History is heavily rooted in what can be called narrative politics - different versions of the same historical event are tools used to assert, maintain or challenge action and legitimacy of the Other. Discursive contention ...

This thesis explores how multiracial churches in Washington, DC engage in racial reconciliation and justice within their congregations and local community. The Christian faith has been used justify racism and oppression ...

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most important events of our lifetime. The issues raised by the response to Hurricane Katrina, stated one congressional committee, could not be more critical to America’s sense of itself in ...

Social identity has been shown to significantly impact – or even to cause – conflicts. However, it appears to be a relatively unstudied influence in terms of situations of environmental crisis, Western development aid, ...

This study examines collective action in Morocco as it emerged in the context of the Arab Spring or what is known in the Moroccan context as the February 20 movement. The aim is to provide an account that reflects what ...

This research explored the relationship between Russian propaganda and the alt-right movement in the United States through the lens of identity, factors in identity conflict, and the role of identity in propaganda. By ...

This research study is a qualitative exploration into the Theory of Change used in programs that engage sport as a vehicle to address conflict and create positive change. Primary data were gathered through open-ended ...

The paradigm of liberal peacebuilding has dominated the discourse in the field since the early 1990s. The liberal peace theory is grounded in the notion of democratic liberalism that advances the arguments that liberal ...

This thesis is about the formation and evolution of attitudes, expectations and presuppositions of the international community. It deals with the impact that the United Nations Security Council has on this formation and ...

The negative impacts of neoliberal globalization have resulted in local mobilizations of civil society around the world resisting the hegemonic forces of the neoliberal imposition. Although civil society has spent tremendous ...