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Memorializing The Work Of Bishop Cornelius Korir In Advancing Grassroots Peacebuilding In Kenya: Perspectives On Amani Mashinani, Eddah M. Mutua

The Journal of Social Encounters

This special commemoration feature of Journal of Social Encounters focuses on the work of the late Bishop Cornelius Korir in advancing grassroots peacebuilding in North Rift region of Kenya. Bishop Korir is credited for developing a grassroots peacebuilding model popularly known as Amani Mashinani (Peace at the Grassroots) which brings together warring communities to collectively participate in activities geared at promoting peace. In this context, grassroots peacebuilding is understood in the same vein as locally led peacebuilding which is “an approach in which the people involved in, and most affected by, violent conflict work together to create and enact their …

Sport Diplomacy And Uk Soft Power: The Case Of Mount Everest, Richard Woodward

Articles

Sport is widely acknowledged as an important contributor to the United Kingdom’s soft power resources. This article aims to broaden and deepen our understanding of sport and soft power in the United Kingdom through a case study of British expeditions to, and the eventual conquest of, Mount Everest. Based on original archival research, the article demonstrates that British state institutions intervened systematically and strategically to expedite, and massage the story of, the ascent of Everest to burnish British prestige and present a favourable image to the world. In doing so, the article provides evidence that sport has been intrinsic to …

Pro-Life Ends At Birth: Race As A Primary Driver Of State Abortion And Concurrent Natalist Policy, Tasha Danner

University Honors Theses

The year 2019 saw the most restrictive state abortion policies introduced and passed since Roe v Wade. The same states passing this legislation are often states also cutting funding for policies that improve the health and socio-economic mobility of mothers and children, which disproportionately affects African-American residents of those states. Outside of reproductive justice advocacy, there is not much research on the role that race plays in the introduction and passing of state abortion policy. I examine and analyze the role of racial prejudice in passing restrictive abortion policy in southern states. Using historical context in southern states, a survey …

Fundamentalisme Islam: Telaah Terhadap Pemikiran Politik Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (Hti), Ana Sabhana Azmy

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan pemikiran politik Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) sebagai bagian dari gerakan fundamentalisme Islam di Indonesia. HTI adalah gerakan dakwah yang berkembang di Indonesia di awal tahun 1980-an dengan pengaruh pendahulunya, yaitu Hizbut Tahrir. Terdapat tiga pertanyaan yang dicoba untuk dijawab dalam tulisan ini. Pertama, bagaimana pemikiran politik HTI terhadap demokrasi? Kedua, bagaimana konteks khilafah Islamiyyah yang diinginkan oleh HTI? Ketiga, bagaimana kiprah HTI dalam perpolitikan Indonesia? Penelitian ini dilakukan melalui bentuk hasil pemikiran dengan studi literatur, menggunakan data yang diperoleh melalui bahan kepustakaan yang relevan, baik buku ataupun dokumen-dokumen pendukung. Selain itu, wawancara via online juga dilakukan terhadap …

Identity Politics In The 2019 Indonesian General Elections: Its Significance And Limitation, Djayadi Hanan

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Identity politics was significant in 2019 Indonesian general elections. The result of the election however, seems to show that identity was only significant in presidential but not in legislative election. Given that the legislative and presidential elections are conducted concurrently, it is logical to assume that what is significant in the presidential election will also be significant for the legislative election. This paper tries to briefly answer several questions. Is identity politics really rising? Why does it seem to be significant only in the presidential and not the legislative election? If identity politics in the presidential election is important, assuming …

Politik Representasi Islam Dalam Film 212 The Power Of Love, Asep Abdul Sahid

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Film merupakan media yang menggambarkan praktik wacana melalui penanaman kekuasaan dan ideologi. Oleh karena itu, film selalu berada dalam ruang persaingan praktik pendefinisian, pemosisian dan pengontrolan khalayak. Munculnya film-film religi bertema Islam di Indonesia juga tidak terlepas dari praktik wacana tersebut. Lebih dari satu dekade, film religi yang bercerita tentang Islam dan dinamikanya telah mampu memberikan warna bagi dunia perfilman dan juga bagi perkembangan Islam itu sendiri. Kajian dalam tulisan ini merupakan perluasan kajian tentang teks film yang bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi, menganalisis dan merumuskan bagaimana Islam dalam konteks persaingan politik Indonesia direpresentasikan melalui narasi film. Korpus kajian adalah Film 212 …

