War is Peace: A Study of Relationship Between Gender Equality and Peacefulness of a State
2015 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 180 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Based on the previous studies, the hypothesis of this research is that the higher the level of gender equality in a state, the higher level of its peacefulness. It is a quantitative study using linear regression analysis with three variables, namely Global Peace Index (GPI) as a dependent variable, Gender Inequality Index (GII) as an independent variable and Human Development Index (HDI) as a control variable. The data of 139 states from year 2013 were submitted into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The result shows a significant and positive linear relationship between gender inequality and a high level of conflict, which confirms the hypothesis. However, HDI shows to be less reliable as a control variable due to issues with multicollinearity (heavily related independent variables). Further studies should replace the HDI with another control variable.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. , p. 31
Keywords [en]
peace, peacefulness, gender, gender equality, conflict, bivariate, multivariate, linear, regression, analysis, state, GPI, GII, HDI, index, international relations, SPSS
Keywords [sv]
fred, konflikt, genus, jämställdhet, internationella relationer, bivariat, multivariat, regressionsanalys
National Category
Globalisation Studies Gender Studies Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-27663ISRN: JU-HLK-GLS-1-20150010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-27663DiVA, id: diva2:844459
Supervisors
Examiners
2015-08-062015-08-062018-01-11Bibliographically approved