Established in 2003, the Kimberley Process (KP) is a binding agreement; backed by the United Nations, that unites civil societies, state actors and the diamond industry to safeguard ‘conflict' diamonds from entering legitimate rough diamond trade around the world. The unique international tripartite organization is voluntary but mandates state participants to abide by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) minimum requirements in order to stem the financing or wars against legitimate governments. This study represents the first to explore the communications within the KP. The linguistic turn relies on Classical rhetoric theory with an emphasis on Aristotle's three appeals of persuasion (“pisteis”): ethos, logos and pathos of elite actors in the KP. As for the precise nature of the contribution to rhetorical analysis, this project is best characterised as an application of Classical principals of rhetorical analysis, rather than as a development of theory. A comprehensive literature review of the KP and KPCS is another distinctive contribution. Furthermore, this academic endeavour offers a unique method as shown in the observation of a KP Intersessional meeting. Supplementing the qualitative inquiry, semi-structured interviews were conducted with all of the KP groups and included a wide sample of civil society international and national non-government organizations, state actors and industry members otherwise not represented in previous empirical efforts on the subject. The data chapters achieve the primary aim to add to the understanding of the KP. Firstly, the civil societies engage in boycott rhetoric using ethos and negative pathos. As for state actors, the KP Chair exhibits charismatic leadership rhetoric, while ‘recognized' established states use logical reasoning, the ‘outlier' states evoke positive pathos. Lastly, the diamond industry experts appeal to negative emotions, the World Diamond Council to logos, and De Beers to positive emotional appeals. Combined, the rhetoric shows (a) how KP rhētors use different rhetorical strategies; (b) which in turn shape distinct discourses; (c) and contain dissimilar claims; (d) points to different motivations; (e) highlight different identities; (f) reveal key characteristics, and; (g) the nature of relationships within the KP. The organization rhetorical analysis also entails how the multiple KP leaders view the KP and KPCS and change. While the rhetoric helps demonstrate the constraints surrounding the KP and KPCS it also underlines the primary human rights and human security in which they all share. This thesis provides an extended critical view of the rhetoric by connecting Aristotelian pisteis with different conceptions of power outlined by French and Raven (1959) and Lukes (2005/1974). Combined, the rhetoric helps to explain the ways the KP attempts to achieve their specific political and economic goals while also building relationships with their stakeholders. Rhetoric is a worthwhile theory and methodological approach in order to explore organizations. The KP, and other international organizations provide an opportune arena for further rhetorical attention.

The interest in modeling non-maturing deposits has skyrocketed ever since thefinancial crisis 2008. Not only from a regulatory and legislative perspective,but also from an investment and funding perspective.Modeling of non-maturing deposits is a very broad subject. In this thesis someof the topics within the subject are investigated, where the greatest focus inon the modeling of the deposit volumes. The main objective is to providethe bank with an analysis of the majority of the topics that needs to be cov-ered when modeling non-maturing deposits. This includes short-rate model-ing using Vasicek’s model, deposit rate modeling using a regression approachand a method proposed by Jarrow and Van Deventer, volume modeling usingSARIMA, SARIMAX and a general additive model, a static replicating port-folio based on Maes and Timmerman’s to model the behaviour of the depositaccounts and finally a liquidity risk model that was suggested by Kalkbrenerand Willing. All of these models have been applied on three different accounttypes: private transaction accounts, savings accounts and corporate savingsaccounts.The results are that, due to the current market, the static replicating portfoliodoes not achieve the desired results. Furthermore, the best volume model forthe data provided is a SARIMA model, meaning the effect of the exogenousvariables are seemingly already embedded in the lagged volume. Finally, theliquidity risk results are plausible and thus deemed satisfactory. / Intresset för att modellera inlåningsvolymer utan en kontrakterad förfallodaghar ökat markant sedan finanskrisen 2008. Inte bara sett utifrån ett perspek-tiv att uppfylla krav som ställs av tillsynsmyndigheter, men också sett utifrånbankens investerings-och finansieringsperspektiv.Målet med det här arbetet är att förse banken med en analys av majoritetenav de olika områdena som man behöver ta hänsyn till när man ska model-lera inlåningar utan förfallodatum, men med ett fokus på volymmodellering.I den här rapporten modelleras räntor (kortränta och kontoränta), kontovoly-merna, kontobeteendet samt likviditetsrisken. Detta görs med hjälp av Vasicekför korträntan, en regressionsmetod samt en metod som föreslagits av Jarrowoch Van Deventer för kontoräntan, SARIMA, SARIMAX och en generell ad-ditiv regressionsmetod för volymerna, en statisk replikeringsportfölj baseradpå Maes och Timmermans modell för att imitera kontona och slutligen så mo-delleras likviditetsrisken med ett ramverk som föreslagits av Kalkbrener ochWilling. Alla dessa nämnda modeller appliceras, där det är möjligt, på de treolika kontotyperna: privatkonton, sparkonton samt företagssparkonto.Resultatet är att räntemodelleringen samt replikeringsportföljen inte ger ade-kvata resultat på grund av den rådande marknaden. Vidare så ger en SARIMA-modell den bästa prediktionen, vilket gör att slutsatsen är att andra exogenavariabler redan är inneslutna i den fördröjda volymvariabeln. Avslutningsvisså ger likviditetsmodellen tillfredsställande resultat och antas vara rimlig.