PJSA Thesis and Dissertation Database

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Author Degree Date	Title	Keywords	Institution Dept/Major	Details
Sarah Adams 5/2007	According to Whose Reality? The Feminization of HIV/AIDS in Africa and the United States' Response	HIV/AIDS, Gender, U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Sub-Saharan Africa	University of St. Thomas Justice and Peace Studies and International Studies
Brandi Andrews 5/2008	Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights: Creating a Global Consciousness	cosmopolitanism, consciousness, sovereignty, rights, globalization, universalism.	European Peace University, Austria Peace and Conflict Studies
Michael Andreychik 5/2007	Social Explanatory Style as a Foundation of Social Orientation	social explanations, social orientation	Lehigh University Psychology
Adem Beha 4/2010	The Politics of Recognition: A Constructive Model on Ethnic Conflict Regulation in Kosovo	conflict resolution, minority rights, enclaves, power sharing, decentralization, territorial solution, Ahtisaari Plan, international community	University of Prishtina Political Science, Civil Society and Local Development
Adem Beha 4/2010	The Politics of Recognition: A Constructive Model on Ethnic Conflict Regulation in Kosovo	conflict resolution, minority rights, enclaves, power sharing, decentralization, territorial solution, Ahtisaari Plan, international community	University of Prishtina Political Science, Civil Society and Local Development
Eric Berge 6/2010	Teaching Peace: Peace Education in the Catholic High School	peace education; Catholic social teaching; religious education; nonviolence; peace studies	Portland State University Conflict Resolution
Ivan Boothe 5/2005	Transnational Nonviolent Empowerment	peacekeeping, third-party nonviolent intervention, tpni, nonviolence, solidarity, empowerment, critical theory, power-with, race, racism, antiracism, feminism, privilege, empire, imperialism, oppression, liberation	Swarthmore College Peace and Conflict Studies
Dr. Edward Brantmeier 9/2005	CONSTRAINTS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR INTERCULTURAL PEACE CURRICULA: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF TEACHER INVOLVEMENT IN MULTICULTURAL CHANGE AT A U.S. MIDWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL	intercultural peace curricula, peace theory, peace action research	Indiana University Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Reina Chano 5/2009	Historical Education as Reconciliation: Teaching History in Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland, History, Education, Curriculum, History Teaching, Narratives, Historical Understanding, Identity, Reconciliation, Cross-Community Relations	Swarthmore College Peace and Conflict Studies, Honors Program
Catia Confortini 5/2009	Imaginative Identification: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women\'s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1945-1975	feminism, peace, constructivism, critical methodology, emancipation	University of Southern California School of International Relations
David Cook 5/2008	Blessed are the Poor: A Study into the Lives of Homeless Chattanoogans and the Monk Who Cares for Them	homelessness, religion, social justice, narrative analysis, life histories	Prescott College Peace Studies
Pieternel de Bie 10/2006	Rethinking Media Violence: Media Literacy within the Field of Peace Education	Media violence, Peace Education, Media education	Columbia University Teachers College, International and Transcultural Studies
Michelle Eberhard 5/2010	"Against the Blood of Thy Neighbors": Obstacles to Genocide Intervention and Hope for the Future	Genocide, Responsibility to Protect, intervention	College of Saint Benedict Peace Studies
Maya Eichler 8/2009	Militarized Masculinity in Post-Soviet Russia: A Gendered Analysis of State and Society in the Context of the Chechen Wars	de/militarization, gender, draft evasion, soldiers' mothers, veterans, Russia, Chechen wars	York University Political Science
Caitlin Eliasson 6/2010	Liberating Oppressed and Oppressive Voices: The Peacemaking Capacities of Indigenous Literatures in Canada	Indigenous Literatures, Imperialism, Peacebuilding, Imagined Futures	Canadian Mennonite University's Menno Simons College, affiliated with the University of Winnipeg Conflict Resolution Studies
Kristin Famula 3/2007	Healing Societal Traumas and Transforming Collective Consciousness: A Path to a Culture of Healing	Trauma, Healing, Collective Consciousness	European University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
Garrett FitzGerald 5/2008	Toward a Holistic Understanding of Nonviolence	Nonviolence, Principled, Strategic, Spectrum, Peace	Guilford College Peace & Conflict Studies and Religious Studies
