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…
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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…
Desde la posesión del presidente Juan Manuel Santos en el año 2010, se vislumbró que el país presentaría un giro en cuanto a los temas relacionados con el conflicto armado y la construcción de paz, este trasformó su postura frente a las organizaciones defensoras de derechos huma…
Reconciliation is one of the few terms having widespread usage in the American lexicon, after originating in the biblical canon. Although popularly used to denote parties giving up their enmity and finding commonality, reconciliation’s meaning is much deeper. In the succeeding f…
Problem: Due to long-standing religious, racial, and cultural tensions, a complex and challenging relationship exists between Jews and Christians. The resulting breach isolates and separates these two faith groups from each other. Consequently, they struggle to interact and enga…
This dissertation examines the meaning and significance of propitiation in the Old Testament narrative literature. The following problems are addressed. (1) Propitiation is often considered a pagan concept inappropriate to the God or religion of the Old Testament. (2) Discussion…