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…
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a post-conflict and divided nation in need of social cohesion. In order to increase trust among different ethnic groups and between civilians and public institutions, a decentralized school governance system has been introduced. This study sought …
Peace and Conflict Studies was unknown as a field of academic inquiry in Iraq when the 21st century began. Just over a decade later, formal institutional entities had been established to explore the subject at three Iraqi universities. Using a participatory action research metho…
Pakistan is currently impacted by rampant terrorism and is simultaneously grappling with intrastate ethnic and sectarian violence. The focus of this dissertation was on examining grassroots Pakistani women's perspectives on peace and women's contributions to peace in Pakistan. T…
Approaches to resolve Turkey's Kurdish conflict have been overpowered by military operations because the state has framed the conflict as an internal security issue rather than a socio-political issue, and there has been very little effort to apply practical theory to the peaceb…
It is the purpose of this study to propose that perceptions of peacebuilding activities in all tracks of divided societies (political, civil society leaders, and grassroots), and the perceptions of the collaboration between the tracks are essential processes to a sustainable pea…
The past three decades have brought major changes in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. While both have had a peace process, Northern Ireland seems farther on its way to sustainable peace; Israel/Palestine is far away from it. Though both conflicts and peace…
This dissertation is an engaged critique of peacebuilding discourses and approaches in South Sudan with regard to women's exclusion and resulting lack of representation in the peacebuilding arena. The study investigates how women's exclusion in the peacebuilding process is histo…
Exclusion and violence persist in post-conflict states, despite external assistance to the demilitarization of politics, which the literature emphasizes as the primary goal of aid. Through a field-based study of Tajikistan and a survey of an additional three cases (Cambodia, Gua…
This dissertation is about the international effort to build the foundation for lasting peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the 1992–95 war that engulfed the country. An important finding from previous studies of post-settlement intervention in deeply divided societies is that sec…
In an effort to better understand and investigate why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains both protracted and resistant to attempts at peaceful resolutionthis thesis seeks to highlight and examine previous official level negotiations and the selected peacebuilding efforts o…
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…
This dissertation challenges the argument common in the scholarly literature and policy discourse on peacebuilding that the way to achieve coordination in peacebuilding is to establish a strong, overarching coordination authority. 1 While some degree of centralization may be pos…
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…
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…
Efforts to restructure security forces in countries emerging from civil war have led to mixed results. While large interventions have left police and military forces factionalized and ineffective, smaller interventions have resulted in more professional and publicly responsive f…
Women's contributions to peace negotiations and post-conflict peacebuilding are too often overlooked, undocumented and anecdotal. Is international peace, security and democracy enhanced when women are active participants in all aspects of peace processes including post-conflict …
International peace and stability interventions have evolved into complex multi-sector multi-level, enterprises usually achieving a negative peace status. However, in some "post-conflict" environments, conflict party sentiments that precipitated the intervention remain largely u…
This paper presents a comparative analysis and in-depth overview of international peacebuilding methodologies used in Cyprus from 1991 to 1999 towards the development of a comprehensive interdisciplinary learning model for international peacebuilding. It also analyzes and integr…