Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1949. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-357).

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2004. / Bibliography: leaves 74-76.

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-105).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Charlotte Canning. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007. / Vita. Appendix: leaves 102-135. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-139).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2004. / Thesis directed by Ruthann Johansen for the Department of International Peace Studies. "July 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-155).

<p> International House at the University of Alberta (I-House) is a living-learning campus residence that aims to build a strong community from an intentionally diverse population of international and Canadian students. With global education programming that focuses on leadership through community building, I-House creates opportunities for new leaders to emerge in a culturally complex environment that is thought to foster global leadership development. Eighteen I-House alumni and residents who were recognized for their leadership contributions were interviewed in-depth to determine whether and how their experiences at I-House contributed to developing their global leadership capacities and to offer insight into best practice leadership behaviors for an intensive multicultural environment. It was found that the global education culture at I-House created a nurturing environment where diverse perspectives were actively valued; I-House leaders perpetuated mechanisms of active inclusion and support, and global leadership practices that were developed in I-House continued into leaders&lsquo; personal and professional lives.</p>

Earth’s hydrology is made up of complex systems which are spatially varied and influence a number of ecosystem processes. Complex ecosystems, in this case, are defined as those involving multiple bodies of water and land masses which are seasonally connected to one another through various processes, resulting in an intricate aquatic and terrestrial relationship in a single area. There have been advances in how we study these environments, yet it remains important to determine the most efficient tools in order to accurately monitor ecosystem health in these regions. Monitoring water quality in freshwater-dominated, wetland systems is costly and often impractical due to the remote locations of areas of interest. By exploring the methods of analysis in which remotely sensed data can be used to monitor changes in the spatial patterns of water quality, it is possible to study these complex ecosystems in a more frequent and effective manner.

Orientador: Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre / Banca: Rafael Antonio Duarte Villa / Banca: Kai Michael Kenkel / Banca: Suzeley Kalil Mathias / Banca: Samuel Alves Soares / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituído em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: O trabalho analisa o processo de reforma das operações de paz da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) iniciado em 2000 com a publicação do Relatório Brahimi, que apontou novas diretrizes para fortalecer este instrumento de gerenciamento de conflitos após os fracassos em Ruanda, na Bósnia-Herzegovina e na Somália, em meados da década de 1990. O objetivo é compreender as consequências da reforma para a concepção de paz que norteou as missões da ONU e a forma em que esta concepção foi traduzida nos modelos de intervenção autorizados pelo Conselho de Segurança da ONU na década que sucedeu a publicação do Relatório. A hipótese que orientou a pesquisa foi a de que existe um descolamento entre a concepção de paz - a paz sustentável, resultante do trato das causas dos conflitos - e os modelos de intervenção - pautados na noção de operações robustas seguidas de atividades de consolidação da paz (peacebuilding) - porque a paz promovida pela ONU é condicionada por dois fatores principais. O primeiro relaciona-se ao fato de que, no processo de elaboração do modelo de intervenção no panorama político-institucional da ONU, existe o predomínio da perspectiva do interventor, da leitura que este faz do conflito e do papel que atribui às operações de paz; além da aplicação de um modelo padronizado para responder a diferentes tipos de conflitos. O segundo fator, também relacionado à aprovação do modelo de intervenção, é que as operações de paz respondem aos conflitos na medida em que existam recursos para a implementação dos mandatos e dentro de algumas condições determinadas pelos grupos beligerantes, que precisam consentir, mesmo que apenas formalmente, a ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The study analyzes the United Nations (UN) Peace Operations reform, which started in 2000 with the publication of the Brahimi Report, establishing new guidelines to strengthen peace operations after the failures in Rwanda, Bosnia Herzegovina and Somalia in the mid-1990s. The purpose is to understand the consequences of the reform to the conception of peace that guided UN missions and the way in which the UN Security Council has translated this conception into the interventions design during the decade that followed the publication of the Report. The hypothesis that guided this research was that there is a gap between the conception of peace - sustainable peace resulting from dealing with conflict causes - and the design of the intervention - robust peacekeeping followed by peacebuilding activities - because the UN peacekeeping operations are driven by two main factors. The first relates to the fact that, in the political process which precedes the intervention approval, there is a preponderance of the outsiders perspective, of the way that the external forces perceives the conflict, deciding the role of the missions; besides, there is a standardized model to respond to different types of conflicts. The second factor is that peace operations respond to conflict to the extent that there are resources for the implementation of the mandates and within specific conditions determined by the warring groups, which need to consent, at least formally, the presence of external actors to manage the transition to peace. / Doutor

Even though scholars and researchers have suggested that the Liberian civil war arose as a result of socioeconomic and political inequalities, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of a certain group of people, Social Dominance Theory (“SDT”) suggests an alternate understanding: social group-based hierarchy is produced and maintained in society by legitimizing myths. SDT explains how these legitimizing myths tend to produce discriminatory and/or anti-discriminatory policies that are endorsed by dominant and subordinate groups, which, if left unattended, eventually lead to conflict.