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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Conflict transformation"”.
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Conflict Transformation Through Integrative Mediation in Mitrovica, Kosovo
… that mediation has significantly contributed to conflict resolution, reduced judicial backlog, and improved inter-community relations. However, challenges remain, including limited public awareness, institutional constraints, and socioeconomic disparities. The research concludes that Integrative …
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Schooling for conflict transformation : a case study from Northern Uganda
… the Millennium Development Goals. As many conflicts erupt within a short time, it is important to know what may increase the chances of sustainable peace. Access to education is a factor but relatively little is known about the contribution of what students learn in school. This thesis aims …
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Revisiting the Past : Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation
Intractable conflicts are by definition difficult to resolve. This study ventures into the identity dynamics of those conflicts and argues that those identity aspects must be addressed in order to locate constituencies for change. Through the employment o theories of conflict transformation, …
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A Case Study: Understanding Fifth-Grade Students' Experiences with Conflict Transformation
… the experience of fifth-grade students with conflict transformation. A large body of quantitative research supports the premise that direct instruction in non-violent conflict intervention decreases aggression in elementary schools (Johnson, D., Johnson, R., Dudley, & Acikgoz, 2001) and …
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An Anabaptist paradigm for conflict transformation : critical reflections on peacemaking in Zimbabwe
… the current inadequacy of religious response to conflicts, the danger of manipulation of religious leadership by other actors, and potential for the insights of religiously-based actors to contribute to the over-all practice of peacebuilding and diplomacy. In addressing the latter question I …
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The effectiveness of United Nations multifunctional peace-support - comparing conflict transformation in Angola and Mozambique
… peace-support in facilitating the transformation of the Angolan and the Mozambican internal wars into non-violent conflicts which are managed within the framework of a newly created polity. The comparison between the Angolan case, a failure, and the Mozambican case, a success, aims …
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Expressing emotion: how emotion is encoded in language and the role of emotion during conflict transformation
… Finally I look at the role of emotion during conflict transformation.
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Peace agreement and conflict transformation: A study of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of Bangladesh
… Accord of Bangladesh contributed to transform conflicting relations of the parties, and communities living in the CHT. This case study research has combined two methods: (i) key informant interviews and (ii) consultation of wider secondary literature, reports of accord signing parties, …
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Conflict transformation education : a strategy to resolve schools and community violence in the Factreton area, Western Cape
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration: Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Communication for conflict transformation : an assessment of arbitration procedures between aggrieved educators and the KZN Education Department
… to present an objective analysis of conflict between aggrieved educators and their employer, the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Department of Education, set against current theories of how narrative analysis, informed by semantic roles analysis, can be used according to the principles of …
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The success and failure of United Nations multifunctional peace operations : a comparative case study of conflict transformation in Mozambique and Rwanda
This study is about the ending of conflicts. It examines the United Nations (UN) capacities in Conflict Transformation activities through the deployment of multifunctional peace operations. It is a study of how the UN seeks to transform violent conflicts into the state of being non-violent …
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Good Governance and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka : A Political Analysis of People's Perceptions of Institutions at the Local Level and the Challenges of Decentralised Governance
This empirical study on good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka is located within the larger scholarly discourse on good governance as a solution to conflict in developing societies. Sri Lanka is one of the oldest post-colonial democratic systems among the states of the South and …
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Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
… theories into conversation with peace and conflict scholarship. Specifically, I explore how the ways in which women narrate their experiences of violent conflict through sewing collectives can inform conflict transformation work. I engage in this exploration within the framework of …
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A critical inquiry into the nature and promise of peace education in Cambodia. Using transpection to examine the theory and praxis, context, transformative potential, and possible model of peace education in Cambodia
… the ways in which peace education contributes to conflict transformation at the personal, relational, structural, and cultural levels. The thesis argues that peace education in Cambodia makes a deeper impression on personal and relational conflict, but that via transformative agency and through …
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THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND
… to gain a better understanding of the process of conflict transformation. More specifically, I wish to examine what are the circumstances that push Dual Wing Resistance Organizations (DWRO), and particularly, the Irish Provisional Republican Movement to behave in one of four different ways: …
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Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
… urban staging in cultural identity politics and conflict transformation in post-Agreement Belfast, the center of Northern Ireland’s tourism industry. The primary argument is that these image-led regeneration strategies physically and discursively refashion the built environment and the contested …
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