Though democratization has become a central element of the international prescription for peace after the Cold War, it often leads instead to violent internal conflict, usually between ethnic groups. This dissertation studies how to make democratization work for peace, supposing…
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This dissertation describes the problem of violent ethnic conflict and genocide. The 20th century was marked by the deaths of over 100 million people in armed conflicts and another 170 million more in intrastate political violence. Terrorist attacks and responses to them and sta…
Power-sharing theory proposes democratic strategies for managing conflict in deeply-divided societies. The power-sharing literature has been dominated by a debate between two models of power-sharing, the consociational model proposed by Arend Lijphart and the integrative or ince…
This dissertation seeks to answer two major questions: (a) How do women in Turkey articulate their relationship to the Turkish State? and (b) How can women's understandings of the state help them build coalitions for a more democratic state? It constructs an analytic space that …
This thesis investigates the question of how Israeli policies have affected Palestinians urban behavior and along with it, political attitudes regarding the ongoing peace process, since the signing of Oslo Accords in 1993. Focusing on land and housing production, I explore how t…
Violence in the Middle East is frequently attributed to a rapid growth in what has been termed "religious fundamentalism." At present, academics and policymakers are faced with the difficult questions of why, how and when religion becomes the basis for political mobilization and…
The system of land ownership in Lugari Division has evolved through different historical phases. On the eve of colonialism, the clan-based system of land ownership prevailed among the sedentary Bantu Kabras sub-group. Land was acquired and owned by clans but settled and cultivat…
This study develops a theory explaining variation in the incidence and type of immigrant conflict and tests this theory in Great Britain and Germany. I first develop and disaggregate the concept of contemporary immigrant conflict into two component parts: (i) immigrant-native co…