My dissertation asks: (1) What are the meanings that faith-based organizations (FBOs) assign to their own values, identities, and practices?, and (2) How do such meanings shape the service-advocacy work of FBOs? Scholars are increasingly interested in the role of FBOs in areas o…
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Stories of people who experienced violent conflict rarely make the big news but they are rich resources and guides for peacebuilding and development interventions. This qualitative study, through loosely structured interviews, explores sources of healing of Bosnian people who li…
In this thesis, I examine the role of queerness, solidarity and movement in anti-war activism relating to the 2006 Lebanon War. I investigate two events called "Out Against the Occupation" that were organized during the summer of 2006 in response to the war. These events emerged…
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…
This dissertation explores the process of building peace in terms of the making of complex legitimacy in post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan. Since 2000, Tajikistan's citizens have seen major political violence end, order across the country return and the peace agreement betwe…
Leaders of national governments often create and promote a certain image of another nation's government to elicit public support for policy positions toward that nation. Image theory investigates how these images emerge by studying similarities and differences in the two governm…
This paper examines which group is more effective at performing peacekeeping missions in post-Cold War Africa - the United Nations or separate great powers not operating under UN control. It considers four cases: Somalia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sier…
The dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of the European Union as an actor of peace in post-conflict Bosnia Herzegovina. While doing that it discusses the use of democratization as a form of peacebuilding in a post-conflict society. The EU membership perspective that has bee…
The purpose of this project is to document the peacebuilding strategies of Thai grassroots women community leaders from the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, in Southern Thailand, and to understand how feminist perspectives of peace and conflict influence local conflict…
A comparative case study of integrated schools in two regions of conflict, this study addresses the potential and limitations of education to promote individual and societal processes of change and peace building. In modern societies, education is expected to play a central func…
This thesis examines the role of interaction, and how misinterpretation of actions, contributes to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. Conflict is defined as a competitive or opposing action of incompatibles; an antagonistic state or action (as divergent ideas, in…
Seventeen years have passed since the Somali state collapsed in 1991. Yet, although the international community, employing liberal approaches to peacebuilding, has made repeated attempts to end the civil war, all of the externally imposd solutions failed to establish neither dur…
Current researchers of mental health have not explored the war-related experiences of the Afghan and Pakistani Pashtun young adult men (PYAMs) living in the Pak-Afghan armed conflict region. The purpose of this study was to explore the interrelated concepts of loss and grief, ch…
The second half of the 20th century introduced an unexpected phenomenon-the rise of religion as a marker for political identity, and as a power for structure mobilization. Policymakers often ignored this de-privatization of religion, thus failing to comprehend and recognize its …
This study is concerned with establishing a theoretical framework of mediation that provides an applicable strategy for mediating antagonistic societal groups. Drawing from a variety of fields, including conflict resolution, structuralism/post-structuralism, social psychology, a…