Doctoral Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations

2017

Innocent Balthazary Rugaragu

Leadership For Peace And Reconciliation In Post-Violent Sub-Saharan African Countries

Bernard Londoni

Understanding the causes of longstanding antagonism in eastern DRC: Why neighbors fail to co-exist.

2016

James Pugel Social Identity Balance and Implications for Collective Action	Megan Price Misbehavior as Conflict Behavior: Can the Insight Approach to Conflict Analysis and Resolution Transform the Crisis in Student Discipline?
Margaret Chasara Impact of the Interaction of Institutions, Power and Legitimacy on Developmental Policy Outcomes	Thanos Gatsias Exploring Popular Responses to Attempted Changes in the Dominant Discourse: The Case of the 6th Grade History Textbook Revision in Greece
Osman Ertas Identity Conflict in Bulgaria: The Dynamics of Non-Violence	Alison Castel Justice and Peacebuilding in Colombia: The Politics of Narrative, Law and Reparations Processes
Charles Martin-Shields When Information Becomes Action: How social and political factors affect information technology (ICT) use during crisis	Melissa Durham The Arab League's Role in Interstate Transboundary River Water Conflicts and Cooperation: 1943-2013
Ellen Haring An Insurgency Within: Organizational Dissent and Change in the US Military	Johnny Mack After Confrontation, Then What?: Nonviolence as a Theory of Social Change and Human Development for the Peace and Conflict Field
Samuel Wai Johnson The Effects Of Microfinance Liability Structure On The Political Capital Of Post-Conflict Clients

2015

Michael D. English The Power Elite and U.S. Peace-building	Gina Cerasani Moments of Connection: Cultivating Empathy Between Parties in Conflict Using Role-Play
Sarah Federman Aller Simple (One-Way Ticket): Corporate Accountability for Mass Atrocity-The French National Railroad	Roland Wilson The Nexus Between U.S. Foreign Policy and Conflict Resolution or Protraction: The Case of North Korea
Terra Tolley Rising Voices: Bedouin Youth Navigating Education and the Future amidst Protracted Conflict	Fatima Hadji Social Mobilization in Morocco: February 20 movement, Local Tansikiyats, and the Struggle for Real Change?
Kathy Crewe A Social-Interactive Discourse Analysis of the Public Debate Behind Decision by the AU and UN	Can Arik Hidden Spoiler Issue in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Michael Loadenthal The Politics of the Attack: a Discourse of Insurrectionary Communiqués	James Filipi Omaha, Nebraska, Woodstock for Capitalists: Urban Tragedy of the Post-Industrial Midwest

2014

Suliman Giddo The Voices Of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) And The Effectiveness Of The Peacekeeping Forces In Darfur	Shiva Hari Dahal Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Nepal, 1990-2012: Anatomy of a Democratic Transition
Kimairis Toogood Luehrs Brokering "Peace" in Competitive Authoritarian Central Asian Regimes: Understanding Peacebuilding Functions of Informal and Formal Civil Society in the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic	Elissa Teeple Does Time Matter? Looking for Patterns Of Timing, Sequencing and Synergy in Peacebuilding Processes
Tetsushi Ogata The Socialization of Threats in Mass Killing	Ruth Adriana Salcedo Frontiers of Identity: Transnational Displacement, Clandestinity and Conflict in the Ecuadorian - Colombian Borderlands and Inner Cities in Ecuador
William E. David Securitizing the Threat of Climate Change: The Meaning of "Climate Change" to Different Audiences within the U.S. National Security Enterprise	Khadija O Ali The Role of Hegemonies within African Regional Organizations' Interventions

