U.S. evangelical Christians have historically been deeply invested observers of events in Israel. This dissertation focuses on U.S. church leaders and their views on mission in Israel/Palestine. The research shows two major themes shape their perspectives on this complex context…
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Why do states refuse to recognize the spoils of war? In previous eras concessions imposed on a defeated state were considered to be valid by the international community, i.e. 'to the victor go the spoils'. Now states accept the principle that they cannot legally obtain territory…
In earlier efforts by many researchers to explain the breakdown of peacemaking initiatives to settle the Cyprus question, the focus has been primarily on one or just a few initiatives. This dissertation takes a systematic and holistic approach to examining all 41 peacemaking ini…
Among the many policy solutions debated from the onset of the war in Bosnia in 1992, internationally supervised exchange of minority populations, usually as part of a territorial partition, was a prominent alternative to the peace settlement ultimately reached in 1995. While thi…
This dissertation is a qualitative study investigating how a North American based citizen diplomacy effort—the Compassionate Listening Project—is working to promote peace and reconciliation between Arabs and Jews in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. This study is placed in the con…
My thesis is that the Oslo Process was an articulation of the discourse of Palestinian-Israeli relations. Furthermore, the general effect of this discourse was the same after the Oslo Process as before the process. I develop my thesis over the course of eight chapters. In chapte…
This dissertation uses approaches and concepts from conflict resolution literature to answer two related questions concerning civil war peace agreements. First, it seeks to explain why some peace agreements are signed while others do not get signed, and second, why some agreemen…
Peacebuilding and conflict resolution interventions often require partnerships between local experts who are from those conflict settings and skilled professionals who are “outsiders.” Efforts to resolve or transform protracted social conflicts must be carefully planned and impl…
In the 1990s Palestinian refugees sought to secure a seat in negotiations alongside the PLO and Israel in talks to resolve their situation. Their efforts raise a number of basic questions concerning the right to political participation and the negotiation of durable solutions to…
This thesis provides an explanation of why Israel in the years between 1988 and 1994
This study examines coercive peacemaking in the former Yugoslavia: Croatia (1991–1995), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–present), and Kosovo (1999). Coercive peacemaking is a form of conflict management that seeks to impose a peaceful conflict resolution in disregard for disputants' wi…
While the objective of peacemaking efforts is the institution of a self-sustaining peace, the international community has not been able to accomplish this important goal in many war-torn societies around the world. Thus, the challenge to peacemakers is not necessarily the negoti…
Rhetoric's suasory ability to counter violence and promote peace has inspired many rhetoric scholars. However, their disciplinary investment continues to be exclusively focused on western and Judeo-Christian conciliation traditions. This narrow focus mandates research on rhetori…
Peacebuilding is at the very heart of the Gospel message and should be prominent in the life of the Church. This research was a qualitative and descriptive study seeking to examine how Christian leaders in Jos and Kaduna use the Bible to inform their responses and reactions to t…
Mennonites have engaged in education, medical, and peacemaking work in Somalia since entering the country in 1953. This dissertation focuses on what theological differences or continuity can be identified across the span of these six decades. My research included secondary sourc…
What would happen if a group of United Methodist Christians in a military community situated in a conservative southern city were to be introduced to Islam and be engaged with their Muslim neighbors during the war on terror? Could this encounter foster religious tolerance and ac…