The sahir (evil eye) metaphors of the Muslim Arab Rubatab or the Sudan is the focus for this dissertation, based on intensive fieldwork. Sahir is a speech event during which a speaker (sahhar) allegedly attempts to cast the evil eye on an object or a person by analogizing them t…
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Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories form one continuous narrative of the life of several generations in a fictional village in northern Sudan. From Salih's early short stories and sketches to his latest novel, that narrative reflects the development of the author's art, his s…
Sudan has been embroiled in civil war for fifty years. The peace agreement of 2005 finally brought this war to an end. This research explores how radio has informed audience perceptions and interpretations on issues of peace and conflict. This research draws on peace and conflic…
Stable isotope analysis of hair was used to investigate the dietary patterns of individuals from the Christian period Sudanese Nubian site of Kulubnarti, taking into consideration established patterns of health. Over three decades of research has shown consistent differences bet…
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the relationship between the psychological and medical concerns circumcised women face and barriers to reproductive health care delivery in the United States. The relationship between female circumcision and reproductive health car…
This study examines the human security impacts of Angola and Sudan's foreign relations toward China. Sino-African relations are becoming increasingly important as global powers search for strategic resources, notably petroleum, to bolster economic development. A review of trade …
A disturbing trend of contemporary conflict in Africa has been the increased vulnerability of civilians, often involving their deliberate targeting. The current debate about intervention for human rights purposes, as a result of proliferation of armed conflict within and between…
The objective of this research, which is both psychological and anthropological, is to study the use of art therapy as a treatment modality with a traumatized group of Sudanese refugees known as the "Lost Boys of Sudan." A protocol developed for this study uses six art therapy p…
This thesis examines the norm of humanitarian intervention and argues that Finnemore and Sikkink's norm life cycle model is an insufficient explanation of the norm, due to its inability to take into account the potential for sham compliance. It demonstrates how three main instru…
Context is a difficult concept to define, model, and represent. Geography and history offer unique perspectives on the notion of context, a context defined in this research as geo-historical context, or GHC. GHC creates a contextual setting based on the interconnectedness of phe…
This study examines United States policy rhetoric surrounding sexual violence in Darfur, using discourse analysis and critical theory. At the U.S. national level, how important is the use of certain rhetoric for its responses to the sexual violence in the Darfur conflict? The U.…
The purpose of this study was to explore the cultural and contextual resilience mechanisms operating in the lives of Sudanese refugees living in Virginia. A convenience and snowball sampling of 10 Sudanese refugees (1 female, 9 male) living in Virginia were selected to participa…
This dissertation is about state foreign responses to violations of international humanitarian law in African civil wars. Its central concern is with the extent to which international humanitarian law obligations shape state foreign policy decisions, as opposed to calculations o…
Between 1956 and 1999 one-third of the civil wars in the world occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. The prevailing explanation given to account for this fact is the economic weakness of African states. While low income is a robust determinant of civil war onset in global models, it i…
The present doctoral dissertation proposes a comparative investigation of Egyptian and Kushite temples. The study corpus consists of one architectural type—the free-standing temple—that was dedicated to one deity. Amun, who played the most important role in both Egyptian and Kus…
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…
This dissertation is a composition, of stories, many stories, of journeys, of people as they moved from Sudan to Canada, confronting and contesting the dominant refugee discourse(s). Stories that also challenge the form and content of academic writing. Form builds on content, mo…
The ICC, which came into force in 2002, was held up by human rights activists as a force that would transform a culture of impunity into a culture of accountability. However, after five years of activity, the evidence suggests that the Court's effect has been mixed. Its ability …
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, social justice activists in the United States initiated two coalition based campaigns aimed at ameliorating the violence associated with extractive industries in Angola, Sierra Leone and Sudan. The ideological diversity and the disparate intere…