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Using a survey design, this study examined the areas of conflict, maintenance behaviors, and conflict resolution strategies that have been speculated to exist in men and women in same-sex relationships, as a result of gender socialization, heterosexism and homophobia, and unique…

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…

Approaches to resolve Turkey's Kurdish conflict have been overpowered by military operations because the state has framed the conflict as an internal security issue rather than a socio-political issue, and there has been very little effort to apply practical theory to the peaceb…

American religious institutions are expected to be free from the unsettling behaviors found in secular institutions. However, scandals in churches have revealed a difficult truth; the people who operate these faith institutions are just as flawed as those who do not. This hermen…

This thesis investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. The need to explore this topic has been urged by the revival there of Islamic law and adat law, the two greatest non-state normative orderings, in the last two decades. At the same time the idea…