This paper analyses the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine that lasted over the period of nine-months (29 July 2013 - 29 April 2014), under the theoretical framework of Robert Putnam's two-level games model. The model does not offer a solution to the decades-old con…
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In the wake of nearly forty years of armed conflict, the Northern Irish Assembly announced the Victims' and Survivors' Order of 2006. This order categorized all victims, civilian and paramilitary members, as beneficiaries of compensatory schemes and social services developed to …
This dissertation explores the relation between gender and crisis in the late modern phase of Arabic literature—specifically, from the late 1960s to the present. Working with a regional Arab context, I define crisis as an endemic situation of political paralysis and cultural sta…
One aspect of children's and adolescents' sense of self is their awareness of their collective (ethnic, national, and religious) identity. Western stage models for racial and ethnic identity development in American youth of color do not account for the development of Palestinian…
This dissertation is an investigation of the Israeli policies, procedures and laws and how they have contributed to the alienation of the Palestinian community of East Jerusalem. Through examining the network of strategies, Laws and State actions that is enforced by the State of…
This dissertation studies the effect of memory activism on political change. I define memory activism as a transnational strategy of peace activism in which a contested past is recovered through on-site commemoration. More specifically, I study activist use of a global cultural …
For over a century, most scholars have claimed that the presence, activity, and influence of the Jewish priesthood sharply declined with the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 C.E. According to the traditional narrative, priestly authority in the Jewish community was repl…
As we work to improve life for everyone on this earth, it is important to identify circumstances where societal ills reseed themselves. I am curious about finding ways to address destructive cyclical behavior, to productively interrupt those cycles, and to divert destructive ene…
Hundreds of thousands of adolescents confronted war and political violence in many countries all over the world. Despite calls to refine and perform sophisticated studies on this special population had been made a decade ago, the knowledge base remained limited. This study was d…
Despite its accomplishment of establishing a state and a national homeland for the Jews, Zionism, the national movement of the Jewish people, remains a debated and contested ideology. It is within this debate that my dissertation is located. This study explores the evolution of …
This research seeks to understand the reasons for failures of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, and Ehud Barak's Camp David Summit that was held in July, 2000. The Summit was arranged to complete the last phase of Oslo Peace Process. Numerous researches have attempted to reveal the f…
This interpretive study examines how narratives and collective memories about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict affect the identities of Jewish Israeli Americans and Palestinian Americans today. In contrast to Charles Tilly's (2002) assumption that identity stories and th…
The past three decades have brought major changes in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. While both have had a peace process, Northern Ireland seems farther on its way to sustainable peace; Israel/Palestine is far away from it. Though both conflicts and peace…
The phrase "nature of science" has been used to refer to "the epistemology of science, science as a way of knowing, or the values and beliefs inherent to the development of scientific knowledge" (Lederman, Abd-El-Khalick, Bell, & Schwartz, 2002, p. 497). Despite the disagreement…
This study engaged in pushing the current political limitations created by the political impasse of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by imagining new possibilities for radical political change, agency, and subjectivity for both the international activists volunteering with the …
The discovery of Jewish ossuaries in the nineteenth century raised a host of questions, paramount among them the questions of the origin and purpose of the ossuaries. It was also realized that ossuaries were a short lived phenomenon, appearing and disappearing relatively suddenl…
The goal of the dissertation is to study the needs and perceptions of academics in Palestine and the conditions that affect their ability to change and improve the education of a rapidly growing generation of learners. The few studies that have examined the Palestinian professor…
This thesis principally concerns the illegal immigration campaign launched by a secret organisation, the Mossad FAliyah Bet (The Mossad), to breach the British naval blockade of Palestine and thereby enable the entry of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. My primary objective is …