Visscher, Tina
(2018)
From Victims to Victors to… Perpetrators?
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
Recent research in the field of religious studies, international relations, and in particular peace
building processes focus on the role of “winners” and “losers” of war in peace building processes;
making their voices heard. However, these two sides of the war and/or conflict are not the only
ones involved. Often, small religious actors play a crucial role in ending armed conflicts, although
they are not taken into account in peace building processes and are made invisible. Indeed, it is
quite hard to make the voices of every person or party involved heard; however, must we then
silence them for the sake of merely a piece of paper with a peace agreement on it signed by the
major actors, instead of transforming the conflict at stake, gaining stable, lasting peace for the
entire community and societal change? This thesis, zooming in on the current civil war in Syria-
Iraq, the associated peace talks, and the involvement of the Kurdish Peshmerga militias in ending
the armed conflict, will focus on the role of the Kurds, a minority group in the Middle-East with a
love-hate relationship with Baghdad and surrounding countries, but nevertheless played a great role
in liberating parts of Syria and Iraq despite their own agenda.
Key words: ethnic minority groups, peace building processes, conflict transformation, Peshmerga
militias, Iraqi Kurds, Kurdistan, state building
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
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| Tarusarira, J. | J.Tarusarira@rug.nl | | | | Knibbe, K.E. | K.E.Knibbe@rug.nl | | |
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2017- 2018 |
| Date of delivery: |
31 Aug 2018 |
| Last modified: |
31 Aug 2018 13:11 |
| URI: |
https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/400 |
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