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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"war and conflict"”.
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Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré
… using the working title Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré, proposes to explore one of Gustave Doré’s little-known, but extensive oeuvres in painting. That is, the artist’s representation of conflict through the modes of history painting and allegory. With an …
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Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict
… in the Arab Spring. Narrative, informed by and reliant upon communication models and technologies, enables us to navigate, negotiate, and elicit meaning both from and within complexity of information. As a primary model of communication during the Arab Spring, the networked model of …
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The Implications of War and Conflict on the Mental Health of Syrian and Iraqi Displaced People
Abstract: From the first war in Mesopotamia to the latest ongoing war in Ukraine, war has constantly threatened nations' economic and social fabric. During the last decade, Middle East and North African countries suffered several armed conflicts and instability, including the Arab Spring and the …
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
Lebanon has experienced war and conflict for the last four decades, yet there is an absence of literature on Lebanese women’s lived experience of the Lebanese Civil War (LCW) (April 1975 – October 1989), and the ongoing conflict that has occurred thereafter. There are limited accounts of Lebanese …
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Unruly Acts: Queer Masculinities in Akram Zaatari’s Lens-Based Artworks
… scholarly works have examined the plurality and diversity of men in relation to social practices of Arab cultures, while also examining discourses of violence, militarization and hegemonic masculinity in times of war and conflict. However, there has been little discussion and critical …
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Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders the Case for Feudal Constraint
This argues that England King Edward III’s imprisonment of Joan of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany and Countess de Montfort during the Hundred Years War was not for her so-called madness, but was political. Joan of Flanders, who had led a defense of the castellany of Hennebont that routed the French …
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Ship design with the human factor: evacuation and normal operations modelling in the ship design process
… thesis addresses the modelling of human factors and how they can impact ship design. Two different but related applications areas are considered; passenger ship evacuation analysis and naval vessel normal operations and evacuation analysis. In the first instance, this thesis investigates the …
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Academic achievement and attitudes of Arab-American immigrants
… empirical research examining immigrant students and academic achievement, in order to provide the necessary support to increase the likelihood of academic success. However, there has been little research to investigate the case of Arab-American immigrants. The influx of immigrants from Arab …
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Examining the perceived internal and external effectiveness of NGOs in the Palestinian Territories : the role of complexity, resilience, and job adaptability
… organizations' (NGOs) effectiveness operating in war and conflict settings. Previous research suggested that integrative complexity (Streufert, 1970; Suedfeld, Tetlock, & Streufert, 1992), behavioral complexity (Lawrence, Lenk, & Quinn, 2009), emotional complexity (Kang & Shaver, 2004), job …
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The Hajj From India In An Age Of Imperial Transitions, 1707-1820
This dissertation examines the political and religious worlds that emerged from traffic between the late Mughal and Ottoman empires. Focusing on the Hajj pilgrimage, it illustrates how Indian devotional circulations threaded unprecedented webs of state, commercial and cultural exchanges across …
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The (in)Complete Warrior: Technology, Limb Loss and the Reformation of Identity
… such as organ transplants, sonograms, and artificial prostheses are generally seen in a positive light, there are sometimes unforeseen ethical and moral issues that accompany their implementation. Within the medical system of the U.S. military these issues are compounded in unique ways. …
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Engaging Men for Gender Justice: Overcoming Barriers to Girls’ Education in the Pashtun Tribes of Northern Pakistan
… the past decade. However, continuing cycles of war and conflict, extremism, and the introduction of strict cultural and religious ideologies have further complicated and magnified the issue of gender justice and girls' education in Northwest Pakistan. The substantial impact of these issues is …
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The Future of Investigative Journalism in the Age of Automation, Open-Source Iintelligence (OSINT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… study uses a political economy lens to understand the impact of automation on investigative journalism and journalists, through qualitative methods of inquiry. Through semi-structured interviews with 30 investigators and investigative journalists who are experts in or pioneering Open-Source …
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Prospects for the formation of a pluralistic security community between China and ASEAN
Since the end of the Cold War, deep transformations in East Asia have begun to restructure the political, economic and security landscape of the region. Many of these transformations have been of a positive nature, in the sense that East Asian states are now interacting with each other with the …
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A Wait-List Controlled Study of a Culturally Adapted Trauma Focused-Adaptation and Development After Persecution and Trauma (ADAPT) Model-Based Anger Therapy (CTF-AAT) for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) in Timor Leste
Research background and context: The core focus of my dissertation is the development and assessment of a culturally adapted psychological intervention in response to my community observations during an extended United Nations (UN) assignment in the newly established independent country of Timor …