CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Tso, Palden |
|---|---|
| Title | Death by Fire: Causes,Effects and Reactions from International Communities to Tibetan Self-simulations to Determine the Question of Tibet |
| Summary | This paper examines the causes and effects of Tibetan self-immolations in China’s Tibet. To ease understand the case, research question has split into two major questions. Firstly, paper tries to look for the driving factors for this wave of self-immolation by Tibetans inside Tibet post-Beijing Olympic. Secondly, it shed light on how far it is succeed to deliver justice to the people of Tibet. The reaction from outside Tibet is divided into two agents: the world political agents and international Medias. It is not guaranteed that social movements always bring positive changes in the political system. Sometimes, social movement worsens the existing policies, for example, Tibetan self-immolation in a way lead to tighten the Chinese repression in Tibet. Moreover, it increases the level of mistrust between Central Tibetan Administration and Beijing. |
| Supervisor | Kim Youngmi |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/tso_palden.pdf |
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