This dissertation explores the lives, thought-worlds, and struggles of migrant workers working in a metal polishing export factory in the Okhla Industrial Area of Delhi. The factory employed about sixty male migrants, largely from villages in the states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pra…
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The inability of certain formal mechanisms of transitional justice, like the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) or the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to connect with the grassroots, the realistic inability of law to do everything …
My dissertation explores literati criticism of injustice embedded in revenge narratives. Ranging from the late Qing to modern China, this research project elaborates on the existing scholarship regarding historical and cultural meanings of revenge to demonstrate the use of earli…
Ancient Israel and Judah developed from an agrarian culture and were often vassals of an extended agrarian empire. The ethos of the Israelites thus reflected or included the worldview of what has been described as the oppressed classes. This ethos became a formative element in t…
This dissertation studies specific features of the Ottoman administration of justice in Anatolia during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts within the framework of the Ottoman provin…
The Afikpo community conflict resolution model is examined as an alternative system of justice in South-East Nigeria. The Afikpo model is rooted in cultural tradition. Indigenous social and political institutions function as channels for conflict resolution and justice. The proc…
The present study expanded Tang and Sarsfield-Baldwin (1996) study and tested the hypotheses stating that perceive justice (distributive and procedural justice) in performance appraisal is related to: performance appraisal satisfaction, job satisfaction, organizational commitmen…
This thesis deals with the circumstances that lead to a fragmented implementation of post-conflict justice and security reforms and their negative impact on institutional capacity to provide justice and security for citizens. It strenghtens the existing critique of SSR by employ…
In this dissertation, I propose a conceptual and normative framework to think the response of the liberal democratic societies to issues raised by the terrorism. How democratically govern societies should react in the face of terrorist threat? This could be the main question of …
The thesis of this dissertation is that the doctrine of justification plays a necessary and significant role for Karl Barth in the development of his political theology, particular during the years of 1938 to 1946. The starting point for this thesis is Barth's 1938 essay, "Churc…
This dissertation is about Kara Feyzi, a bandit and rebel who commanded a heterogeneous network of violent malcontents that devastated local communities and imperial forces throughout Ottoman Rumeli (i.e., Ottoman Europe) from the early 1790's until 1806-1807, when he was finall…
The dissertation analyzes the Israeli peace camp and how positions on the questions of the interrelation between religion and nationality relate to the interpretations of justice vis-à-vis the Palestinian predicament. The dissertation studies the 'visions of peace' and the 'visi…
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and its widely publicized hearings on amnesty and human rights challenge us to understand the nature of the TRC's process, its effects, and outcomes in ways that relate to current critical inquiries in the social sciences …
Fragmentation, pieces and bits of life that seem not only out of relation but also dualistically opposed and unrelated are part and parcel of the thinking, feeling, believing, speaking and doing of the Western mindset. This project addresses the heart of such a mindset white it …
Recent political disputes in liberal democratic states involve the concerns of immigrants and concerns about immigration. These developments include protests across Europe related to the depiction of the prophet Mohammed; the 2005 London underground bombing; debates in Europe ab…
This thesis focuses on justice, human rights, and migration in Iraq. It explores the ideas of justice and human rights, and how they influence the migration of the Iraqi Assyrians and Chaldeans. Through the use of qualitative methodology, including a review of scholarly literatu…
This study seeks to show that a particularistic view of the nations as enemies is not the only view, or even the dominant view, of the nations in the Psalms. There are various other views in the Psalms, and some of them can be grouped under the notion of the nations as subjects …
This dissertation proposes an explanation of why the state has a special moral obligation to protect individuals in its legal territory against violence committed by private actors. Having an explanation of this obligation will allow us to better determine a number of its major …
This dissertation examines the use of speech terminology in the Hebrew Psalter in order to find out why the terminology is used frequently and what it teaches about speech ethics. Also, it seeks to determine the Psalter's contribution to the study of Old Testament ethics in gene…