Forgiveness seems to involve both a decision to relinquish negativity (decisional forgiveness) and an emotional process of changing negative emotions to either a neutral or more positive emotional state (emotional forgiveness). Negative emotional unforgiveness--vengeful motivati…
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During the Cold War, France and Germany moved beyond their history as hereditary rivals to become cooperative partners, as might be expected when states are confronted by a global adversary. However, neither the extent of their cooperation nor the dramatic evolution in quality o…
This dissertation examines motherhood as a discursive practice that has influenced American women's relationship to processes of militarization, albeit in different ways and to different effect across bodies and even differentially within the same bodies across time. There are t…
This study focuses on Seeds of Peace, a peace education program whose purpose is to bring together teenagers from conflict regions, train them to be future leaders, and promote conflict resolution, reconciliation, and coexistence. The experiences of the Palestinian, Israeli-Jewi…
Este trabalho discute a geração Z e a promoção da paz como objeto pedagógico. Importa salientar que a escolha desta temática está relacionada com a minha prática letiva enquanto docente de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica (EMRC). Ao longo da lecionação da unidade letiva de re…
The oscillation of the conflicts in Israel and Northern Ireland in recent years between advances towards peaceful resolution and regressions to new cycles of bloodshed were explained by the inherent difficulties of territorial compromise, security threats, and effective politica…
This thesis is about personal transformation and therefore transformation of the world. Using poetry as the transformative medium based upon the peace education principles of holism, values formation, dialogue, and conscientisation, the author dialogued with three women poets of…
Recurrent conflict between states accounts for much of the devastation that is seen in the international system. Some pairs of countries have witnessed one war after another while other states have been able to move away from this cycle of violence. What accounts for these diffe…
The international community has followed up its 2001 invasion of Afghanistan with a complex multi-faceted peacebuilding project. However, informed observers believe the Western-led mission in Afghanistan has failed to address the inherent peacebuilding needs of Afghanistan and h…
In Cyprus, women's voices may not be heard by the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The study aims to investigate how the Cypriot women activists perceive the inclusiveness of the peace negotiation table and the importance of discussing women's victim…
The situation in Egypt and elsewhere in parts of the Arab world is to some extent reminiscent of the situation that prevailed before 1914 in Europe, where a motley array of unharnessed popular micronationalisms (today, instrumentalized religious fervor) combined with big power p…
The central goal of this project is to better understand the relationship between civil war and repression at each phase of the "civil-war life-cycle," which is composed of the escalation and onset of civil war, the war itself, and the post-war period. The project then seeks to …
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…
The urgency of gendering transitional justice, and indeed larger peacebuilding exercises, cannot be overstated. How does the introduction of gender perspectives in transitional justice shape the status of women in a transitioning society? And how can gender sensitivity be mainst…
This dissertation explores the nature of narratives that construct the crime of rape. My controlling question is: If we create meaning in language as I believe we do, why have recent revisions in the linguistic constructions of the crime, such as reforms in rape laws and in inte…
This study investigates the mechanisms through which social movement organizations (SMOs) are able to impact mass public opinion through framing processes. Past research has failed to find significant impact of SMOs upon current attitudes of mass publics. This failure is due to …
The end of the Cold War brought contexts of violence often protracted over time, along ethnic or other cultural divisions, addressing levels of society above and below that of the nation-state and cited variously as “complex humanitarian emergency” or the “failing state”. The sa…
This dissertation addresses the following questions: (1) how do peace agreements manifest conflict in value frame choices? (2) What difference does conflict in value-constructs make in the positions agents/signatories take over time? (3) And, when is convergence or divergence be…
The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…