In this dissertation, I seek to better understand health as the intersection of individual characteristics with broader historical and societal contexts by examining societal levels shocks as social determinants of health. In particular, I seek to understand pathways through whi…
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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…
In Indonesia, during six months in 1965-1966, between half a million and a million people were killed during a purge of suspected Communist Party members after a purported failed coup d’état blamed on the Communist Party. Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were imprisoned with…
Although they are both accounts of events, the history and the novel are not commensurate; the novel’s content is usually considered as opposed to that of history. It is assumed that history relates real things whereas the novel excels in dealing with the imagination (fiction). …
When researching Bosnian Muslims' experiences and responses to the 1992 Bosnia-Hercegovina genocide, Westernized approaches to disease, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and health, Global Assessment of Functioning, have been utilized, despite the fact Bosnia-Hercegovina is not a W…
This study sets out to explore the etiology of genocide as a form of conflict. Based on comparison of ten cases (Aché of Paraguay, Ottoman Armenians, Burundi, Bosnia, Cambodia, Herero, Indonesia, Maya, Nazi, and Rwanda), a conflict theory of genocide in the 20th century is devel…
This thesis analyzes the meaning of genocide within legal discourse and cultural narratives. The dissertation treats relations of law and literature in the initial formulation of the concept of genocide in the postwar years and then in its more recent legal and journalistic appl…
This dissertation investigates the emergence of total exclusionary social movements and the consequent violent eruptions they precipitated. It examines the most extreme forms of violent ethnocentrism: expulsion and genocide. Its aim is to shed light on the social-psychological a…
Genocide Genres investigates the transnational circulation of atrocity testimony, writing which describes the most spectacularly failed of human encounters. In particular, my project compares the production and reception of atrocity narratives across three distinct, post-WWII di…
This analysis evaluates potential strategies for military operations to halt mass atrocities, also known as Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO). Examining the strategy and outcomes of six U.S. humanitarian interventions in Iraq, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia, the analys…
Post-World War 11 history has proven with disturbing clarity that the Holocaust was not the century's last genocide. Horrible events in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda have tragically demonstrated that we have in fact experienced what some have called an “age of genocide.” Ho…
The advent of the United States as a global power coincided with the internationalization of the Armenian Question in the late nineteenth century. Since its early days, the United States had developed commercial relations with the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the early nineteent…
This study merges the historical record with survivor testimony to put the turning point of Romania's war against the Jews, the pogrom in Iasi, in context both with respect to what preceded it and its aftermath. The introduction explains both how and why the survivor depositions…
This dissertation addresses ways in which the world cultural context makes genocide a more probable policy choice for certain regimes. The overwhelming majority of genocide research has examined only one or two cases. There have been few attempts to make comparisons across cases…
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific me…
Genocide is conventionally seen through the mutually exclusive characterisations of perpetrators and victims. Attempts to understand this phenomenon in the 1990s postcolonial African Great Lakes region suffer from this same limitation. This dissertation critiques the limiting bi…
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 prosecutorial challenges of the International Criminal Court (ICC/the court) in relation to the dwindling legitimacy prosecuting under Article 5 of the Rome Statute and other relevant international law principles. The study attempts a prognosis of the future…
In contemporary African literature, the theme of violence unfold in the context of the conflict opposing the Western world to Africa. It is mostly during the colonial and postcolonial periods that theme of blood became prominent in African literature. Since then, the novel has b…