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The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq , Sarah Alsalih

Analyzing the Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Legacy of the United Nations , Hunter Wade Calley

Social Media and the Technological Infrastructure of Polarization in the United States: How Do We Move Forward? , Phoebe Cordova

Culture or Power: The Eruption of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon , Danielle Tagakou Talla

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Rise of Neo-Fascist Populism and Islamophobia in the West , Mohamed Tawfiq Said Tabib

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Competing Narratives: the Struggle for the Soul of Egypt , Ahmed El Mansouri

Trailblazing Transformation: Pioneering Transformative Peacebuilding in Academic Labor Conflicts , Sam Frazier Hediger

The Rise of Mono-Ethnic Religious Nationalism in Myanmar and Its Impacts on the Security Situation of the South Asian Region , S M Anisuz Zaman

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Explaining the Sectarian Violence in the Middle East: a Conflict Analysis of the Case Study of Saudi Arabia and Iran , Ahmed Elsayed Eltally

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on the European Union , Andreea Elena Galan

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

What is the Nature of the Conflict Experienced by Japanese Workers in International Companies Based in Japan and What Type of Conflict Management Do They Access? , Tomoko Shinohara Le

The Function of Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , Stephanie Claire Mitchell

Holocaust, Memory, Second-Generation, and Conflict Resolution , Leslie O'Donoghue

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

National Security, Mass Surveillance, and Citizen Rights under Conditions of Protracted Warfare , Krystal Lynn Conniry

Intrastate Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Nepal: An Assessment of the Political and Economic Agency of Women , Gyanu Gautam Luintel

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Nationalism in United States Foreign Policy in the Post 9/11 Era , Chris W. Baum

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Impact of Economic Integration within the European Union as a Factor in Conflict Transformation and Peace-Building , John Umo Ette

Dialogue in Identity-Based Conflict (Study of Intergroup-Dialogue with University Students) , Lisha Shrestha

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Music and Conflict Resolution: Can a Music and Story Centered Workshop Enhance Empathy? , Parfait Adegboyé Bassalé

Postwar Reconstruction in Liberia: The Participation and Recognition of Women in Politics in Liberia , Roland Tuwea Clarke

Why Occupy?: Principal Reasons for Participant Involvement in Occupy Portland , Danielle Filecia

Here, We Are Walking on a Clothesline: Statelessness and Human (In)Security Among Burmese Women Political Exiles Living in Thailand , Elizabeth Hooker

Cultural Behavior in Post-Urbanized Brazil: The Cordial Man and Intrafamilial Conflict , Thais La Rosa

Track I Diplomacy and Civil Society in Cyprus: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding During Negotiations , Elicia Keren Reed

Conflict Resolution in Islam: Document Review of the Early Sources , Flamur Vehapi

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Perceptions and Voices of South Sudanese About the North-South Sudan Conflict , Machar Wek Aleu-Baak

The Challenges and Opportunities of Immigrant Integration: A Study of Turkish Immigrants in Germany , Matthew Franklin Clark

Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus , Brooke Patricia Galloway

Conflict-Conditioned Communication: A Case Study of Communicative Relations between the United States and Iran from 2005-2008 , Erin Leigh McKee

The Cultural Barriers to Integration of Second Generation Muslims in Northern Italy , Joseph Anthony Migliore

Through the Eyes of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots: The Perception of Cyprus , Mary N. Olin

Countering Structural Violence: Cultivating an Experience of Positive Peace , Carrie E. Stiles

Poverty and Conflict: A Self-Perpetuating Cycle in the Somali Regional State (Region 5), Ethiopia: 1960-2010 , Bisrat Teshome

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Creative Use of Dance/Movement Therapy Processes to Transform Intrapersonal Conflicts Associated with Sexual Trauma in Women , Emily Fern Dayton

Music and Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Utilization of Music in Community Engagement , Mindy Kay Johnston

Between Non-intervention and Protection: A study on the case of Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect , David Ryan Lucas

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

'Conflict Analysis:' Exploring the Role of Kuwait in Mediation in the Middle East , Abdullah R. Al Saleh

Red de Salud -- Network of health : structural violence, exclusion and inclusion in Venezuela , Steven John Bates

Sex Work and Moral Conflict: Enhancing the Quality of Public Discourse Using Photovoice Method , Crystal Renee Tenty

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Islamophobia and the U.S. Media , Michelle Maria Nichole Diamond

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

An Examination of Conflict Conversation in an Online Community: the Pie Fight at DailyKos.com , Samantha Isabella Soma

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Mediator Personality Type and Perceived Conflict Goals in Workplace Mediation: A Study of Shared Neutrals , Karin Alayne Waller

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Dissertation Thesis: Transitional Justice in Formal Peace Negotiations

