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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"peace and conflict"”.
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Drawn to Peace: Comics as Multimodal Narratives in Peace and Conflict Education
… Through a combination of visual, verbal, and spatial devices, comics often explore issues of peace, conflict, and justice “from below,” in ways that reveal the complexities of narrative and identity. In doing so, they have the potential to interrogate grand narratives that often go …
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Peace and conflict resolution activities in support of strengthening civil society's democratic capacity in South Korea. Case studies on three civil society organisations working on peace and conflict resolution in South Korea.
In the last fifteen years, conflict resolution, a collaborative, problem-solving approach to social conflicts, was introduced to new democracies in an attempt to develop civil society¿s capacity for conflict management (Mayer, 2000). Conflict resolution provides people with an opportunity to …
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Kurds Under Threat: The Role of Kurdish Transnational Networks During Peace and Conflict (2004-2017)
… impact of ethnic ties between host states and diaspora and why states and ethnic minorities in the diaspora may occasionally support violent rebel organizations in the homeland. However, these previous studies do not really consider the relationships among co-ethnic organizations without a …
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Challenges faced by head teachers in creating effective teamwork among teachers in continuing professional development activities in four selected schools in Katete district of Zambia.
This study sought to establish the experiences and challenges of the military personnel in pursuing peace and conflict studies by the Zambia Army. The study, was guided by the following objectives: establish the number of military personnel pursuing Peace and Conflict Studies in Zambia Army; …
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Challenges faced by head teachers in creating effective teamwork among teachers in continuing professional development activities in four selected schools in Katete district of Zambia.
This study sought to establish the experiences and challenges of the military personnel in pursuing peace and conflict studies by the Zambia Army. The study, was guided by the following objectives: establish the number of military personnel pursuing Peace and Conflict Studies in Zambia Army; …
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The Path to Peace: Conflict Theory and Northern Ireland’s Troubles (1968-1998)
… qualitative historical analysis of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Over a period of approximately thirty years, sectarian violence in Northern Ireland dominated the headlines of newspapers in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Despite this violent history, Northern Ireland has …
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Construcción de paz en Colombia : un estudio de caso a partir de la experiencia del programa Nuevos Territorios de Paz (NTP) en el departamento del Guaviare (2011 – 2016)
… por medio de la implementación de la metodología Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) del investigador Kenneth Bush.
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Recidivism among ex-combatants of illegal armed groups in Colombia: An analysis of participants in the reintegration process
… to which demographic, illegal armed group (IAG) and demobilisation history variables influenced reoffending and crime severity in a sample of 16,834 ex-combatants from IAGs in Colombia, who were registered into the reintegration programme (RP) in 2006 and were monitored during a two-year ‘time at …
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Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
… communication 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 …
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The Myth of the Universal User. Pursuing a Cultural Variable in ICT Design for Conflict Management through Quantitative Analysis: Implications from a Ugandan Case Study.
… of culture on the use of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the context of peace and conflict. Beginning with the hypothesis that ICT reflects a mono-cultural perspective for collecting and organizing information, this study tested how a failure to adapt at a cognitive …
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The role of the university in building peace in society: a case study of the University of Zambia
… serve as key institutions for generating and transmitting knowledge through teaching, research, and community engagement. This study examines how these functions are applied to peacebuilding, using the University of Zambia as a case study. The research tracks the university's historical …
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Peace research in non-violence contexts: a case study among the Southwest Nigerian Yorùbá
I analyse the abilities of peaceful communities to maintain harmony by making a case study of the Southwest Nigerian Yorùbá in this research. I examine the potential of Yorùbá Christians and Muslims to manage their disputes, crises, and conflicts to avoid violence and maintain peace within their …
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The public sphere and the construction of peace narratives in Angola : from the bicesse accords to the death of Savimbi
… arenas within the Angolan public sphere, and investigate their contribution to peace discourse. The five arenas are: the Angolan churches, private media, civil society organisations, community based material and traditional authority. The objective of this thesis is to highlight these …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
<p>This intersectional and interdisciplinary social science qualitative dissertation in six chapters is grounded in critical research and theory for the purpose of engaged public service. This project is grounded in three formal disciplines: education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. …
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Beyond Resettlement: The Role of Ethiopian Refugee Diaspora in Homeland Peacebuilding
<p>The number of people forced to flee their homeland across the world is increasing at an alarming rate. As a consequence, refugees have become a growing concern among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Although much attention has been afforded to refugee studies, the contributions of …
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On chiefs and peace: Examining the role of traditional governance in sub-Saharan African conflict dynamics
… structures play in countries’ internal peace and conflict dynamics? While dominant approaches in conflict studies understand governance mainly through the lenses of state capacities, governance scholars have increasingly payed attention to non-state governance structures. Particularly in …
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Rivalry in International Relations: A Mimetic Approach to the Case of the Rivalry in Northern Ireland (1963-2020)
… rivalry, understood as a protracted intractable conflict, emerges, and develops. It takes issue with current approaches to rivalry in International Relations (IR) and Peace and Conflict Studies (P&CS) to advance an alternative, innovative, and interdisciplinary Mimetic Rivalry Framework (MRF) …
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Exploring Strategies for Effective Advocacy: The Lived Experience of Leaders of Pakistani Non-Governmental Organizations
… as influential players in world politics and international development. Despite limited financial resources and having to rely on volunteers who often lack formal training, NGOs’ advocacy work has often been highly effective. Since the beginning of the 1990s, it has resulted in both the …
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been subject to numerous debates across a wide range of disciplines, including peace and conflict studies, justice and transformation studies, as well as religious studies. In political science, the debates concerning the TRC have …
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In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
<p>While intergroup peace is statistically far more common than is intergroup or inter-religious conflict, there has been a rise in recent years in conflict framed in religious terms. Peace and development practitioners have, in response, become increasingly interested in engaging religion, in …
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