Trevor Fleck 5/2007	Never Again: An Examination of Catholic-Jewish Relations in Light of the Holocaust	Holocaust	Georgetown University Justice and Peace Studies
Brandon Fryman 3/2008	Female Genital Modification: Beyond the Universalism versus Particularism Debate	Female Genital Modification Mutilation circumcision	California State University, San Bernardino Anthropology
Michelle Gawerc 5/2010	Israeli Palestinian Peace-building Partnerships: Stories of Adaptation, Asymmetry, and Survival	peace-building; people-to-people; non-governmental organizations; organizational survival; asymmetry; coalition building; Israeli-Palestinian conflict.	Boston College Sociology
Mneesha Gellman 12/2007	Insider-Outsider Epistemologies in (Neo) Liberal Peacebuilding: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Cambodia	post conflict reconstruction, Cambodia, liberal peacebuilding	University of Queensland Political Science, Peace and Conflict Resolution
Heather Goah 6/2008	Liberia: Creating an Alliance between Policymakers and Citizen Advocates	Post Conflict, Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution	Portland State University Conflict Resolution
Toran Hansen 3/2010	The Effects of Facilitation Management on Interorganizational Coordination and Trust in an Anti-Iraq War Political Advocacy Nonprofit Network in the Twin Cities	facilitation, peace movement, network, empowerment, communications	University of Minnesota Social Work
Lena Jackson 5/2007	Rap, Inc.	Documentary film on drug-rehab center	Georgetown University Culture and Politics
Yves-Renee Jennings 5/2007	Looking Back and Building Forward: Helping Liberia Transform Its Communities’ Ability to Resolve Conflict Constructively	social transformation, community empowerment, conflict intervention, conflict resolution, social change	George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Maya Karwande 5/2009	Failure to Engage: Outreach at the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber	reconciliation, Bosnia, ICTY	Tufts University Peace and Justice Studies Program
Marsha Lake Eyre 9/2006	Is Peacebuilding A Profession? An Assessment of the State of the Field	Peace building, profession	Royal Roads University School of Peace and Conflict Management
Kim Lamberty 5/2010	Eyes from the Outside: Christian Mission in Zones of Violent Conflict	accompaniment, Christian mission, Colombia Conflict, international protective accompaniment	Catholic Theological Union Cross Cultural Ministry
Mitsuko Matsumoto 10/2006	Strengthening Peace Education Programming in the United Nations: Recommendation for Inter-Agency Peace Education Working Unit in the UN	Peace Education, the United Nations, UNESCO, UNICEF, INEE, UNHCR	Teachers College, Columbia University Transcultural and International Studies
Eli McCarthy 5/2010	A Virtue Ethic Assessment of Nonviolent Peacemaking: Toward Public Discourse and Policy	nonviolent peacemaking, virtue ethics, public policy, catholic social teaching, human rights	Graduate Theological Union Ethics and Social Theory
Richard McCutcheon 1/2009	The US/UK - IRAQ War, 1991-2003: How a Process Model of Violence Illuminates War	Iraq, War, Violence, anthropological theory	McMaster University Anthropology
Whitney McIntyre Miller 4/2010	Postconflict Community Development in Sierra Leone: Western, Cultural, and National Influences	postconflict, post-conflict, development, community	University of San Diego Leadership Studies
Meredith Michaud 3/2010	How beliefs about violence correlate with tendencies towards violent behavior among Portland State University students.	worldview, violence, beliefs, behavior	Portland State University Conflict Resolution
Eric Miller 1/2007	Illuminating the Heart of Darkness	Africa’s Great War and its continued aftermath	Boston University International Relations
Julie Morton 5/2008	Reading and Writing Peace: The Core Skills of Conflict Transformation and Literacy	peace education, literacy, conflict transformation, literature, critical pedagogy	Prescott College Peace Education
Tammy Murphy 5/2008	Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Peoples’ Movement in Motion: Historical institutionalism theory challenged in light of recent legal achievements	Indigenous Peoples, Law, Social Movements	Arcadia University International Peace and Conflict Resolution
Emiko Noma 6/2008	Women Taking Agency During Violent Conflict: Case Studies of Women PeaceMakers at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice	women and peacebuilding	Portland State University Conflict Resolution
