In the fall of 2003 I was invited to lead a team of music therapists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a country that had been recently savaged by two brutal inter-ethnic wars. The program operated out of the Pavarotti Music Centre on the East side of Mostar, a divided city in th…
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Previous research on sexual violence has focused on individual level behaviors that typically include a single victim in an isolated event. Social scientists have failed to examine sexual violence as a group level phenomenon, which is often exhibited during war. In this disserta…
This thesis presents a framing for analyzing forms of visual interventions by international photojournalists, documentary photographers, and filmmakers during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (with the focus on Russia) in the 1990s. The framing rests on the distin…
Bosnia has three main political parties. Their perennial electoral success ensures that Bosnian politics are dominated by ethno-nationalist interests, which are antithetical to the liberal democratic Bosnia to which the European Union hopes to give membership someday. Bosnians a…
Bill Clinton assumed office during a particularly challenging period of American history. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States enjoyed a period of unprecedented power and authority. Clinton was elected to office largely for his domestic policies, however, his vi…
This dissertation draws on extensive field experience in Sarajevo between 2002-2012 to provide an intimate account of how individuals from mixed families in Bosnia today manage their sense of self and their kin relationships in the face of pressures to align themselves with a si…
The international community (IC) has been present in Bosnia-Herzegovina for almost twenty years. Although many reforms were achieved during the first decade of the state-building process, and violence has almost completely ceased to be a potential threat to stability, Bosnia-Her…
After the Nazi Holocaust, the international community vowed to prevent genocide from occurring in the future. Yet, genocide has continued to occur. Accordingly, this study seeks to better understand why and how genocide takes place. I ask two key questions: 1) What are the cause…
This dissertation explores the role of schools, families, and other-group contact on ethnic saliency and student attitudes towards outside groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) via statistical analysis. It was found that families, via familial example, have a statistically sign…
According to mainstream theories, democracy improves human development because electoral competition strengthens accountability of politicians to citizens: If politicians do not improve citizen welfare, they risk losing power. These approaches, however, neglect pathologies of po…
Currently the Department of Defense (DoD) does not use exposure biomarkers to measure environmental exposures to chemicals. Blood and urine exposure biomarkers for volatile organic compounds (VOC), selected heavy metals, depleted uranium (DU), and chemical warfare agents are cur…
This study examines the role of literature and history in the construction of postcolonial cultural identities in two African and two European societies. I examine in detail the works of one writer from each of these societies. Nuruddin Farah is a Somali writer who explores his …
The dissertation examines U.S. policy towards partition in the 1990s. Partition is defined as the division of a sovereign state into one or more sovereign states, representing the successful culmination of one or more secessionist or irredentist movements. The author utilizes th…
This thesis began as an attempt to understand why the war in Bosnia was allowed to unfold in the fashion it did. Why in spite of the widespread reports of genocide and ethnic cleansing (carried out in this bloody war) did we in the West stand by and do nothing? My initial questi…
From the Mai Lai Massacre to the Slaughter of Sarajevo examines a progressive decrease in the quality of press coverage as reflected in contemporary U.S. military involvements from Vietnam to Bosnia. The thesis is that the press has progressively become more dependent on the rul…
This research project explores and refines the applicability of just war principles to third-party interventions. Primary and secondary documents indicate a growing trend towards third-party intervention, particularly by the United States. These interventions create a problemati…
This dissertation investigates the way in which institutions shape the contours of contemporary state violence. It does so by asking why Serbia supported “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia during 1992, the first year of Bosnia's independence, while Israel engaged in a policy of “ethni…
The number of United Nations interventions in civil conflicts has increased since the end of the Cold War. Traditional peace-keeping has proved ill-suited to deal with them; second-generation, multi-task peace-keeping operations have emerged as a substitute. These new operations…
The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…