Markov Chain Analysis, Metode Alternatif Dalam Mengukur Tingkat Elektabilitas Peserta Pemilu Melalui Tagar: Studi Kasus Pemilihan Presiden Indonesia Tahun 2019, Fara Inka Durrah, Samsul Anwar, Latifah Rahayu Siregar

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Tingkat elektabilitas merupakan informasi yang sangat penting bagi peserta pemilihan umum (pemilu) baik calon legislatif maupun eksekutif. Selama ini, elektabilitas seorang kandidat diukur melalui survei yang dilakukan beberapa waktu sebelum masa tenang pemilihan. Selain membutuhkan biaya yang besar, terdapat rentang waktu antara survei dengan hari pemungutan suara sehingga hasilnya berpotensi bias. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan sebuah metode alternatif yang dapat digunakan sebagai pembanding dari hasil survei elektabilitas. Penelitian dengan memanfaatkan informasi melalui media sosial menjadi semakin relevan seiring dengan semakin banyaknya pengguna media sosial di Indonesia. Salah satu pendekatan yang cukup menjanjikan dalam mengukur elektabilitas peserta pemilu dengan memanfaatkan media …

“Zikir Gemilang” Elite Politik Di Banda Aceh: Wacana Populis Atau Kebijakan Publik?, Saiful Akmal, Rizkika Lhena Darwin, Siti Nur Zalikha

Jurnal Wacana Politik

ikir publik menjadi arus baru di Aceh setelah tsunami. Dalam perkembangannya, zikir digunakan oleh elit politik baik ketika pilkada sebagai strategi kampanye, maupun sebagai kebijakan populis dalam menjalankan pemerintahan. Begitu pula Pemerintah Kota Banda Aceh periode 2017-2022 yang menjadikan zikir sebagai salah satu program utama yang kemudian diberi nama “zikir gemilang“. Penelitian ini tertarik untuk melihat implementasi zikir ini apakah cenderung sebagai wacana populis atau kebijakan publik. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif lewat metode wawancara semi struktur dan bola salju terhadap sejumlah informan kunci. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa meskipun pemahaman ulang terhadap fenomena zikir dari wacana ke aksi terjadi, …

Pendekatan Good Governance Dalam Memperkuat Keamanan Perbatasan Negara: Studi Di Wilayah Laut Natuna Utara, Rio Yusri Maulana, Moh. Arief Rakhman

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Laut Natuna Utara adalah wilayah lama bernama baru yang di berikan Indonesia kepada salahsatu wilayah laut yang berbatasan dengan Laut China Selatan. Setelah terdapat klaim sepihak terhadap perairan ini dari Republik Rakyat Tiongkok (RRT) pemerintah Indonesia kemudian memperkuat kekuatan militer di Natuna. Langkah ini memiliki resiko tersendiri baik bagi Indonesia maupun kawasan, sehingga pemerintah Indonesia perlu melakukan upaya penguatan di sektor politik. Rumusan masalah penelitian ini adalah bagaimana pendekatan politik keamanan dapat berperan dalam menjaga kedaulatan di Laut Natuna Utara?. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analitis dengan menggunakan teori national interest dan konsep good governance untuk memunculkan penjelasan bagaimana perimbangan …

Uniquely Okinawan: Determining Identity During The U.S. Wartime Occupation, Courtney A. Short

History

When the U.S. military landed on the shores of Okinawa in 1945, they faced not only a fierce and battle-tested Japanese force, but also 463,000 Okinawan inhabitants. Larger than any other civilian population encountered by the Americans during previous campaigns throughout the Pacific islands, the people of Okinawa also had a unique and complex historical and political relationship with Japan. Okinawa never experienced subjugation as a colony, yet its acceptance as a prefecture did not yield equal treatment for the people because of their Ryukyuan heritage. As the U.S. military prepared for the Battle of Okinawa, they faced dangerous uncertainty …

Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism And The Closing Of Borders [Table Of Contents], Robert Koulish, Martje Van Der Woude

Law

As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants—particularly people of color—have become emblematic of the hybrid threat both to national security and sovereignty and to safety and order inside the state. From building walls and fences, overcrowding detention facilities, and beefing up border policing and border controls, a new narrative has arrived that has migrants assume the risk for government sponsored degradation, misery, and death. Crimmigrant Nationsexamines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented …

Linking Gender, Language, And Partisanship: Developing A Database Of Masculine And Feminine Words, Damon C. Roberts, Stephen M. Utych

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Seemingly, gender, language, and partisanship are intertwined concepts. We believe that the use of gendered language in political settings may be used strategically by political elites. The purpose of this paper is to craft a tool for scholars to test the interconnection between politics, gender, and language—what we refer to as being the gendered language and partisanship nexus. We test our prediction using original word rating data. From our test, we find significant variation across seven hundred words in ratings as masculine and feminine and discover that words rated as masculine are more likely to be rated as dominant and …

How Do Populist Voters Rate Their Political Leaders? Comparing Citizen Assessments In Three Jurisdictions, Gerald Seijts, Cristine De Clercy

Political Science Publications

Drawing from the field of management studies, we explore how a sample of voters in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom use a leader character framework to judge political leadership. We ask, how do voters actually assess the character of their current leaders? And, in light of the populist zeitgeist, do people who hold a populist attitude differ markedly in how they judge the character of political leaders? Our results show that voters generally consider character important. However, voters who lean toward populism believe character matters less in political leadership than individuals who scored low on the populism …

Widows Of Civilian Victims Of War In Kosovo, Albonita Aliu

Theses and Dissertations

Drejtësia tranzicionale në vendet e dala nga lufta nënkupton edhe kompensime për të mbijetuarit e luftës, por jo të gjitha vendet ofrojnë këtë lloj të ndihmës. Kompensimi për kategoritë e viktimave civile të luftës së vitit 1998-1999 në Kosovë është mjeti më i zakonshëm i drejtësisë. Nënat vetushqyese/bashkëshortet e viktimave civile janë trashëgimtaret e para në radhë, me Rregulloret/Ligjet që mbulojnë kategoritë e dala nga lufta në Kosovë, për kompensimet e formës materiale. Ato,nënat vetushqyese/bashkëshortet e viktimave civile të luftës, paraqesin pjesën e margjinalizuar të shoqërisë kosovare të pasluftës, pasi që ishin pjesë e dhunës strukturore të ushtruar nga pushteti …

Roli I Diplomacisë Së Kosovës Për Njohjen Ndërkombëtare Të Saj, Anduena Zeka

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim do të paraqes rolin e diplomacisë së Kosovës në njohjen ndërkombëtare në politikën e jashtme të shtetit dhe ka për qëllim të shtjelloj këtë temë. Në fillim do të paraqites kuptimin e diplomacisë publike në përgjithësi dhe do shtjellohet se përse ajo është e rëndësishme në politikën e jashtme të një vendi. Pastaj do të paraqes veprimtarin dhe rolin e diplomacisë së Kosovës për njohjen ndërkombëtare. Diplomacia publike përdoret për të bindur opinionin ndërkombëtar për vendimet që merr një qeveri e një shteti. Ekziston një nevojë e domosdoshme për të komunikuar me aktorët jo shtetërorë ose joqeveritarë …

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Edx And Harvardx. China X. China’S Past, Present And Future, Constance Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Defining Criminality: Confronting Racist And Classist Narratives Of The Criminal, Sophia Meacham

Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas

Defining someone as a criminal carries serious consequences for the individual in terms of a denial of resources, increased surveillance, incarceration, and dehumanization, and also for society as a whole.

Author information: Sophia Meacham is now at the Columbia College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University where she is pursuing a Masters degree in Media and Strategic Communications. This research was conducted as an independent study by the author as an undergraduate at Smith College.

Locke’S Questionable Use Of The Bible In Establishing His Theory Of Property, Amy Al-Salaita

Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas

Locke’s philosophy is not only wrongly founded in the Old Testament, continually relying on the creation story of Genesis in order to justify capitalist theory, but it also selectively uses the Bible in order to excuse wealth disparity and social inequality.

