Can there be peace among religions? Is it really possible to achieve a peaceful co-existence of diverse religious adherents in a society? What if one’s vision of peace and understanding of justice are deeply rooted in a Christian tradition and therefore fundamentally different f…
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Many of the current peacebuilding tools originated in academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Theoretical frameworks, communication skills, and problem-solving exercises are now mimicked internationally, regardless of cultural context. Ritual peacebuilding offers new ways …
My dissertation asks: (1) What are the meanings that faith-based organizations (FBOs) assign to their own values, identities, and practices?, and (2) How do such meanings shape the service-advocacy work of FBOs? Scholars are increasingly interested in the role of FBOs in areas o…
This dissertation uses a qualitative, constructivist stance to explore both the theoretical linkage between peacebuilding and development as an effective approach to state-building in post-conflict areas and the practical conditions in which development and peacebuilding activit…
Though democratization has become a central element of the international prescription for peace after the Cold War, it often leads instead to violent internal conflict, usually between ethnic groups. This dissertation studies how to make democratization work for peace, supposing…
Seventeen years have passed since the Somali state collapsed in 1991. Yet, although the international community, employing liberal approaches to peacebuilding, has made repeated attempts to end the civil war, all of the externally imposd solutions failed to establish neither dur…
Mennonites have engaged in education, medical, and peacemaking work in Somalia since entering the country in 1953. This dissertation focuses on what theological differences or continuity can be identified across the span of these six decades. My research included secondary sourc…
"The objective of this book is to develop an understanding of the mechanisms for constructing--or eroding--the legitimacy of newly created governments in post-conflict peacebuilding environments"--