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Item Understanding of Sustainable Environmental Practices amongst Professional Women in Lahore(UMT.Lahore, 2025) Fareeha MahmoodThis research examines how professional women in Lahore perceive, engage in sustainable environmental practices. As environmental challenges continue to increase, it‘s essential to examine the perspectives of the women in promoting sustainability, particularly in the urban side. The qualitative approach was used in this study, included interviews, and group discussion with 10 professional women from the various fields such as education, health, and corporate organization. In this research, the participant was chosen based on their knowledge related to the sustainability. The collected data was analyzed to uncover the key themes, including their knowledge, barriers, practices, personal motivation and the suggestion for sustainable action.Item Mapping Women-led Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Initiatives: Exploring Their Experiences and Challenges in Pakistan(UMT.Lahore, 2025) Rimsha BashirPeacebuilding has become a crucial process to avoid bloodshed and accelerate the establishment of long-lasting peace and tolerance. Particularly, women’s contribution to peacebuilding and conflict resolution is more critical. However, there is a scarcity of documentary evidence and mapping of women-led initiatives in peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Pakistan. Bridging the gap in existing literature, this research is aimed to map the women-led organizations, working on PB& CR in Pakistan. Using secondary data sources and a thorough desk review, the research compiled a list of relevant PB & CR organizations in Pakistan. A qualitative research design was adopted, using an exploratory technique to explore the women leaders’ experiences, effectiveness, and challenges associated with the local women-led initiatives for PB & CR through 20 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with 9 organizations from four provinces of Pakistan.Item FOUCAULT'S TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF-CARE(UMT.Lahore, 2025) MAJIDA BATOOLThis thesis investigates Michel Foucault's idea of "technologies of self-care" through an archival examination of his writings, with an emphasis on how individuals utilize these methods to govern their behavior in the context of societal expectations. Drawing on Foucault's later work, notably his works on ethics and self-government, this study looks at how self-care practices have evolved and what they mean for modern understandings of autonomy, power, and subjectivity.The key goals of this research are to evaluate Foucault's original texts to trace the concept's historical evolution, to assess how these self-care technologies operate in connection to power systems, and to investigate their significance in modern self-help and wellness movements. Using an archival research technique, significant themes from Foucault's work were retrieved and studied to reveal the philosophical and ethical implications of self-care.