Aki Ohata 5/2007	School Violence in Japan: A Case of Freirian Banking Method	Media Analysis and Theory Application	Teachers College Columbia University International & Transcultural Studies
Natalie Olson 5/2009	Madagascar Microfinance: The Effectiveness of Microfinance Institutions in Empowering Women	Microfinance, Madagascar, Women\'s Empowerment, Conflict, Development	Bowling Green State University Psychology
Zohra Omar 2/2010	The Challenges and Opportunities in Street Education	street children, participation, praxis, Ecuador	Teachers College, Columbia University International Educational Development
James Page 9/2006	Peace Education: Exploring Ethico-Philosophical Foundations	philosophy of peace education, virtue ethics, consequentialist ethics, conservative political ethics, aesthetics ethics, care ethics, critical realism	Southern Cross University School of Education
John Parker 5/2010	Eating our Way To Peace?	Conflict/Peace Studies, Interdisciplinary, Agriculture	Grand Valley State University Liberal Studies
Carliene Quist 5/2007	Invisible Privilege, Invisible Men: Exposing and Exhorting the Need for Transformational Research and Active Participation Among Males as an Essential Component to Sustainable Gender Violence Prevention and Eradication in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico	femicide, masculinities, gender violence, Juarez, U.S.-Mexico border	College of St. Benedict Peace Studies
Beth Rempe 11/2008	Clinton Administration Involvement in the Northern Ireland Peace Process	Clinton, Northern Ireland, Peace Processes, Mediation	Lancaster University Politics and IR
Julia Resnitsky 5/2007	An Encounter with the ‘Other’ - Delegitimization, Anti-Arabism, and Denial: Constructing the Jewish-Israeli Identity.	Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Denial, Dehumanization, Delegitimization, Identity, Constructing Identity, Zionism	Brandeis University Sociology; Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies
Robert Reuschlein 8/2009	Peace Economics and program change in undergraduate Peace Studies programs	Peace Economics	Edgewood College Education
Jacob Ritter 8/2007	World Peace Education	world peace, education, health, prevention, integral, integration	Goddard College Individualized BA
Jacoba Rock 5/2007	Restorative Justice: Encouraging Community Relationships for a Straddled Generation	restorative justice, young adults, conflict transformation, community conflict	University of Colorado at Boulder Sociology
Hope Rubin 5/2009	Opening Pathways to “the Other”: An Approach to Interfaith Worship and Peacemaking for Our Times	Interfaith Worship, Intergroup relations, and peace	Loyola College in Maryland Pastoral and Spiritual Care
Krysta Sadowski 5/2008	Partition as a Strategy for Managing Ethnic Conflict: the Case of Cyprus	Partition, Bi-communal, Conflict Resolution	The George Washington University Special Interdisciplinary program
Asaduzzaman Sarder 7/2008	Redesigning the Community-based Justice Mechanisms for Grassroots Level Conflict Transformation: Bangladesh Context	Mediation, Transformative Mediation, Conflict Transformation, Counseling	Pannasastra University Applied Conflict Transformation Studies
Caroline Sarkis 3/2007	Seeking Reconciliation in Rwanda: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as a Reconciliation Mechanism	Reconciliation/Rwanda	Portland State University Conflict Resolution Graduate Program
Martina Savio 5/2010	Dynamics of oppression and state failure Cases of child labour in artisanal and small-scale mines Democratic Republic of Congo	Child labour, oppression, mining, failed states	University of Tromsø MA in Peace and Conflict Transformation
Jarem Sawatsky 7/2008	The Ethic of Traditional Communities and the Spirit of Healing Justice: A Grounded Comparative Analysis of Three Communities	healing justice, restorative justice, community peacebuilding, cultures of peace	University of Hull, UK Law School
Steve Sharra 5/2007	TEACHING LIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, UMUNTHU, PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION IN MALAWI	peace, social justice, umunthu, teacher education, teacher autobiography, malawi	Michigan State University Teacher Education
Kristen Shelly 5/2010	Conceptualizing War, Peace, and Nonviolent Action: Reconstructing Christian Pacifism	Pacifism, nonviolent action, Christianity	Bluffton University Sociology
Amy Shuster 4/2009	The Judgment of Generations	generational politics, political judgment, democratic theory	Princeton University Department of Politics
Bryan M. Sims 9/2008	Assessing the impact of \'bottom-up\' conflict management methods in Africa: The case of Liberia	Liberia, conflict, grassroots	University of Kent Politics and International Relations
