This study explores and critically examines the role of indigenous mechanisms (the Inter-Tribal Reconciliation Conferences-ITRCs) in resolving tribal conflicts in South Darfur State of Western Sudan. The fundamental question raised by this study is: have these reconciliation con…
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Justice and reconciliation are both highly complex concepts that are often described as incompatible alternatives in the aftermath of violent conflicts, despite the fact that both are fundamental to peacebuilding in societies divided by the legacies of political violence, oppres…
Whenever two or three are gathered together, the possibility of conflict is present. Conflict is inevitable, but how it is handled determines whether it leads to healthy relationships or destructive affiliations. This dissertation addresses whether preaching and teaching equip t…
Pitanje pomirenja u Bosni i Hercegovini je i nakon 25 godina od završetka rata aktuelna tema. Etničke podele prisutne su na svim nivoima društva i imaju direktnog i indirektnog uticaja kako na unutrašnju i spoljnu politiku države, tako i na svakodnevni život građana. Pitanje pom…
Recently, Canadian governments and public institutions have initiated a wide range of symbolic gestures and policy reforms aimed at reconciling historical injustices. Reforming history education to teach Canada’s difficult past has been a key priority in this movement, leading t…
This dissertation examines Friedrich Schiller’s, G.W.F. Hegel’s, and Søren Kierkegaard’s critiques of modernity. Through exegesis of key texts, it argues that the categories of ‘sacrifice’ and ‘reconciliation’ are crucial for understanding these critiques.
This thesis examines the history of Indigenous inclusion in the discipline of archaeology and how archaeologists can provide reconciliation when working with Indigenous peoples in their territory. This thesis focuses on the territory of the Williams Treaties with a particular fo…
This paper examines the relationship between Track I Diplomacy and Civil Society in Cyprus. Cyprus has been a divided island for over 45 years despite numerous attempts at reconciliation on the societal level and ongoing negotiations on the diplomatic level. It was the aim of th…
Ethical States addresses the turn to ethics in contemporary literature by focusing on novelistic treatments of political reconciliation in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine since the 1990s. This dissertation reads an array of cultural texts – including novels,…
The Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) witnessed military conflicts between the major religious communities, including Christians and Druze. It resulted in the displacement of a third of the population into religiously homogenous areas. One of the major goals of International Develo…
An increase in intra-state, ethnic conflicts has created a need for a renewed analysis of the causes, consequences and solutions to the “new” predominant type of conflict. This dissertation is a contribution to the existing academic efforts to explore the questions of ethnic con…
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…
As communities in Bosnia have experienced genocide, the global community is in need of understanding a way toward justice by recognizing crimes against humanity to further gain insight into reconciliation and healing lives across the lifespan. Understanding intergenerational tra…
In light of increasing speculation about the potential for reconciliation with insurgents in Afghanistan, this paper examines the merit of negotiating and reconciling with long-time insurgent faction, Hizb-i Islami Gulbuddin (HIG). By qualitatively applying a quantitative model …
This dissertation examines the conflict in Eastern Anatolia in the early 20th century and the memory politics around it. It shows how discourses of victimhood have been engines of grievance that power the politics of fear, hatred and competing, exclusionary claims to statehood a…
America's longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to the war in Afghanistan. The United States must decide the best alternative for ending the war and it must decide now. The U.S. has limited time to make meaningful progress on the…
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…
In 1439, at the ecclesiastical Council of Ferrara-Florence, representatives of the Byzantine empire and the Eastern Orthodox churches signed a reunion agreement with the Roman Catholic church. At the time, both parties accorded this council ecumenical status, meaning that its de…