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Partners in peace : discourses and practices of civil-society peacebuilding [PDF]

, 2008
Since the early 1990s, international development organizations and donor agencies increasingly recognize the contributions local civil society can make to peace.
Leeuwen, M. van, Leeuwen, M., van, van Leeuwen, M.   +2 more
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The liberal peace and post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa : Sierra Leone [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis critiques liberal peacebuilding in Africa, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone. In particular, it examines the interface between the liberal peace and the “local”, the forms of agency that various local actors are expressing in response ...
Tom, Patrick
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Gothic "Voodoo" in Africa and Haiti

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2019
This paper seeks to historicize and demystify “Voodoo” religion in Africa and Haiti while also drawing comparisons and contrasts to concepts and themes related to “the gothic”.
Eric James Montgomery
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The Response of Christian Youth to Interfaith Scriptural Reasoning:

Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat
The reading of Scripture is susceptible to interpretation and can offer constructive values, but it can also lead to self-exclusion and destructive actions. Traditionally, the reading and interpretation of Scripture have been an internal activity within
Gerry Nelwan
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“She completely twisted the body language”: Pandemic, parody, politics, and comedy in the era of coronavirus

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2020
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Oluchi Gloria Ogbu
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-conflict justice and sustainable peace [PDF]

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the ...
Binningsbo, Helga Malmin, Lie, Tove Grete, Gates, Scott   +2 more
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Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, Ha Ngan Ngo, Chloe Le   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiated settlements and peace referendums [PDF]

, 2014
Institutional innovations in conflict management have received considerable academic attention in the past decades. Yet few studies have considered the design of referendums in peace processes and the role of popular mandates in catalysing negotiated ...
Loizides, Neophytos
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Post-Conflict Peace Construction in Somaliland

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
The Horn of African region has witnessed a prolonged conflict, and Somaliland has grabbed its share. This article explores and finds answers for the questions related with the blockage factors of post-conflict peace construction in Somaliland, analyses ...
Abdalgani Almi
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