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Knowledge sharing in peacebuilding: A case study of the Nuba Mountains' war zone in Sudan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)Over the past decade, there has been an increase in decolonial/postcolonial approaches to peace, peacebuilding and peace education pedagogy, with scholars asking scholar-practitioners and practitioners to rethink `the ... -
Mandarin Translation of 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies)
(2024)In 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, Benjamin Wold challenges the interpretation of 4QInstruction as a deterministic and dualistic composition. In a re-examination of key fragments he offers new reconstructions and ... -
Maternal peacebuilding - an alternative approach to women's peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2010)Post-conflict peacebuilding offers great opportunities for the development of just and equal societies, but these opportunities are often overlooked, particularly in regards to gender and the needs of women. Though significant ... -
Meaningful practices of citizenship in urban middle-class Peru : the case of political blogging
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)This thesis discusses political blogging as a meaningful praxis of citizenship among members of the (traditional) urban middle classes in post-transitional Peru. It examines the meanings political bloggers attach to ... -
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 ... -
Non-nationalist politics in a bi-national consociation: the case of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
(2018)Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and conflicting identity groups, exalts these ... -
Non-Negotiability in Conflict: Religious Zionist Attachments to Land and Temple in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)A major reason for peacemaking failures has thus far been overlooked and understudied: policy makers and scholars tend to lack a nuanced understanding of non-negotiability, especially when they encounter conflict parties ... -
Not having babies won't save the planet
(2019)Environmental antinatalisms share the idea that bringing people into existence is bad for the planet, and see a need to discontinue human ‘procreation’. They assume that the world needs fewer people (or none), and ... -
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 ...