Amy Spelz 1/2007	Latin American Liberation Philosophies: Analyzing Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution	Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Revolution, Liberation Theology, Liberation philosophies, Paulo Freire	European University Center for Peace Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
David Steiner 6/2009	Discourse Literacy: A Curricular Approach to Peacemaking in the Palestinian - Israeli Conflict	Peace education, media literacy, Israel, Palestine	National Louis University Curriculum and Social Inqiry
Paul Stock 5/2009	The Original Green Revolution: The Catholic Worker and Environmental Morality	Catholic Worker, environmental morality, agriculture, religion, peace	Colorado State University Sociology
Beckey Sukovaty 9/2008	A Feminist Philosophical Critique of Domestic Mediation (ADR) Practices in the United States: Realizing Mary Parker Follett\'s Theory of Empowerment	nonviolent dispute resolution, mediation, power, oppression, autonomy, interdependence, Mary Parker Follett, feminist theory, applied ethics	University of Oregon Philosophy
Diane Swords 5/2007	Crossing the Line: Democracy, Spirituality and Politics in Anti-Nuclear Social Movements	Social movements, anti-nuclear, democracy, spirituality, feminist, action research, strategy	Syracuse University Social Science
Hasmig Tatiossian 1/2010	Women’s Liberation and Peacebuilding: The Case of Nagorno Karabagh	conflict transformation, women's liberation, Nagorno Karabagh, civil society, social change	New York University Center for Global Affairs
Laura Vail 5/2007	NGOs and Democratization in Jordan	NGOs, Civil Society, Middle East, Democracy	School for International Training Jordan: Modernization and Social Change
Susanne Waldorf 2/2007	A case study of peace education in Iowa high schools and proposal for a new curriculum	peace education, unity, social consciousness, Hossain Danesh, Paulo Freire, dialogue circles, diversity, worldview awareness, problem-posing education, banking education, student-centered education, experiential learning	European University Center for Peace Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
ZHENG WANG 5/2006	THE POWER OF HISTORY AND MEMORY: NATIONAL "PATRIOTIC EDUCATION" AND CHINA'S CONFLICT BEHAVIOR IN CRISES WITH THE U.S.	Historical memory, conflict resolution, U.S.-China Relations, Identity formation	George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Katherine Ward 5/2007	The Chinese Baby Trade: International Adoption and the Commodification of Baby Girls	Adoption	Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service Culture and Politics / Justice and Peace Studies
Yael Warshel 12/2009	How Do You Convince Children that the “Army”, “Terrorists” and the “Police” Can Live Together Peacefully? A Peace Communication Assessment Model	peace education, media, peace communication, children and youth, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, assessment and evaluation, ethnography of violence, ethnopolitical conflict, citizenship, nationalism, sesame street, audience reception	University of California at San Diego Communication
Emily Watkins 5/2010	On the Border of Fire: Origins of the National Religious Settler Movement in Israel	Israel, trauma, identity, Orthodox Jews, West Bank, Two-State Solution, Israeli-Palestinian Peace	Brandeis University Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Politics
Robert Wiese 5/2010	The Minerals that Pay for War	Cobalt, Coltan, Congo, Sierra Leone, Diamonds	Georgetown University Justice and Peace Studies
Alexander Williams 5/2008	One for All and All for One: Building Cooperative Attitudes and Behaviors in a Middle East Scenario with Simulation Games and Multiple Identification Theory	Multiple Identification Theory; peace studies; Middle East; conflict resolution; psychology; international relations; attitude change; simulations; Iraq War; cooperation; negotiation	William Jewell College Political Science/Psychology/History
Andria Wisler 5/2008	Peace Knowledge: An Inquiry in Post-Yugoslav Higher Education	peace studies, peace education, Yugoslavia, higher education, war, interdisciplinary	Columbia University Teachers College, Department of International & Transcultural Studies
Ian Yarett 5/2009	Hegemony as an Obstacle to Empowerment and Mobilization in Nonviolent Movements	nonviolent action, hegemony, consent	Swarthmore College Peace and Conflict Studies
WURAYAYI ZEMBE 6/2007	CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ZIMBABWE: UNFINISHED BUSINESS	CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ZIMBABWE	AFRICA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF PEACE , LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE

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