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This thesis explores the multifaceted dimensions of womEnhood through the lens ofautoethnography. By weaving together diverse personal stories, we aim to underscore theprofound significance of intersectionality in shaping narratives of womenhood. We presentstories endowed with richness, vibrancy, and expression. Nestled between gender andintersectional feminist studies, the argument set forth is that womenhood can be explored butnot necessarily defined, allowing for a space of plurality and nuance.Inspired by scholarships of among others bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Ursula Le Guin, LindaLapina, Lola Olufemi, and Minna Salami, we unfold the shades of womenhood otherwise toooften forgotten. With the creation of a safe, sacred, and caring space that embraces the powerof embodied knowledge, we sought a process that fosters understanding, socialtransformation, connection, and a sense of belonging. We invite you to join and experiencethis sacred and intimate space evoked by our collective autoethnography and communalstorytelling in a thesis itself laid out as a story.

What are the discursive ideas around emerging artificial intelligence in international relations, and what could these mean for the future? Through a combination of quantitative topic modeling and manual qualitative discourse analysis, the project analyzes 55 articles from the epistemically influential Foreign Affairs Magazine. The project identifies five distinct discursive ideas around emerging AI and IR. By applying the English School theory, the project assesses the normativity of the discursive ideas, which, following the project’s constructivist philosophy of science, could shape the future of international society. The project argues that most of the discursive ideas point towards a bifurcation or dissolution of the current nascent global governance efforts around AI. Furthermore, the project finds that the ideals of order and zero-sum power dominate the ideals around global justice.

This project aims to contrast the narratives and institutionalised understandings of solidarity as portrayed by the United Nations through phenomenological exploration of queer people's experiences with, and understandings of solidarity. It means to challenge the institutions’ conceptualisation of solidarity through uncovering the complex variations of this concept. Through that, it aims to explore the role that a phenomenological study can have in challenging institutionalised narratives and understandings. This research contributes to the discourse on solidarity by highlighting the importance of inclusive and diverse perspectives. It calls for a critical reassessment of institutional narratives to ensure they reflect the lived realities of all communities.

Background: Continued global warming threatens the existence of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change through easier access to funding and country ownership of financing decisions. However, research reveals that climate adaptation efforts often are inadequate and fail to meet the unique adaptation needs of SIDS.Aim: This study aims to challenge current climate adaptation practices in SIDS, by proposing an Actor-Oriented approach to evaluating the effectiveness of climate adaptation projects. The concept of agency is central to this approach, highlighting the importance of local stakeholders' active participation, perspectives, and decision-making power in the design and implementation of climate adaptation projects.Methods: A case study of the GCF FP007 project in the Maldives. Based on reports from the UNDP, GCF, and the Maldivian Ministry of Environment, it assessed the extent to which the FP007 project can be considered effective.Findings: Our evaluation of the FP007 project reveals significant limitations in its effectiveness from an Actor-Oriented perspective. The project did not adequately address local stakeholder priorities, relied heavily on foreign consultants, and maintained a top-down approach, limiting local agency. Additionally, the project’s organizational structure and normative evaluation methods perpetuated external superiority and failed to fully incorporate and value local perspectives.

In my third semester as a master’s student in Global Studies + Communication Studies at Roskilde University, I did a professional internship at the United Nations Population Fund (herby UNFPA) at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark. For six months, I worked in the Partnership and Communications department of the Supply Chain Management Unit (herby UNFPA SCMU) as a digital communication intern.My ambition has always been to be part of an organization that fights for human rights, gender equality, and better sexual and reproductive health care for all. Therefore, this internship was the perfect opportunity for me to not only explore this passion of mine but also to finally put in place all the knowledge that I’ve learned during the past few years at the University.Keywords: United Nations, Communication, Social Media, Human Rights

This study carries out a systematic review of state-of-the-art critiques of the Sustainable Development Goals, by drawing on theoretical insights from class analysis, Social Reproduction Theory, and World Systems Theory. We found extensive literature on the shortcomings of the SDGs. We singled out a study that addresses the SDGs’ role in the perpetuation of class-related struggles in a global capitalist system and used it to guide us through the literature review. Following from this, this study scrutinizes the interplay between class dynamics and the SDGs in relation to their role in addressing or perpetuating class-related concerns in capitalism.The basis of the above-mentioned theoretical framework enabled us to carry out an extensive analysis that not only includes a descriptive explanation of the state-of-the-art critiques of the SDGs but also allows them to present their own analytical theses. In this study, the consistent application of this theory revealed research gaps that can be found especially in the area of class theory and missing explorations of the world-system. There is a neglect of class perspectives in both locally specific and globally general perspectives on the SDGs, which partly takes place within a so-called intersectional framework. Moreover, within the critiques we found the world-system perspective missing completely. Particularly the integral connection between capitalism and imperialism was neglected as both an observation as well as an analytical framework within the state-of-the-art critiques. Some critiques found that SDGs contributed to accumulation of dispossession, but this study identifies that the reviewed literature does not contextualize the SDGs within the polarized patterns of the world-system. We suggest further research integrating a similar theoretical framework to explore the effects and motives of the SDGs within the world-system, how they interact with class relations, and how they might even influence class relations.

This paper, research how the Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) collaborating with Indonesia on a launch of an organic cheese in and how that promotes sustainable development with green private solutions, and how that can amplify climate diplomacy with the assumption that it has nothing to do with promoting climate issues but more being about promoting commercial interests. Former literature has answered how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark has evolved over the past 250 years and argues that diplomacy have become more commercialized. Other literature has presented how the domestic Indonesian market on dairy lack infrastructure, that makes it valuable for international companies to expand their markets to Indonesia. By using Economic sustainability, Social sustainability, Environmental sustainability, and Small State theory combined with process-tracing and document analysis, with documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark on the Framework Programme on SSC and peer reviewed articles. The paper discovered that doing diplomacy in this day of time, will have to connect both climate issues and commercial interest to solve today’s affairs, and strengthen the bilateral relations between countries.

The following project aims to investigate how states facilitate human and minority rights action in relation to effective participation through the case of the Irish Travellers. This study was conducted through a single case study of the Irish government’s key initiatives aimed at the protection of the Irish Travellers and their engagement with the wider society. Each of these key initiatives has been examined with the aim of uncovering how the concept of effective participation is represented in relation to the facilitation of engagement in both political and social life, and how these initiatives comply with the international obligations of the Irish state. The project concludes that the Irish government shows clear attempts at facilitating effective participation in both political and social life for the Irish Travellers, and that these efforts overall align with their international obligations.

This project aims to investigate the issue of statelessness in different circumstances and how UN Conventions apply. It is done by examining academic articles, UNHCR reports, and different legislations. The analysis has been conducted with the use of international law and the liberal theory of citizenship to discover the significance of citizenship in relation to human rights. The discussion is built around the complexity of the issue and the notions of statelessness and human rights.This study argues that there are parts of the world where improving the situation of statelessness is difficult to achieve due to local realities, yet international organisations can still provide some assistance to stateless people and serve as an intermediary. We conclude that when aiming to resolve an issue as complex as statelessness, it is crucial to be aware of its multidimensionality and the challenges of applying international conventions in the local context.