Este trabalho discute a geração Z e a promoção da paz como objeto pedagógico. Importa salientar que a escolha desta temática está relacionada com a minha prática letiva enquanto docente de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica (EMRC). Ao longo da lecionação da unidade letiva de re…
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Since 1948, voices of Palestinian civil society have mostly been absent from the media as have debates about how to resolve their grievances and overall situation of life under the constraints imposed by Israel. This dissertation was intended to provide a venue for those voices …
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 …
In this dissertation, I analyze religious actors debating the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 as well as the religious cultural dimensions of the larger public discussion. I argue that one cannot adequately explain the country's entry into the war without understanding the…
This thesis explores the perceptions of Palestinian university students on topics of peace with Israel and armed or violent conflict engagement strategies. By relying on Frame Analysis literature, this research describes how respondents currently frame these issues and what has …
The situation in Egypt and elsewhere in parts of the Arab world is to some extent reminiscent of the situation that prevailed before 1914 in Europe, where a motley array of unharnessed popular micronationalisms (today, instrumentalized religious fervor) combined with big power p…
The international community has followed up its 2001 invasion of Afghanistan with a complex multi-faceted peacebuilding project. However, informed observers believe the Western-led mission in Afghanistan has failed to address the inherent peacebuilding needs of Afghanistan and h…
In Cyprus, women's voices may not be heard by the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The study aims to investigate how the Cypriot women activists perceive the inclusiveness of the peace negotiation table and the importance of discussing women's victim…
Why does peace sometimes last and sometimes fall apart? Are some war-torn areas simply doomed to repeated conflict and warfare, or is there something that can be done to improve the chances for peace? Peace is harder to maintain in some cases than in others, but states can insti…
The United States and the international community intervened in a number of internal conflicts throughout the 1990s, generally justifying their actions on humanitarian grounds. In most cases, external military intervention largely halted the fighting and allowed humanitarian ass…
The oscillation of the conflicts in Israel and Northern Ireland in recent years between advances towards peaceful resolution and regressions to new cycles of bloodshed were explained by the inherent difficulties of territorial compromise, security threats, and effective politica…
This thesis is about personal transformation and therefore transformation of the world. Using poetry as the transformative medium based upon the peace education principles of holism, values formation, dialogue, and conscientisation, the author dialogued with three women poets of…
Recurrent conflict between states accounts for much of the devastation that is seen in the international system. Some pairs of countries have witnessed one war after another while other states have been able to move away from this cycle of violence. What accounts for these diffe…
This PDE consists of a book entitled Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict, accompanied by a contextual essay that places Worldwork in the context of the larger field of conflict management. The book is based on applying Worldwork, the group process and conflict work…
This study investigates the mechanisms through which social movement organizations (SMOs) are able to impact mass public opinion through framing processes. Past research has failed to find significant impact of SMOs upon current attitudes of mass publics. This failure is due to …
Everyone in Israel wants peace yet it remains an elusive goal. Fieldwork was conducted with Jewish Israeli women and women who are Palestinian citizens of Israel to access their perspectives regarding issues related to peace in Israel, including national unity, security and iden…
Alternative explanations of Arab-Israeli relations at the global, regional, and state/domestic levels are tested using the comparative case method against two types of evidence: decisions by regional leaders whether or not to initiate war, and whether or not a crisis escalated t…
Post-conflict peacebuilding operations aim to prevent the recurrence of violence in countries that are just emerging from civil wars. I examine eight such operations conducted between 1989 and 1996 in Angola, Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia, Namibia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mozambi…
The long and remarkably stable peace between democratic states in the international system since the end of the Second World War has led an increasing number of analysts to assert that “democracies don't go to war with one other.” They claim that democracies invariably maintain …