2013

Rev. Dr. Clement Mweyang Aapengnuo Power And Social Identity – The Crisis Of Legitimacy Of Traditional Rule In Northern Ghana, And Ethnic Conflicts	Michael Rupert An American Story of Insurgency: Narrative, Discourse, and Power in Knowledge Production
Zaher K. Ahamed The Spirit and Insights of the Axial Flowerings: A Paradigm for Conflict Resolution?	Shinae Hong The Struggle Against Neoliberal Governance: Anti-FTA Social Movement in Korea in the Context of Neoliberal Economic Reform
Seth Cohen Partnering for Peace: Practitioner Stories of Global North-South Peacebuilding Partnerships	Agatha Glowacki From Narratives of Violence to Narratives of Peace: The Renunciation of Violence as a Discursive Phenomenon
Ashad Sentongo Re-imagining Decentralization: Improving of Relationships between Ethnic Groups and the State in Uganda	Juliette Shedd Is All News Good News?: Media Coverage of Terrorism
James Adams Assessing Interventions Stalled in Negative Peace: A Model for Peace & Stability Operations	Borislava Manojlovic Search for Positive Peace in Eastern Slavonia: Contentious Historical Discourses and School Communities
Kathryn Mazaika Beyond the "Bear" Necessities: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Conflicts Arising in Human-Black Bear Encounters

2012

Sudha Rajput Displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits: Dynamics of Policies and Perspectives of Policymakers, Host Communities and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)	Jana El Horr Political Shiism in the Arab World: Rituals, Ideologies, and Politics
George F. Oliver Breeding the Phoenix: An Analysis of the Military's Role in Peacebuilding	Eleftherios Michael Peacemaking in Cyprus: 1955 - 2011
Roba D. Sharamo Predatory Politics and Struggles of Peacemaking in Somalia	Maneshka Eliatamby When the Tiger was a Woman: Unraveling the Myth and Comprehending the Complexities of the Female Combatant in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Judith Messier Conflict in the Klamath Watershed and A Relationship Building Framework for Conflict Transformation	Mohammed Cherkaoui Why Social Groups Split? A Hamas-Fatah Case Study
Neamat Nojumi The Critical Gap Between Local Versus International Perspectives on Security and Justice and Its Implications for the U.S.-Led International Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001-2006: Between State-Building and the Global War on Terrorism	Samuel Rizk Social Capital, Social Networks and Bridging Interfaith Relations in Egypt
Yves-Renee Jennings The Impact of Gender Mainstreaming on Men: The Case of Liberia	Victoria Barnett "Fault Lines:" An Analysis of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1933-1948
Michael Shank Climate Conflict: Positions and Frames Motivating Stakeholder Engagement

2011

Saira Yamin Revisiting the Discourse on State Failure: Towards a Conflict Resolution Trajectory	David Alpher Developmental Politics: The Minnow and the Leviathan
Maneesha S Pasqual An analysis of the Efficacy of Positive Intergroup Contact Among the Sri Lankan Diaspora	Cindy Mazur Seven Days in the Crescent City: Katrina's Handlers, Crisis Discourse, and Story Lines
Rawhi Afaghani News Media and Peacebuilding: Uncovering Opportunities That Can Facilitate Cooperation	Martha Mutisi Ripening Negotiations and Settlement: The Role of Targeted Sanctions in Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement

2010

Terry Beitzel From Freedom to Self-Governing: Complementing Needs with Responsibilities, A Critical Appraisal	Ramesh Sepehrrad Gender Conflict in Iran: A Critique of Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
Betty Mae Smith Marshall The Making of a Mediator: What Life Circumstances or Events Do Mediators Identify as Being Influential in the Career Choice to Become a Mediator?	Ekaterina Romanova The Boundaries of National Identity Defined: Nationalism and Immigration Trends in Post-Soviet Russia
Sandra Ruckstuhl Enabling Environmental Peacebuilding: An analysis of Products and Factors in Four Project Cases	Joshua Fisher The Ecological Correlates of Armed Conflict: A Geospatial and Spatial-Statistical Approach to Conflict Modeling
Vandy Kanyako Donors and Civil Society Interaction in Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone	Min Zaw Oo From Democratic Transition to Consolidation
Jessica Felix-Romero Harvesting Peace: Permaculture as Peacebuilding	Janice R. McRae Identity Delegitimization and Eco-Enterprise: A comparative study of the process of disenrollment in Native American communities
Darrell K. Smith Unearthing Cognitive Frames and Sowing Interactional Framing within Indigenous-Mining Conflict

