The purpose of this research project is to examine the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary analysis of where further manifestations exis…
Son yüzyıllarda yaşanan teknik gelişmeler, insan hayatına ciddi derecede kon-for alanları sağlamakla birlikte geri dönüşü çok zor hatta mümkün olmayan pek çok yıkıma da neden olmuştur. Hızlı değişimler, sürekli tüketim, nüfus artışı, çevre kirliliği, insanların evrenin sahibi ve…
Universal Self is an archetype in which there is reciprocal correspondence between individual and universe. A pragmatic research design grounded in the hermeneutic tradition of inquiry is used to explore Universal Self from the perspective of Ancient Egypt by synthesizing histor…
This study examined inclusion practices from three 'strategy as practice' categories: identity work, discourse and materiality, which also contributes to open strategy knowledge. The case around the Colombian peace process made two differences: first, the study of strategy as pr…
“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’…
A standard practice in the sociological and comparative politics literature is to interpret ethnicity broadly as identity cleavages deriving from non-class categories such as language, religion, race and caste. In recent decades, conflicts between ‘ethnic’ communities, i.e., gro…
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…
Bu tezde, Türkiye'nin Filistin politikasını analiz etmek için konstrüktivizm ve post-yapısalcılık teorileri kullanılmaktadır. Tezin temel varsayımı, Filistin meselesi hakkındaki söylemin, Türk hükümetlerinin kimliğindeki değişimle ve Türk dış politikasının Ortadoğu'ya yönelik il…
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…
Much scholarly attention has been given to the development of Sir Francis Walsingham’s intelligence-gathering network and how it played an important role in Elizabethan foreign and domestic politics during the 1580s, but little has been attempted for the 1590s. This thesis will …
What is the nature of the EU’s policies towards its eastern neighbours? Is it to create a ‘ring of friends’ or an imperial strategy? Ever since the establishment of the European project, this subject has been heavily debated. The EU might present similarities with an empire, thr…
This thesis seeks to explain the critical underlying cause of high degrees of tension and insecurity after 1949, when the civil war ended between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Kuomingtang (KMT), based on Prof. Benjamin Miller’s State-to-nation balance theory. This thesis arg…
The First World War marked the end of the era of empires, followed by postwar accords which divided up territory into newly formed states. As a result of this new order, numerous ethnic groups found themselves under new regimes with new set of rolls. The research in hand seek to…
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 …
Since 1948, voices of Palestinian civil society have mostly been absent from the media as have debates about how to resolve their grievances and overall situation of life under the constraints imposed by Israel. This dissertation was intended to provide a venue for those voices …
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…
Islamic terrorism has become a global problem which has resulted in human, social, political, and economic costs. Many Islamic terrorist organizations have focused their attacks on the West and its interests. They justify these acts by making reference to policies of the West, w…
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Israel's collective narrative is transmitted to adolescents, and in turn how they actively engage with it to develop their own personal narratives of the conflict's past, present, and future. In order to examine this process, a mixed-…
Most international relations scholarship concentrates exclusively on cooperation or aggression and dismisses non-conforming behavior as anomalous. Consequently, Chinese foreign policy towards small states is deemed either irrelevant or deviant. Yet an inquiry into the full range…