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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Peace-building"”.
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Changing narratives? Shifting discursive conceptualisations of post-conflict peace-building
… and paradigm changes within the scholarship on peace-building. In particular, the thesis is concerned with examining if, and how, these shifts have significantly altered the manner in which the foundational elements of thinking about peace-building have changed beyond the ‘liberal …
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Toward a contemplative cyberspace: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemplation, social media and peace-building
The emerging practice of using social media in peacebuilding has generated a growing interest from practitioners and academia. However, most attention focuses on the technological aspect of social media rather than the engagement of individuals at grassroots. The question this research seeks to …
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Religious dialogue as a peace building tool between India and Pakistan : the Ulema as peace builders
… dialogue has never been considered as a means of peace building between India and Pakistan. This dissertation probes the rationale and possibility of religious dialogue as a peace-building tool between the two countries. It identifies the ulema as cross-border actors who are best suited to …
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Poor and Marginalized Women Active in the Public Arena during Nepal's Peace-Building Process After Maoist Insurgency
… country is in the process of transformation and peace-building and is moving towards adjusting the past discrepancies to address root causes of the insurgency. However, the Maoist insurgency also brought some positive changes to the society including issues relating to women such as, encouraging …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
Ethnic civil wars are the most abundant form of large-scale, deadly conflict in the world today, yet the dedicated study of ethnic civil war is relatively new within political science. One empirical observation repeated in the literature is that civil wars are less likely than interstate wars to …
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Inter-relationships between Small Arms Control and Peace Building Activities in Countries Emerging from Conflict. An Examination of the Inter-relationships between Programmes to Control Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and Peace Building Activities in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict.
… can have positive or negative impacts on peacebuilding efforts. Similarly, peacebuilding activities can both support or endanger efforts to place SALW under greater control. Despite the regular occurrence of SALW control and peacebuilding activities in the same time and space in post …
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Emerging leadership practices in extremity: case study of women advancing collective enterprise in peace building processes, Riyom, Plateau State, Nigeria
… with cognizance of the ever-evolving face of peace and conflicts. This study sought to understand how context influences emergent local leadership practices in extremities. The research site is a conflict-ridden area which has experienced sporadic communal conflicts for over 23 years; highly …
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Embracing difference and the deferral of self-government: a critical analysis of the framing and practice of contemporary peace building
… analyses how dominant policy approaches to peacebuilding have moved away from a single and universalised understanding of peace to be achieved through a top-down strategy of democratisation and economic liberalisation, prevalent at the beginning of 1990s. Instead, throughout the 2000s, …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of the roles of civil society organisations in peace building in Zambia: a case of church mother bodies in Zambia.
… of the roles of civil society organisations in peace building in Zambia. The objectives of this study were to, evaluate the efficacy of the roles of civil society organizations in peace building, investigate the extent to which civil society organisations engage youths and political players in …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of the roles of civil society organisations in peace building in Zambia: a case of church mother bodies in Zambia.
… of the roles of civil society organisations in peace building in Zambia. The objectives of this study were to, evaluate the efficacy of the roles of civil society organizations in peace building, investigate the extent to which civil society organisations engage youths and political players in …
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Understanding peaceful and violent nation-building through leadership : a case study of South Sudan
Peace-building has reached a cross-roads. The high instance of conflict relapse in “post-conflict” societies has stimulated an examination of dominant peace-building thinking and practice. This research contributes to this thinking by examining nation-building in societies plagued by …
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This thesis focuses on liberal peace building in the DRC. The thesis takes a critical approach which emphasises local agencies and their engagements with liberal peace building. However, it seeks to bring this critique back to the institutions with which liberal peace building is preoccupied, by …
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"The case for peace-building as sport's next great legacy: A literature review, assessment, and suggestions for applying the ""slow child"" in the emergent field of Sport for Development and Peace"
Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) has gained substantial global interest in recent years among researchers, governmental and intergovernmental organizations, development workers, corporations, not-for-profits and community-based organizations, and activists. The rise of this field has drawn …
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U.S. Military Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Meeting the Challenges of the Post-9/11 Environment
… how its forces may/should be arrayed in future peace building and post-conflict reconstruction operations. The nature of the research for this study was analytical and qualitative. It considers U.S. Army as well as joint doctrine, and explores the recent scholarly literature on military efforts …
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An exploratory study of mindfulness meditation as a healing tool with abused adolescents at the Durban Child Care Centre
… of Master of Technology: Public Management (Peace Building), Durban University of Technology, 2017.
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