2009

Silvia Susnjic Historical Remembering and Attitudes Towards the "Other": A Cross-generational Inquiry	Pamela Creed A Narrative Transformed: The Soldiers' Stories
Krista Rigalo The Politics of Ritual: Exploring Discourse Regarding the Use of Ritual in Northern Uganda	Jeremy Rinker Justpeace Prospects for Peace-building and Worldview Tolerance: A South Asian Movement's Social Construction of Justice
Talha Kose Re-negotiating Alevi Identity: Values, Emotions and the Contending Visions on Future	Doga Ulas Eralp The Effectiveness of the EU as a Peace Actor in Post-conflict Bosnia Herzegovina: An Evaluative Study

2008

Joan Orgon Coolidge Towards a Just Peace: James H. Laue's Applied Theory of Third Party Intervention	Makram Ouaiss The Impact of Political Alliances on Voter Prejudice in Post Conflict Countries
Stella Ekwuachi The Role of Third Party Incentives in Hurting Stalemate: A Critique of Ripeness Theory	Donna Kenley International Political Will and the Development of a Regional Intervention
Idil P. Izmirli Autonomy or Integration? The Dynamics of Crimean Tatar Return and Its Implications for Regional Security in Post-Soviet Eurasia	Cheryl Duckworth Revitalizing Our Dances: Land and Dignity in Paraguay
Alex Scheinman From Explanation to Understanding: Toward a Critical Hermeneutic Reconstruction of Conflict Resolution Theory	Gloria Rhodes Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation Practice: Is There A Difference?
Ami Carpenter Rendering Idea to Practice: Development Assistance and Conflict Prevention in Guatemala	Frances Omori When Combat Boots and Wingtips Meet: Exploring Organizational Cultures of the Departments of Defense and State

2007

Robin Ericson Bridging Solutions to the Religion and Science Conflict over Embryonic Stem Cell Research	Mary Schwoebel Nation-Building in the Lands of the Somalis
William E. Hall Turning Points In Environmental Negotiation: Dynamics, Roles, and Context	Al Fuertes Community-Based Warviews, Resiliency and Healing Among the Internally Displaced Persons in Mindanao and the Karen Refugees on the Thai-Burmese Border
Gerardine St. Jean Mobley Evaluation of Intervention Programs Designed to Address Racial Conflicts	Ismael Muvingi Actualizing Human Rights Norms in Distanced Spaces: an Analysis of the Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Market Sanctions (Sudan) Campaigns in the United States
Carolyne Ashton Identifying Theories of Change in the Design and Implementation of Three UNICEF Peace Education Programs	Lulsegged Abebe The Role Christian Councils have Played in Peacemaking in Kenya and South Africa: 1990-2000
Patricia Maulden Former Child Soldiers and Sustainable Peace Processes: Demilitarizing the Body, Heart, and Mind	Pushpa Iyer Coming to the Table: Decisions and Decision-Making in a Non-State Armed Group, The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Jo M. Golden Conflicts around Knowledge Management: Connecting Complexity, Conflict, and Knowing to Support Knowledge-Focused Work	Wanda Wigfall-Williams Peace in the Margins:Identity Negotiation in Mixed-Tradition Marriages
Dena Hawes Why Art Matters: How Performance Art Interventions Contribute to the Field of Conflict Resolution	Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa Religion, Resilience and Relationship: Civil Society in Malerkotla
Young Jin Kang The Impact of Consensus Building on Conflict/Prevention Reduction: A Comparative Study of Negotiated and Conventional Rulemaking	R. Scott Moore Ending the Bloodshed and Bridging the Chasm, Military Intervention and Conflict Resolution
Shawn MacDonald From Conflict To Collaboration: Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives As A Conflict Management Mechanism For Corporate Social Conflicts

