the trend from the previous decade continued, in which the number of Catholic students entering university grew significantly. The proportion of students from the working-class also increased. Margaret Thatcher's government considered housing policy its priority in the years 1981 to 1987. It supported the private ownership of real property, construction in the private sector and reconstruction of the housing stock. During this period, almost all examined aspects of housing improved. Not only was the average level in the Catholic community studied, but also the average level in ten districts with the largest proportion of a...
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