This dissertation focuses on compassion as a moral orientation and philosophical worldview. It argues that the compassionate worldview can be a moral compass for the modern age, in contrast with authoritarian conservatism and postmodern relativism. The dissertation includes an e…
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This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of political culture and contemporary activism in Palestine. I illustrate the entangled processes that enabled the discourse of nonviolence to flourish in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) in the last ten years. I part…
This research answers three questions: What is peacemaking in contemporary times; what role do women play in this peacemaking; how can the occurrence of peacemaking be fully recognized and sustained in today's society? An extensive literature review of women peacemakers expands …
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adult participants' ratings of their mother's and father's parenting styles and participants' levels of nonviolence in adulthood. Utilizing Baumrind's (1971) typology of authoritarian, authoritative and permissive…
The eruption of highly contagious conflicts in post-Soviet Eurasia necessitates urgency in monitoring events in terms of regional and international security as well as for conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy. Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, home to the Russian Black Sea Fl…
This dissertation explores whether and how the bounding practices of Israeli and Palestinian groups working nonviolently towards a "just and lasting peace" (even in times of armed conflict) shape 'group' and 'individual' identities that differ from 'official' zero-sum Self-Other…
This dissertation argues that Gandhian nonviolence (satyagraha ) only took root in the American pacifist community after a process of adaptation and modification. Reflecting their background in Social Gospel Christianity and progressivism, pacifists were initially reluctant to a…
When we think of nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century, we tend to reflect on Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. We honor these figures because they were exceptional: radical theologians who changed the world through their faith-based insistence on absolute nonv…
Islam is the world's fastest growing religion. It is known to have an abundant and very rich amount of knowledge found in the Qur'an and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad, and as such, this religion has tremendously contributed not only to Muslim societies but also to the West. …
In this thesis, I probe into the ways in which the much-debated word Jihad lends itself to multifarious meanings within the Mourid Sufi Order and examine the foundations of the principles of peace and non-violence that informed the relationships between Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, the…
We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and M…
"We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and …
"We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and …
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommo…
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommo…
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state's response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommo…