2006

Alma AbdulHadi - Jadallah Reflection on Practice: The Impact of 9/11 on Conflict Resolvers	Melissa M. Burn Loyalty and Order: Clan Identity and Political Preference in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, 2005
Linda McLean Harned Frame Change: The Role of the Press and the "Irish Question"	Jennifer Langdon Dispute, Harm, Crime, and Conflict: Narrative Positioning in Justice Practice
Natalia Mirimanova Pluralism in Television News on State Formation Conflicts and Pluralism of "Imagined Communities": Institutional Foundations and Implications for Media Conflict Interventions	William Cunningham Terrorism And Conflict Resolution: Theory And Practice
Orli Fridman Alternative Voices: Serbia's Anti-war Activists, 1991--2004	Ivan Sascha Sheehan When Terrorism and Counterterrorism Clash: Preemptive Force and Its Impact on Yransnational Terrorism. A Time Series Intervention Analysis
Mara Schoeny Conceptions of Practice: Didactic and Participatory Approaches in Conflict Resolution Training	Kevin DeBell Effectiveness of Environmental Dispute Resolution in Water Quality Negotiations
Valery Perry Democratic Ends of Democratic Means: Peace Implementation Strategies and International Intervention Options in Bosnia and Herzegovina	John Windmueller Making Meaning: A Case Study in Post-9/11 Democratic Deliberations, Community Resilience, and Dialogue's Dynamics
Jarle Crocker Conflict Resolution Theory: Towards a Poststructuralist Critique and Reconstruction	Jennifer Magee The Critical Mass of Social Change: Northern Ireland Integrated Education
Catalina Rojas Adjusting to Peace: The Political Economy of Post-War Reconstruction Land, Privatization and Fiscal Reform in Post-War El Salvador and Guatemala	Ibrahim Fraihat (aka Ibrahim Sharqieh) Ripe for Violence: Public Perception as an Early Warning Indicator
Adina Friedman Unraveling the Right of Return: Palestinian and Israeli discourses on and Attitudes Towards the Right of Return

2005

Tony Karbo Variations in Violent Conflict in Three Kenyan Provinces: The Relative Influence of Political Factors and Environmental Scarcity	Zheng Wang The Power of History and Memory: National 'Patriotic Education' and China's Conflict Behavior in Crises with the U.S., 1991 - 2001
Tatsushi Arai Creativity for Peace: Exploring Unexplored Pathways to a Conflict Resolution	Elham Atashi "The Peace Process in the Streets": Public Expectations From the Good Friday Agreement and the Impact of Unsatisfied Expectations and the Unjustified Suffering of the Past on the Stability of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Mary L. Jones Wade Spirituality and Conflict Resolution: A Study of the Life, Practices and Teachings of Dr. Howard Thurman

2004

Cathryn Quantic Thurston Conflicting Decisions: Measuring Group Conflict Management Styles in a Crisis Decision-Making Environment	Carrie Outhier Banks Finding Their Voice: Observation of the Surrogate Victim Offender Dialogue Project. Does the Program Provide a Path for Survivors of Domestic Violence to Progress Through Developmental Learning Stages?
Sezai Ozcelik The Influence of Power and Knowledge Factors on Negotiation Processes, Perceptions and Outcomes: Environmental Regime Negotiations	Rebecca Peabody Sewall Accommodating Injustice: Women and Conflict Settlement Processes
Badr M. Alhinai Oman's Negotiation Behavior: A Strategy for Border Conflict Resolution	Dimostenis Yagcioglu From Deterioration to Improvement in Western Thrace, Greece: A Political Systems Analysis of a Triadic Ethnic Conflict
Allison Frendak-Blume United States Military Chaplains on the Ground in Today's Peace Operations: Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia	Ofer Grosbard Personality study of Menachem Begin (Poland, Israel)
Craig Zelizer The Role of Artistic Processes in Peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina

2003

John M. Hammang Anathema sit: The Council of Trent's Management of Religious Conflict	Cynthia G. Irmer The Promise of Process: Evidence on Ending Violent International Conflict
Kayoumars Bakhtar Iran-United States Conflict, Putnam's Two-Level-Game Revisited	Nike Carstarphen Shift Happens: Transformations During Small Group Interventions in Protracted Social Conflicts
Debra Sanders Identities in Ethiopia: The Role of Images, Symbols, Myths and Stereotypes in Imperial and Post-Imperial Systems (Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Meles Zenawi)

