The current study is aimed at investigating the puzzle of why FPI (Islamic Defenders' Front) has chosen to adopt violent strategies within the democratic context of Indonesia. Much of literature on social movements suggests that democracy is inherently nonviolent because it allo…
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Tolerance has emerged as the singular answer to many of the questions of the twenty-first century: how to resolve ethnic conflict, how to cope with instability in new democracies, and how to resolve the friction between the dueling projects of liberal secularism and religious re…
This thesis is an inter-disciplinary project incorporating history, philosophy, sociology, theology and political analysis. It looks at highly significant, yet little researched, aspects of the intellectual history of Colombian sociologist and political leader Orlando Fals-Borda…
This thesis titled ‘The Renewal of Hostilities in the Nigerian Delta Region in 2016 and the Failure of the Presidential Amnesty’ investigated the renewal of the hostilities, the alleged sponsor(s) of the perpetrators, the impact of their activities on the oil and gas sector and …
Political violence has fundamentally shaped memory making in post-conflict Guatemala. This paper examines the Molina Theissen family’s experience of state violence between 1955 and 1981 as well as the 2018 trial of high-ranking military officers for crimes against the family. Bu…
Globalization has been argued by scholars to be a facilitating force for development and economic growth. Others point to how globalization may lead to demobilization and atomization. In an ever-increasing globalized world, formerly closed off societies are now coming into conta…
This dissertation is at the intersection of sociology of law, international law, and human rights, exploring the factors leading to the adoption of policy measures in transitional justice settings. Relying on interview data and analysis of legal archives, this dissertation recon…
This work examines how the child-figure has become constitutive of post-dictatorial narratives produced in the post-2000 era by the HIJOS generation as the portal to revisit Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983), also known as the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional.…
The U.S government has for many years extended rhetorical and material support for civil society organizations in many developing country contexts. Part of this support is justified on the basis that it reduces civil conflicts and political violence. This dissertation features t…
In their attempts to explain the dysfunctions of modernity in Latin America, theorists see it as a failed project (Néstor García-Canclini), a chronic deferral of the modern (Aníbal Quijano), or blame residual colonial practices (Walter Mignolo). Rather than continuing this obses…
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one focuses on Colombia after 1850 and measures the impact of the expropriation of Church's assets on political violence. With yearly data on the number of battles per municipality, archival information on the reform, and dif…
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of American race riots, within and across historical eras, from Emancipation (1863) to the War on Drugs (1972). I argue that changes in the status of African-American citizenship produced different forms of race rioting. Examining riot…
This dissertation examines the development experience of Iraq from 1950 to 1990. The first date is chosen because most social and economic data become available roughly only after that time, while the terminal date corresponds to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the imposition o…
Theories of violence against civilians in conflict have tended to view combatants in homogenous terms, as the obedient pawns of military elites, or as uniformly prone to violence due to passionate emotions or economic opportunism. In contrast, this study shows that combatant par…
Violence and political chaos are constant themes in African Francophone literature. The present dissertation attempts to demonstrate that many African writers describe violence and political chaos as rooted in the ways Africa was colonized. Selected works follow a chronological …
Why do actors sometimes engage in sustained, organized violence against civilians, such that large numbers of the civilians die in a relatively short time span? Between 1900 and 2008, 50,000+ were killed in five or fewer years fifty-five times. Our extant answers about why these…
In recent decades, there has been an expanded effort to examine the adverse effects of political violence on the health of civilian populations; substantial evidence now points to the effects of political violence on outcomes like PTSD, anxiety, and a variety of physical health …
What explains the variation in ethnic conflict in federal systems? Existing theory and empirical evidence are mixed, with some saying it decreases violence, and some saying increases it. This puzzle also leads to a number of research questions: why does federalism fail to resolv…
Terrorism studies have increased following the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. While a great deal of research has focused on the influence of state-sponsored counterterrorism strategies on terrorist activities, limited attention has been directed towards exam…