Public theology, tested ecumenical systems, global international organizations and individual rights are the ideas explored in the writing. Public theology, the act of bringing religious ideas and spirituality to the public square with the intention of changing the public. The e…
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Human trafficking recently shifted from being considered a marginal problem to an urgent one. As recent as twenty years ago, however, laws criminalizing trafficking were few and public perception mostly understood slavery as an issue of the past. Why do issues enter the global a…
The purpose of this project is to analyze what underlying issues exist in the implementation of the norm responsibility to protect and its inconsistent application across a series of humanitarian crises throughout the years. For this project, the method of research being conduct…
After the Second World War, two states claimed to represent the same nation: “China.” This work examines how the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) competed to represent China and the international consequences of that competition. The CPC’s victory in the C…
Since the resurgence of Rakhine State's conflict in 2017, and the resulting 750,000 refugees, Myanmar has received increased scrutiny by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, some of Myanmar's ethnic conflicts have been continuous since independence in 1948, and t…
During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu targeted Tutsi and allies. Interpreting this complex event requires examining the late 1950s. Analyzing Tutsi and Hutu in central Rwanda in 1957 improves understanding of political and social context preceding the genocide. This study rejects th…
New approaches to third-party conflict resolution stress the significance of the interconnectionsbetween the interventions of various external actors. Recent empirical and policy-onented work oncivil wars underscores the recurrent policy challenges such external actors face in p…
This thesis examines the evolution of the role of the UN Secretary-General in the maintenance of international peace and security. The objective is to examine the role played by the Secretary-General in the rejuvenation of the UN as the cold war came to a close. During this tran…
This dissertation studies New York lawyer and women's rights advocate Dorothy Kenyon and her role in an international women's movement between the 1930s and 1950 whose goal was to identify and eliminate legal discriminations against women. Kenyon was appointed to represent the U…
This research makes use of a Constructivist approach to norm development, in particular the concept of the norm life cycle, to assess the emergence and development of the responsibility to protect as a norm in international society in relation to the conduct of interventions on …
Global demand for peacekeeping is growing, especially in Africa. The United Nations has traditionally been at the forefront of developing peacekeeping theory and practice, and remains the primary operational agency for peacekeeping in Africa. But increasing emphasis is being pla…
This research essay will employ historical documents, as well as qualitative methods, to examine and contribute to the existing literature and collective efforts of feminists, sociologists, historians and international organizations with respect to the historical context and con…
Violence has plagued the westernmost region of Sudan, known as Darfur, since 2003. The conflict contains elements of political and ethnic divisiveness, desertification, and resource scarcity. The violence there continues to date. Many have declared genocide in Darfur while other…
Global public policy is an unexplored field, despite many public problems extending beyond the national level. This dissertation applied multiple streams (MS), often used for explaining policy-making at the national and subnational levels, to the creation of the PBC in 2005, and…
The purpose of this study is to examine the utility of a just war explanation in understanding Canada's decision to enter into the war in Afghanistan. It examines Canada's three phases of the war under the lens of jus ad bellum . The concentration is upon jus ad bellum 's core c…
The absence of an international provision, governing State immunity in civil cases based on the extra-territorial torture, has made the issue a disputed area in the law of State immunity. In recent years, national courts mostly ruled in favor of State immunity and denied to hear…
A dramatic shift in international practice emerged in the 1990s when the United Nations Security Council authorized military humanitarian intervention to stop gross human rights violations. During the Cold War, the Security Council did not halt mass killing and sanctioned states…
This dissertation examines the link between the rise of both the US as the most important world power, and human rights as the most compelling discourse of global morality during and immediately after the Second World War. In particular, I argue that the rhetorical commitment to…