Author information: Amy Al-Salaita is graduate of Loyola University Chicago (Class of 2020), where she studied Political Science and Global and International Studies, with a minor in Arabic.

The American Torture Problem, Chase Sievers

Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas

This essay offers a brief account and (partial) critique of the Central Intelligence Agency’s enhanced interrogation program which was utilized during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Author information: Chase Sievers is an undergraduate student at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He enjoys writing about and studying politics and culture.

Effectiveness, Equity, And Ethics Of Costa Rica's Payment For Environmental Services Program., Anna J Carter

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

This paper examines the effectiveness of Costa Rica’s Payments for Environmental Services, or PSA program, which provides government subsidies to participants who protect forested lands or reforest their land. Effectiveness is determined in terms of the program’s progress in reversing deforestation and generating reforestation efforts, with particular attention paid to the success and failings of the program in reaching small landowners. The claim that the PSA program can act as a tool for human development is evaluated through its accessibility to small landowners. Finally, the ethical costs and benefits of the market based scheme underlying the PSA program as a …

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Human Rights, Those Who Are Governed And The Legitimacy Of Law Enforcement, Lynn Rhodes

Comparative Civilizations Review

Most everyone, if not all of us, wants to be happy. Peace is a common denominator frequently sought. It is human nature to seek security, another word for happiness. Human Rights, as we know, are basic rights and freedoms that inherently belong to every person.

On So-Called Russian Euroasianism: In Reply To Dmitry Shlapentokh, Ernest B. Hook Prof

Comparative Civilizations Review

Dmitry Shlapentokh’s article on Russian Eurasianism [Comparative Civilizations Review: No. 81. 9-29, 2019] contains a number of questionable statements without any attempt at documentation in support of his thesis. For example, in explaining why his version of “Eurasianism” was marginalized in the “West,” he states Western observers approached Russia from the perspective that “the triumph of American-type capitalism …shall be the omega point of all humanity, including Russia.”[emphasis in the original]. Moreover, “Gorbachev and Yeltsin were deeply hated by the majority.” [My emphasis.] No references are cited in support of these extraordinary statements, which would indeed require some impossible poll …

Democracy And Social Policy In Southeast Asia: A Comparative Process Tracing Analysis, Fadillah Putra, M. Faishal Aminuddin

Jurnal Politik

The relationship between democracy and social policy in Southeast Asia is a critical topic that has received insufficient attention. In general, trends in improving social policy as part of the government’s responsibility for citizens do not follow the trend of democratization. Even in autocratic countries, improving the quality of social policy is always a priority. This study answers the following question: what can the trend of improvement in social policy explain in relation to democratization at the state level? Through the comparative process tracing analysis method, this study demonstrated a discriminatory treatment factor in providing access to public services to …

Lincoln: A Hidden Refugee Hotspot In The United States, Rhiannon Cobb

UCARE: Research Products

This case study examines refugee integration in Lincoln, Nebraska, one of the 63 identified cities who are promoting integration, improved economic mobility, and enhanced civic participation by immigrants and refugees. The United States settles more refugees than any other country and has created diasporas throughout the country. Lincoln is known for the largest Yazidi population outside of the Middle East. I use two major research strategies (1) a qualitative analysis of refugee resource centers and (2) secondary sources on refugee integration. Information and secondary sources have been collected from archives, newspapers, and published journals. This case study further examines the …

The Iscsc Celebrates The 130th Birth Anniversary Of Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Founding President, With A Contemporary View Of His Legacy, Andrew S. Targowski

Comparative Civilizations Review

This study analyzes the legacy of Pitirim Sorokin, founding President of the ISCSC, in terms of his methodology, the scope of his works, and his acceptance by his American peers. He was perceived as a prophet rather than a scientist. Furthermore, he was a hidden anti-Leninist who lived through and was obsessed with crises, and, being spiritually cultivated, he perceived altruism, the Absolute, God, love, duty, sacrifice, grace, and justice as the only solutions that can reconstruct and save humanity. His theory of social and cultural dynamics is like Marx’s socioeconomics; however, it was reconfigured to sound different, since he …