Associating both the subject and object of this study with the dramaturgical world, Beyond the Security Drama aims to critically contextualize discourses, rhetoric, characters, behaviors, roles, performative capacities, choices, and decisions of constitutive actors of what is he…
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Background : Beginning in 2010, an unprecedented lead-poisoning outbreak in northern Nigeria has killed more than 700 children and endangered thousands more. The outbreak exemplified the intersection of global inequality, material poverty, economic globalization, and poverty-dri…
Using narrative research study founded in social constructionism, I explored the lived experiences of thirty Afghan humanitarian aid workers in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discover how they experienced the war on terror. Ten participants were individually interviewed and their storie…
Africa has always been presented as a unique case in international relations theory. The imbalances inherited from colonization and the various challenges African nations faced following their independence coupled with weak institutional capability contributed to make the region…
This dissertation examines psychosocial interventions as specific social, political, medical, and ontological formations in the Kashmir valley. Till recently, medical humanitarianism was dominated by short-term, surgical interventions that focused on providing emergency biomedic…
Schools, and education more broadly, were pivotal in constructing and maintaining racial difference in the settler colonies of Western Australia and Natal, South Africa. Education must be taken seriously as a way into understanding the intersections between the conflicting, but …
This dissertation explores how Catholic parish twinning---the linking together of North American and Haitian parishes in grassroots partnerships---relates to "conventional" international development discourses and practices. As neoliberal policies aim to shrink states and expand…
In this dissertation I examine the impact of core values on foreign policy opinion, the dynamics of value change, and the differences between elites and the mass public in their values change. I find that two core values - humanitarianism and democracy - strongly affect citizens…
Since the end of World War II, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (HNGOs), such as Oxfam, CARE and World Vision, have responded to natural disasters and complex emergencies by providing life-saving emergency relief aid across borders. International society perceives hum…
This study examines the intersection of humanitarianism and warfare conducted by Western states in the late-modern era. It compares the use of humanitarian discourse (HD) by officials and civil-elites within two crisis moments each for the 1999 NATO war over Kosovo and the 2003 …
This dissertation examines how, why, and to what effect private voluntary organizations (PVOs) partnered with the U.S. federal government on projects aimed at fighting overseas hunger, disease, and poverty. Detailing the period between World War II and the passage of the 1973 Fo…
This minor-dissertation will critically analyse the relationship between two of the general principles of IHL, namely, the principle of distinction and the principle of proportionality, illustrating that the principle of distinction should be associated with a higher level of si…
In the decade following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, thousands of Iraqis made their way to neighbouring Jordan, where many spent years living. Unlike other major refugee groups in the region, such as Palestinians or, more recently, Syrians, Iraqis in Jordan during this p…
The number of people undertaking clandestine migratory journeys to Europe has increased dramatically over the past several years. Particularly following the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015, the borders of Europe have been thoroughly enhanced and militarized in order to contro…
Dünyada var olan temel sorunların artması ile dış politikada önemli araçlardan biri haline gelen dış yardımlar, devlet dışı aktörlerin uluslararası sisteme dâhil olması ile kapsamını genişletmiştir. Bu kapsam genişliğini ve aktör sayısındaki artışı, farklı dinamikler ile harmanl…
This dissertation examines the case of 250-300,000 largely Orthodox Christian refugees who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875–1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of thr…
In 2001, a refugee group of unaccompanied minors known as the Lost Boys of Sudan began arriving in the United States. Their early years were met with extensive media coverage and scores of well-meaning volunteers in scattered resettlement locations across the country. Their stor…
My dissertation asks: (1) What are the meanings that faith-based organizations (FBOs) assign to their own values, identities, and practices?, and (2) How do such meanings shape the service-advocacy work of FBOs? Scholars are increasingly interested in the role of FBOs in areas o…
Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia In "Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia," I examine the humanitarian involvement in Aceh, Indonesia following two momentous events in Aceh's history: the earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004 and …