Colombia's protracted civil war between Marxist insurgencies and the state has brought grave consequences for the civilian population and the prospects for constructing a viable political community in the country. With up to 5 million internally displaced people, rampant impunit…
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This study examines the possibility of managing the tension between formalism and flexibility in Uganda's commercial adjudication. Using content analysis of the country's commercial 'hard cases', the study reveals the tension as a reality in Uganda; its foundations, and how to m…
The past century did not only embrace memories of millions who died in horrifying wars initiated in the name of religions and faiths, but it set the stage for the current ruthless venue that continues to add blood and shame to the records of the past wars that mutilated the exis…
Sicily in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a Muslim population under the control of Latin Christian conquerors. This dissertation aims to assess the economic role that these Muslims played in Norman Sicily, and how that economic role tied them into the society of Norman Si…
One of the greatest threats to jaguars (Panthera onca), the largest predator in Latin America, is hunting. In an effort to understand conflict between humans and jaguars some conservation biologists, who lack training in the social sciences, have assessed human perceptions and a…
This is an ethnographic study of the fraught and complex cultural politics of music making in Palestine-Israel in the context of the post-Oslo era. I examine the politics of sound and the ways in which music making and attached discourses reflect and constitute identities, and a…
More than a century after they emerged as central themes in ecology, community assembly and species coexistence remain rich areas of inquiry. Recent advances in coexistence theory and the development of new and powerful quantitative techniques have offered new insights into the …