This study provides insight into the perspectives of the Online Collaborative Writing (OCW): theories, pedagogies, strategies and technologies. It describes the Arab EFL Learners' (AEFLs) attitudes towards OCW with American peers and tutors. It presents detailed descriptions abo…
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The “special relationship” between the United States and the State of Israel cannot be fully explained by conventional realist analysis of so called “hard factors” such as strategic importance and economic; nor can it be fully explained using pluralist theory by the influence of…
The existing literature in international relations has shown that the study of international behavior has predominantly been concentrated on the great powers, thus paying little heed to the role of developing countries in world politics. This study set out to rectify this anomal…
In the anthropological study of ethnic conflict, there has been an increasing call to look beyond the riot, to turn from a top-down, state-centered approach, to a nationalism of the street or neighborhood, to travel "the everyday highways and byways of ongoing social relationshi…
At the very beginning of the twentieth century, the Arab nationalist thinker Negib Azoury predicted that the rising Jewish and Arab nationalist movements are set on a collision course. The Zionist movement in Palestine and then in Israel came to embody this Jewish nationalism. O…
This work is an attempt to explore the role of religion, particularly Islam, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a factor both motivating the conflict and as a potential resource for its resolution. It examines whether religious beliefs, commitments, traditions shape or influ…
This dissertation attempts to fill a gap in the academic literature about religion and peace promotion. It explores how people understand their religious identity in ways that allow them and motivate them to forge relationships with religious others. It does this by exploring th…
Given the vast geography and immense population of Nigeria, the scale and scope of this research project is intentionally confined to offering a fractional glimpse of Nigeria's inherently complex and diverse story. Informed by methods such as ethnography and people's history, th…
This dissertation focuses on the study of interreligious violence, civic peace, and citizenship in the Christian-Muslim conflict zone of Maluku (the Moluccas) in eastern Indonesia, especially in the region of Ambon. Violent conflict between Christians and Muslims broke out in th…