This thesis describes the developments in Turkey with regards to its Kurdish Question. A case study is built using the greed or grievance approach in order to present the differences between the Kurdish minority living in ...

LEADERSHIP FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-VIOLENT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: ETHICAL PRAGMATISM

The goal of this dissertation is to explore how US political division impacts interpersonal dialogue, specifically: how it impedes dialogue, the effects of political identity in this process, and how training aimed at these ...

This dissertation explored the background of mediators and what circumstances and events are identified as being influential in their career choice to become a mediator. The research also explored why individuals choose ...

Ukrainian conflict could be viewed as the complex economic, political and social crisis within the state. I am studying the presentation of Ukrainian national identity in media during the conflict period, from November 23, ...

In an ever-evolving technological landscape, conflict analysis and resolution (CAR) practitioners are faced with the unique task of working in a rapidly changing landscape that is susceptible to the reliance on and impact ...

This thesis addresses Hugo Chávez’s construction of the citizen in his discourse on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. In an effort to understand his moral frame regarding the state and its citizens, and to better understand ...

This dissertation uses positioning theory and narrative analysis to examine the relationship of culture, emotion and agency in the dramatic construction, mobilization and acceptance of an American war narrative and later ...

This study engaged in a narrative analysis of the 2009-2010 U.S. health care reform controversy from a conflict analysis and resolution perspective grounded in social identity theory. Four sets of artifacts produced during ...

National Security and Human Security are two concepts of the larger field of Security that have been and currently remain at odds with each other. On one hand, National Security seeks to uphold the sovereignty of this ...