The most recent extremist group in Nigeria, Boko Haram, continues to grow, committing various extremist acts, such as sporadic suicide bombings and killing of innocent citizens and foreigners within the country. The current history of Nigeria is a combustible mix of violent extr…
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is considered an intractable conflict. This thesis argues that this intractability stems from the presence of six conflict narratives which compete with one another. Through the use of case studies, this thesis seeks to prove that these narrative…
Peace education, a relatively new prevention strategy, is based on teaching curriculum designed to address the immediate needs of children living in a post-conflict society. Children are provided with the tools and techniques to help manage conflict and hatred in their own lives…
During the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of domestic social actors mobilized for peace in several African countries. They did so under unfavorable political conditions. Some of them went further and pursued their objective for peace at the level of formal negotiations. This pa…
As part of the "peace dividend" at the conclusion of the Cold War, Western nations largely withdrew their resources from African states that had previously participated as proxies. As a result, many of these African states collapsed, and a number of intractable civil wars ensued…
Since 1979, Saudi-Iranian relations have been tense due to their position as superior powers in the Middle East. Both countries have different values and perspectives in regards to diplomatic relations with the West. As a consequence of the new developments in Iran's foreign pol…
American foreign policy in Africa has been at the epicenter of discussions in academia, government, and non-government institutions since post-colonialism. Policies that the US has pursued in Africa span from promoting democracy to ensuring peace in nations plagued by civil war.…
America has a lengthy history with irregular warfare. The nation was born of an insurgency and remained committed to such conflict over the centuries, from the American Revolution in the eighteenth century, the Indian Wars in the nineteenth century, the Philippines in the twenti…
The conflict in Sudan reflects historic hatred and ethnic discrimination between Northern Arab Muslims and Southern African Christians and Animists. The longest and worst conflict began in 1983 and ended in 2005, when African Christians and Animists struggled to form an interim …
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…
The world is becoming more interdependent. Governments and diplomats negotiate across cultures every day. Some argue that negotiators are professionals and share the common diplomatic culture, therefore their cultural backgrounds are irrelevant to international negotiation and i…
Roman imperial rule serves as a context for the Fourth Gospel. In this late-first century colonial milieu, the oppressive ideologies of Rome devastate the Johannine community and the rest of the inhabitants of Palestine. John's narrative of the death of Jesus both responds to em…
International peace and stability interventions have evolved into complex multi-sector multi-level, enterprises usually achieving a negative peace status. However, in some "post-conflict" environments, conflict party sentiments that precipitated the intervention remain largely u…
This dissertation seeks to explain how civil society organizations can positively affect peace consolidation based on cases of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community based (CBOs) organizations from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan. It aims to determine how and why …
In 1973, Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974) proposed a new world order to the Non-Aligned Movement, shortly before returning to the Argentine presidency after eighteen years in exile. He was Argentina’s most important modern figure but divisive. The military toppled Perón in 1955, a…
Can there be peace among religions? Is it really possible to achieve a peaceful co-existence of diverse religious adherents in a society? What if one’s vision of peace and understanding of justice are deeply rooted in a Christian tradition and therefore fundamentally different f…
While the objective of peacemaking efforts is the institution of a self-sustaining peace, the international community has not been able to accomplish this important goal in many war-torn societies around the world. Thus, the challenge to peacemakers is not necessarily the negoti…
This thesis investigates the role of the United Nations in the area of peace enforcement. It studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression. It assesses the Security …