With the escalating worldwide destructive impact of new civil wars, finding a resolution to armed conflicts is an urgent global need. Some scholars of conflict resolution have empirically focused on methods, policies and issues in negotiations leading to the achievement of peace deals, their implementation, as well as the reasons peace deals fail (e.g. Joshi, Quinn, & Regan, 2015). Empirical studies on conflict resolution have also centered the issue of justice, relating to policies of transitional justice implemented in the post-conflict period, such as reparations, amnesties and truth commissions (e.g. Wallensteen, Melander, & Högbladh, 2013). However, to date, with few notable exceptions (e.g. Loyle & Binningsbø, 2016), little empirical work has examined transitional justice during the course of armed conflict; the concern is that negotiations on the issue of historical wrongdoings may exacerbate an ongoing conflict (Bland, Powell and Ross, 2012). However, specific peace negotiations, such the recent Colombian governments' negotiations with the FARC, show that agreements on transitional-justice issues were important for achieving the final deal. Without an empirical analysis of transitional justice during peace negotiations, we may undervalue its impact on finding resolutions for armed conflicts worldwide. My dissertation project, Transitional Justice in Formal Peace Negotiations, deals with the impact of agreements on transitional justice provisions on reaching peace deals. This project is based on a large original dataset of peace processes years that covers over 70 peace processes between 1989 and 2014. By empirical testing of a set of new theoretical conjectures, I found that a combination of truth and reconciliation provisions, as well as amnesty provisions, are associated with an increase in the odds that the peace negotiation ends in a final peace deal. In contrast, provisions dealing with reparations for victims or with rehabilitation of refugees are not significantly associated with reaching final accords. To substantiate the empirical analysis, I also provide a discussion of examples from peace negotiations in Colombia, Liberia, Israel-Palestine and Guatemala. The research concludes that agreements on truth and reconciliation provisions serve as an alternative form of justice and accountability and can be an effective compromise between demands for retributive measures on one side and calls for forgetfulness on the other.

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International Journal of Peace Studies, 2019

The expansion of international trials over the last decades has reinvigorated the debate surrounding the efficacy of retributive justice over restorative justice in response to mass humanitarian crises. This study examines the ways different transitional justice models contribute to stable peace. It suggests that a hybrid utilization of both restorative justice mechanisms (e.g., amnesty) and retributive justice mechanisms (e.g., trials) is most effective in achieving a stable peace in a post-accord state, and that context is an important intervening factor. Using a mixed method approach, I first examine a group of 25 test cases, analyzing the relationship between restorative and retributive justice and post-conflict stability. I then examine more closely the paradigmatic case studies of El Salvador, Rwanda, and Mozambique in order to see how the three dominant models worked within individual country contexts. While the data suggests some linkage between the hybrid model and post-conflict stable peace, there are intervening factors (such as culture, alignment of narratives with elite and popular interests and values, and international legitimacy), which are also at work.

Daedalus, 2017

A basic dilemma for political transitions and peace talks, whether to hold perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable or to negotiate a deal, has once again become the source of intense political controversy. Originally seen as containing a pathbreaking and innovative solution to this problem, a peace deal designed to bring an end to the war between the government of Colombia and the FARC was instrumentalized by former President Uribe to mobilize popular support and was struck down when it was put to the public for a vote. Elsewhere, political realities have impinged on efforts to hold trials, provoking a backlash by powerful individuals determined to spoil the peace rather than sacrifice their personal freedom. But when international criminal tribunals fail to prosecute powerful spoilers, they have been condemned for their hypocrisy or charged with being selective in their pursuit of justice. One measure to address the basic accountability dilemma would be to accept transitional j...

This paper critically analyses the attributes and merits of the ‘prenegotiation’ phase within the dynamic wider peace process. I use the completed El Salvadorian and the present Colombian processes as a comparative framework, to argue that without this initial stage, the subsequent ‘negotiation’ and ‘implementation’ stages of arbitration will transpire with a diminished efficacy and ultimately a lesser likelihood of achieving a meaningful and long-term sustainable peace, or at worse would simply not take place at all.

Group Decision and Negotiation

European Journal of International Law, 2016

Peace agreements often harm disempowered groups such as women, ethnic minorities, and the poor, who bear the main burden of compromise. This article argues that international law can and should promote a more equitable allocation of the burden of peace by applying to peace negotiations procedural justice requirements of participation, transparency, and reason-giving. Drawing on insights from negotiation literature, public choice analysis, deliberative democracy theory, and social psychology, the article explains that such procedural regulation can enhance the democratic quality of peace agreements and at the same time also improve peace prospects. It also notes, however, that procedural justice may entail serious costs, including delays and the loss of maneuvering space for negotiators. The article argues that a careful design of procedural justice methods and mechanisms can significantly reduce these costs, and makes some concrete proposals to that effect. Finally, the article examines existing international instruments that may introduce procedural justice principles into peace negotiations, and assesses their potential and limitations. All in all, this article shows that despite, and also because of, its exceptional nature, peacemaking should not be left to the exclusive discretion of unaccountable negotiators.

Review of International Studies, 2011

This study explores the relationship between principles of distributive justice (DJ) and the durability of negotiated agreements. Sixteen peace agreements negotiated during the early 1990s were coded for the centrality of each of four principles of DJ – equality, proportionality, compensation, and need – to the core terms of the agreement. The agreements were also assessed on scales of implementation and durability over a five-year period. Another variable included in the analysis was the difficulty of the conflict environment. These data were used to evaluate three sets of hypotheses: the relationship between DJ and durability, the role of the conflict environment, and types of DJ principles. The results obtained from both statistical and focused-comparison analyses indicate that DJ moderates the relationship between conflict environments and outcomes: when principles of justice are central to an agreement, the negative effects of difficult conflict environments are reduced; when p...

For over 50 years, Colombia has been at war, a war for land and political inclusion (among other), and in the process. The country has been shattered by left wing guerrillas, right wing paramilitaries, death squads, hired killers, corrupt security forces, drug cartels, oligarchy, massive inequality and poverty, and an alarming rate of internally displaced persons (“property rights…”, 2013: 1; Coatsworth, 2003; “Colombia’s killer networks”, 1996; Dent, 1974). This thesis identifies and analyzes different factors that may affect peace negotiations. Given the history of failures in Colombian efforts for peace, and that there are current negotiations between the largest guerrilla group and the government, it is important to identify determinants that may have damaged past attempts and thus may pose a threat to the current ones. In order to do this, the literature on peace agreements and conflict will be examined and the most important factors will be singled out. With these chosen factors/determinants as a theoretical basis, the negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC will be analyzed using process tracing.

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