This dissertation aims to study the gap between the theory and practice of the framework implemented by the United Nations Security Council 1325 (UNSCR 1325), which concerns the importance of women’s role in peacebuilding. Within the case study of South Sudan, this thesis analyz…
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In this project, I will address the misconceptions that have surrounded the strategic aims of the Confederate States Navy pertaining to the ironclad warship. It is commonly understood among historians that the ironclads built by the Confederacy were laid down with the intention …
El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…
This dissertation explores the role of the Guatemalan National Police, from 1954 to 1985, as an institution that in the context of the country’s armed conflict and dirty war, became a key part of the machinery of brutality and violence of the Guatemalan State. The work approache…
The central goal of this project is to better understand the relationship between civil war and repression at each phase of the "civil-war life-cycle," which is composed of the escalation and onset of civil war, the war itself, and the post-war period. The project then seeks to …
A common feature of modern civil wars is the tendency of rebel organizations to factionalize and fragment. Yet how can we explain patterns of factionalism and fragmentation in civil wars? How do normal, private disagreements within rebel organizations become full-fledged dispute…
As you read this sentence, know that a riot is occurring somewhere in the world. Elsewhere, or perhaps in the same location, government forces are constructing a barricade and a politician is being abducted. These types of politically motivated conflictual events are always occu…
While the origin of the Arab Spring is well documented in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, the role of press photography in presenting these conflicts is not. Images taken during a conflict often follow a particular narrative that comes to define how we remember a conflict. Cons…
Johnson's Island prison was located three miles from Sandusky and acted as the primary holding facility for captured Confederate officers throughout the Civil War. During its four years of operation, more than 10,000 rebel prisoners were held there. Unlike other northern prisons…
This dissertation examines British, French, German, and American efforts to study the Mexican-American (1846-48), Crimean (1854-56), Civil (1861-65), Franco-Prussian (1870-71), and Russo-Turkish (1877-78) Wars as the conflicts progressed. The work provides a comparative explorat…
Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa at the juncture of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean experienced social cleavage and civil war since 1990. In 1994 sporadic warfare continues and the nation does not yet have a viable government. This dissertation argues that Somalia's misfortun…
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States and Europe the idea arose that "race" is a matter of biology, internal "essence," a thing having real existence and permanence. Fifty years earlier, the Enlightenment had seen race as an ephemeral function of climate, geography, and mo…
This dissertation is an analysis of rape policy in the following case studies: Eritrea since 1970; apartheid South Africa; contemporary South Africa; Peru from 1980 until 1992; contemporary Peru; East Pakistan in 1971; contemporary Pakistan; Rwanda in the 1990s; Bosnia-Herzegovi…
My Ph.D. dissertation attempts to provide an indepth investigation and analysis of the political, social, cultural, economic, and religious problems that led to the outbreak of the first civil war in the Sudan in 1955. It discusses the involvement of foreign missionaries and Sud…
This study focuses on the efforts of the Confederate States of America to obtain recognition from the community of nations. The study provides a comprehensive examination and synthesis of the existing literature, as well as re-examination of the original sources. Confederate dip…
The aim of this thesis is to provide a study ofpolitical conflict and local-national relations during theEnglish Revolution, in the context of the county of Surrey, acounty in which a moderate parliamentarian administration wasable to survive until 1649. The thesis concentrates …
The contemporary decentralization trend in a number of SouthEuropean states has been an object of scientific research on numerousoccasions. By focusing on the analysis and interpretation ofdecentralization in Greece, in the post-dictatorial period (1974-1989), acountry on which …
Soon after the end of the Civil War, Lebanon witnessed the birth of its first audio-visual law: the Broadcasting Act of 1994. This Act was, according to the Document of National Reconciliation that ushered in the end of the Civil War, considered to be crucial in ending civil str…
In this thesis, I examine the role of queerness, solidarity and movement in anti-war activism relating to the 2006 Lebanon War. I investigate two events called "Out Against the Occupation" that were organized during the summer of 2006 in response to the war. These events emerged…