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The Divya Desam Temples: A Premise for Analyzing the Srivaisnava Dispute in South India

Iyengar, Ramaseshan (2010-02-15)

This thesis aims to analyze a semi-latent conflict in the Srivaisnava sect of Hinduism practiced primarily in South India. Specifically, the thesis will first look at the historical background of Srivaisnavism, from its ...
Identity Delegitimization and Eco-Enterprise: A Comparative Study of the Process of Disenrollment in Native American Communities

McRae, Janice R. (2010-05-11)

This dissertation describes the process of contemporary internal fragmentation resulting from tribal disenrollment (loss of citizenship) which has occurred in some Native American communities. Employing a comparative ...
Donors and Local Civil Society Interaction in Peacebuilding in Post-War Sierra Leone

Kanyako, Vando (2010-05-13)

Today civil society organizations are actively engaged in every conceivable sector of the conflict management and development realm. From pre-conflict, conflict, to post-conflict phases of societal disintegration and ...
Historical Remembering and Attitudes Towards the “Other”: A Cross-generational Inquiry

Susnjic, Silvia (2010-05-19)

The main aim of this study is to explore the relationships between historical memories and group attitudes to determine whether the positive or negative ways of remembering actors involved in these events will have an ...
The Ecological Correlates of Armed Conflict: A Geospatial and Spatial-Statistical Approach to Conflict Modeling

Fisher, Joshua D. (2010-06-15)

Few studies of violent conflict focus explicitly on the environmental and ecological relationships that occur in locations that experience violence. Rather, traditional studies of focus on the political, economic, and ...
Harvesting Peace: Permaculture as Peacebuilding

Felix-Romero, Jessica (2010-06-15)

This dissertation is a qualitative case study of permaculture, a sustainable agriculture model based on bio-mimicry, in postconflict El Salvador. The case study is intended to be both descriptive and theory-building by ...
Gender Conflict in Iran: A Critique of Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Sepehrrad, Ramesh (2010-10-29)

This study investigates to what extent international human rights advocates and conflict resolvers are skilled and equipped to deal with situations such as the state-run gender violence which has led to a protracted ...
This Machine Kills Fascists: An Exploration into the Machinery of Music and Conflict

Filipi, James B. (2010-10-29)

This thesis explores the phenomenon of music and conflict, both as generator and resolver. The study examines forty-seven observations of where music has occurred as a significant cultural marker to conflict. The ...
Conflict Resolution Education: A Case Study Analysis

Kennedy, Timothy G. (2010-10-29)

Research focusing on conflict resolution education (CRE) programs has established causal links between academic achievement and students who have received conflict resolution training in school. Conflict resolution ...
The Making of a Mediator: What Life Circumstances or Events Do Mediators Identify as Being Influential in the Career Choice to Become a Mediator?

Marshall, Betty Mae Smith (2011-02-03)

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 ...
We Have Found the Enemy, and It Is Us Protracted Social Conflict in Lebanon, an Introspective Examination

Zeineddine, Ramzi A. (2011-02-03)

This thesis explores how the institutionalization of identity politics in governmental practices has resulted in a protracted social conflict with cyclical eruption of violence in the Republic of Lebanon. I argue that ...
Seven Days In The Crescent City Katrina’s Handlers, Crisis Discourse, And Story Lines

Mazur, Cynthia S. (2011-05-09)

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 ...
An Analysis of the Efficacy of Positive Intergroup Contact Among the Sri Lankan Diaspora

Wanasinghe-Pasqual, Maneesha S. (2011-05-10)

This research challenged the assumption that intergroup interaction does not exist among Sri Lankan diaspora, who are often presented as archetypes of conflict-driven divided diaspora. If further questions the effectiveness ...
News Media and Peacebuilding: Uncovering Opportunities That Can Facilitate Cooperation A

Afaghani, Rawhi (2011-05-24)

Researchers and practitioners in the field of conflict analysis and resolution have realized the significant role that the news media can play in avoiding, containing or resolving conflicts. Yet there are scant guidelines ...
Grounded Theories of Change in an Azerbaijani-Armenian Youth Peacebuilding Project

Palandjian, Tamar (2011-06-01)

The use of Theories of Change as a practice in the conflict and peacebuilding evaluation community has gained attention in recent years as a way to strengthen the field’s understanding of what are the efforts that help ...
A Study of Rivalry between Neighboring Ethnic Groups in Eastern DRC: Is Co-existence Possible after Years of Polarization Following the 1996 War?

Londoni, Runyerera B (2011-07-05)

This study explored the perceptions, differences, and narratives that the Bavibafuliru, and the Eastern DRC Tutsis communities living in the eastern DRC hold about the rivalry between them. The study also went further ...
Shared Reservoir as Irony: The Role of Social Identity in the Aral Sea Environmental Situation

Minde, Julie M. (2011-08-22)

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, ...
Revisiting the Discourse on State Failure: Towards a Conflict Resolution Trajectory

Yamin, Saira (2011-09-22)

This research is a comparative case study of eight states in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East assessing the impact of external military interventions in response to the perceived threat of state failure in the post ...
Breeding the Phoenix: An Analysis of the Military's Role in Peacebuilding

Oliver, George Frederick (2012)

There are numerous professional groups and individuals working for world peace. The reality is, however, that wars between nations or within nations still cause untold human deaths and casualties. World peace, a condition ...
Peacemaking in Cyprus 1955 - 2012

Michael, Eleftherios Agathangelou (2012)

In earlier efforts by many researchers to explain the breakdown of peacemaking initiatives to settle the Cyprus question, the focus has been primarily on one or just a few initiatives. This dissertation takes a systematic ...

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