As civil conflicts continue to be the most prevalent form of war, women and children are disproportionately affected by intrastate violence. In response to such findings, the United Nations, at the behest of a transitional activist network, passed United Nations Security Council…
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In counterinsurgency wars with large-scale foreign military interventions, under what conditions do in-country allies comply with the demands of foreign intervening forces and under what conditions do allies dismiss foreign demands? By examining thousands of primary source docum…
This study analyzes how civic engagement and collaborative governance can be used to build peace in post-conflict societies. A case study approach is used to examine the presence of civic engagement as a precursor to collaborative governance in the reconstruction of segregated a…
There is a prevailing perception that protest music written during the Vietnam War era was more plentiful and played a more prominent role in the antiwar movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s than protest music written for the antiwar movement accompanying America's declara…
In countries of conflict, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often resort to humanitarian relief. A small number of peace and conflict resolution organizations (P/CROs) engage more directly, through grassroots mediation, elite negotiation and advocacy. This thesis observes th…
This thesis sought to determine whether the values of religious organizations could be consistent with feminist values. Nine members of a women's interfaith organization consisting of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian members participated in semi-structured interviews, and the Brow…
International intervention, most visibly represented by the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), has failed to resolve the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Respected scholars have claimed that the "subordination of peacemaking to peacekeeping"…
This dissertation draws on extensive field experience in Sarajevo between 2002-2012 to provide an intimate account of how individuals from mixed families in Bosnia today manage their sense of self and their kin relationships in the face of pressures to align themselves with a si…
The complex political landscape of Iran is often excluded from political discourse, contributing to oversimplified, at times incoherent policy approaches that reflect fundamental misunderstandings and typically undermine rather than complement U.S. nonproliferation objectives. D…
Peacebuilding and conflict resolution interventions often require partnerships between local experts who are from those conflict settings and skilled professionals who are “outsiders.” Efforts to resolve or transform protracted social conflicts must be carefully planned and impl…
Why do wars happen, and what do societies fight over? Why are international relations sometimes fearful and aggressive and other times harmonious? I show that these questions can be fruitfully explored by importing some basic economic theory into the existing bargaining theory o…
This dissertation responds to a growing body of literature that points to a crisis in post-conflict aid interventions. These complex, costly and risky international undertakings have not only failed to produce desirable results, but have left efforts to effectively and successfu…
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement entered the Palestinian political landscape in 2005 amidst the absence of a unified national liberation strategy and a truly representative Palestinian political body. By channeling extant energies through a three-tiered plat…
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the impact of non-governmental (NGO) and other civil society organizations on the creation, implementation, and durability of a peace agreement following a civil war. A most similar systems compar…
This study seeks to answer understand whether or not the United States has learned from its past in stabilization and reconstruction operations. To answer this question, this work constructs a new theoretical model of foreign policy learning and presents two case studies to expl…
This research aims to understand the nature, the capacities and the salience of local agency in international state building projects. Applied in highly varied contexts such as Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Timor East, Afghanistan, Iraq or Kosovo, international state building is …
Forecasting in international relations is becoming increasingly common, accurate, and relevant for decision support to policymakers. One of the major subjects of forecasting has been inter- and intrastate war, through various observable outcomes like onset, duration, and casualt…
In attempting to understand post-invasion violence, particularly in the years 2005–2007, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, and scholars have identified numerous and legitimate factors that contributed to overall instability within Iraq. What has been lackin…
The study reviews and assesses Nigeria's contributions to ECOMOG peace support operations in Liberia and finds that the contributions indeed positively impacted on the success of the mission. The study reviews all available evidence and finds that without any doubt Nigeria's con…