Literature on the southern Philippines region of Mindanao has a longstanding gender gap, with relatively little attention paid to the role of women either in history or in the contemporary era, despite international and national concern about gender in the recent peace process i…
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The scholarly study of forgiveness and leadership is a relatively new frontier. Despite numerous historical examples of leaders who have made significant impacts through forgiveness, the concept has failed to attract attention from leadership scholars, with a few notable excepti…
The purpose of this thesis was to examine if Palestinian Women in the Diaspora demonstrate political agency to preserve the Palestinian ethnic and nationalistic identities. Historical and modern-day accounts are analyzed in evaluating the motivations of Palestinian Women’s polit…
In contrast to historical examples in which urban increase is accompanied by the pull factors of wealth and development, post-industrialized sub-Saharan African urbanization patterns are characterized by a lack of economic growth, confounding experts. Simultaneously, African con…
This work tackles the problem of how to promote security sector reform (SSR) progress in states transitioning to democracy – and extremely important goal (given SSR’s connection to long-term stability as well as the well-being of ordinary citizens) that is unfortunately attempte…
The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to obtain a more accurate diagnosis of the factors that incite terrorism through examining the extent to which independent variables (the Group Grievance Index (GGI), the Legitimate State Index (LSI), and the External In…
Civil conflicts with ethnic motivating factors are more likely to experience recurrence than nonethnic conflicts. In this paper I conduct a survival analysis on a group of 175 conflict episodes from 1946-2005. I argue that grievances based on religion, race, culture, language, a…
“Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War, 1972-1992” examines the global 1980s women’s peace camping movement. This study aims to explore and comprehend peace in new ways. It is specifically targeted to define peace campers’…
Colombia has experienced over five decades of political unrest and extreme violence. This has caused suffering not only for those involved in the armed conflict, but for marginalized populations in general, and specifically for disadvantaged students in public schools. Although …
This ethnographic study based in Bangladesh analyzed Grade 10 students’ perspectives on the learning of science regarding peace and conflict resolution, and the use of science in their everyday lives to negotiate peace and resolve conflicts. The in-class delivery of the secondar…
Diplomasi uluslararası ilişkilerin diyalog ve barış yoluyla yürütülmesidir. Diplomasi İlk Çağlarda Dünya’nın çeşitli bölgelerinde uygulama açısından farklılıklar gösterirken amacı genellikle haberin taşınması, evlilik akdinin yerine getirilmesi, antlaşmaların imzalanması veya sa…
The signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the establishment of a Palestinian National Authority raised many Palestinians’ hopes that their decades of struggle and hardship would culminate in an independent state, peace and prosperity, as well as an implementation of their righ…
Conflict resolution efforts seek to de-escalate conflict dynamics to bring conciliation and/or reconciliation to a conflict. One strategy to de-escalate a conflict is to use food during conflict resolution efforts. So, what specifically does consuming food and beverage do to bre…
The purposes of this document are three-fold: 1) to examine the beliefs, policies, and actions of United States presidents and their advisors as they sought to preserve and extend American influence and create an atmosphere of trust, peace and stability among the inhabitants of …
Unarmed insurrectionary (UI) campaigns demanding irregular regime change seem destined to failure, but such social movements surprisingly succeed more often than not. Explanations for campaign outcome tend to focus on movement skill or variation in domestic-level structural fact…
Despite a growing research agenda centered on issues of civilian immunity, it remains unclear what effect norms protecting civilians have on state behavior, especially democracies. This study asks when and how the civilian immunity norm (CIN) matters, specifically examining how …
This paper examines the relationship between Track I Diplomacy and Civil Society in Cyprus. Cyprus has been a divided island for over 45 years despite numerous attempts at reconciliation on the societal level and ongoing negotiations on the diplomatic level. It was the aim of th…
Ghana is considered an oasis of peace despite having the same mix of ethno-political competitions for state power and resources; north-south horizontal inequalities; ethno-regional concentrations of Christians and Muslims; highly ethnicised elections; a natural resource dependen…