The prevailing approach which the Women, Peace and Security Agenda takes to inform gender sensitive Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) is important but ultimately inadequate in the pursuit of gender equality. ...

This thesis deals with the relationship between North Korean defectors and the South Korean Protestant churches in light of Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy. North Korean defectors who stay in the South experience significant ...

The implementation of the 1998 ‘Good Friday’ or ‘Belfast’ Agreement entailed the stabilising of Northern Ireland’s place within the United Kingdom. Although anti-Agreement unionists and pro-Agreement republicans claimed ...

After years of contentious and polarising debate, same-sex marriage was legalised both in the US and Ireland in 2015. However, the relative autonomy of American states and the country s vast size make a single state, like ...

The academic interest in cultural expressions and practices and their relationship to peace studies and conflict transformation is growing. These topics are primarily understood as processes that either perpetuate cultures ...

This article critically reassesses one of the classic ideas in International Relations, the security dilemma. It argues that the key insight of security dilemma theory has been obscured – by reductionist debates on single ...

Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and conflicting identity groups, exalts these ...

Language is frequently present in the conflictual symbolic politics of violent inter-group conflict. In Northern Ireland, the Irish language has long been contested and has been drawn into the maelstrom of cultural conflict ...

Francois Houtart is a Belgian social activist and sociologist of religion who defends the position that religion, as a social reality, can be an agent of change in a given situation. Houtart's ideas originate from Weber, ...

In this thesis I engage with the imaginative constructions of the world as offered by Buddhism and Christianity. I do this from a theologian's perspective, with grace as the focal lens. In dialogue with Buddhists the ...