RSS 1.0Ecumenics (Theses and Dissertations)
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James Henthorn Todd, a Tractarian at Trinity : making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)In the following chapters I have created a biographical portrait of Todd as a Tractarian at Trinity College, Dublin and studied the variety and range of his texts which contributed to making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth ... -
Moral equality, war, and defence of the community : a critque and reconceptualisation of moral equality
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)This thesis focuses on Michael Walzer’s argument for the moral equality of soldiers and aims to reconceptualise moral equality. This concept explains why it is not a crime when soldiers kill each other during a war. In ... -
Dynamics of essentialist representations of nationhood and the politics of interpretation : the role of religion in the making and unmaking of the Sri Lankan nation-state
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2008)Sometimes the impression given of the Lankan conflict by both the local and mainstream media is that the conflict has been caused by primordial or perennial antagonisms that existed between the parties involved. Such a ... -
Peacebuilding and challenges to secular and nationalist Palestinian civil society organizations in Gaza
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)This study focuses on the themes of peacebuilding and civil society. It explores the role of secular and nationalist civil society organizations in peacebuilding at the local and political levels in Gaza. For over 20 years, ... -
Women's peacebuilding iniatives in the Benue Valley, Nigeria : gender, fundamental human needs and conflict resolution
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)In this research, I investigate and provide a multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis of four grassroots groups of women peacebuilding in the multi-communal Benue Valley, Nigeria (BVN): to offer analysis of the causes of ...
