Current approaches to post-war state reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the soc…
This dissertation is about state foreign responses to violations of international humanitarian law in African civil wars. Its central concern is with the extent to which international humanitarian law obligations shape state foreign policy decisions, as opposed to calculations o…
This dissertation uses approaches and concepts from conflict resolution literature to answer two related questions concerning civil war peace agreements. First, it seeks to explain why some peace agreements are signed while others do not get signed, and second, why some agreemen…
Intragroup church conflict developed in the Liberia Annual Conference (LAC) of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in the 1980s. Therefore, this study sought to find out the causes of the conflict and recommend strategies for resolving group conflict within the conference. The res…
The biomedical model explains onchocerciasis as a disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a nematode transmitted to humans through the bite of the blackfly Similium. Physical symptoms of onchocerciasis include vision impairment, total blindness, severe itching, skin lesions, and …
The objectives were: (1) share common concerns for human needs and work together for peace; (2) design a framework for effective dialogue; (3) draw upon connections between Islam and Christianity to improve dialogue and peacemaking; (4) explore common commitments to peacemaking;…
This project seeks to answer the question to what extent do specific individual, domestic, and system level variables affect the U.S. decision to intervene in intrastate conflicts from 1948 to 1997? Using the Correlates of War intrastate war dataset and a newly constructed datas…
Sharon Alane Abramowitz examine how humanitarian healthcare dealt with mental health and psychiatry during Liberia's turbulent postwar transition, looking closely at the ways mental health and psychosocial interventions worked to manage trauma and produce postwar peace.
Discusses the history of Liberia from prehistoric times to 1857, the year Maryland, an independent African state, joined the Republic.
Discusses the history of Liberia from prehistoric times to 1857, the year Maryland, an independent African state, joined the Republic.
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent2019s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, par…
Global forum on transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes peer reviews: the Republic of Liberia 2012 : phase 1
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