This thesis utilizes narrative and social identity theories, as well as research
around the social impact of stereotyping, shame, and humiliation to evaluate the
narratives of twenty-seven currently incarcerated men ...
This thesis examines the conditions leading to the collaboration between the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts in Chiang Mai, Thailand through what is known as “Peaceful Homeland Network: PHN” during high tension of political ...
This thesis is an exploration of forgiveness in the aftermath of IPV. It argues that forgiveness plays a paradoxical role in the life of IPV victims, and identifies a specific rhetorical use of forgiveness that the author ...
Recognizing the fact that shifts in communications technologies can fundamentally restructure the way in which members of society relate with one another, this study is focused on the analysis of the interactional patterns ...
Chinese-Indonesian communities are experiencing identity crises from socio-normative anti-Chinese sentiment and discrimination. Since the conclusion of the Suharto administration, Chinese-Indonesian populations are publicly ...
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 thesis describes current-day (2019) Azerbaijani government narratives regarding the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and explores how government narrative impacts potential peace building efforts. The Armenia-Azerbaijan ...
This thesis serves as a comparative case study of legal secularism in France and England
to determine if legal secularism and its conflicts with Muslim family law generate
structural violence against Muslim women. This ...
This thesis considers the wave of insurgents who left Chechnya in order to fight with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations of these fighters. Stories describing their ...
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 ...
This project explores the heretofore-untold experiences of, and roles undertaken by elementary-aged African American students in desegregating Catholic schools in New Orleans. In so doing, these, the youngest students, ...
Many scholars have advocated for federalism and other forms of power-sharing in states emerging from violent conflict in order to provide governance structures that can promote inter-ethnic cooperation, local political ...
The field of conflict resolution holds the promise of freeing approaches and policies concerning politics of identity from the fatalistic grip of realism. While the conceptual literature on conflicts has moved in this ...
This study applies methods from narrative analysis to declassified intelligence documents regarding the Bosnian War of the 1990s and the Dayton Peace Agreement. An examination of themes, characters and plots demonstrated ...
The question of how to effectively and peacefully resolve conflicts involving unrecognized states, which pose significant regional security challenges despite their small territorial areas, has been frequently asked since ...
Literature provides widespread support that intergroup contact (Pettigrew 1997, Davies, et al. 2011) and intergroup empathy (Mazziotta, et al. 2014) play a positive role in improving relations and fostering coexistence. ...
Since the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1995, much has been done to reconcile the ethnic tensions within the boundaries of the country. Less attention has been paid to Bosnian citizens living in ...
This study explores the causes of electoral violence in Zimbabwe between the years 2000 – 2013. It looked at factors that influenced the use of strive. The study employed the frustration-aggression theory together with ...
This study examines the determinants of chronic poverty which is at the root of conflict in
Nigeria. Violent conflict, most of which emanates from the northern region, is a defining
feature of Nigeria dating back to its ...