Libya is in a state of transition following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. Because Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s dictatorship imposed structural violence, direct violence, and cultural violence, causing many injustices and human rights violations, as well as the violent nature of th…
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This thesis explores the perceptions of Palestinian university students on topics of peace with Israel and armed or violent conflict engagement strategies. By relying on Frame Analysis literature, this research describes how respondents currently frame these issues and what has …
For a variety of reasons since 1979, the United States of America has severed all political ties and retreated to a policy of enacting economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Such reasons include security concerns and human rights abuses. Historical research and…
Using narrative research study founded in social constructionism, I explored the lived experiences of thirty Afghan humanitarian aid workers in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discover how they experienced the war on terror. Ten participants were individually interviewed and their storie…
The international operation in Afghanistan has exposed distinct government and coalition approaches. Despite growing support of so-called Whole-of-Government (WoG) approaches amongst nations, little convergence is observed on the ground. This thesis "what explains the content an…
This research examines the differences between the perceptions of the U.S.-led international intervention actors and the Afghan population, particularly in the area of security and justice over the period between 2001 and 2006. Understanding these perceptions was instructive in …
This dissertation delineates a political economy of refugee return migration to South Sudan by examining refugees' shifting practices of production, social reproduction and exchange, their spatialization and their intersection with various axes of difference. My work builds on t…
In this dissertation, I analyze religious actors debating the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 as well as the religious cultural dimensions of the larger public discussion. I argue that one cannot adequately explain the country's entry into the war without understanding the…
In earlier efforts by many researchers to explain the breakdown of peacemaking initiatives to settle the Cyprus question, the focus has been primarily on one or just a few initiatives. This dissertation takes a systematic and holistic approach to examining all 41 peacemaking ini…
Global public policy is an unexplored field, despite many public problems extending beyond the national level. This dissertation applied multiple streams (MS), often used for explaining policy-making at the national and subnational levels, to the creation of the PBC in 2005, and…
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan since 2003 is the largest producer of illicit opium in the world. In 2011, it produced 5,800 metric tons of opium from approximately 131,000 hectors cultivated land – an increase from its lowest production le…
My dissertation strives to understand the conditions under which peace operations in intra-state wars succeed or fail. I address two main questions: What is peace operation success, and what contributes to such an outcome? I define the success of a peace operation based on two d…
This study seeks to demonstrate connections between theatre and conflict, as inspired by metaphor and embodied by case studies of four theatrical organizations working in conflict zones: The Freedom Theatre in Palestine, Ajoka Theatre in Pakistan, DAH Teater in Serbia, and Belar…
Intrastate conflicts involving multiple actors have grown in number since 1946. Evidence suggests that shifts in alliances between actors in intrastate conflicts change the nature of the conflict and its duration. The extant literature is unable to answer questions related to ho…
In 2009, Bangladesh's Awami League began a process to try `collaborators' for their alleged crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. This single case study approach focuses on the nearly forty years between 1971 and 2009 in an attempt to understand why transitional justice was del…
What determines economic growth after civil wars? States emerging from civil war face a host of political, social, and economic challenges to recovery. But, extant research demonstrates that states with greater economic growth after civil war are more likely to sustain the peace…
Inspired by the nonviolence work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., civilian peacemakers have spent three decades developing third-party nonviolent intervention as a method for preventing the escalation of violence in conflict zones. "[T]hird-party nonviolent intervention...…
Each year, the international community pumps over 40 billion in humanitarian assistance into the world's most volatile environments. Without proper precautions, these resources can be hijacked by militias and, in some instances, even state militaries, benefiting the powerful at …