2002

Juliana Birkhoff Mediators' Perspectives on Power: A Window into a Profession?	Ilana L. Shapiro Mapping Theories of Practice and Change: A Comparative Analysis of Intervention Programs Addressing Racial and Ethnic Tensions in United States Communities
Larissa Fast Context Matters: Identifying Micro- and Macro-Level Factors Contributing to NGO Insecurity	Landon Hancock Peace from the People: Identity Salience and the Northern Irish Peace Process
Robert D. Harris Unlocking the Learning Potential in Peer Mediation: An Evaluation of Peer Mediator Modeling and Disputant Learning	Muzaffer Ercan Yilmaz Political Islam in the Context of Social Identity: The Effects of Perceived External Threats on the Rising Islamic Challenge (Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Iran)
Stephen Garon Talking Toxics: Narrative Constructions of Environmental Risk in Conflict	Mohamed Ebrahim Al-Naqbi Oil Concession Agreement: An Exploration of the Effect of Asymmetric Negotiations on Conflict Creation in Three Middle Eastern Countries between the Years of 1900-1975 (Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia)
Joshua Weiss Which Way Forward? Mediator Sequencing Strategies in Intractable Communal Conflicts

2001

Sagi Leizerov The Institutionalization of Conflicts in Cyberspace: A Study of the Conflict over Online Privacy	Amr Abdalla Inter-Personal Conflict Patterns in Egypt: Themes and Solutions
Mary Jo Larson Conflict Resolution in Ecological Negotiations: How Multilateral Negotiations Contribute to the Resolution of Environment and Development Conflicts	Jaco Cilliers Local Reactions to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa
Sarah Hobbs Jackson Children's Conflict Management: Preferences and Perceived Control Celiefs

2000

Linda M. Johnston

The Tobacco Dispute: A Study in the Use of Discourse and Narrative Theory in the Understanding of Health-Related Conflicts

1999

Susan H. Allen Complementarity and coordination of conflict resolution efforts in the conflicts over Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdniestria	Adrienne Kaufmann The Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Conflict: An Exploratory Study to Understand the Nature of the Conflict and to Develop Constructive Conflict Intervention Designs
Lisa Schirch Ritual Peacebuilding: Creating Contexts Conducive to Conflict Transformation	Hugo Van Der Merwe The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Community Reconciliation: An Analysis of Competing Strategies and Conceptualizations
Catherine Barnes Beyond Conflict: The Structure and Purposes of Genocide in the 20th Century	Vicki Rast Interagency Conflict and United States Intervention Policy: Toward a Bureaucratic Model of Conflict Termination

1998

Richard A. Cocozza

An Examination of United States Senate Interventions from 1993--1995: Managing Intractable Conflicts in Five Case Studies

Jayne Docherty

When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Table: Learning Lessons From Waco

1997

Johannes (Jannie) Botes (1952-2017)

Media Roles in Conflict and Conflict Resolution: A Comparison between Television Moderators and Conventional Mediators

John B. Stephens

Conflicts over Homosexuality in the United Methodist Church: Testing Theories of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

1996

Moorad Mooradian

Third Party Mediations and Missed Opportunities in Nagorno Karabakh: A Design for a Possible Solution

1995

Carolyn A. Roth

The Hybrid Model and Stakeholder-Based Evaluation in Community Dispute Resolution Centers

Barry Hart

Repairing the Effects of Threats to Ethnic Identity: Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Workshops in Liberia During the Civil War

1993

Mohammed Abu-Nimer Conflict Resolution Between Arabs and Jews in Israel: A Study of Six Intervention Programs	Nimet Beriker Negotiating Styles of the Minor Parties in Multilateral Peace Negotiations: Greece and Turkey at the Lausanne Peace Conference, 1922-1923
Simona Sharoni Conflict Resolution Through Feminist Lenses: Theorizing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict From the Perspectives of Women Peace Activists in Israel

1992

E. Franklin Dukes

The Development of Public Conflict Resolution: A Transformative Approach

1991

Diane LeResche

Procedural Justice of, by, and for American Ethnic Groups: A Comparison of Interpersonal Conflict Resolution Procedures Used by Korean-Americans and American Community Mediation Centers with Procedural Justice Theories

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