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On Restoring the Centrality of Prudentia (Phron ̄esis) for Living Well: Pathways and Contemporary Relevance
(2021)The aftermath of the Second World War saw some radical rethinking in both theology and philosophy on what it is to live well as a human being. In philosophy two of the key thinkers were Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. ... -
Otherisation and Polarisation in the Korean Peninsula: North Korean Defectors and Korean Protestant Churches
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)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 ... -
Partners in ecclesial function? : exploring the relationship between the hierarchical Catholic Church and Catholic Non-Governmental Organisations in the construction of a social ethic
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2012)This thesis examines the Catholic Non-Governmental Organisations' (CNGOs) contribution to the construction of social ethics and establishes the ecclesial context in which the CNGOs may fulfil this requirement, in and through ... -
Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Photo-elicitation and Visual Methodologies as Instruments for Examining Post-agreement Societies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)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 ... -
'People have a knack for making you feel excluded if they catch on to your difference': Transgender experiences of exclusion in sport.
(2017)While there is a growing literature in the field of gender, sexuality and sport, there is a dearth of research into the lived experiences of transgender people in sport. The present study addresses this research gap by ... -
The people of The Book, ahl al-kitab: A comparative theological exploration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2017)This thesis is a comparative theological exploration of the challenges and opportunities presented by the Qur?ānic representation of Christianity as the People of the Book, ahl al-kitāb, in the Qur?ānic and ... -
"A poet is a theologian": wonder and sacrament in the work of Patrick Kavanagh
This study undertakes an in-depth theological exploration of Patrick Kavanagh’s declaration that “a poet is a theologian”. To this end, the thesis assesses Kavanagh’s claim under the two headings of ‘wonder’ and ‘sacrament’, ... -
Political Parties in Northern Ireland and the Post-Brexit Constitutional Debate
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)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 ... -
Post-Westphalian global security : the strategic implications of applying nonviolent consent theory to the global war on terror
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2009)In characterising 9/11 as a transformative moment in global security, IR realists have failed to contextualise such threats within the larger trends of global populism. The rising technological and temporal-spatial ... -
Practising a-tonal ethics : a feminist ethics of alterity
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)In this dissertation, the focus is on the formation of the contemporary feminist ethical subject; specifically, in relation to the way that women's agency is played out through new forms of reflexivity in the context of ... -
Prospects for Christian minorities under Muslim rule in the Sudan
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Reconciliation through language learning? A case study of the Turas Irish language project in East Belfast
(2019)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 ... -
The Role of Political Parties in Civil War Peace Processes Outside Their Own Country - A New Internationalism? A Case Study of Sinn Féin and its Involvement in Three Foreign Peace Processes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)The existing literature on third party involvement in peace processes has largely overlooked the role of foreign political parties. This qualitative research tackles this gap by examining the involvement of foreign political ... -
The Role of Women in Post Conflict Peace building in Niger Delta
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in October 2000, emphasizes the crucial role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts. It urges UN member states to recognize the gendered nature of ... -
Safeguarding the stranger : a theology and ethic of protective hospitality from Abrahamic traditions
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2012)The research question for this dissertation is: What are the resources and teachings in the Abrahamic traditions that take hospitality, and more specifically its call to provide protective hospitality seriously enough to ... -
Same-Sex Marriage and Conservative Christian Values: A Comparison Between the Republic of Ireland and the State of California (US) from a Post-Legalisation Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)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 ... -
Sport for Peace in Northern Ireland? Civil Society, Change and Constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
(2016)Using the case of Northern Ireland, this article examines how post-conflict transition impacts sports organisations which have traditionally underpinned societal division and what factors facilitate or restrain such ... -
'Stop, Stop and Listen': Changing the Church by Listening to its Life
(Palgrave, 2020)This chapter asks if the current official account of Anglican ecclesiological identity is fit for purpose, and argues that the evidence to-date points clearly to an answer in the negative. Since 1987, the claim that Anglicans ... -
Striking a balance between local capacities for peace and external intervention : the case of the Manjo in Southern Ethiopia
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2011)This thesis explores why culture should be considered a complementary tool to conflict transformation in the Kaffa society of Southern Ethiopia. The hypotheses upon which the thesis is based are that both local resources ... -
The '2002 Peace Process' in the Sri Lankan media : comparing Sinhalese, Tamil and English editorial discourse in the national newspapers
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2007)This case study analyses how three widely read national daily newspapers in Sri Lanka presented and framed the origins and ongoing development of the Norwegian-sponsored 2002 “Peace process” between the Sri Lankan government ...
