An attempt is made in this work to study the Sudan Government's military response to the complex problems presented by actual or potential opposition to its rule, especially in the Northern (Muslim) Sudan, between 1899 and 1925 - 26. Chapter I discusses the danger to internal se…
This dissertation is an effort to explain the constitution of order among the Nuer as an acephalous society. Theoretical formulations best represented by Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America have demonstrated how principles of self-governance can be used to constitute so…
The Northern Bahr al-Ghazal is the land of the Nilotic people, principally the Malual Dinka and the Luo. During the middle of the nineteenth century and even into the middle of the twentieth century, the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal was exposed to a series of invasions from the North…
Pay occupies a central place in the theoretical, as well as applied, aspects of income distribution. Yet the accumulated knowledge of how pay is determined in reality in developing countries is too sparse and too fragmented to enable the identification of the underlying determin…
Conrad's Heart of Darkness examines the brutality of colonization while simultaneously replicating the ideology that informs it. Conrad's vision of Africa as the temporal predecessor of Europe denies the African "savage" coevalness and creates a model for examining how coloniali…
This action-oriented inquiry on the opportunities and hazards of arms control in Akobo County, Jonglei State, Sudan, is informed by both historical and field research and contains an analysis of the dynamics surrounding ongoing disarmament in the research area, within southern S…
This dissertation identifies three countries where the Bible storying strategy has been utilized for training local church leaders. Chapter 1 introduces and defines chronological Bible storying and the need for it in oral-society leadership training. An acknowledgment of requiri…
Under what circumstances can the provision of social services, including that provided as humanitarian assistance, contribute to the management and transformation of civil wars? This dissertation addresses this question through a qualitative comparative analysis of social servic…
Inadequate government assistance to refugees, negative attitudes of host communities, lack of participation by refugees in community affairs, lack of access to better-paying jobs, and lack of English skills exacerbate dependence on public assistance by refugees. The purpose of t…
Why do the groups that fight secessionist wars frequently go back and forth between violence and nonviolence? While empirical evidence from the existing literature shows that most secessionist conflicts are violent, the literature does not address why the level of violence withi…
This paper aims to compare the status of women in two cultures: specifically, women in white middle-class American society who have dissociative symptoms, and women who experience spirit possession in the Zar cult in the Sudan. This comparison is done from a multi-axial perspect…
The purpose of the study was to provide empirical data to describe the quality of early childhood education in Sudan. The study was specifically designed to address the following research questions: (1) To describe Sudanese kindergarten programs' administration, teacher characte…
In this thesis, I examine how The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers represented the violence in Darfur, Sudan during 2004--the first year that the crisis in Darfur gained the attention of both papers. Using a content analysis method called framing, I particularly…
Despite arguments that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should refrain from taking criminal action against President Al-Bashir of Sudan for his connection to the conflict in Darfur, I argue that the court should attempt to prosecute President al-Bashir or else risk being s…
In the run up to the 2011 referendum on South Sudanese independence, popular and political discourse reveals a heightened nationalism around the formation of the 'New Sudan', a contested and as yet unrealized political entity but one that offers hope for peace in the region. Mem…
This dissertation is a study of the gender relations of displacement that are the result of the complex interplay between militarized conflict and development-induced displacement in southern Sudan. The dissertation specifically examines the shifts in gender perceptions and role…
The Dinka notion of cieng embodies sociocentric ideas, differentiating the good of the group from the good of the individual. Cieng has multivalent meanings among the Dinka Ciec that are expanded beyond that described among the Nuer. Within Dinka Ciec society, expressions of thi…
The purpose of this dissertation is to critically assess the role of external intervention in managing selected ethnic conflicts in Africa. Given the pervasive threat of ethnic conflict and the growing incidence of internal wars spilling across borders, understanding the impact …