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Cultural Leadership And Peace: An Educational Response To Religious Violence, B. David Rowe May 2007

Cultural Leadership And Peace: An Educational Response To Religious Violence, B. David Rowe

Educational Policy Studies Dissertations

ABSTRACT CULTURAL LEADERSHIP AND PEACE: AN EDUCATIONAL RESPONSE TO RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE by B. David Rowe This study is a philosophical inquiry into violence as the consequence of dysfunctional meaning-making processes. It establishes a theory of leadership development which requires, catalyzes, and sustains a reinvigorated relationship between education and religion in order to create more pacific ways of making meaning on interpersonal, organizational, institutional, societal, and global levels. The inquiry articulates an understanding of leadership as drawing on educative and religious processes for the deployment of power in order to make meaning with or on behalf of groups of people at …


Factors Contributing To Sustainability Of Development Projects: The Cases Of Old And New Basaisa, Mona Lotfy Takla Jun 2002

Factors Contributing To Sustainability Of Development Projects: The Cases Of Old And New Basaisa, Mona Lotfy Takla

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is submitted to the Department of Management at the American University in Cairo by Mona Lotfy Takla, under the supervision of Dr. E.H. Valsan, Director of the Public Administration Program. The research discusses problems facing developmental projects 1n developing countries and the obstacles to the continuity and sustainability of such projects. Methods used are both theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part is expressed in the review of literature and it covers the basic factors that contribute to sustainable development in developing countries. The practical part is a case study of an actual two-phase developmental project in Egypt. The …


Limiting Growth In Las Vegas - A Necessary Growth Strategy For The Twenty-First Century, Cheryl Ann Frassa Apr 1995

Limiting Growth In Las Vegas - A Necessary Growth Strategy For The Twenty-First Century, Cheryl Ann Frassa

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Land development in the Las Vegas Valley continues at an unprecedented rate and future growth will no doubt be strongly advocated. Yet, water resources in this desert area are finite, and in the near future, supply will fall short of demand. Plans are underway to supplement the existing supply, and proposals to secure additional sources are under investigation. But there are no guarantees these ambitious endeavors will materialize. In light of the pending water crisis, the pervasive "growth at all cost" policies now dominant in the valley must be abandoned and more realistic land-use policies developed; ones based on the …